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The creator shares a glimpse into her daily routine, balancing the growth of her hosting brand, \"Friend of Mine,\" with personal wellness. The vlog highlights her office renovations, a dedicated heavy strength training regimen, wedding planning milestones, and a focused skincare journey, all while managing the logistics of brand restocks and family commitments.
Good morning y'all welcome back to another week in my life vlog. I'm about to head out to my workout
I have everything packed up. I've been having the office feels like I'm like back in school
Because I know some people would do it off
Actually, it's not everyone picks out their outfit the night before but I love to pick out my outfit the night before have everything
Good to go everything packed up. Anyway, i'm gonna wear this seductive set. I'm going to sculpt
I just wear
it's just been so hot out and
Sometimes my sets are just like barely set. So if I like want to wear something over it
I just wear these massive
Abercrombie shirts today is a friend of mine's third birthday. And what's funny about a friend of mine's birthday is that
I don't actually know what it is
And I think originally I was supposed to launch september 5th and then it got pushed three days
And then I thought it was september 8th
but then I
Got texts from friends that it was like their memories and they screenshot their first order. No, it was 6th september 6th. So
You know, it's just kind of like a concept but we're doing like our birthday drop today
And i'm bringing my birthday basket to the office and i'm gonna organize a little bit
I definitely plan to get more stuff done around the office this weekend
But we ended up just having like so much going on that I didn't even make it over
One time to do that stuff. So we have some things to get done there last friday
I got a ton of fabric to cover our boards, which is going to be so cute once I can like do
Our L&S board. I'm very very excited about that one. So that'll be good
I feel like it might be a slick back day. I might need to pull this
All right, guys
Back we go going to the lake this weekend and next weekend. I'm so
Tired but anyways
we're
Moving the best part of a new home project is when you go in to see it the next morning
Wow, I started back on my gallery wall
for hosting I
This was always the plan and then when I hung up in here wasn't actually things that I had hosted
It was just photo shoots that we have a friend of mine. So I moved those to the office
And then these are just all
the different
parties and memories and things I mean not every single one i've hosted because
I don't have photos of a good chunk of them
That's why I started hiring a photographer because I would spend so much time and effort on these parties and then I had like no photos
And i'm such a like nostalgic
memories girl
So this just makes me so happy. So obviously eventually
We have one that broke that charlie fixed that needs to go up over there. But eventually the entire wall will be full of
Stuff from hosting which is really exciting. But anyway, I came out here to grab my birthday basket
Because i'm bringing this to the office today the birthday basket is really everything this is like insane. Here we go
It's just like I want to make sure it's tight
There is no good news. We do the other side first and then if you use scissors i'll go ahead and cut. Yeah this
Hold on. All right. Okay. Have you jumped this side first? We want to pull it. It's tight. You pull it tight on that side
You also want to pre-cut it
This is like the cheapest thing ever all this costs I think like 500 for all three of them
I do think it's a little slanted
So I guess we'll see big reveal. Oh, no, it's perfect. It looks good
Great
Oh, it looks amazing
This is the best thing ever. We have two more to do
It's just an insulation board
With fabric that we staple guns. I saw it on tiktok. I know a lot of people do this, but
Wow, so nice and it looks beautiful
It's also great because like something of this size would just be so expensive and it was so like inexpensive compared to
What it would like normally cost love this. Welcome to my new lns
We're gonna do staples for this charlie. Great thing. Is it that would be good?
Yeah, this size is fine because it's just gonna go across the whole wall
Like this, yeah, so hold on before you do anything actually we're gonna pull it tight after we put it down
All right do this corner first, all right and we gotta stay off of it though i'm gonna follow you
Oh cool. Okay
All right, do you fold?
All right. Let's see again
Oh, it looks good
Yay, all right some updates we haven't done this board it's the afternoon now I did add on
these ties
Which I like a lot and they're fun because I don't like the curtains are just kind of like bland, you know
But it did bring a lot more light in here, which is great
Also, I went through my stash of stuff and I found all these old curtains that were like my aunts
And honestly, I mean they would need to be like taken in but kind of love that
So we're going through that
This fabric is going to be as you guys probably saw last week or maybe earlier in this vlog
That's going to be over the bulletin board in my office
And then here i'm gonna have I was gonna do a gray malin print
But I think the one I got is like too small for that area. So I actually don't know
Exactly what i'm gonna do
I am still wanting to do the gallery wall thing here and then i'm gonna do the cork board here
So that's good
And then we did
Finish these so we did move this in here
I'm going to have this board actually mounted and this is going to be like our lns if you will with all of our
Canvases in here i'm going to get two lamps books fake florals the whole thing
So that'll be good
And then we have a lot of stuff because we're still mid moving
We got a bunch of like fabrics and stuff back today, but this looks amazing
I know i've already shown it but love that good morning y'all
It is now wednesday it is 7 a.m. I'm heading out to my workout
I strength i've talked about this a billion times, but I strength train three days a week and then I take strength sculpt
I lift like very heavy
I'm, like i'm a bodybuilder. No guys. I hate the way I said that but I lift heavy. I have been lifting for I don't know
Yesterday's my 400th class. So probably like I think i've been going
There for like five years at this point
I can never remember when I started going and also even if i'm like, oh i've been going since 2022
I'm like two years ago, and then i'm like wait a second, you know, it's crazy, but I have become like very close friends
This is not new
This is like in the past couple like years at this point, but i've become very close friends with
My friends that I work out with one like owns the gym and then just like other two friends of ours
I love them and it's funny because like we actually do hang out at school
Like one of them was the one who was here sunday night late or monday night late and is like in my fantasy league
Like we actually hang out like outside of the gym and stuff, but it almost feels like school friends
mainly because like
I'm, like 10 years younger than them less than 10 years younger than a little no i'm 10 years younger than them and
It's just like so fun. But anyway, I like me and my morning workout and this is our hack to doing the workout
When you strength train you can like talk through the class
So that really helps because when I go to school like strength sculpt, I love the class but i'm like
I can't gossip with my friends like that sucks
Here's the key though
You just need to work out with your friends or be for the people you work out next to
And then it's like every morning i'm going i'm like, oh i'm going to see my friends
It's like not the workout, you know, and I actually love the workout. I genuinely like working out like i'm not
Especially because I like what I like the kind of workouts that I do
Strength training is just like the best because you can feel yourself getting better. It's like the best thing for you with aging
It feels kind of like a sport or practice because i'm consistently
Getting better and I can see that versus like of course if you're and I love pilates and stuff
Like if you're in pilates, it's different because there's less markers and like your weights are like typically lower anyway
So you can't really see the difference between like oh when I started I was doing five and now i'm doing like 40
You know what?
I mean like you can see the actual difference and you can feel the difference and just in general like
When you're like playing with kids or whatever like I notice it so much more
Anyway, all that to say I highly recommend strength training highly recommend becoming friends
People that you work out with because it makes it so much more fun guys
You will never believe this. I watched practical magic last night for the first time ever
I don't know how I had not seen that movie
And how it was not like a staple of mine because that is so like my vibe of a movie
Like I do not know how I haven't seen it
Loved it charlie obsessed like how would charlie not seen it? He watches like every movie ever
Anyway, great movie. I don't know how I was like
I need to do a practical magic dinner party and do the whole thing. I do I do good morning y'all
I'm at the office now. It's a couple hours later. It's 11 30. It just took a call
Did a bunch of podcast stuff
And we are about to head off not head off. We're about to hop on a wedding design call for our like general
Invitations general vibe all those things. I want to get this done sooner rather than later because I might
Like i'm very lucky because obviously I have like a home and hosting brand
So there's certain vendors and stuff that I might have things made that are custom. I don't know that for a fact
Um, but I want to get our stuff
Done like sooner rather than later. So anyway, here's what i'm wearing today
This is actually the top that we got engaged in i'm thinking about it
But jeans these guys where are we buying jeans? I cannot find jeans
I love my abercrombie curve love jeans, but like I need like a morgan stewart jean
You know what i'm saying?
Like I just need and I need them in every single color and I need them to be like straight leg
And fit me perfectly and not stretch out
And I like so desperately need them. So, please let me know
I have
Like it it would be to the point where like I
Would like to try to do it as quiet as possible and it won't matter
Yeah, that's cute
That's fair, but it's like that's actually fair
It actually drives me I look my whole family has it and like there's certain friends of mine that I like won't eat with
But because I would never say something like I would never which I guess like whatever
All right, we're getting on our design call
Hello
I'm so excited for this call. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah
Okay, hayley
So I really don't have as much of a vision around this as like you would think
Place table card number things or something like that and like just like that have it in my brain
I don't need to know exactly how it's like
Gonna be die cut if I like need to make those decisions and it makes it so much easier on you
Like we can do that. We actually are back in
On like september 20th. I probably have a little bit better of an idea and we're starting to like book more stuff
so I think that that will help me and there's of course things that I'll want to do that are like
More personalized and stuff like we're gonna also write like an I would thank you like a note to every single person at their table
Okay, i'm the last one in the office
But my new chairs have arrived from wayfair and I think they're perfect for my office
Let's see. Anyway chair is honestly comfortable. It's big which is what I needed
Love this thing
So i'm off to do my facial i'm gonna look crazy
So i'll probably i'll probably talk to you guys tomorrow because my skin's gonna look absolutely insane
Tomorrow is going to be a really big like setup day for the office. Good morning, y'all
I got my granulating done yesterday and honestly, my skin is not even that red
By far
The best treatment i've ever gotten it makes your skin like so tight and your pores disappear
They gave me this sheet mask. They said to do it last night and I didn't so i'm doing it now
It's like 6 a.m. I'm up early to
Stitch a little watch a podcast. Um, I can't work out this morning actually, so i'm gonna have
A nice little morning at home getting ready. Okay. I don't know if
That's kind of wrong. Oh god. Okay. I just felt like my skin had been looking really dull and also
I've been meaning to get my granulating done
Every month and now I mean i've got over a year until our wedding, but I think
For prep and stuff I needed to start now and get into the routine of it. I'm not doing like
bride like all the crazy like whatever stuff but I want to feel good and also it's just an excuse because
That will just be in my everyday. So
with that being said
If you guys have done like skin prep or things for your wedding, what did you do?
And what do you think was worth it?
This is something that I just like would do period like I get my granulating done
I I don't know. I become inconsistent with it, but i've got my granulating done probably five or six times also y'all
My starter is so active
It's perfect, I wish I was going to be home
But I think we're going to date night because I would just try to bake some loaves for the lake house tomorrow
but I don't think
I'm going to be able to do that. So
I can always bring her to the office
Maybe I try
Let's see
Hi my girls we're at the office today
I'm trying to get the remainder of the stuff
That we can just like moved in on box. I got my new chairs
I just need to move things away or around
And organize to the best of my ability before we get like the rest of our stuff because we have
Like two major shoot days next week. We'll have the whole team in town next week
So there's only four of us, but we'll all be here
So need to get all that situated. Um, I have a podcast recording day
There's a bunch of events lots of meetings. Like it's just it's a busy week
it's basically what i'm getting at also look at how perfect this is because like chicken's everywhere in this office because it's like
Obviously iconic update on getting the office
I think it was the best thing i've done because it is
Just so much better to like leave my house and go somewhere and with friend of mine specifically
One we're growing into like we just had so much stuff everywhere and like products and everything and I just needed it
Laid out. So today i'm gonna move the chairs around
We're gonna move the other chairs the pink stripe ones. I love those but I mentioned this before
The fabric is terrible people only ever sat on those for the podcast and they're like stained all over and like no one not one
Single time did they stain ever like anything when they were sitting on those chairs?
So eventually as we develop friend of mine product, I will get those like refinished. I'm just kind of like holding out
Until we do that. So i'm going to switch the chairs out
We need to sell the boucle couch by boucle couch we're done with that trend
And figure out that situation and then i'm gonna set up our like lns
Which is going to be our board with all of our like needlepoint canvases and stuff
And just get as many things done as possible. Um, because we have that shoot and stuff i'm not trying
I mean also we like can't afford it, but i'm not trying to like furnish everything all at once because we need the space
For the shoots and whatnot. So just going and getting stuff
Situated we also got a speaker
oh, this is not the speaker I brought over and
Sorry, everyone. So now I can have music playing
And the vibes are gonna be so good. And honestly, it already looks like really cute over here
Like I like that vibe. So
Anyway, I do really want to paint the cabinets
Like so desperately they're fine. They're just like not my vibe
but these are things that are just like
Unfortunately not taking priority. However, they're a priority to me, you know, but like not to anyone and not to
People who you know do the finances of this guy
I'm the one who does the finances priority to me, but you know
probably not a priority as far as like
The other things that we need to be doing so that won't be happening anytime soon, but I do hope and pray that it happens
All right, guys, my lips look insane because I don't have any makeup on and this is my outfit
But we are going to start you and I are going to start decorating the friend of mine ellen s
That's not our office only so we're just going to pin this you guys saw how we did this earlier
And we're taking a bunch of needlepoint canvas. I also want to say so many of the
pre-orders slash big massive restocks that we've placed
For like the dolly garden canvas and all the like core stuff that you guys want and have asked for so many times
They're finally starting to arrive. We've placed multiple orders like there's going to be a big restock
Coming very soon. That's why you always want to get on restock notifications. And then there's another restock for
Like christmas and whatever we have like multiple of them coming. So stay
Tuned and if you are in lns, we do sell we'll say you guys can just go on our website. We use will still grow
They're really nice. They're really convenient
Also, these push pins are little pearls and i'm realizing now that these are not enough
All right giving y'all some office updates this pillow it's like an old family pillow and then this one
Is you guys know the story at this point? But anyway, I really like the new chairs
I can't wait for something to be hanging there. I can't wait for the block to be painted
And I love the rug
So we're keeping this
Now over here. This whole situation is still a big mess
And honestly like it's gonna be kind of for a little bit but
I love this. I cannot wait for this to be hung up on the wall and everything to be situated
It's going to be incredible once it's actually like ready to go. Good morning y'all. It is friday. I have
A workout soon. It's seven. I just spent an hour
Stitching and listening to the calamity club
I'm trying to finish it this weekend because I need to recap it on the podcast for y'all and
Oh my god, it's so good. You have to listen to the audiobook. Anyway, um right now i'm about to
Do a little like 20 minute clean out of my closet because I found that like
My tops are a little unorganized that stuff's unorganized like falls back. Whatever
so I need to go through to
Um bag some stuff for donations. Oh, you know what I should wear it and I need to pack for the lake
But I have a workout soon. I'm gonna wear these on the boat tomorrow
I got these so excited. I haven't worn them like we were barely in the pool this summer granted
We were gone
And it still is warm enough
For the next like probably month and a half two months to go in the pool here
I mean, these are things that i'll have forever. We're going to the lake today as you guys know, but
I'm gonna do a little like 20 minute
donation
of
things really quickly because i'm trying to just do
Like I find that with organizing your closet specifically you think you need like a full day and it takes you like an hour
You know, so if I just do like 20 minute cleanups and stuff
Then i'll be good, you know, and then I need
To pick out what i'm gonna wear
To work out and then i'm just gonna go straight to the office and get some stuff there and then come back here
We need to
Get some groceries because we're in charge of a couple meals
While we're at the lake with my family. Also, it's like i'll wear this but I wear this like every day
So I don't even know where the shorts are for it
All right, so this is done and set up this is our new like murphy bed situation
You pull this drawer all the way out and then you bring that down and then there's the mattress
But it's not my like favorite looking thing ever. I mean, it's fine
Really? What drives me crazy is the black doors like guys
What color should I be painting these because that has to happen stat anyway
This will be cute to have like a painting of over it and books and like florals and all that stuff. So
Really cute and nice. We'll add a cute little rug in here
and then
Depending like this room will probably be like more of a flex room
Which is like over time it'll kind of just be like whatever we need it to be
It might end up being another like communal workplace
We might get like a rug and like a big table where people can work back here
So we have like different working spaces and they can take calls and everything but
I'm, glad that is done. Finally
Guys office update here. We are things are looking
Way better. I hung this up this morning
This is the greatest thing that we've ever done. I have this stuff
This will be reupholstered best couch ever need to think figure out what's going to go up there
Same situation. This is going to be the ottoman entry table design book wall
Obviously the dream would be to I don't even think I would necessarily need to paint like I think we can make the kitchen work
But the black doors and stuff like that's got to go
So I need paint suggestions
Um, and then eventually we'll replace these chairs too, but they're just here for the time being this is our little situation over here
More books coffee station, which we'll have set up
We are gonna do like fun things for snacks and everything. This eventually will be like a plate wall of some sort
We haven't really done much outside
Um, this is gonna be you know slowly, but surely we're getting over there. My dream would be
To take our silk scarves and have them framed and have them go down this
Office or this hallway, so that's the dream
Over here. We have a bunch of our mahjong mats. We're gonna hang them. We got something to hang them up here
Which would be cute. I want new chairs
I would love to wallpaper this room like so much. So that's also the dream
We have tassels coming to make this cuter. This is our lns wall that you guys saw yesterday
That's looking great
And then over here. Oh my office. I don't know if i've already said all this but you guys have seen this throughout the week
Still deciding on that stuff, but that's what we have here. We still need to cover that
and then down this hallway
I finally
Kind of like fixed it up a little bit today
that's the guest room situation or not the guest room, but
Pull up at situation and then we have some extra like this is like
Vintage like this is like stuff that my mom and my grandma made for their company forever ago
So and then we have all that which will be nice
And that is the update for the office
Currently so
I'm, like yeah, everything's coming along. We need to paint these
This is like the one thing that i'm like
I actually would want to do that sooner rather than later because it just like
Is really throwing off the vibe see how it looks too modern. It's not very like friend of mine
Anyway, that is that
um, i'm actually gonna go home and
Get ready and leave for the lake house today. So i'll see you guys in my next vlog. Bye