Stardew Valley brought me a lot of comfort while I was quite ill for a couple years. I was in the hospital a lot and in bed almost constantly and I felt like it gave me a chance to live in a way that my situation wouldn't allow. I realized at some point maybe two years ago that I wanted to do all of the Stardew things for real: taking life slow, supporting small businesses, getting involved in my community, giving more gifts, exploring my hometown, connecting with nature. In many ways, it's changed my life and I will always be grateful.

Part 2 please! Favorite mugs, retro anime, teas, music, keyboards, more books/games

The red gingham jam cap matching your dress is iconic

I work at a stationery store, so planners and diaries are my obsession. Loved hearing you talk about the “incorrect” layout 😂😂😂 Sha’an you should check out Mossery, if you haven’t already. They have the correct layout, with the monthly view at the start of each month. They do artist collaborations, and you can customise the front with your name or initials monogrammed. (At no extra cost) They should hire me! I fill mine with little illustrations of what I ate for lunch, my bedside table, films I watched and books I read and water colour or coloured in tea cups. My heart feeling sad, or times when I’ve had blood taken. So many little moments. I get so much joy looking back through my planners and they feel more meaningful to me. I can only imagine how beautiful your planner would be if you did something similar. ❤

I love that lettering at the start 🥲👏

I think the layout of the tv and couch is much better . One way you could combat the back of the couch look is to put a really thin long table behind it where you can put your keys etc when you come through the door! makes the space usable and prettier than just a back of the couch

MARX WATANABE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS 😭😭

Omg the audio book of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is incredible xx

I love that Tonka is just chillin on the corner back of the couch at 4:30 like “whatcha doin mom?”

I love how you said at the beginning of the video that you feel like you and the community are very similar and I find myself giggling over the fact that I do love most of your stuff or am interested in trying it. Lots of love from Germany ♥️

I love when you post non-commercial content too. thanks for another great time!

I would love to this type of video more often ! like a monthly / seasonal recommandations video ? would love that - this one was great, thank you so much for sharing !

Book suggestion: Ready Player One, a great book with an added retro game nostalgia!

Tomorrow x3 is indeed rich! A really good friend recommended this to me and needed the reality of love it has and the lives they felt.

watching you do your eyeliner made me audibly gasp because i could NEVER. my meaty clumsy ceramicist hands cannot handle liner pens like you do wow 👏

I love this video, it’s things I internally would request from you (books, your eyeliner, etc) but it’s not art related so I feel weird asking but I love how you showed so much of these random favorites, almost forty minutes too?! Chefs kiss! Tonka in the back when u we’re doing your eyeliner is hilarious

“Stays on all day except if I cry” - the most relatable thing 😊

This video was a vibe!! Skincare, art, books, all of it! 🌸 I just came back to my reading practice 2 years ago after almost 10 years not reading more than 3-5 books a year and I LOVED tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow as well ✨✨✨

TIP: if you pour boiling water into the glass container and let it cool all the wax should float to the top and cool as a disk an then you can just pull it out

I think this is now one of my favourite videos of yours 😍💛

for book recs that feels kinda like tomorrow 3x could be lonely castle in the mirror and shadow of the wind cause they're both kinda magical realism based but fixate on growing up and the realities/hardships of life

I'm not usually influenced but... just ordered Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 👀 I've been watching your content since 2017? 2018? But I think YT changed their algorithms in a way that it stopped suggesting your videos for awhile. I stumbled upon you again and have been bingeing while I work. Your take on the things you enjoy is so refreshing in a time when everyone reviews things for the sake of trying to get a sponsor or PR stuff. Just wanted to say I love your content and your work and your energy 🍑

You are such a joy! Looking forward to part 2!

Sha'an I've been following you since early Tumblr days - I just love you and your style you are so friggin beautiful inside and out

Love that the jam blended into your dress at the 11min mark!

"I love the way jam looks in cartoons..." I betcha you never thought that sentence was ever said before this moment. Hi. I'm Belinda and I too have a "cartoon brain" as my hubby so lovingly refers to it. 🤪

The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin too for me was so good in that feeling so real, I think she has a such way of describing the complexity of human relationships that feels tangible and not flat like so many books.

your excitement about things is such a great reminder to just love everything to the max! Going to try that eyeliner, and I've heard such mixed reviews on Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow that I've held off on reading it, but I've put it on hold at the library now. :) I think we have slightly different reading tastes (just based on the books you've mentioned in previous videos) BUT The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (told in the perspective of a stray cat that gets adopted) is one of my favourite books. It's sweet, a bit silly, and emotional (it made me sob, but the story itself is mostly a happy one). Can't wait to see what you have in store this year!! 💕

Love a rearrange day. I'd just pull the couch away from the wall and just leave a foot or so of space, or put a cute lil skinny table there. That way the couch faces the TV and the fireplace more equally

I loved this! You will forever be my favourite person to watch! I really enjoyed seeing you talk so passionately about stardew! I have been playing a lot lately and had the same struggle as you for a long time. Im actually playing with my mother who is a pro at it and she really helped me enjoy it more! Sooo excited for the next videos!!!🍎

this was so sweet ♡ i love stardew valley so much! where i live we get bad winters and i get bad seasonal depression, but that game makes me feel so happy because it lets me do things i cant do in the winter if that makes sense? I want to read tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow now because of this vid ^_^ thank you for sharing ur faves! would love more vids like this every so often, too~

Book recommendations.. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility by Emily S.T. John Mandel. Station 11 is also an amazing series, worth watching! ❤ I also loved the book Weaveworld by Clive Barker.

This is the MOST generous vlog you have ever done. Your taste and asethetic is just delicious to my eye balls. I bought that matcha perfume last year because of you. And I have been following you since your Tumblr era. Thank you for this Sha'an ❤️💛💙 my primary color princess!

love seeing your favourite things! Also on the topic of planners, I just wanted to share that I’ve been doing your method of Weekly priorities/weekly brain dump (from your planning video) for the past 2 years and it’s seriously changed my life!! ☺️ I struggled for a long time to find a way to keep my chaos brain on task, and that way really clicked for me. I’ve had the best two years in terms of my artistic output and business and I truly think a huge part of it has been writing it allll out for myself. So grateful to you for sharing! xo

I bought Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow on audible yesterday and I’m already half way through the book! Thank you sosososo much for this recommendation. I’m a woman working in the game industry, I’ve never felt so heard as I am when I’m reading this book. I rarely leave comments because I never feel like I have anything important enough to add to the conversation but I just wanted to say thank you for being a huge inspiration for all these years.

My mom's favorite jam is apricot!!! My great grandma used to make homemade jellies/jams and that was one her her staples along with chokecherry jelly (my favie), which is a berry native to north america, and it is DELISH!!! highly recommend

also totally unrelated to the video but i've been watching your videos for YEARS now and you look so beautiful (you've always been 💅) and grown up and adult and it's like watching a big sister do amazing grown up things and being in awe. might be parasocial of me but 😭👏🫶

Love love love this, and all your other content too! I’m a writer and singer with an intense day job, and when I need a boost in creative energy I always know I’ll find some in your videos. Thank you!

That liner was like a magic trick 🌟

You can get a mug warmer plate with a ceramic bowl to use as a wax melt option too!

This was the last push I needed for Tomorrow,... I just ordered it! Was kind on a slump on reading so I'm excited. Loved this video! Would love a second part, I liked that it included brushes, and games and not just "objects". I also bought an APC bag out of the blue some years ago, and is one of my favs ☺

The more you get excited and passionate about anything, the more I love you. I think I get it when you got emotional talking about enjoying life and loving love. I am learning how to do that and keep conscious of that when I am going thru my life. But now, stardew valley. Oh boiii, that a deep hole you jumped into. BEcause the lore of the world, the people, the adventure, the insane grind you can get into!! I have like a fair 300 hrs in the game since 2016 and I am nowhere near done with it.

All the colours in your house is so beautiful and that couch! 🥰 So nice. Maybe try to bring it “away” from the wall so it centers on the rug. Looking forward to moore favorites videos from you 😊

Oh my god thank you for saying something about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, I’ve been looking at that at Powell’s my local book store and wondering if it was worth picking up. I’ll DEF be getting a copy!

The hand lettering is perfection!!!

I totally relate to what you said about being mixed-race. I'm quarter Chinese, quarter Samoan, and half white New Zealander. Born in Samoa; lived in Oman until I was 7 years old and grew up in NZ. I love that I am mixed but I've always felt like I don't quite fit in anywhere. I will definitely read that book now!

YAS! New vid 🥰💛

2 things; it's not a book rec, but the AppleTV show 'Mythic Quest' (which I think you'd like anyway! And, bonus!, Australian actor Charlotte Nicdao stars!) - season 1, episode 5 - it's pretty much the plot of Zevin's book! It's so good, and each season 'Mythic Quest' does one "self-contained" episode that can be watched as a stand-alone, which in Season 1 is that one - 'A Dark Quiet Death', episode 5, *so good*. AND, not a like-for-like similar-read but I have a feeling you'd enjoy 'Every Version of You' by Grace Chan.

Omg I loooove Gabrielle Zevin!! I've only read her "Elsewhere" novel but it's my favorite book in the world!! ❀ Totally recommend reading!! The story touched my heart as a kid and still now as an adult 😭 I've gotta read Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow now.

I love your dress matching the Jam!! I really like their fig jam too.

I love that you read Lemony Snicket as a kid! Those books were like my childhood. You should check out his other books, the all the wrong questions series and poison for breakfast are just as good if not better. I think you should read, What you are looking for is in the library by michiko Aoyama. And welcome to stardew valley! It is stressful at first especially coming from animal crossing but I’m glad you found your flow ❤

I bought Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow based off your rec, and I can’t get enough of it! I’m so sucked into this book, I love it so much! ❤

'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' 5 books? I think. Maya Angelou's autobiography :) but she is a poet - so It flows nicely :) & what a life!

I’d love a “what i ate today” style video but its snippets of you compiling your favourite foods/things to eat for different meals.

The house is beautiful! Maybe the sofa against the left wall so it faces the dining table/window. Mount tv on an arm and you can pull it out from the wall/angle towards the sofa. If your skin isn’t broken try Dermal therapy very dry skin cream (I use it on my kids dry finger tips), Hamilton Urederm cream is a light moisturiser, bepanthen nappy rash cream is sticky but it creates a good skin barrier. Procreate is my fave - I keep asking them to create a vector version!!!x

ooohh after that review of 'tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow' I'm definitely giving it a chance! a friend recently offered to lend it to me and i said no!! must go back haha

The last bit of commentary had me chuckling 🤭 these videos are superb ❤

thrilled that you understand the joys of the best jam flavour lol

Re the layout of your living space, I think if you change the table to be the same direction as the couch, it will look better 😊 allow more flow in the area having the lines similar .. does that make sense? Haha love this video!

OMGGGG I have been wanting marmalade without the orange peel as well!!!! It would be PERFECT!!!

If you loved Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I highly recommend A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. This book is about a decade older and I still feel it’s resonance on a frequent loop. It has many unexpected similarities but the differences also make for such a unique story that also feels like it will never come again.

I absolutely loved this sweet video, thank you for sharing!! Seeing Tonka made me happy. I love Stardew Valley too!! 👀🤗

Watching this was the perfect way to start my day! Thank you!

Loved this! I recently got into planning and had to decide if vertical or horizontal layout was right for me, so I get your planner pickiness. I love the brand Hobonichi and Kokuyo Techos. I think they have some layouts similar to the one you showed. Loved this video! ❤

This video was so wonderful!! I love hearing all about your favorites! It felt like I was on FaceTime catching up!

This was so cosy and uplifting!

Can you do favourite homeware things, items you've picked up, plates, lamps, mugs, vases, pans, glassware, tables, art etc!

I also LOVED Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Book with a similar vibe I'd recommend: Station Eleven (post-collapse fiction that uses a comic book and theatre in a similar way T&T&T uses video games.)

Love your videos, your process and how you shoot these videos is so smooth and calming I can watch them all day!!

I’ve been eating Bonne Maman jelly my whole life and it is THE BEST 👩🏻‍🍳✨ Apricot one reminds me of my mum 🩷 Didnt know it was also available in Australia (l’m from northern Spain)

This video was so warm, loved it, Sha'an 😍 Since you loved Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I reco vlogs of games being developed on KZfaq. They call them "devlogs" and they remind me of your studio vlogs. :) They talk a lot about the art that goes into their games. I know Golembert is one, and also Crimson Hollow are both devlogs series on KZfaq!

Idk how far into A Little Life you and Rocket are, but about halfway through, it gets roughhhhh And I'm excited to read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow now. ty

I also eat that jam, to be honest I only buy that brand because it looks cute haha

i love stardew !!!! my friends and i played every day during lockdown, we'd meet up for a socially distanced walk, then schedule that as soon as we all got home we could play!!! the joy of a rainy day so we wouldn't have to water our infinite farms of blueberries!!!! dear god joy of joys

Ooo s perfect video to wind down from the day with. Really interested in skincare favorites :0

I have loved apricot bonne maman jam my whole life. My mum craved it when she was pregnant with me, so I can say I’ve loved it since I was in the womb haha I’ve just discovered their hazelnut spread 👀 it is delicious!

So wholesome. ✨

That apricot preserve is the best! It’s so good with a funky cheese.

oh you crack me up sha’an! loved watching this vlog! ❤

So just finished Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow after your recommendation and loooved it. Thanks for sharing. It reminded me of these books. None of them of course are quite exactly like it but the *vibes* or core ideas of the books felt similar - “love rosie” for its timeline of years and portions of life happening, for the friendship/love between two characters and all the side characters that play a part and are fleshed out. - “One day” similar concept of two people figuring out themselves and each other and the messiness of life and the layered feel of really knowing these individuals. This one also makes me miss the characters and think of them as old friends once I finished, throughout the years, as I feel like I will with Tomorrowx3 - crazy rich Asians trilogy: the style of writing seemed similar in the way the authors are able to describe and paint such layered pictures and create such a visual world around the topic/locations/characters in each books - The husbands: similar in the way that tomorrowx3 felt as if “games” were a character on its own that shaped the book.. this book has a slight sci-fi/philosophical aspect that feels like that as well. The author also writes characters/their quirks that reminded me of tomorrowx3 - the midnight library: similar vibes to “the husbands” it reminded me of tomorrowx3 in the way that you’re living out this characters experiences and looking over their life which causes you to look at your life through a whole new lense. Thanks for your content 🧡it brings so much joy and inspiration

Yes yes and more yes to this video ❤ decided to buy tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow based on your review really excited to read it 📚love this video so much I love to see what people love 🍎 I love all your videos and you Rocket and Tonka always brighten my day 🌈

I'm only just watching the end of this now cause I got distracted yesterday, but: 1. I love how earnest you are about the joy you experience 2. I played soooo much stardew for a while and ended up "marrying" Krobus 😂

Alright we're jumping into the second video!! I AM SO EXCITED ALREADY!!! Absolutely love favourite things and even more from one of my favourite people online!! Its true that drunk elephant is quite expensive! I've used korean products for 10 years and some of holy grail for my dry skin!! I've meant to try torriden for a while!! you're def make me want to try it even more! I wish i had a nice perfume, im so sensitive to smell everything is always so overwhelming! But ywy id like to have a signature scent! YOU NEVER FAIL to make me go WOW everytime you do your eyeliner, so sharp! Mine is always a hit or miss ywy even tho I've been using it for 17 years haha! Haha I hope one day you will get a sponsor with those planners! Hehe yes!! this jam is very popular here in france!! I literally have a currant bonne maman in my fridge rn xD Your bag feels like a mary poppins one, small but you can fit a lot haha! Haaa brushes!! I love the maxpack ones and the mateusz urbanowicz ones, he has such pretty watercolor brushes! and some default of procreate! Narinder and the 6b are definitely my everyday line brushes! Tomorrowx3 has been on my reading list for so longgg!! I really need to get on this!! Everyone always raves about it!! I always love the look and the idea of stardew valley but i never managed to get into it! I think im too attached to animal crossing haha Thannk you for the video!!! Love hearing about your favourite things, cant wait to read the favourite things of everyone in the comment!! Have an amazing week everyone!!

Loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Marx broke me. 😭 and I totally get what you mean by some characters not being very likable but it was a beautiful story nonetheless. Check out Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. It’s 5 characters spanning several centuries and I don’t want to give too much away but it left me with a similar feelings to Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

For you candle remains you could buy a mug warmer plate and it will do the same thing as a melt tray. Plus you will be up 1 mug warmer plate.

You might like Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Canadian author of Generation X).

personally, i feel like Hank Green's books An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor were maybe the closest to vibes with Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! it's along similar lines of being a creative and the friendships and relationships, but it has a bit of sci-fi to it!

In the UK you can buy Robertson’s shredless marmalade! I love it mmmmm!

I laughed so hard when you said the myspace girl in you came out and picked Sebastian in SDV because GIRL... SAME HAHA I picked him in my first run! I worked so hard to collect and befriend all animals possible in my farm 😂 that was my little obsession. I also love when games teach you little life lessons or give you little reminders like that though! Take it easy and go at your own pace. A happy reminder :) I really enjoyed learning about all your faves (I need to try that jam!!) I love hearing people talk about things that make them happy. You can feel their passion and see their faces light up as they talk about these things! I definitely want to check out that book now too. AHh sorry this comment is so long but I really enjoyed this long video too. Your bright energy and excitement for all things really lifted my spirits (it's been a rough start to 2024 but it's getting better!) Thank you for putting a smile on my face and thank you for sharing Sha'an!! ♥♥ Would love a part 2 too!

I would just embrace the corridor feeling behind the couch. If there's space place something like pinnig or tjusig (from ikea, just to give a picture) behind the couch, would collect the shoes too.

I have always loved Maybelline eyeliner even after using soooo many brands! You using them too all this time is so gratifying! 🥰Their waterproof one is the only one that can resist smudging on my oily face. 😂 (unless same except if I cry)

this is such a cute and cosy vid!! love ittttt

I love your videos adjacent to this because often times my interests align, I was absolutely obsessed with Stardew Valley the first time I played it in 2020. MANY hours were put into my main save file lol If you’re ever curious about DND aligned, RPG turn-based games that also double as dating sims, then I’d recommend Fire Emblem: Three Houses which is available on switch. It’s actually relatively easy to finish, the game play is reminiscent of fantasy chess but the art/animation is amazing and ALL the dialogue interactions are voice acted. Definitely a beloved favorite of mine. Baldur’s Gate 3 also fits into that same category but there’s an amazingly vast character creation option which I think you’d love. The content is more mature and it’s not a quick finish, but I like it so far! AND last but not least, Hades, which is a dungeon crawler type game based on Greek mythology but gives you the option to romance characters but mostly build and repair relationships, platonic or romantic. It’s fun on the go and it’s another game that’s fully voice acted.

I am definitely going to have to add that book to my reading list so I can check it out. Also, I LOVE Stardew Valley. My husband and I started a farm together, so we are partnered together in the game. If I was to do a solo farm though, I would marry Elliot because he is a writer. I like his character and Leah's since she does sculptures. In general I just love how peaceful it feels and the soundtrack for the game. Ugh, I love it so much! The concept of Animal Crossing being in real time with days passing when I am not even playing stresses me out, so I haven't played it. 😅

I love this kind of video!! Im so sold on that book i have to read it now

apricot jam is THE BEST! I named my webcomic Apricots because I love it so much haha

This was so cute and amazing!!! Definitely know what book I’ll be reading next

Maybe you’d like Nikolski or Six Degrees of Freedom by Nicolas Dickner. I read them a few years ago (in French though, don’t know how it translates to English) but they’re the first books that came to mind when you asked for recommandations based on Tomorrow x 3. Loved that book too, I totally get being emotional about it!

for Stardew Valley, if you're playing on your own and have the menu or mission board open, the time paused so if you need a break or need to look thing up, that's one way. but the time limit, it's just a simulation to make it more interesting since crop and animal behaviors change by season too! so take your time doing stuff around and explore everything as well as the story line, it's not task base unless it's your objective! i have friends that just literally go to sleep to skip days so she can reach spring to collect certain fruits/vegetable lmaooo oh and also decorate your farm!!! it's so funnnnn

I wonder if you scooted the couch away from the wall by a bit, and put the TV more at an angle in the corner.. You could also hang some mirrors on that wall to reflect the light from the windows, then I think the space would look super big and open :) Also have loved your work for years, thanks for being such a creative inspiration!