Reaching 100k Subscribers: A Milestone and a Celebration

As I sit here, staring at my computer screen, I can barely believe it myself - I've reached 100,000 subscribers. It's a number that feels both surreal and amazing all at once. I'm not sure what made me want to celebrate this milestone so much, but I think it's because I feel like I need to acknowledge it in some way. Usually when I hit a good number like 90k or whatever it was, I'd just post something on Instagram and say "thinking" or something similar. But with 100k, I want to do something more.

So, I've decided that I'm going to give away books! That's right, I'll be sending out some free books to my lovely subscribers as a way of saying thank you for being part of this community. It feels like the easiest thing to do, and it's also what most of you guys are into, so I think it's a good fit. Plus, who doesn't love free books? I'm not sure when these giveaways will be happening or how they'll work yet, but I'll figure that out soon enough.

For now, let's talk about the cake. Oh, the cake! It's going to be a beautiful pink, with glitter colors that are just so cute. I've never decorated a cake before, so this is all new territory for me. I'm using tips on toilet paper because it was the closest thing to me at the moment, and I'm having a lot of fun trying to get some good pictures for Instagram. The 100k is going to be written in pink, with little books around it, and maybe even some flowers if I can figure out how to draw them. It's all just a bit crazy, but that's what makes life interesting, right?

As I was setting up my tripod and trying to get the perfect shot, I couldn't help but think about how much fun this is going to be when it comes time for the actual giveaway. I'm hoping that some of you will want to watch me decorate the cake, because let's face it - it's not every day you get to see someone decorate a cake. And who knows, maybe one of you will even ask me to decorate your birthday cake! That would be amazing.

But for now, I just wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude to all of you out there. 100,000 subscribers is a number that's hard to wrap your head around, and it's only because of each and every one of you that I've even gotten this far. Your support means the world to me, and I'm so grateful to have such an amazing community behind me.

As I finish up this video and move on to editing another one (which has a lot more work to do), I just wanted to say thank you again for being part of my journey. If you're watching this, consider yourself lucky - I'll be sharing some exclusive content with you in the future, including some fun behind-the-scenes stuff.

If you're interested in customizing your bedding or getting a bundle like I did, be sure to use my code "sarah at brooklyn" for 20% off. It's one of my favorite things about running this channel - getting to share special deals with all of you lovely people.

And finally, let me just say that I've been growing out my hair for a while now, and I'm really enjoying it. So, if you notice any awkward moments in the video where I'm still getting used to it, just know that it's all part of the process. Thanks again for watching, and I'll catch you all in the next one!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys welcome or welcome back to my channel i'm gonna be vlogging today because today is a fun day my hair has not been washed in a week for good reason because one let's state the obvious i don't know if my other video will come out before this where i kind of say literal surgery and i have a mini little wrap cast on but i have this for two weeks then i get my stitches out and then it should be good i mean i'm fine like i can move my wrists and stuff but i'm getting my hair done today this is why this is exciting because i'm not just getting a trim or a blow out i am dyeing my hair now i've like glazed my hair before and stuff like that but i've never truly just dyed my hair that's what i'm doing tonight i've also never bleached my hair so this should be fun i think i i'm just gonna get a balayage i don't know i have inspo pics but i am going lighter i'm very excited i didn't tell anyone because i'm going with lauren she's also getting her hair dyed but that was like the funny thing about my wrist surgery i didn't tell anyone and everyone was like so confused like why i could say anything i don't know why i didn't i just i mean i scheduled it early like june for like august so anyway okay i need to get ready and put some makeup on i have to make my bed usually the first thing i do but it's not me i just show you a bunch of books that i got in the mail later you could see my desk it's full i'm gonna walk my dog we'll clean make the bed makeup get ready go get my hair done it's actually like 8 40 right now so my hair is at 10 a.m we're leaving at like 9 15. it's kind of hard we also want to get coffee lots going on let's get ready i don't know what top i want to wear black or white this is like kind of what i want to wear let me show you i actually will show you after i make my bed because i'm in a rush but i literally had the best night's sleep ever because i cleaned my sheets my pillowcases my duvet cover like it was best night's sleep and i got a lot of questions about my bed so i'm gonna make it and then we'll talk about it so i kind of like threw my pillows everywhere but you guys asked a lot of questions on my bed and basically it's from brooklyn you know high quality sheets are like really expensive and these are the best sheets duvet cover like set ever i have the luxe hardcore bed set brooklyn gives you the quality and comfort and affordable price by cutting out the middleman and they were basically founded on the philosophy that people deserve simple beautiful home essentials without the luxury markup which is incredible they are offering my viewers you guys a discount which is 20 off and the order over 100 you guys can use my code sarah all that information and the link will be in the description so you guys can use that code get a very comfortable bed set or just like anything from brooklyn in literally amazing highly highly highly recommend so let me show you my bed i'm not kidding when i tell you it's the most comfortable thing ever i have the best night's sleep on this bed and these pillowcases are just like amazing so again i got the luxe hardcore bundle but that bundle and classic bundle they do range from like 200 to 250 which feels expensive but when you get like a luxury set or like a luxury bedding that typically costs around 500 so you're just like paying half the price at even less than half the price with brooklyn sheets and it's just perfect this is my favorite part of my room so i feel like making your home and your room like feel beautiful and comfortable is like the ultimate form of self-care okay so like i said with this bundle that i got instead of buying everything separately you save 25 by getting this bundle you get two pillowcases sheet set and then also the duvet cover so you get your whole bed made in the bundle and these look sateen sheets are literally the best upgrade you can give yourself i'll show you the sheets but they have a 480 thread count and just like a luxurious finish just look at my sheets they are perfect and they're smooth they're clean i just cleaned them and it's just like the best night's sleep you'll ever get and obviously you can also shop online which is amazing because you can do so many things with your sheet set that you're getting so whether you get the classic or the lux hardcore bundle you can mix and match over 20 plus colors and patterns for the classic or luxe core sheet set extra pillowcases duvet cover so when i went through obviously i got all white everything but there are so many different colors and pattern options that you could choose from so whatever your room looks like you can obviously match it to your room and your vibe and what you want so yeah you guys can use my code everything's in the description it's my favorite part of my room you guys know that i take so many pictures of my bed anyway okay i think i'm gonna put on a black tube top let me try that like black just like feels better if you want to take instagram pictures stay tuned with my new hair so that should be fun i think i'm going to wear white also my hair so greasy i put little clips in i don't know if you could tell oh it's a mess i think white's cute with my which is white birkenstocks the tube top is from zara and these are from zara too they're from last year i don't know if they like still sell stuff from last year but they're like so comfy they're a little big but i just want to be comfortable because i'm gonna be there for like a hot minute because lauren's also dying her hair so it's gonna be like a whole day but i think this is cute should i take my top all right i'm gonna figure that out and then we'll be on our way i see you hide yourself underneath the mountain of makeup plus the words that you made up won't make you any cooler than you are but when you're with me and you're half asleep and i can count each i feel like a new woman i do i don't feel like myself i came home to like a couple packages look what i got first part of my outfit okay so i'm going to september 14th i believe harry show so i got an offer for that but i also want to go to the first in the last show so i planned two more outfits that are coming but part of one outfit came so you guys know for his shows i'd like to wear things that he wore i don't know why but anyway okay i don't know which show it was but i'll put a picture up i got blue trousers and this heart like baby teeth i'm very excited for this and then the trousers this is from etsy shop another shirt from eddie's coming that i'm literally obsessed with you guys are gonna die when you see if i do go to another show but i got just blue light blue trousers from cider shop cider and then bailey pace i'm gonna say your last name wrong pesor pay sour sent me two books and i when people send me books i literally started tearing up it's so nice of you guys so thank you bailey she sent me the one by john mars now a tv series so that's interesting excited and then this one is meat cube by helena hunting i'm very excited about these and thank you bailey again so these are now part of my new books that i have gotten bought received let me know if you've read them i'm gonna add them to my tbr now but i also i actually just read this i finished it two nights ago i see my reactions to it because it was rough i had no idea what it was even about but i just read this i got on amazon there's a duet or it's a duet to the second one but i don't think i'm gonna read it i don't know maybe in the future not anytime soon just what it's about after reading this i just don't i don't know if it really intrigues me then i ordered things really unfinished by rebecca yarrow i think i saw a tick tock of this the thing is with this one it was on amazon like 30 for a few days then finally it was like 17 but it took so long to get here so i don't know what's up with this book but someone put a tick tock up on all her annotations and stuff so i obviously ordered it that's like on my tbr now but i'll tell you what i want to do with it after hold on then my bestie kennedy sent me this book which is another side book i'm pretty sure it's called pack up the moon i've seen it like everywhere i just full till really did me dirty and i don't know if i need a sad book but these two are apparently sad books i don't know exactly but then i have this which is apparently another sad book put this in my tbr video for august if you had been with me so here's three potentially sad books that'll make me cry i don't know why i said it like that but i'm thinking should i do a reading vlog of reading sad books for like a week or something or just like reading these head books in a vlog for no reason but to just cause myself pain because why not i think that'd be fun let me know if you guys want to see that if not i'm just going to read them on my own time and put them in a wrap up obviously but i feel like that could be fun i don't know if you guys want to watch me in pain and crying finishing up not finishing up i started as good as dead and i literally got to page 108 and i saw i like dog-eared the page where i stopped last time right here and it was literally page 100 and i literally stopped and i was like i don't want to continue but i'm going to take you guys advice and good thoughts and opinions on this book and continue reading it i just just don't know so i think i'm gonna spend the rest of the day trying to finish this book we'll see if that works that's really all i have for right now i can't really get over my hair i took a few tick tocks or i need like to talk transition so i'm gonna do the second half of them now go check out my tic tac if you want to see but i will come back in a little i'm gonna go like relax i've been literally in the hair salon all day and probably just like stare at my hair to get used to it cause i seriously just do i look the same i think it's like not that big of a difference but like to me it is this is the back of it if you cared okay i'm gonna go i'm gonna take top transitions and then i don't know we'll be back we'll see what happens next i'm gonna go read for a little while i was for her to say that at the hair salon while lauren was getting her hair done i started reading mary jane i don't know who it's by i forgot but she brought her kindle it was kindle unlimited i only got like 40-ish pages in but i downloaded it on my kindle on my phone i was very intrigued by it but haleyfam also read it and i know she really enjoyed it lauren really enjoyed it just told me to read it so i started it it's actually a lot more interesting than i expected it to be i don't know why every fiction is just hard for me that's like that what that book really is literally fiction i think it's set in the 70s about a young girl who like so far what i've gotten she just babysits or she nannies for this family that's all i have right now but it was really good really interesting i liked the writing so i think after i finish this book i'm gonna continue reading that that was just an update because i forgot that i started it but this is putting me in a slump so i'm gonna go sit and not stop reading until i finish today i think it's 400-ish pages i actually don't know how many pages are in this 455 pages and i'm on a hundred so i have 355 pages i will update you guys later if this vlog ends here for today because i have literally nothing else to do i'm going to bring you guys into tomorrow which i think could be fun so maybe it'll be like a half a weekend vlog today's friday and we can do saturday could be fun i'll see you guys in a little so i just got home i don't know if i was going to vlog today because you know what i just didn't know if i should i know what i was doing but got coffee this morning i am almost done i'm on page 315 a little over 100 pages i'm gonna try to bang this out in a little but i just bought a cake just plain white cake and i bought frosting because i don't know when this video is coming out but i'm really close to 100k subscribers which is just guys like i think about it and like it doesn't really process that that's like how many people subscribe to my channel like it does it up here 100 000 does it like i don't really doesn't feel like 100 000 in my head i feel like i need to do some kind of giveaway or just like something and i'm still thinking about it because i don't want to like send people from their amazon wishlist but i'm probably gonna end up doing that anyway because i feel like that's just the easiest and i feel like most of my subscribers or most of you guys are book lovers like me so i feel like i'll probably do that if i want a cake i want to take pictures for like instagram when i hit 100k just to thank you guys and just like put something out there that i'm acknowledging i got 100k because usually when i hit a good number like 90k or whatever it was i'll say like thinking like instagram and stuff i don't know i feel like there has to be more i could do you know more i could give you guys so if you have any ideas of like future giveaways other than this books i don't know when this is coming out i've already done the giveaway or not so i thought i should show you guys me decorating the cake because why not i have a feeling this is gonna come out after i hit it and if it doesn't then we could celebrate together you guys will see the cake you want to just write 100k on it and then maybe like some flowers maybe like a book or something cute i've never decorated cake before actually so i got the easiest things that have like tips on it so you can like like writing but i'm gonna practice on like a napkin like something first so i don't ruin everything let's do on my toilet paper i don't know why i decided toilet paper but it was the closest thing to me i think i want the 100k to be in pink this pink and this orange are like glitter colors that's cute cut end of tube at tips squeeze from bottom of tube so i don't oh okay oh let's try this you guys want to watch this is going to be probably a fail let's try 100k it can't be that hard right one yep i think that looks pretty good and then i was thinking to do flowers around it but i don't know how to draw flowers so now does that look like a flower i think it's kind of cute uh maybe i'll make the middle white i did buy a white let's try that i'm having a lot of fun right now i've never really been an artist before this tripod literally takes mega strength to put my phone in where the camera is it's kind of fun anyone needs cake decorating let me know i'll decorate your cake for you if you're like a birthday cake i want to make a book this is where it gets a little a little crazy you see what i'm doing you can so what's the point i can't see i don't think this could go any lower i just finished here's my aftermath of trying to get some pictures for it but this is how it turned out it's pink the writing and then i made little books i know it doesn't look that great but you know what i tried and then i put my favorite books all around it i don't know all the books that have got me into reading started my book channel and make me happy i hope by the time this is out that this could be included in the video i'm not sure where i was just trying to go with that i was trying to say that i hope those pictures are out so that i can include this part in the video so if you're watching this part then thank you literally from the bottom of my heart every single person that watches my videos it again it just like doesn't make sense that this many people follow me and are interested in what i do my opinions talking about books but it just makes me so happy that there's so many of us and we get to all talk and it's like the best community ever and i just seriously thank you guys from every part of my existence you guys are the best ever i think i'm gonna end the vlog here only because i have nothing else to do today except finish my other video that actually has to go up i have to edit that lots to do and also don't forget you guys can use my code sarah at brooklyn if you're interested in customizing any bed sheets or getting a bundle like i did that'll all be in the description you'll get 20 off your order over 100 thank you guys so much i hope you enjoyed today's vlog or these few days vlog i hope you don't hate my hair it's grown on me and i actually am very much enjoying it right now thank you for watching and i will see you hopefully in the next one bye\n"