Hello friends good morning I hope you
are doing well feeling good I'm excited to
spend the day together last night i was
just spiraling in such a bad mood
i had to just get away from my phone i
was just i feel like i was just
consuming and just
kind of spiraling i don't know
everything i was looking at was just
kind of putting me in a bad mood so
i highly encourage you if you're having
a bad day to just kind of unplug
well i won't say i put everything away
from my phone because i actually
listen to music and podcasts and watch
some youtube videos like i just wanted
to
kind of detox of stuff that wasn't
inspiring me and make sure i was
just consuming content that was
inspiring me because i was just
getting into such a bad mood so i just
wanted to encourage you guys that
happens to you
just put boundaries and put limits on
yourself
and what also helped me was i just put
my phone away for a bit in
red and i'm reading a really interesting
book right now so
i'll share more about that later but i'm
feeling just so renewed this morning and
i'm glad i kind of took those steps
last night to make sure that today i
just have a better and more productive
and
not even more productive but just more
balanced today because yesterday i just
felt like i was spending too much time
staring at my phone so just wanted to
kind of put that out there encourage you
guys if you kind of are feeling that way
as well to
you know take some time to evaluate what
is inspiring you and what's not
inspiring you and eliminate
the stuff that is not inspiring you
because we do not need that in our lives
so anyways today is going to be so fun
i have some plants to introduce you to
and i have this amazing brand that i'm
working with today
called bloomscape and they actually
deliver
beautiful high quality thriving plants
so i have
four new plants to introduce you to and
then
later we are going to bake this
absolutely
stunning masterpiece i'm not praying it
turns out well because i'm just so
excited
i've been wanting to do it for a while
so it is garden
focaccia and look
how beautiful here i'll click on some
isn't that so stunning
i love it so we need to go over to the
fridge and see
i know i have quite a bit of vegetables
but i might want to run to the grocery
store to kind of grab
some some more just so we can have a
beautiful blossoming
garden bread so i can't wait to make
that with you guys
later and we're just gonna make it a
good day so
let's get going this is the outfit of
the day it is immensely cozy
and i am very content wearing it so i
have this
velvet twisted headband and it totally
just makes me feel like i'm wearing a
crown
i feel like a cozy princess today and
then i have this new
flower graphic tee i have another flower
graphic tee that i just wear all the
time
so i figured it'd be nice to switch it
up and get another
flower tea because it just makes me
happy and i love to pair them with
high-waisted jeans or just wear around
the house and then
these amazing fuzzy pants actually came
in a set and it looks really cute
together with the set but i just wanted
to wear
my flower shirt today because you know
that's just the theme
of this vlog is garden flower
plants it's just a growth rooted day
so the flower tea was just very fitting
um but these are so cozy and fuzzy
they're a little long
on me so when i go to the grocery store
i'll probably switch out of them for a
second
and then i also have my fuzzy slippers
i can actually hear brandon's in a
meeting in the living room so i'm gonna
bring
my plants in here and i'll introduce you
to them now
and then we'll go into the kitchen and
tally up
what vegetables we need for our garden
bread
okay hello welcome to my tropical
paradise
i am just surrounded by so many plants
right now and brings smile to my face
so these are all from bloomscape and i
am so excited
to be partnering with them for today's
video
they deliver these beautiful thriving
plants
straight to your home and these two
actually
it came in a set of three this is the
tough stuff collection
and these plants are absolutely ideal
if you don't necessarily have much
experience with caring
for plants because they just thrive in
indoor environment
and they are pretty low maintenance
hence the name tough stuff
they are just durable and adaptable so i
love them
and the biggest and most beautiful no i
don't want to see most beautiful because
they're all beautiful in their own way
but we have our monstera that is just
absolutely
stunning has so much new growth
when it arrived at my home bloomscape
packages
the plants so securely and incredibly
that's something i was kind of wondering
about because you know shipping a plant
they
it really has to be well done because
you don't want to damage it and you want
it to be able to
remain healthy while it gets to its new
home but they do such a fabulous job
their 100
recycled packaging holds the plant and
pot securely in place preventing any
damage
and decreasing soil spillage but
bloomscape
actually offers plants in all different
shapes and sizes
so if you have a specific one on your
dream plant wish list
definitely check out their site to see
if they have it or if you already know
kind of the space in your home where you
would like to put a plant but you're not
sure
which one fits best for you they
actually help you
sort their collection of plants based on
size difficulty light level pet
friendliness
and if it's an air cleaner so they
really help you pinpoint
everything and when you order your plant
and when it arrives
they send a whole envelope with
information
first of all their branding is just
absolutely beautiful
and each plant comes with its own kind
of
intro card and just gives you all the
information
you need to best care for this plant and
kind of see
what it offers to your home and like i
said
once they arrive they are in tip-top
condition
these plants are kept in a beautiful
greenhouse by
plant experts who truly have so much
experience and know their stuff
and they also have their plant mom team
on standby so if you ever have any
specific questions about your
plant you can contact them and they can
give you all the advice you need
i just love how absolutely convenient
bloomscape is and how many options
they offer your bloomscape plants also
arrive in their own pot oh this one's
happy
so uh you can actually pick which kind
of pot you want as well they have
different color options and it makes it
easy because sometimes
it can be difficult to find a pot that
fits your exact plant but
with bloomscape you just get it all at
once so super super convenient
so if you would like to order a
beautiful
bloomscape plant for yourself and your
home
you can get ten dollars off of your
first order when you click the link in
my description
i really hope you guys love bloomscape
as much as i do they truly are
incredible and these plants are so
healthy and thriving
i'm just so thankful to have them as
additions
to my plant family so i'm gonna go put
these plants back in their little plant
homes
sprinkled throughout our apartment for a
while i have just been keeping all of my
plants kind of bundled up in our living
room by the window because
in the summer months i try to keep the
blinds closed in our
bedroom just because it gets so hot even
with our ac running
so that's kind of what i do but now
we're approaching the autumn season i
spread out my plants again and
it's just making me very happy that they
all have their own little place
in home within our home right now so i'm
gonna go
put them back in their spot and then
we'll go make our grocery list
so here's an overview of our apartment
just having
all of my plants kind of spread out a
bit more
i have them in their plant hangers i
have a cactus over here
and then in the living room hi b he's
working from home
we don't really have any over here but i
do have my basil plant in that window
sill
and then i have my birds of paradise
over in this little nook and then my
monstera
and my fiddle leaf fiddleburt okay i
pulled out
all of the ingredients for our garden
focaccia
so exciting so i actually am going to
run to the store like i said just to get
a few more items and so far i have some
red onion i have some
tomatoes and these are perfect because
they are the colorful rainbow tomatoes
and then i just pulled out these spices
because i'm pretty sure i will be using
them
to top it with i have some active dry
yeast some flour
and then these mini bell peppers will be
perfect for
to kind of look like the flowers since
they're colorful and when you slice the
pepper it kind of almost
already has a flower like shape so
that's perfect and then i think i'm
going to spiralize
this sweet potato so we'll see how that
goes and i also have a green pepper
and some fresh basil so on my list for
the store
i wrote down asparagus and then the
recipe also calls for
bread flour which you can substitute for
you can substitute with regular flour
but it
just is a little different texture so if
they have brown
bread flour i might get it but i'm not
gonna sweat about it and then i'm also
gonna get
fresh rosemary and garlic cloves
so that's the plan and if i see anything
else that i think would be really
beautiful
for our garden then i will grab that as
well
all right just got home from the grocery
store i bought
a little bit more than i went for
because i am hungry i need a snack and i
should have had a snack before i went to
the grocery store
because i kind of ate with my eyes and
just had to grab some things because my
stomach was yearning for them so i did
get my asparagus i got this beautiful
bundle of organic asparagus that'll go
on the bread
and i got some fresh rosemary for the
bread
i absolutely love rosemary and i think
that'll taste
fabulous on focaccia and then i have a
garlic clove because i forgot to get
garlic at the grocery store this week
because i went on monday like to get our
whole
groceries for the whole week and i
didn't get any garlic so we're gonna get
we're gonna use that probably for the
bread but i also just like it for
salad dressing and just cooking in
general so
got that and then i saw these fresh
raspberries
and they just make my mouth water i
haven't had raspberries in a while
and they're on sale so i am just going
to soak these for a little bit
and i also got these siggy this ziggy's
mixed berries and acai yogurt so i
this yogurt is so premium it's delicious
such good quality
and i thought this flavor sounded really
yummy so my plan
is after i clean my berries i'm gonna
top the yogurt with some fresh
berries since it's berry flavored and
then sprinkle some cacao nibs on and i
think that'll be a nice
little pre-lunch snack because i always
get hungry around this time like
the time between breakfast and lunch so
i'm gonna make that and then i also
ended up getting some bread flour so
we're gonna have we're gonna be
following the recipe
to a tea except for the decorating and
making the garden design we're just
gonna use our own creativity and just
play around with it
all clean
the perfect little fuel before baking
so delicious
all right let's do this the first step
is to combine our flour and our yeast
and a little bit of honey and some water
and then we're gonna cover it in a
plastic wrap and then leave it in a warm
place for 30 minutes so i'm just going
to stick it by the window so it can rise
and of course i'm going to link this
recipe down below
i decided to do the tasty recipe so
hopefully it turns out okay but yeah i'm
just going to do that
and then we will move on to the next
step once it rises i always love to see
the before and after of before it rises
and then after it's always super
crazy to me
i messed up i messed up the recipe
already
and we just started so kind of a rough
start
so i accidentally i read the directions
wrong and i added
all of the bread flour to two and a half
cups when i just said to add
half of a cup so
i don't know if i should start over or
if i should
i don't know i feel like i'm just gonna
try to persevere
and try to just move forward the next
step is to
add the remaining bread flour and olive
oil
and all-purpose flour and water so
we're just gonna we're just gonna keep
going we'll try
and if it is really looking funky then
i'll just start over but we'll see what
happens but i'm so bad at myself
i need to read more thoroughly
apparently
i prepped my vegetables for the toppings
and they look
absolutely fabulous i love how colorful
they all are
brandon really needed to get some anger
out again
stop be gentle with the bread and knead
it
he wanted to knead it but he's being too
aggressive okay you're gonna need to add
more flour because now it's all stuck to
the bottom
i don't know what i'm doing where to the
bottom
you're gonna try to turn it over and
yeah
now it's all stuck
you were a little too violent there you
go
and then yeah keep flipping it and
turning it and knead it not just punch
it okay
you got it isn't it fun
exactly yeah you got to clean that up
the recipe actually calls to knead the
bread
need the dough for 15 minutes so i'm
actually thankful he felt like
helping me knead it because i'm like
working up a sweat in here
all right here is our beautiful dough i
think it's okay
hopefully even though i messed up um so
basically the next thing it says to do
is to just let it sit
for one to two hours so i'm just gonna
do the full two hours and it's supposed
to double in size
so that'll be the real testament if it
works or not all right the next step is
to let it
sit and rise in the bowl with olive oil
so we actually have to let it sit for
one to two hours so i'll probably just
try to do the full two hours
and i'm kind of nervous i probably
should have gotten a bigger bowl because
if it's gonna double in size it is going
to be overflowing out of this bowl
so that'll be interesting so we'll see
how that goes i think i can just always
transfer it if i must
but in the meantime while we're waiting
for that to do its thing i'm gonna make
some lunch it's already 1 p.m
and we haven't really had any lunch but
that yogurt was
perfect to tie us over and we have some
ripe avocados
so i think i'm either gonna make veggie
sam maybe a veggie sandwich that we
could share and then a side salad
or some guacamole i don't know which one
sounds better to you babe
do you want a veggie sandwich with like
maybe just share a veggie sandwich and
then side salad or
guacamole and
there's no black beans so
but we could have like nachos without
black beans i guess
okay i'm just gonna make guacamole in a
salad kind of random
i'm just not really in the mood to make
guacamole and it doesn't even sound like
good to me
so we might have it for dinner and i
just want to do something really easy
for lunch
since that bread is you know been
just a process and i don't really want
to make anything too fancy right now so
i'm checking to see what i have in the
pantry
we don't really have
we have some soup a can of soup so we
might have that
or i do have some daily harvest meals
that i might want to try
um let me see there's this
harvest bowl that sounds really good or
the tomato wild rice sweet potato great
northern bean avocado
okay that sounds so good and i can add
some extra avocado on top
okay friends this is a process so i just
spread out the dough
in my pan and now i need to let it proof
for one to two hours so it just
has a lot of different steps which is
fine it's fun i am still a little
nervous but it didn't rise
that much when it was sitting out over
by the window
so fingers crossed but we're just gonna
keep
chugging along and hope for the best
while we wait for the bread to proof i'm
gonna enjoy this nice
glass of coffee and just work on my
computer for a bit so i'm gonna hang out
at my desk
get some things done and then finally
we'll get to the fun part of the baking
decorating
do
still sipping on my coffee and working
away
but i wanted to share my glass straws
because i get a lot of questions about
them whenever
i post about my iced coffee because i
typically use the glass straws because
they're my favorite
and i just got ours from amazon i just
got a two pack and i'll link them below
they're in my amazon shop so they'll be
there but the
reason why i love glass straws is
because you can
see the whole straw bowl obviously
because it's clear glass which is great
because
you know if you've had reusable straws
in the past lots of gunk can get stuck
and it can be hard to see
what is in there especially if you use
them for smoothies which i use these all
the time for smoothies and
you know stuff can get stuck there even
after washing it even after putting it
in the dishwasher
so i love the gloss ones because these
came with a little brush that fits
nicely through there
but i also can just see if there's
anything that
didn't wash out completely so shout out
to the glass jaws
okay friends the time has finally come
it's time to decorate i have my
beautiful veggie tray
i also have some parsley and oregano and
i'm gonna go get some sea salt as well
and i have no game plan whatsoever but
we're just gonna go for it i'm gonna put
on some classical music
it's currently raining outside i can't
really see it but
it's kind of sunny and rainy so it's a
very cozy situation
and let's just go for it
uh it's raining so much i'm so peaceful
right now making this bread
oh my goodness okay this is the finished
product i still
haven't sprinkled my spices in my sea
salt yet
but look at this wow this is so
fun i highly suggest baking this the
true test will be
how it tastes but even just this
activity of
decorating and creating this garden
scape has been so fun i still have lots
of extra veggies so i'm gonna
use that for our salad that we'll have
for dinner
wow i just love it it's so colorful and
happy
i'm really unsure of how it will taste
though because we just have some sweet
potatoes we have asparagus we have
basil we just have a lot going on so
it'll be very interesting when we do our
taste test but i'll just kind of do a
rundown of everything i used and where
so you can get
all the details but we have our cherry
tomatoes
some shredded sweet potato we have
rosemary some basil for my little basil
plant
red onion red onion is definitely a
great
option for that pop of purple we have
our mini bell peppers
some more tomatoes bell peppers onion
oh i sprinkled garlic fresh garlic all
around
so we have that and yeah that's all we
use and these are also sweet potatoes
so they kind of look like petals which
is super fun
all right i have the oven preheating to
400 degrees
and i'm gonna add my spices right now
i think i'm gonna do a little vacuum of
our living room
after this i just wanted to be nice and
comfortable so i didn't feel rushed
while making my garden
so that's why i'm doing it in the living
room at my coffee table
i just love to sit crisscross applesauce
it's the most comfortable position for
me
okay let's put a little oregano i
actually don't think i'm gonna do
parsley and i'm really not gonna do that
much oregano because there
already is so much going on
it's looking good so far well our
beautiful bread is baking
it's like a tongue twister beautiful
bread baking
say that 10 times fast i wanted to share
the book i'm reading it is called
12 ways your phone is changing you
and lots of this well i'm not even
halfway through
so i still have a long way to go but
a majority of it i have like heard
before of course our phones are changing
us
i mean we spend so much time on them we
have so much access to
information and this can come with a lot
of pros and cons which i'm sure a lot of
you guys can agree with
and personally i've just been trying to
be much more intentional
on just making sure that i'm creating a
healthy balance and relationship with my
phone and with social media and with
you know media in general and consuming
news and information because
throughout like this year in quarantine
and everything
it's just been hard to kind of pull away
i felt myself just being kind of more
addicted to my phone and
information in general so i've just been
making it
more of a priority to make sure i'm
balancing my free time and
using it and filling it with things that
bring me joy like baking
or you know doing stuff with my hands
where i'm not staring at the computer
screen
and where i can just kind of get
re-inspired
so i have really been enjoying this book
and i don't agree with like every single
thing
per se but it is written from a
christian perspective
and it's faith-based and you know how we
can
use the technology of today to better
share the gospel
but we also need to make sure that we
create a healthy relationship with the
current technologies ourselves
so i've really been enjoying that let me
see if i can find any good quotes
oh here's an interesting statistic he
says
behavioral scientists and psychologists
offer
statistical proof in study after study
the more addicted you become to your
phone
the more prone you are to depression and
anxiety and the less
able you are to concentrate at work and
sleep at night
digital distractions are no game because
we are also interconnected
hundreds of people friends family
members and strangers can interrupt us
at any moment
and when we're bored with the flick of a
thumb we can skim an
endless list of amusements and oddities
online
and how true is that i mean i just catch
myself all the time
in any spare moment just reaching for my
phone to consume
some kind of entertainment and again i
love social media i love technology i
think it is incredible i love youtube i
love instagram i love watching videos i
love being inspired i love pinterest and
i
truly benefit so much from it like for
instance i would never know
to make this garden focaccia bread if i
didn't see it on tik tok you know
so there's so many pros but
it's all about creating that balance and
making sure
you are consuming what you are consuming
is productive and enhancing your life so
i just really i just really wanted to
share that in case you kind of are
feeling like you need to kind of be
inspired to create a healthier
relationship with your phone and
i'm reading a lot more books like this
well i haven't read them yet but i
ordered some from the library
that just kind of talk about creating
more of a balanced and peaceful and
slow paced life if that makes sense
because i feel like
in our culture today we all just want to
be busy busy busy and
i'm definitely guilty of it and like i
love being productive and i love
encouraging people to be productive but
reading a book baking something doing
things you love with your hands
is productive and so i'm just kind of
working on redefining that
and i'll definitely share more as i
continue this
self self growth journey but i wanted to
share that
in case you're looking for a good
library book or something but i still
have to finish it myself so once i
finish it i'll give you my full
thoughts so far so good
okay we've reached the halfway point and
it is looking
really yummy it definitely rose a bit
and it's firming up quite a bit
and i wanted to get a little crazy and
sprinkle some parmesan
on the top because i feel like that
would be super yummy and
sprinkling it now will provide a little
meltiness so the directions say to
rotate the pan and bake it for another
10 minutes or seven minutes i'll have to
double check
but we're getting there just got an
exciting package from the library
it's always fun because i order these
books online and the library delivers
them
to my front door for free which is
amazing um
and i don't know what they don't give
you a notification
when they're gonna arrive and which one
is going to arrive so it's always kind
of like a fun surprise
oh the woman in the window this is kind
of
more it's a novel um but
i think it's more of a thriller
it's definitely a page turner apparently
i'm just hoping it won't scare me
oh my stephen king left a review
isn't he like a horror author oh my
didn't he write the shining oh my
i'm scared but i also love a page turner
book
so we'll see how it goes if it's leaving
me kind of anxious
and frightened i'll just return it easy
as that
it's starting to smell so so good
i really smell the rosemary do you smell
the rosemary
your nose is broken
maybe because i'm because i'm like five
feet closer i can smell it more
all right let's take this baby out of
the oven
it smells so good it's always so
hot oh my face is burning
okay oh she's pretty
so the thing is i don't know
if i should cook it longer because it
said
so it is getting a little golden brown
over here but
you know it's really not that golden
brown over here so
i'm actually gonna pop it in for a
couple more minutes but after that
i'm just gonna i'm just gonna eat it
because i'm getting hungry
oh my goodness i'm so excited i'm
cutting a piece right now
for a taste test and
my mouth is watering
all right time for the taste test
by the way it smells i have a feeling
it's going to be pretty tasty
you want a bite
that's good it's really good
it's not super flavorful honestly even
with all the vegetables
it's very just tastes like focaccia
i could use like the focaccia i've had
is just
oh you know what i need to do i need to
make a dipping sauce with olive oil
garlic
salt maybe some black pepper
so we can dip the focaccia in that
because it kind of just needs a bit more
salt and pepper and olive oil if that
makes sense
do you like it yeah
it's good i'm sure you're saying though
yeah maybe
like more herbs or something too yeah
usually it's like heavy on herbs like
a ton of foreign but i don't know if
they usually put that in the dough
or the recipe i followed didn't even
call for oregano so
i think just like what we're used to
yeah it's good though
yeah it's really good hopefully it's
good because we have a lot we have a
whole platter
we need to have a focaccia dinner party
holy carbs yeah
so good though so beautiful so good
we're eating a piece of art i'm gonna go
ahead and end the vlog here though
brandon and i are just gonna have a
relaxing at night
spend some quality time together
probably
probably um watch a movie or show while
we eat dinner
and i can't wait to take a shower take
my makeup off i'm having a breakout on
my skin so
i need to wash my face wash those all
away i wish i worked like that
um but yeah so thank you guys so much
for watching this video
and spending time with me today i hope
you guys are doing well and i cannot
wait to see you super soon
bye
