nyc diaries | fall in central park, going out, merch update

Auto-captioned from the film, lightly cleaned. Elena's words, not edited prose.

stop watching is hi hello how are you happy wednesday probably if you've been on tick tock or reels or anything you've probably seen this like salmon at home little salmon seaweed bowl situation so i'm gonna attempt to make that hello sometimes i feel like so much of me is still convinced it's 20 20. i feel like every time somebody turns a year older in general they're like i don't feel any different but i feel like this year i actually do feel a bit of a difference my birthday's like in a couple weeks but i'm like so excited to be 25 i think if you'd asked me a year ago i would have been really freaked out having older friends having always dated people definitely like significantly older than me and i think just living in new york city in general you're just kind of like forced to grow up and mature i feel like mid-20s and like 20s while challenging are going to be good i feel like i talked about this in the last video as well so i'm kind of excited for what's ahead i have some like exciting video ideas like me and my sister want to create like a little travel series next year like there's just stuff to really look forward to and i feel like it's a season where i'm gonna like be forced to come into my own more so i definitely have a lot of low moments this year but i feel like they've like helped me become the person i need to become youtubers i have so much of my life like documented via these vlogs and like my musings and like the things i'm concerned about or i'm anxious about other things i'm like processing as i'm actively processing them at that age it's interesting seeing like the evolution obviously there's that evolution of my confidence and sense of self and like the direction that it in but also seeing like what occupies my mind when it comes to things that are like causing the anxiety and things that i've worked through like there's a lot of stuff but i feel like i would talk back from past vlogs that really like consumed me and now i can like reflect back and like see i'm like oh i've actually made some progress in that area that's also like the beauty of journaling how to be able to like have that record of that growth in evolution because for one it's very satisfying it's like oh i did that i've worked through some things and to be able to like go back to that headspace at that time to compare to where you're at now that's where my hands out today excuse me the few times where something like this has happened i truly feel like i'm living my character dreams okay so there's a very exciting party on friday and they sent me some cool pieces on them they're not mine to keep but oh my god so excited okay stay tuned for the full fit couple days but i'm very excited about this hello it's me wrapping up a workday i want my video exported i put on a little bit of makeup so wednesday evening i got invited to go to this new greek restaurant opening up so i texted peter and ashley i was like hey y'all do we want to go get some free food and drinks and try this spot out so we're going to cruise there in like 30 minutes gonna meet up with them which should be really lovely and there's this party at the jane hotel trying to like get in all the friend time i can while here after finishing up my work days so i'm excited let's go thank you first help yep good morning it's a shoot day i decided to studio space because i have so many little brand things to shoot so i figured i would just like try to get it all out and one so i got up really got changed gonna go meet karissa take some photos i don't know why i'm like so exhausted alas we must keep going so my uber's about to be here i'll show you guys just come along it's carissa and alana we rented this big ass studio deep in long island city gonna shoot some photos we're honestly like we look kind of professional at the sunnies the outfits to shoot all the gear all the jewelry the film it's gonna be good so welcome to a little shoot day just a casual what is it friday update from the nicer camera we switched rooms and look at this lighting it was what we're at fd studios it's incredible only fifty dollars to run this for the hour which is not bad if you're shooting a lot i just can't get over this light let's see if i squat here huh it's pretty cool from queens bridge park in long island city first time i've ever been here we popped on over here to get a few more shots i just had a lot of brand content to shoot so i was like let's just bang out a bunch of them and you know come to a cool location get really creative i really want to do that with more of my like work especially when i get to work with cool brands and stuff so i'm really excited to see all the photos we shot a bunch of like film and digital iphone all the things so it'll be fun to like look back and edit but now i need to head home because i have a bunch of video editing to do and then i'm at 45 class and it's friday i was feeling a little saucy because i got these crazy boots from vagabond and i'm obsessed with but i'm literally like six three or six four right now we're going with it cute little skirt cutie little bag gonna be a giant new york but got my little orate necklace on here as you can see straighten my hair for once but alas good morning oh my goodness hello how we doing happy saturday um i am about to go sit in the park as i say in every vlog i've been running myself too thin so i really allowed myself to sleep in today i read on this couch in my pajamas and now i'm going to go head to the park and i have to read some more i'm currently reading on earth were briefly gorgeous by ocean guang i'm saying that right which is absolutely beautiful and heart-wrenching oh my goodness it's like a gloomy saturday which is my dream yesterday was really cute too we went to ja jaja on they have one on our east side too which is all vegan mexican food and it is so good you would not be able to tell it's vegan their nachos are like happy saturday it's like three o'clock and i've done nothing yet and for anybody young fries out there i hope you're proud of me i put such strong internal pressure on myself to like make the most of every day and like and i just literally laid in bed for so many hours and then i also tried on a bunch of my favorite coats this morning because it's finally feeling like fall i'm obsessed with this from the real real like how cool is this and i like pulled out some of my favorite coats and put them on this little rack i have right here which is really nice i think i need to make yourself some food for one and then i'm going to meet up with gabby we're going to go to central park and read in the park which i'm excited for a wholesome day which should be cute wishes out here in central park it's beautiful the most wholesome little day it's not peak foliage yet but it's beautiful it's getting closer we just ran into my friend millie i love new york you just run into people on the most random you just walk by and like you're like how did this happen so good okay good morning cuties how you doing this is me teasing my merch there's a cute little design here and there's a really cool design in the back um you can just see the colorway at least this should be coming out so soon it's been such a process but i'm so excited i literally designed it like last year with the help of a graphic designer but it just took so long trying to find like a sustainable factory and to get the colors right but i finally think it should be out before the holiday so get yourself a little christmas or hanukkah gift or whatever you celebrate i just it's so crazy that's come to life i've been wearing it every day i was very picky with the material like the actual sample itself because i wanted to be like very cozy thick but warm and like i wanted it to feel high quality so i'm really happy with how it is it feels so good you've been following along with my instagram stories you know i'm going somewhere very exciting very soon for an entire month and some change and so i'm just like really trying to get my life together this next week week and a half before i head out which is exciting so stay tuned i think this year is gonna like end off with the bang which is really nice because it definitely started out shitty has some huge life changes which were really really hard but i feel like it's gonna end on a really positive note at least which i'm so excited about i haven't been journaling as much recently i feel like i've fallen off the bandwagon because i just haven't been that inspired so i'm curious if you made it to this point in the video i'd love to hear like how you stay inspired to journal or like how you like write each day like do you follow a prompt what types of prompts or do you just do like stream of consciousness right now i kind of just do stream of conscious of just like what's on my mind what i need to get out but i think following certain prompts which i've seen other youtubers do like moya or margot lee it could be really beneficial because it really just kind of gets you thinking and like diving deeper into a certain question so i want to explore that more but to be determined okay time to work how we doing finishing up a work day the usual not that exciting but now i'm headed to restoration hardware to go meet up with shelby church who is like oh gee og youtuber you probably already know who she is we're gonna film a little video segment for her channel slash just like ketchup and get drinks which should be fun here is the fit oh it's really dark i just got this incredible trench coat from a couple's gifting suite i'm like are you kidding me i'm ready for you how's it going we just got to restoration hardware wait that's it right yeah it's your first time here it's anything you want it to be honestly i feel like anybody that you interview doesn't have such a different perspective okay it's like your friends are probably realistically hello about to head out to the stella mccartney event here's the final look in this little mirror gotten this really cool jewelry recently from miss soma like i love these earrings time to go to the event meeting peter ashley nick there so at least have some friends it should be fun to go out after i have a sneaky little crop top so i'm just gonna drop this sweater off at peter's apartment because it's alone and i cannot afford to mess it up and then just go out from the evening so i forgot to film a little intro but i am so excited because me and natalie are headed upstate with maison margella which is a super cool fashion and fragrance brand and they just launched a new fragrance and they invited me to go upstate and i'm excited and nervous and intimidated because everyone seems really cool but let's go what's she listening to what's she thinking that's cute our luggage is missing but we're not mad about it of course we're chill we're going slow it's raining we're a little messy okay oh oh my god on brand look at them they're like the little shoes they're like the marshella okay love some candles with some really big matches you're coming home with me it's your girl a little outfit change we had like two hours to kill and now we're headed to the cocktail hour and dinner here's the old fit got a little sheer top on attempted to do a smoky eye but i kind of look like i just hit myself in the face meeting lots of other cool creators in new york with people that i've met maybe once or twice but don't know well and i feel like now i'm getting to like properly chat which is always nice and there were two me so now back to the city we hope you'll go