 Well hello and welcome to Lulai. The dog is drinking. We just got back at our walk. I'm all hot and sweaty. This isn't highlight. This is sweat. Yuck. Anyway, welcome. It is about five something in the evening. I don't know. Had a crazy day at work, as per usual. Doyle says hello. Do you say hello? Nope. He's gonna get comfortable. But I wanted to show you guys something. I actually stopped at Home Goods and Marshall's on my way home and I wanted to show you something I have been thinking about doing this for a little while, like ever since I set up my living room. And I'm gonna show you the after. Well not that. Well of course I'm gonna show you the after. Duh Emily. I'm gonna show you the before and then I'm gonna like style it the way I want it and then I'll show you the after. And this upgrade was only 20 bucks. Okay, just set my camera to manual, so now you can see it a little bit better. Obviously the big window is behind it, but I just didn't like the way that the pillow is looked. I felt like I needed two pillows that were exactly the same to kind of flank this area. So let me bust out my other new pillows and I'll show you like what brand they are and stuff like that if you want to look at your, you know, Home Goods or whatever. So I'll be right back. All right, so here are the new pillows. I am pretty much in love with these. They are so freaking cute. Let me get a little bit closer so you can actually see the little details. This is just kind of like a woven like canvas. I don't know. It's really nice. It's just like kind of like an oatmeal color. And then there's just like this little kind of piped stitching around the edge of it. It kind of looks like little pom poms, but it's not. It's actually like a swirl pattern. But I think these are so cute and I think these just go so well. And I love the cohesiveness. Like this, it always bothers me like coming down the stairs and like the two pillows never matched each other. So I really like that the old pillows are over there right now. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them, but they're gonna just live on the sofa right now. But I love this. I wanted something light just because the chairs are so dark and then the draperies right behind it are kind of like a mid-tone. I just thought these would look really cool. I don't know. I like these. What do you guys think? I hope you guys like them. They're kind of fun. Oh, and let me show you the exact packaging and I got them at HomeGoods. So it was a two-pack. They were only $19.99 for the two of them, which was actually an awesome deal. They are feather-filled pillows. And I gotta say, they're like really nice feather-filled pillows. I didn't think that they would be that easy and pliable to work with, but they're actually really nice. Anyway, this is the brand. And then if you guys want like the skew numbers and stuff, you can screenshot that. But anyway, I am like so in love with this little space now. I think that's so freaking cute. Oh, you can't see me because of the lighting. But I love it. I think it looks so awesome. I will do like a whole home decor, maybe video or something once I actually get that room like completed, complete with dead doggo. He's so hot, right? It is really hot outside today. But yeah, I just love that little update. I just think it's so much fun because, you know, you got to have fun once in a while. And I was looking at these other pillows that were like $24.99 a piece and I saw them and I was like, oh, that's really cute. They were like lumbar pillows and they had a little bit of beating on them, which all my pillows are decorative anyway. So like they're not for like laying your head down, you know what I mean? But I thought they were super cute. And then there was two of them, which was great. And then I looked at one of them and there was like, I swear somebody had like kissed it with their lipstick. I'm like, what? Who does that? Where it was like it was like an oatmeal color and like a bright white and, you know, kind of my neutral vibe anyways. But it was like where it was bright white. And I like tried to get it out. And I was like, if this is actually lipstick, it's kind of like an oil based situation. And I may or may not be able to get it out. So obviously I didn't go for that. And then I found those and I was like, what? These are only 20 bucks for the whole pack. I'm taking these home. I'm like, I'm pretty sure these are going to work out really great. The more I kind of carried them around, the more I really, really liked them. There was an extra set, like there was two sets of two. I'm kind of wishing I got the other set of two, but I don't know what my sofa situation is going to be in the upcoming future. I need to actually go and like look at sofas. I've kind of changed my mind on the sofa. And I know you guys have been sending me like really good links and I appreciate it. So thank you so much to everyone that's been sending me stuff. Oh God, there's a dog. Can you sit down? Like he wants to smell inside of my mouth. It's so gross. Anyway, I talked to one of my good friends, Kristin. She's got two of these guys. And she's got a leather sofa and she got it from Macy's. And I asked her is like, so how do you, you know, how is the, you know, quality of it? Can you get down? Jeez. So I asked her is like, so how is the quality of it, you know, having, you know, she bows and you know, just life happen on it. And she's like, I hate it. I'm actually going to get a fabric sofa like in the near future. This dog, I don't know what his deal is. Can I help you with something? Okay. Okay. He's like finally off my body now. But anyway, she's like, no, I would definitely get a fabric sofa. So now I'm kind of back to the drawing board. And I don't know if I just want to get like just a fabric sofa with no recliners and then end up getting like, maybe like a leather or like two leather, like bark a lounger, like recliners or something. Because over in that area, definitely has like way more than enough space for some more seating. But like, I don't have that many friends, but whatever. Don't tell anybody. Okay. I know I definitely want some sort of reclining situation in here. However, I could just get like Ottomans for like, you know, this area over here. Because I really like this placement of a sofa, like I really like this placement. I think it's nice. I like to have it kind of floating. I think that's kind of cool. So yeah, I don't, I don't know. But I think I need to just like dedicate a day, go look at some furniture. But again, I know I've said this before, but I want to save up for it. I want to pay cash for it. I mean, I have the money, but I want to wait. I'd rather, I'd rather wait. I think like maybe in the fall, I'll get it. But it would be nice to kind of know what, you know, direction I'm leaning towards. So I don't think I'm actually going to go furniture shopping while the vlog is still happening. I will obviously end up showing you like what sofa I ended up getting at some point. But yes, I don't know. I've been looking on like overstock and Wayfair and like the local furniture stores and stuff for like their fabric sofas. Nothing is like speaking to me. I feel like I just need to go and like see it in person and sit on it because seeing it online, it's just kind of like, it doesn't speak to me, you know, but I am really loving the way this is looking. I'm like looking at it right now. Let's see if it'll look better if I turn around. I think that looks so freaking nice. Sorry, it's so blown out. Dang, windows keep diffusing all the light. I guess it's a good problem here. We'll go like, we'll go like that. You can kind of see it a little bit better. We'll just show one chair and all of Doyle's toys. But yeah, I am loving those pillows. Oh, and if you guys are interested, I got the chairs at World Market. They are no longer available. The style is available, but the fabric isn't available anymore. I actually had to go to Iowa to go and pick up the remainder of the chairs. So they didn't have it online anymore, but they have that style, just different fabric types and fabric patterns at World Market. What are you doing Doyle? Licking his arm, being a cat. But yeah, that was my big adventure of the day. But yeah, so I am going to have some dinner. I have some more of those leftovers left. So I'm going to have the remainder of that. And then my dad is coming over, not today, but he's coming over tomorrow to facilitate with the mattress and box spring and frame delivery for the guest room upstairs. So I need to clear out the guest room a little bit. I have just like my laundry rack up in there right now. So I'm just going to completely get everything out of there. And I just told my dad just haven't put it in the center of the room. I'm going to have to attach the headboard anyways. And I don't know which orientation I want to put it in. So I'll show you guys all of that stuff tomorrow anyways. I'm excited for it to finally be done. And then over the weekend, laundry day, tomorrow, I'm actually going to launder the two sets of sheets that I got at Target a while back. And I think I had a, yeah, if you guys are interested to know like the bedding and stuff that's on, that's going to be on the bed, I'll link my Target haul below. It's like a Target home haul I did. I think it was last month. It was basically all stuff for that room. There was a couple of things. I think it was like the draperies and stuff for my master bedroom I showed in there too, but it was mainly all stuff for the guest room. So I am so excited to finally get that up and running because I have a guest coming to stay next weekend, which you guys will see because the vlog is still going on next weekend. So yeah, it kind of, it feels weird that there's like only two more weekends of the vlog. It feels weird. It feels really weird. And like we're already on a Friday. So what, like 11 or like 11 days or something? I don't know. I'm excited to show you guys the progress of the guest bedroom. And I will end up doing like a dedicated full video on the guest bedroom once I have it exactly how I want it. It's just going to be kind of temporary for right now because I have a guest coming to stay. And so I have like a little side table I'm going to set up and stuff in there for them, but that table is not going to be permanent. I think I'm actually going to go to like maybe home goods at some point probably go with my mom because she's got a bigger vehicle or take my mom's car for the day. Actually, no, I'll probably go with my mom because she likes to adventure and go and look for like a side table or something for that room because I don't really know what I want. You know, I don't want to break the bank. So home goods and marshals are like my jam right now. And you can find some really cool stuff there. Like, I don't know. I really like it. I really do like it. I am getting really hungry. I'm not as sweaty as I was when I first started this, but I am going to go eat and then I will talk to you guys in just a little bit. Well, hello, I'm back. But for you, it was no time. It's been a couple of hours. Actually, no, it's been like two hours. I am diligently waiting for seven o'clock to strike. It is currently 6.43. And I'm on Facebook because the planner group that I'm a part of. I am not an admin or any of that. I don't plan any of these things. There's a bunch of other amazing talented women that do that. And I attend some of these events in Minnesota. I know a lot of you have always asked me what the group name is and all of that. So let me turn you around. I'm going to show you. Oh, do you see the little dog creeper right there? Oh, there he is. Creepy dog. But anyway, there are, I'll turn you around in a second, but there are some early registration tickets happening soon or I don't know. I think you have to like sign up for the registration tonight and then they like bill you for it later. It's going to be in Stillwater in August. I will have been struggles over there. It's got to get the right spot. I mean, there's not a shortage of any pillows or fluff over there. Seriously, oil. Wow, that took a while. Anyway, but today is the registration. I'm very excited. This is like a paid event. They only do two paid events a year, one in the winter and then one in the summer. So this is their summer event. I'm very, very excited. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. It looks like it's on the 19th. So it'll be August 19th. So you guys will end up seeing that in my planner. But tonight at 7pm is the early registration. So I have to sign up on this like, I think it's like a Google form or something. And then in a couple of days, she's going to bill everybody that was, you know, it's like a first come first serve kind of a thing. I think there's only like 35 or 40 slots open. So it's really just whoever is available because a lot of times in the summer, it's so difficult because not everyone is available at that time. Oh well, I mean, there's some people are like, oh, I'm on vacation or I'm out of town or whatever kind of sucks. But hopefully we just see them at the next meetup. So let me turn you around and I will show you what the name of the group is. Okay, so this is the name of the group. It's hashtag Minnesota planner addicts. And then in parentheses, land of 10,000 planners. And actually Jodi, one of the admins, not Jodi from YouTube, but different Jodi, posted like a tentative location and meet updates and stuff. So that was kind of cool. I've actually already put all of these in my planner. So that's kind of awesome. And then I actually put in, okay, so the winter paid event is going to be in February at some point, but the January event actually put in my planner, but I put it on another sheet because this is my 2017 planner. I need to bust up my 2018 planner and put that in there. If you guys are in Minnesota and are interested in the group at all and wanting to ever come to meetups, I will put a link down below or you can just search it on Facebook. It's a closed group, but what will happen is you'll get approved and all of that. So just ask to join and one of the admins will approve you. Like I said, I am not an admin. I don't make up any of this stuff. I just go and attend a lot of times, not every time, but a lot of times I'll end up vlogging or filming some of it and then putting it on the internet. If it was a planner event, it was with this group. And I've met some really, really cool people through this group and I'm just really excited to register tonight. So I am hydrating with the candle back and I'm just waiting. So I've got about 10 more minutes to wait and I'm going to sit here and wait. And I literally have my cell phone ready as well. It has got my alarm on there for, I think I said it to like 6.58 or something so I could refresh my screen for a couple of minutes. But I just want to make sure I get in because they're paid events only have a certain amount of slots because there's only so many people that they can accommodate. And a lot of times, I don't want to speak for this event because I'm not a part of the event, but a lot of times when you have paid for things like a paid for event, you get like swag from sticker shops and washi shops and like one of the events that we went to actually both of the events last calendar year, we got t-shirts, which was really cool. And I wear mine all the time. And then this past winter, when we went to the winter event, we got like a really cool like canvas bag and a bunch of other swag and different stuff. And I don't know, there's just like a really cool interesting like planning stuff, which I think is kind of nice. So they'll definitely be swag at this one. I'm pretty sure unless the admins have other plans, which actually might be kind of cool too. So I will put the link, the Facebook link below for you guys. So anyway, I'm going to sit here for another few minutes and I will check in after I get registered. I got in. Yes. I am a summer event attendee. Actually, to be like completely clear, I don't really know if I got in or not. I'm pretty sure I did because I submitted the form at like 701. So I should be good. But there is like 35 or 40 slots. So they're going to go like if they get more than 40, they're going to go in order in which they receive them. So hopefully I got in maybe. I don't know. But I think I'm going to close out the vlog here. I just talked to my mom and dad about the bed situation for tomorrow. So they are going to come over actually my dad's going to come over and then I think my mom's going to come over after that if the bed hasn't delivered by then and just like take over. The delivery people said that they were going to call me but I don't really trust that because I said, oh, we're going to call you like 20 minutes before, which is great because my parents only lived like 10 minutes away. I don't really trust it. There's been a lot of like weird stuff happening with this house. So I just don't I don't want to risk it. Okay. So my dad's going to come over and hang out and just probably like sit here and hang out. I don't know. Like my TV doesn't have like normal television on it. So he will be bored, but that's okay. He can be bored for a couple of hours. That is going to be it for me today. I hope you guys enjoyed the vlog. Let me show you the dog real quick. What's happening over here, buddy? Like you can't even hold on. Let's see if you can even see him. Let's turn here. Doyle, you look like a pillow. He has like become one with all of the fluff over there. Doyle, you look like a pillow, bud. You're looking like a pillow. Oh, you're so cute, but you're so gross because look at this. Look at this. See, it just comes out and clumps. It is so nasty. This is like the summer with the sheebie. So gross, so gross. Gotta take it to the trash can and throw it away. Well, we are gonna say goodbye. Thank you for watching. Make sure to thumbs up the video if you liked it and subscribe. I'm here every Monday, Wednesday, Friday with new content, but this is a vlog. So I'm vlogging every day in the month of July and I vlogged every day in the month of June too. So I will put those playlists down below for you guys if you want to watch them. There's lots of cute Doyle footage and I think almost all of the vlogs were done for the day and I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye guys.