 hey i'm gonna hold on today oh i'm just like exhausted even though it's saturday and i got to sleep in a little bit um i did still wake up at like seven but i don't know it's like when you wake up you know what i mean so anyways um as promised i'm gonna show you a little project i've been working on i did a little bit yesterday but the majority of it i did today i got this idea from miss lakin i'm gonna put her youtube channel down below on one of her recent vlogs she does like when she vlogs like i do like daily vlogs so like upload them every day but she does like a weekly vlog and sometimes like a weekend vlog i think so i do watch her vlogs once in a while when i can her vlogs are a little bit longer form so um it's just something i like to have on in the background you know kind of works that way so anyway i'm gonna leave her youtube channel down below you guys should check her out she also does like planning and goal setting and things like that too and i've met her several times in the planner community and you know we're internet friends one of her vlogs i think it was like two weeks ago it was when she made the temporary move to texas so she lives in new york city and um her dad like her i think it's her dad's family lives down in texas and they have a larger home and her and her fiance just needed to get out of new york city and both of their jobs are clearly remote right now due to the pandemic so they just decided to go there for probably just the summer but who knows they might be there longer who who knows i think everything is kind of like up in the air at this moment but anyway she was showing how she stored or like brought some of her washi and i'm like girl i need to do that she said that she took like her washi samples which let me show you like here is a washi sample like on a bobbin real easy however i'm i'm gonna turn you guys around ps this is my dinner so when you have your washi samples like it just it like it's kind of a lot you know what i mean i have them kind of like this was my colorful stuff which i already wrapped and then i have like all different categories so here's like my animal stuff all my decorative i've got food this is not food but whatever like it's my food category and i start like my christmas holiday category and i've got another full one of these um as well if you're interested it's right down there so anyway and i've got like a bunch of random washi right there it's like a whole mess so what i decided to do was this is all inspired by miss lakin and um i decided to do everything in like rainbow order so if i want like a green washi i can pull this out you know what i mean like there's the green card and that's what i got so yeah and i did all my glitters so all of my like glitter washi um moved all of those over so yeah i know i don't know i really like i like this a lot it's just really easy especially if you're just looking for like a lavender or something like you can just grab the lavender card and see what you got um soil your gross and then i had a couple of these mixed in which were kind of like a yeah that like bandana print and i just i didn't feel like it went like with any of these so i made them their own cards so here's like the neutral one like the white and black and then the other one is like red blue and navy so um just because they didn't all fit on one card you know um i will link the cards that i put or that i used i got a pack of a hundred they were pretty inexpensive but they're like like id cards basically or like key cards that you can print on but they're i don't know they're like a glossy white i think you can get like matte white and like different colors and stuff but i just thought huh white's gonna be fine anyway but my project for myself will be now so i did my rainbow so like that's all my like plain or washy like there's patterns but they're pretty they're basic like there's nothing like too wild going on i mean there's like little bubbles and i don't know little little things you know what i mean but it's it's pretty pretty mild stuff but anyway um my thought is is that to do like more stuff in categories but i think what's up next for me is i want to do like things like this so like the multicolored stuff um but organize them by like dots or stripes or diagonals or whatever and like kind of do it that way i don't know i don't really know how to like do the rest of this but i think the like multicolored stuff is going to be like my next one which is in the other box that i showed you so yeah that's that's kind of what's going on here that is the good word from here um everyone that is following the erin chondron chondron saga drama whatever you want to call it i am going to give you guys little updates i still have not decided when i decide what i'm going to do i'll talk about it but today uh erin chondron herself released a statement saying that she was going to hold on actually let me let me pull up the exact quote because i i don't want to misquote this i gotta pull up the instagram so this is all on the regular erin chondron instagram as well as erin chondron's personal instagram which i have decided now longer to follow but i am following erin chondron the company just fyi it's just my own personal choice everybody has a choice whether they follow things whether they buy things whether they decide to follow me you know everyone's got a choice here so i'll read you guys this statement just so you know and then um if you want to if you're so inclined you can check out the erin chondron instagram or i did check their facebook page also has the same statement so this is from erin chondron the person um the quote is i love the company that i founded i love what it is meant to our customers and the community of people who have used and love our products mostly i love the people who work there i know how committed they are to helping people and doing good it was hard to read the recent statement from our ceo which by the way just side note they the statement from the ceo was actually on their blog they now thankfully have put it on instagram and on facebook so it's there as well so it's very easily accessible so you can see it so you don't have to go to an erin chondron blog but anyway sidebar we'll get back to the statement it was hard to read but it's true my decisions and my words related to my children's recent graduation event were careless and dangerous while our intention was to recognize graduates who had had much of their senior year taken away by covid i fully realize the event i planned with some other parents was a mistake and while there are a number of inaccuracies in the media coverage of this event it was still a mistake i also recognize now there is no way 600 black students would have been allowed to march and celebrate in the same way without masks during a pandemic that is one more example of the white privilege that has been such an unseen part of my life the fact that i couldn't see it now before scares me now i see it and i am sorry i am sorry i was oblivious to the realities that so many black americans have been living with for so long i want to figure out how i can be part of the change that is needed in this country that begins today and that is why i am going to take a leave of absence from the company the team there is creative passionate diverse and amazing and i don't want to distract from the great work they are doing so over the next several months i'm going to listen think examine reflect and serve however i can i will keep you updated here on my journey thank you to my team our customers and community for listening and teaching me so she's taking a leave of absence i've had so many comments today um because i actually posted this on my instagram stories just so people could like i linked it so people could go and take a look if they're so interested um i just want to provide information is what i'm trying to do at this point um like i said i haven't made no decisions about anything with like me personally moving forward and my channel and all of that i'm just gonna keep doing what i'm doing and um all of that stuff so anywho she's taking a leave of absence i've had several questions whether it's a paid or unpaid the information i have is information that the public has i have zero clues i don't know um but i think it's a good move i think this is a good first move to be honest um but we shall see i think now i'm just going to be paying attention to what the company is going to do moving forward you know i don't need for me i don't need any other information from erin condom the person i just really don't um i know a lot of people and i've actually had a good conversation with my mom about it and she's like well doesn't she run the company and i'm like no she hasn't run the company in many many years she's like well i would have thought that she like really ran the company i'm like no no but i can understand where that like a normal consumer would think that a woman named erin conron is like making these in her basement or something and it's like that's not the case right now it's way bigger than anybody probably ever thought it would be and she hasn't been ceo in a long time so but the thing is she's been the face of the company which i think is always given the impression that you know she runs everything which just has not been true for quite a while so anyways um yeah so that's just an update that's where that is um if you guys want like real-time updates i would highly suggest that you follow them on instagram um if you're unsure about what you want to do that's okay if you've decided you're no longer going to be using or buying erin conron products i totally get that too um i just haven't made any choices for myself and i know a lot of other i hate the word influencer but like influencers um some have said it made their stance and said i'm absolutely using them some have said no i'm done and a large majority of us have been a big question mark we are um when i say we i don't really mean we i mean me what what i'm struggling with now is just wanting to see the company doing better and i don't know what that looks like i really don't know what that looks like so i think that um just like moving forward i'm just gonna have to do what's best for me whether that's seeking out other planning systems or whether it's just using what i have because it's what i have and i love it i i don't know i don't know it just you know i will be honest today is the first day that i have felt like i could maybe use some of my erin conron products i wouldn't share them on social media today let me tell you that no but i would feel okay like writing in a notebook today for some reason and i think it's because of this announcement to be honest because i think it's something that needed to be done probably for a while and i think that moving forward the like company is going to be taking things a lot more seriously and really listening to their customers um and i'm really i'm very hopeful about that but again um we're gonna have to wait and see i don't know but i'm gonna give you guys updates i'm gonna let you know what's going on and i'll probably have i don't know if there's gonna be i don't know i don't want to say there's gonna be an official word but i will probably sit down and maybe make a video or tell it in a vlog or something like letting you know if and when i come to a decision i might not have a decision for months i have no idea so i'm just gonna keep up business as usual and just not share until i'm comfortable and um i hope you guys can respect that and respect any other influencers that have either walked away from the brand or is still using and sharing and loving the brand or ones that are a question mark like i am so anyway that's it for me at the moment and um yeah so getting back to my little project here so uh this little guy this has been so much fun this is like a little bathroom container i got from like bedbath and beyond like several years ago and i was like this is perfect for my washi to just like throw it in there anyway but i'm gonna keep going with this because i have been watching i think i've watched a lot of youtube today or not youtube i'm sorry uh netflix today keeps asking me if i'm still here and i'm like it's covid i'm here so anyways um so yeah but i am gonna keep going with my project i've been watching netflix and i'm watching season six i'm on episode 11 of how to get away with murder and let's see one two three four okay so it goes up to 15 episodes so i have a few more to go and this one i own i'm about halfway through so it's getting there but i'm gonna eat my popcorn and for dinner because it's like seven o'clock right now but i'm gonna have my popcorn for dinner and um watch this and then get to you know making making some more cards because this is kind of fun i really like it so thank you to lakin if you're watching thanks lakin um for the idea i really really like it and um oh if you guys want to know which cards i purchased i'll copy it from my like what i ordered history and i'll put it in the link down below so i'll i'll do that if you're interested in purchasing the cards but you don't have to purchase i got a hundred of them but you don't have to purchase a hundred i think you can i think you can order like 50 of them or something too but anyway it's just an amazon link it's easy so yeah i think that's gonna be it today just a nice little one take vlog situation on a saturday uh Doyle is down there we have had a good day nothing too exciting on the Doyle dog front so that's always exciting and um it's been kind of chilly today like i have to be honest it's been kind of cold um it's actually a little bit brighter out right now but it's been like dreary and i thought it was gonna rain today but it didn't rain like here here but it was raining like further like into the city and stuff like i live in a suburb on the outskirts of like minneapolis so um it was raining in minneapolis though anyway but it didn't rain here so that's exciting so anyway yeah i'm gonna jet for now and i will talk to you guys tomorrow i'll talk to you on sunday um but you're seeing this on sunday if you're watching it um you know in normal vlog order and if you're not that's okay that's okay i'll just see you in the next one so anyway i'll talk to you guys later bye well folks it's time to kick it old school so you can feel cool