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I finally got around to editing my Marbella vlog! I don’t even know what took me so long, I guess I just didn’t want to do it immediately after I got back from holiday lol so here it is a month later.
I had so much fun going away with the girls, and I’ve said it before but I’d love if we could make these holidays a tradition. We don’t always need to be celebrating something it’s just nice to have the gang together.
Here’s hoping we have more adventures together in the future!
I am so excited to share this flip-through of my 2022 planner! It took a long time to complete but I am so obsessed with it. Everything is so pretty and I just know I will be looking back at this for years to remember 2022.
Sticker planning is such a random hobby for me but I am so glad I found it because it brings me so much joy, I can’t even explain.
Now that this planner is done, I can finally start my 2023 planner! Yes it’s April but it’s fine, I’ll catch up lol.
It’s been a long time since I hauled something that wasn’t stickers. But I splurged on clothes last month so decided to do an old-school clothing haul.
Not going to lie the lighting isn’t amazing in this but I’ve always used natural light so yeah we do what we can. Probably won’t have another clothing haul for a long time so enjoy!
It’s been 3 months since I uploaded a YouTube video so I thought it was time for a little life update. Mainly just talking about my channel and what’s going on there, feels weird to post something with my face in it because it’s been so long but enjoy!
I also filmed this because I was planning to do a haul video but I didn’t want that to be the first thing I uploaded in three months so yeah consider this a bonus lol.
I meant to post this ages ago and I forgot lol. But last year I challenged myself to film a second every day for the whole year.
I’m not going to lie; it was difficult, and I wanted to try hard to make the clips different each day. I mean, no one wants to see 365 seconds of my desk you know?
I’m not going to say I got every day perfect as I definitely fudged a few of them and a couple are pictures and not video but you know what? 95% being honest and true to everyday life isn’t bad haha. I also was smart and decided to edit it as I went so I wasn’t sitting at the end of the year sifting through my camera roll desperately trying to piece this together. So I’m proud of being organised in that way.
I am really proud of how this video turned out but I gotta say I wouldn’t be doing another one anytime soon. Mainly because it was a huge effort and I can’t say the one this year would be much different from this one haha. So yeah maybe in a few years or something but for now I am content that I was able to do it this one year.
I am trying to make time to film Plan With Me videos, even though it puts me even further behind in my planning lol. That being said I still plan to have this planner completed on time so I guess I’ll just need to go into over drive planning in the next couple months to get caught up. Also R.I.P to my bank account as I try to get all the stickers needed to cover the November/December period because I don’t think I have that sorted yet haha.
Still, I do not regret this hobby this year it’s been super fun and I love how pretty it turned out. Plus this year I have actually had a lot of activities to document and this is a fun way to do it.
The plan with me for the week of my birthday! It wasn’t the most exciting week for me as I did get COVID but I still wanted to use this gorgeous kit from ScribblePrintsCo so I guess that’s something worth celebrating lol.
I have decided to start a little Let’s Play on Disney Dreamlight Valley. Not sure how long it will go for, probably until I lose interest but I thought why not?
I have tried to do Let’s Plays in the past and they always fizzle out in the end but so far I have been enjoying this one. I think it’s because I recently have been inspired and have toyed around with trying to do livestreaming. But I know I would be terrible at livestreaming so I’ve decided to throw myself into YouTube.
I currently have about 10 episodes of the Let’s Play prerecorded, I just need to get around to editing them haha. But this will be fun, so if you are interested then please join me on this journey!
I have been meaning to write about this game for ages but I just haven’t done it. So here we are today.
I decided last month to try out some console gaming – and by that I mean I decided to take a look at what Xbox Gamepass had to offer. I am strictly a Nintendo gamer, ever since I discovered Animal Crossing that is where my love lies. I also play a lot of Sims which is PC but would never say I’m a PC gamer lol.
But my boyfriend has an Xbox and I bought him a year’s worth of Xbox Gamepass for Christmas and so I decided to see what was going on there since he wasn’t using it. And it had been a long time since I had played anything new so off we went.
I discovered Escape Academy right away. It was the first game I took a chance on and I’m so glad that I did. Escape Academy is basically just an escape room game, you go to the academy and work to solve escape rooms. Sounds good, could also be terrible.
I mean my fear with games like this is that the puzzles could be too easy and then you’re done in five minutes and not sure where to go from there.
Thankfully though I did not have that experience with Escape Academy. I was hooked on this game from the get-go. I really enjoyed solving the puzzles and I liked the little breakdown of the rooms at the end, as someone who tends to think logically and sequentially that pleased me a lot.
One thing I will say though is because I am a Nintendo player, I kept mixing up my X and Y buttons so I was using the odd hint when really I was trying to get into my inventory…I was able to work on that over time but was annoying as it impacted my overall score.
Aside from that though, controls are pretty straight forward and the puzzles I would say are just the right amount of difficulty. I don’t know what it’s like to play in co-op mode but playing solo I was able to complete all the puzzles myself. That being said, there were a couple of times when I needed just a little extra time. Which I think is perfectly fine, especially when in a real-life escape room you have multiple people but on your own, it’s a whole task.
But yeah I just really enjoyed the game and wanted to make a little post to talk about it, I finished the game within a few days and even made a couple videos on it, so if you are interested in seeing how terrible I am at escaping then check them out haha.
I swear when doing the other rooms I was not struggling as much, I just happened to choose to film two “levels” which required more thought than others.
Still, I am super excited to see what the future of the game holds. I know they are gearing up to release some DLC at the end of this year so I will 100% be on that as soon as it comes out.
And so if you’re looking for something new to check out potentially for free if you have Xbox Gamepass (though the game is only like £16 elsewhere) I would highly recommend Escape Academy! Also if you love escape rooms I think it’s a great emulation of them.
As if I haven’t posted about this holiday enough on my blog here’s the third post lol.
I filmed my first plan with me in a year! I have been wanting to film plan with me videos for ages because this year I have been doing so much sticker planning but never set out the time to do it. But finally, I filmed one and I enjoyed how it turned out.
I have really upped my planning game since last year so I’m excited to share it with you. I am hoping to film more plan with mes as the year goes on, not weekly because that’s not realistic for me and I would never finish my planner by the end of the year but I will definitely try to film kits that I am excited to show off!
And then at the end of the year, I am so excited to do a flip-through of my completed planner full of sticker spreads! I have done about half the year so far and it looks stunning so I can’t wait to show it off. 🙂
In the meantime, I am still two months behind in my planner so I need to get to work catching up haha. I already have a second plan with me filmed and I just need to edit it so expect that soon!
Courtney Shek 