All you have to do is start.

[Music] starting over not necessarily the prettiest process but definitely a humbling one a fresh start a clean slate sometimes we just need a new beginning and despite my initial plan to start the year right and hit the ground running I ended up avoiding it because I wasn't ready for that at all but in my time away living like a recluse I at least managed to document a few things I read a few books I turned another year older made time for some hobbies and went out into the world for a bit but despite my well-intentioned

efforts to have a break and embracing my time off the thought of picking things back up seemed more and more daunting and when it was finally time to get up and get back to work I found myself struggling to get started on anything and so today I decree that rotting season is officially over and it's time to get it [Music] together so one thing that I need to get started on is home projects I have put off so many you see that pile over there yeah that's also going to be handled so I have three

things that we're going to do in the next maybe today honestly today and tomorrow let's get started so this corner very familiar it's in all of my videos and as you can see I have some frames L sitting on the floor for like a better half of the year um and it's finally time to do something about it I'm thinking of putting a print up on this wall maybe even a gallery wall so let me let me show you what I'm working with i thrifted a bunch of frames honestly no offense not really my style

oh this was 14 bucks I also got some prints from Staples I got like a bunch of them to match those frames so that's the plan I'm honestly I'm kind of [Music] nervous I last [Music] I've been thinking a lot lately on what it means to build momentum from scratch the longer we take to pick something back up the harder it feels to start again at the turn of the year I was feeling very overwhelmed and it took me ages to just start on anything at one point I even thought there was something wrong with

me what I think I really needed needed was to go back to making things simple [Music] again okay first painting [Music] colored all right so what I'm basic do it you like this is so unnecessary definitely don't have to do this but basically I'm putting some of this matte Modge Podge onto prints because when it dries it can give it sort of a texture so it's like a fake painting almost I've seen a bunch of DIYs do this so I want to try it um I guess it's doing okay this is my first time doing

this sort of thing so if this turns out bad I'm just going to have to live with okay it's still drying but you can kind of see the textures I am I am impressed I'm going to move on to the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] next all right it's the next day and the paintings are looking good they're drying I wanted to start off off today by decorating this wall I was actually able to find this sideboard on Amazon and I figured it matched my other shelf so it would be a good option for now

I mean I like I think it's fine for my needs for a long time I was trying to figure out what I can put on this wall currently I was using like a tiny little whiteboard to write my ideas on and often I would just run out of space so I thought that maybe I can convert this into a story wall I got a very quick tutorial on how to use a drill so we're going to try to we're going to try to do [Music] that oo I ordered a picture light so it's going to

go over there [Music] this [Music] works wa [Laughter] so now that we're done with that wall I'm going to move on to assembling all the prints that I added a little bit of texture to let me put that together and then hopefully transform this wall so for some of these frames I'm thinking I'm going to remove the glass oh my God literally this this is horrible finally got the last to freaking get out of this Frame after removing like 12 Staples [Music] yes have a frame literally this literally such a fail I don't know if

you can see that but the picture is too small once I put it in the frame wow I'm an idiot I am an idiot after putting the print together I started tracing the frames to plan a layout at this point I had a few mess ups off camera and generally things were taking so much longer than I thought but I me to never do this again and I started to question my entire life long I that might be way too much I could also just do one big frame [Music] oh my God I just stepped

well that I'm never going to use that again holy I can't believe I just did that oh boy I don't know if you can see it oh boy oops oops oops oops it's a common belief that you need to know everything before taking the plunge but the truth is the doing comes first before the moment but no matter how far behind you think you are how do you expect to get anywhere if you never start the car I put sort of an outline on the wall I think I'm missing like maybe one little frame that

I can put right there but we're just going to ignore that for [Music] now I used to think by the time I was in my mid 20s I would have it all figured out but I think we all know that's the Fest thing from the truth it's full of cycles of getting it together then it falling apart and each time all we have to do is take the first step and start [Music] [Music] a little Cozy Corner I still think that I can add way more I think this is a good start to a gallery

[Music] wall okay good morning good morning I thought I was done this project of mounting my gallery wall but remember when I said I wish I had maybe just one more small frame right there you will never believe it what are the odds I'm actually shook look how perfect this is Boom honestly I totally forgot that I had that frame it was just chilling on my shelf in the other room room for the longest time and I was cleaning up yesterday putting away all the tools it caught my eye and I was like oh my

God it's the missing [Music] [Applause] piece baby don't you feel the timeing when it Feel So Right Dan in [Music] the we are officially done we are done well not officially I still have actually a lot more um a lot more plans for this for this office but boom I love it I ended up taking taking out the glass of these two as well um oh my gosh I'm so happy about this sit down in this corner not bad not bad that take so long [Music]