home vlog: putting some boundaries in place, scrolling ban update & craft with me!

This isn't serious. [music] This is just like, how do we feel about that? Too late. Smarty doing it. I'm not going to tell you how long that took. Closer. This one isn't my best work. Okay, look how cute [music] my little cuties. I'm getting to the stage where I don't [music] care anymore. Good morning everybody. Welcome back to another vlog. It is a Tuesday morning and it is so cloudy, so cozy. It is in fact going to be sunny and hot today, but we're going to enjoy this cloudy morning while we have it. I made myself a hot coffee this morning because it's like cool and cozy and I love it. I've been just picking up around the house. I got to do some like chores and random things today. And as a little update, if you guys watched my last vlog, you know that I have started using my brick again, my like brick device, which is basically a device that locks you out of your social media apps until you physically get up and like tap your phone on the device to unlock it. And yesterday I decided to like unbrick my phone and it had been 1 day, 0 hours, and 28 minutes, which is I mean truthfully the longest I've gone. I mean, maybe if I've been like sick or something or I don't know, like traveling, but other than that, like I I genuinely don't think there's been a day where I haven't been on a social media app like ever. So, that's amazing. And yeah, I've been locked out of my phone again for another 12 hours and 31 minutes. So, like when I've been waking up in the morning, I've been either scrolling on Pinterest, doing work things, even like watching YouTube. Like I don't consider YouTube to be like social media social media. Like I can watch long form videos and feel absolutely fine. It's like the short form content that really kind of gets to me. And just the act of like doing this. I always have a really long watch later list on YouTube. Like that's just kind of I'm I'm like perpetually on YouTube. That is my TV honestly. And yeah, yesterday after I ended the last vlog, I ended up having like the entire afternoon to edit that vlog to catch up on work things. It's like I've just been getting so much more done basically is what I'm trying to say. So, I feel really good about that. I feel a little bit ahead on work. And what I thought I would do is a little bit of crafting. It's feeling like a cozy hobbies kind of day. And again, I want to implement more things on my days off where I am not on my phone, you know. And I was talking about in therapy even yesterday because yeah, it's like a very real thing that we all deal with. And my therapist was talking about having some healthy boundaries in place when it comes to using my phone, like maybe having certain times of the day that you don't use your phone, having certain areas of your house that you don't bring your phone into. Um, making sure that you are really checking in with yourself when you're scrolling on your phone, like checking to see if you need to go to the bathroom, if you need nutrition, if you need hydration, you know, all these different kinds of things. and trying to put some some boundaries in place because yeah, I cannot have free reign. I think that's just the way my ADHD brain works. I think that's just also the way we've been trained over the years to be with our phones is just like so I say this as my phone is right next to me. Like I'm still working on that part of it. But even like in the last couple of days, I've been afraid if I'm like missing something like I'm like what if I'm missing some important world event and I haven't shared it or whatever, but it's like I can just like read the newspaper or check the news. Like I don't know. It is crazy how reliant we are on technology and I am doing my best to fix that. So we are going to do something else instead of brain rot today. We are going to be creative. We are going to do some hobbies. We are going to make some crafts. I would love to finish some of the projects that I've been meaning to finish for a while. You know, just little things like that here and there that I would like to do. I want to catch up on my junk journal. You know, we're just going to have a cozy day together. So, first thing on the list is because certain things take time to like dry or whatever. I'm going to start with I think making some of these really cute clay fridge magnets. So, like I'm just using air dried clay, but you can use whatever. and just hopefully making them into cute little shapes and designs and then like painting them into something cute. Gluing a little magnet on the back of it and sticking it on the fridge more just for decoration, but I mean it's useful as well. And that just sounds like something that I would really really enjoy. So, I think we're going to [clears throat] start there. All right. Welcome to my little cozy corner. My cozy crafting corner. Got my clay here. It's just like modeling clay. I'm going to grab a chunk. I just realized that my hands are going to get dirty. It's fine. All right. I tried a couple things and it was not going very well. So, I think what I'm going to do instead is do some fruit cuz I feel like that's my wheelhouse. That's where I'm comfortable. It's also really easy to like mold, you know? I think I'm starting with a strawberry. There we go. It'll do. And then I'll make like a little stem for the top. I mean, is it my best work? No. Is it kind of wonky and cute? Yes. So, we will set that aside and let that dry for later. And then I think I might do something a little more simple that I can paint over later. So, like a little oval. There we go. I might make like a little plate. That's really cute. I also think a button or a couple of buttons would be adorable. So like flatten it, smooth it, and then just add little dents for the button holes. Little button. I see a little piece of toast with a stick of butter on top. And that looks so cute. So I'll try that. Again, we're just having fun with it. This isn't serious. This is for relaxation. This sponge has like a tiny bit of water on it. It kind of just helps like smooth it out a bit. I might also oops, sorry, dip my fingers in the water, too, just to get it to do what I want. I don't know if this [clears throat] is the right method, but this is the method I'm using. [laughter] I mean, sure, why not? So, let's let those dry. I think I'm good there, and we will move on to our next craft. All right, we've moved over to a different space. I need more room for this, like more surface. And next, I am going to do a Cricut project. I am so in love with my Cricut. Um, and I've had it for I've had this one. It's the Joy Extra for like almost a year now, and I've been [clears throat] loving doing little projects on it, but I always put it off. And if you guys watched the last time we did like a crafting night together, one night I had like a solo night in, and I started this, and I made this crew neck sweatshirt and it says lucky girl. But I want to add some stars to it. I want to add like black and possibly leopard stars. I'm going to start with black and see how I feel, but possibly leopard as well cuz I think that'd be really cute. So, I just want to add some extra pizzazz to it. So, I think I must have already started this and then just never finished it. So, I actually already have the project like pulled up and ready to go. So, all I have to do is make it reorganized so things are easier. So, this mat has like a little sticky thing on it. I'm using this black ironon. I think this one might be a puff, like a puffy one. I'm not sure, though. It sucks because the ironon paper doesn't match the size of the mat, so you kind of have to cut it. But, I mean, not a big deal. Then I load the mat. Then it just like aligns the mat for you. And then we go. I need to use this more. Really the only thing that like prevents me is just not having like the big setup for it. We have a pretty small space in this house and so it's like hard to have like a designated area so everything always gets put away. So really that's the only thing that prevents me from doing it more is like putting it away and having to get it back out kind of thing. But it really doesn't take long. A big project for Drew and I like probably after the holidays or maybe leading up to it. I'm not sure. Maybe we'll do it for Vlogmas or something. Is I don't even know if I'm doing Vlogmas honestly. We'll talk about that later. But is cleaning out our garage. Like we need to like organize things better. We need to get some storage shelves. Like we need to do a big garage organization thing. You go queen. Now we will take this away. And then I need to cut out all of my little stars. I'm going to start with like a couple big ones, couple mediums, couple smalls, and then we'll go from there cuz like I don't I just kind of did a lot. I don't really know know if I'm going to need that many. Then my favorite part is you take this little weeding tool. It's like a little hook almost and you get rid of everything outside of the shape that you're actually using. So you just like stick your little thing in there, pull it off, and then the backing that's left is sticky. So, like you do like this basically. Okay. Well, sometimes it comes off in one piece, sometimes it doesn't. But then you're left with your little shape that you printed and then when you stick it down on your garment, the sticky part helps it not move when you do the ironon. It's so nice. I'm going to do that for all six of my little stars. [music] Something I could probably work on in the future is like lining these up better when I'm creating my projects so that I'm not wasting a lot of the material. Like I'm wasting quite a bit in the space that I have to cut around it and stuff. So that can be something to try and like look up and perfect in the future. I'm feeling good about this. I can't remember if I've said this or not, but I think I'm just going to stop at black. I don't think I'm going to do leopard cuz I've already done leopard stars on another hoodie that I have. And I think I'm just going to do black for this one. Just a little black, white, and red moment. There we go. Put our little tools away. And then we're going to get out our It's called an easy press. It's basically just a big old iron. And it's so nice because you can cover such a massive surface all at one time instead of using an iron and having to go over it a bunch of different times. It's pretty great. All right. Now, I'm going to put I'm preheating my um Easy Press thing, my iron based on the heat guide. Crricut has like a heat guide. This isn't sponsored, by the way. They have sponsored me in the past, but genuinely, I'm just using this. I have bought materials with my own money since then. Like, I love them. But they have like a heat guide thing um on their website and you can just look up like the type of material you're using um like the type of ironon material and then it'll tell you what temperature and for how long to iron it on for. So I'm going to do my star configuration here. Yeah, that's cute. How do we feel about that? Two legs. I'm already doing it. So, now we just take our iron. I'm going put this down on the ground. You press it. And you don't even have to do anything because you just hit the button and the timer goes for you. And it said firm pressure. And it says to peel off while it's still warm. Oo, [music] this is cute. There we have it. It's so so cute. I want to even add more, I think, in the future. But I'm good with that for right now. Let me know if you think I should add some like leopard stars in here, but I just think it's really cute like this. Like I like the simplicity of it, but it just adds a little something extra and it looks homemade, but not like too homemade, you know? I really like it. All right. Now, I came up here because I just really want to sit in my comfy chair. Now, we're going to do a star garland. I actually meant to do this when I was in Arizona and then I realized that I had left this paper here. So, I want to do something like this where it's like just a very simple, very cute way to bring in some color. I'm going to use I just hit myself in the face with that. Some like fun colors that I think will go well with our living room, but also like maybe a couple pops of color. Like I don't want it to be rainbow by any means, but I think adding a few different shades in there might be nice. Definitely some browns and like darker colors, but also like a yellow. And then we'll just kind of go from there. I want it to be like autuminal, but also something that can stay year round. Oh, I'm liking this color. It's like a maroon. Okay, I think that's pretty much it. We'll start there. And basically what I think I'm going to do is just make one star kind of guide with one outline if you will and then just trace that. And then I'm just going to add them to a string. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to do like a hole punch through each of the stars and then put it through a string. I brought a huge ball of string back with me from Arizona that I I think I thrifted or maybe I could do like a hot glue situation or something, but I feel like the hole punch would probably be the easiest. So, I am not very good at drawing stars. Let me just let me just take a look here. I'm not going to tell you how long that took. It's fine. We got there at [laughter] the end. [music] Look how cute. All right. Now that I've got all my stars, I'm going to arrange them, I guess, in the order that I want them to go in. And then we'll just hole punch them and string them. [music] I need to be triple checking these cuz some of these are doubles. [music] Okay, things are starting to fall apart. But look how cute. Once I get it hung up, it'll be much better. But at least everything's strung on there and then I can just like separate them. So, let's go hang it on. I think maybe the mantle downstairs. All right, I'm going to tape it up. I'm just using tape. Could probably use hooks or whatever you feel like using. All right, now I'm just going to spread these out as like evenly as possible. I might have to go in with like a little piece of tape or something and like tape each one down. But like, can you see how cute that is? That little pop of color is everything. So, yeah. I think I'm I think I might just like take a tiny little piece of tape or glue or something. Maybe hot glue and just sort of like set it so that it's front facing. All right. Just use some tape on the back of all of them. Looks so much better. Also, there usually is a plant right here, but it wasn't doing very well in that spot. So, it's actually outside at the moment, but just picture a gorgeous plant right there next to it. Also, please ignore these cords. These are going to be gone soon. So, also pretend like those aren't there. All right, just kidding. Also, ignore, sorry, the sound of the air fryer is going in the background because I'm making a sweet potato for lunch, but I just said something to Drew. I was like, "Can we move the cords?" And he was like, "Oh, yeah. I'll do it right now." See, that's what I'm talking about. Perfect. Clean. I mean, there's that thing. Luckily, the previous tenants left that cuz we do use it. But yeah, we're going to Maybe I'll even just put a temporary plant here just so we can see. Okay, now we're talking. I brought in our fus from outside just to give a an idea. And I'm definitely envisioning like a small thin Christmas tree here for Christmas time. But wow, look at that. I'm so pleased. >> [music] >> All right, we are going to catch up on my junk journal. The last thing I did was the Hillary Duff concert page. This was in July. This was at the beginning of July. We're midepptember at this point. So, uh, we need to really ramp things up. So, I think what I'm going to do is do like a July page, just like anything that I have from July and then anything that I have from August. We'll see how that goes. TVD on that. I really do still struggle with like when I'm making something. I don't know, having it be the most perfect or the most thorough or the most efficient or whatever. And it's like, girl, it does not have to be that serious. So, this is my little pouch that I keep with all my junk. Got a Disneyland pass or parking receipt. These are all August, so we'll start an August pile. Got a coffee shop thing. Oh, I think that's when Drew and I went to Strawberry Wild Strawberry Cafe. This is again from August. I went on a coffee date with Emma and Alexa. We've got photos from I think these are all July. And I'm really not going to go too crazy with the backgrounds either. I think I'm just going to pick one solid background for each. I think this is really cute. this like kind of faded green and pink polka dot. Fold that a bit. I just realized that I put away the scissors when I finished making the garland. So, let me get those. This bag is everything. It's being my girl. It's just got everything I need. So, sorry for the sound of the air fryer. Just pretend you're here with me. You know, you're part of the experience. There we go. Now we just assemble. So, we're going to do this photo booth picture of me and my friend Emma. That was really cute. We got our doughnut order from I think it was called Olly Bali Donuts. We have just some pictures with like our friends from when we went back to Arizona. I think I showed all of this stuff last time, but I didn't end up actually like using it. So, we're going to just start going. Let me get my life stickers ready to go as well. I have a picture of one of our nieces and Drew asleep on the couch. It's so cute. I'll put that somewhere. I love this picture of me and Drew at Disneyland. I just think it's so cute. Got to add that obviously. Listen. This one isn't my best work. Okay. But it'll do. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's something. And now I'm going to do this spread, which is going to be I guess August. We'll do two pages for August. And I think I might do just polaroids for August and then some of the junk. But that's it. Like I'm going to keep it really simple and that way I just feel nice and caught up and satisfied. I think for one of my pages I'm literally just going to start putting down these stickers cuz I really need to get rid of them. And um just sounds nice. So I think I'm just going to make an entire collage of stickers. [music] >> [music] >> Then I'm just going to fill in all of the gaps. Look how cool that page looks. Just like a collage page. I don't know. I'm skipping ahead. I'm going to print eight [music] of these Polaroids. I'm going to do another collage on the other side. And I'm going to have it say a U G U S T. And then all the August. And that's going to be that. Perfect. Beautiful. [music] Uhoh, I'm out of glue stick. See, like this is why I need to do junk journaling more because it's been like an hour of footage of this. Like I have just been going and trying to get all of this done. It's been like an hour. It's just very time inensive and sometimes I like a quicker hobby that I can just sort of do my thing and not spend a ton of time on it. So maybe need to start doing this more regularly so that it's not so, you know, [music] Okay, I think that's it for me. There we have it. I did August 2026. And that is my final junk journaling for the day. [music] Having leftovers for lunch. The world's largest sweet potato. Like I don't even think I can fully display how big the sweet potato is. We have some leftover chicken and some steamed broccoli. Okay, we're back in the cozy corner. This is our final thing of the day because our little magnets, well soon to be are dry. So I'm going to try and figure out like if I can use these acrylic paint markers. So I feel like that's a lot easier than like getting out the paint and doing all of that. So, like I'm thinking where should I start? Start with the strawberry. I don't know how easy this is going to be with a marker. But my plan is to like paint all of these and then just go over the top with some clear Mod Podge. I think that'll do her. Feel like for some things this marker might be faster, but for this I feel like it might be slower. You can't even see what I'm doing. I also made myself Well, I had this with my lunch, but I added a true lemon packet to my Diet Coke. Oo, she's tiny. All right. Well, you know, um, it's not like the best thing I've ever done. I was like, at first it kind of looks like a strawberry. My holes are too big, so now it just looks like a apple with wormholes. We're going to keep moving. Next, I'm going to try my Should I do my plate? Maybe. Maybe I'll do the butter toast. We're going to do our butter yellow. [music] Kind of jumping all over the place, but you know, that's no worries. Here's our little piece of butter toast. I'm getting to the stage where I don't care anymore, but I am almost done. All right, here's the three that survived. the butter toast, the plate. That doesn't really look like a plate, but that's okay. And the watermelon. And they're going on the fridge. Here they are. My little cuties. Love. All right, everybody. That is going to do it for me today. I have My cup runth over with crafting time. Let me tell you. I've been crafting quite literally all day. It's 3:00 p.m. Um, but I've enjoyed it. So, yeah. I hope you did, too. and maybe you feel a little bit of a nervous system reset as well. Thank you guys so much for being here. Thanks for spending time with me. Thank you also for being down when I'm just in the mood to like do things like this and then also do regular vlogs and you know everything in between. I really really appreciate it. Love you guys so much and I will see you very soon in the next vlog. Bye. [music]