decorating for christmas in the NEW HOUSE! (vlogmas #1)
♪ I’m kinda old, true ♪ ♪ My life’s kind of boring, also true ♪ ♪ But I’ll film it anyway,
no one asked for this ♪ ♪ Hope you are ready for it ♪ ♪ Cause I’m vlogging till Christmas day ♪ Oh my God please never
let me do that again. Hello and welcome to
blog mess day one, numero uno. I am so excited. I can’t believe it’s
another year of a vlog mass. I think this is my fourth year. I’m uh, I’m not sure how we’re
gonna do a vlog mass this year. I’m still trying to feel it out as I go. I might do like I’ve done every other year and do a single vlog every
single day until Christmas. Or I might do like a 12
days of vlog mass thing. I might take the weekends off. I have no idea, but I’m going to
take all of your suggestions and put my mental health first this year which is a fantastic idea. And thank you all so much for just your support and kind words.
When it comes to things like this I know I can tend to like
push myself a little bit hard cause I’m like need the
content, like need to do it. But honestly taking time for myself is hugely important
during this time of year, it’s like a very heavy time
of year for brand deals, it’s a lot of vlogs, it’s a lot of main channel videos a lot of Instagram content, et cetera. So just finding the balance
is what I’m gonna try to do. But I’m dressed in
the cutest little outfit. This is a two-piece.
I got it from
Sheehan was back over the summer. I talked about this in a vlog, but I shopped them before I knew about all
the controversies and stuff but I’m gonna wear what I bought. So anyways, this sweater
is from Maurice’s. I just filmed a video on my main channel where
I compared plus sizes and straight sizes from Maurice’s and this is the one I kept. It’s extra large for those
of you that saw that video. But yeah, I normally
wouldn’t be dressed like this on this day of the week.
But I just filmed a
brand deal for Instagram. So, I had to get ready and get all cute. So yeah, I’m wearing
my cute little outfit. It’s a little two-piece gingham set and I’m also wearing my slippers. So today I feel like to start vlog mass right, we have to decorate. We have to start decorating our house for Christmas because of 2020, am I right? But also it’s been sitting here. All of this stuff has
been sitting here forever. And poor Drew has been
desperately waiting and I’m like “we have to film it.” So vlog mass day one is gonna be, decorating our Christmas tree.
It’s like one of my
favorite times of the year. It’s now our fourth time since we’ve lived
together, 17, 18, 19, 20. So we’ve decorated a tree for
four Christmases in a row. They’re so plastic, all this TV, Oh my God. Why am I like this? All right, are you ready to decorate? You’ve been waiting very patiently. – Let’s go.
– Woo-hoo! So I guess we’ll do
maybe like the Yule Log or something like that. That sounds fun. What should I type on Netflix? Just log? Fireplace for your home. Do you want Classic or Birchwood? – Birchwood. I like Birchwood, pretty. – Okay, here we go. – I love when fire sings too. – Yes and, the washing
machine in the background sets the vibe, for sure. And so it begins. First things first we gotta
put up the tree. We got this tree, what
like a couple of weeks ago, three weeks ago, something
like that at Target. They were having a bomb sale. And I wanna say…
– 75, 60% off? – Yeah it was like 60% off
or something like that. I got it for 40 bucks I think. And it’s a seven-and-a-half-foot tree.
So we’re gonna keep
this forever, hopefully. Wherever we live in the future hopefully the ceilings are tall enough. And then we kind of gathered a couple of new Christmas
decorations, but nothing crazy. We have most stuff
that we’re gonna be using from last year. But first things first
let’s set up the tree. Go turn on my tree. – Come on Bo we’re going to get the tree. We’re going to get the tree, come on. Make it nice around the tree. All right, look at the tree. Hey, get the hell out of here. Go turn on my tree. (Christmas carol instrumental) – We’ve cleared out this little
section near our front door. We had a Birds of
Paradise tree right there that we moved over. So, got it all cleared out. I think it’s the
perfect little corner for a Christmas tree. I’m so excited. – I think you need to start with the seat.
– That’s so not correct. – Do we need the instructions? – No.
– No. – Who needs instructions? – Not me. Except I’m pretty sure
I’m having a flashback to last year when I did
not follow the instructions and then we had to start over. (Christmas carol instrumental) – You noticed how in England,
like the vibe of the trees, you know?
– Yeah. – And they have like a different
kind of tree over there. Like theirs are shorter and fatter, and ours are like taller and thin. – I mean it’s probably a
different type of tree. – Yeah. And theirs are
always really sparse. And it seems like in the U.S. like we’re obsessed with like… – Giant trees.
– Full, giant tree. It’s just interesting, the difference. Whatever country you’re from, comment below what kind of
tree is popular there because in America we like things big and thick. – Big and thick.
Made with butter. (Christmas carol instrumental) – Are you racing me? I’m faster. (Christmas carol instrumental) – I mean, I’ve seen worse. I’ve seen worse. Hey, the skirt I guess. This is our skirt from last year. I think it was from Target. It still got the flocking, like all over it from the last tree. I know, that tree was
cute, but it was so messy. Need some presents under here. – Yeah, where are my presents? – Where are my presents?
– Cute. – That is cute. Next, we have to go into
our Harry Potter closet. Have I shown this? I feel like I’ve shown it, I showed it in the
apartment tour for sure. But we have this Harry Potter
closet under our stairs that is pretty much the size
of our old bedroom in L.A. – Our closet’s taking some side of it. – Yeah true. (chuckles) So it’s in here.
This is where we keep all of our stores. These were a disaster for the target. I’ll talk about it some other time. We did hang out outside lights but I don’t want to
show the front of our house. So we had outside lights
on the front of our house. Those are some extra lights
that I’m returning and yeah, it’s just been great for storage. So we have our Christmas/fall
decorations in here. – Oh hey, yeah gnomes. – Yay. Oh my gosh. This was from Leah because we
all kept this tiny pineapple that we got at whole
foods in Hawaii in Kailua. If you remember Kevin
from the Hawaii vlogs. Oh, Leah got us this pineapple ornament to remember our trip and
remember our son Kevin. That is so sweet. We have kind of like our
sentimental ornaments in here. We got some beads. Got our stockings, I
guess we’ll just hang them on the little media stand, yeah.
Got some lights, some more lights. Some trees. Yeah, are like, oh, she
needs woo, woo, woo, woo. She needed some batteries. This was some other stuff we pulled out. Some of this is new. We got a new tree topper
this year for the first time in four Christmases, we
have been using the same one and it’s just dead and not cute.
– It is time for candles? – Oh, it’s time for candles. – Smell it. – You guys smell that? This is how much we burned last year. So we gotta, we gotta do more. – You’re like sniffing glue. – Christmas tree smell, is the best smell in the entire world. – We got more.
– More? – Winter Candy Apple. – This is my favorite
bath and body works scent. It smells like herbal essence. This smells so good. What’s that one? – Smells good. Kind of like the other one. – Oh, that one’s even better. Yum. Is that all we got
for Christmas here? – Yep. Five candles.
– Besides wrapping. – Four candles. – We’re gonna donate this because it’s just tiny.
– We got a better one. – We got better, got bigger and better. We’re upgrading after four Christmases. So I’d say that’s pretty good. Yeah. Let there be light bitch. (Christmas carol instrumental) – Wait, I didn’t remember
we had twinkle lights. This is the most
exciting discovery of my day. We definitely should have had two of these but you know what, we’re
gonna make do with one, and it’s gonna be just right.
It kind of looks terrible, but you know what?
– No it doesn’t. – Okay.
– Be nice to my tree. Leave it alone. You’re fine. – All right.
– You’re perfect. – Let’s do this. Gonna do some garlands. I got these beads, these are
wooden beads at Target maybe? I wanna say? (Christmas carol instrumental) – Next, just the basic ass ornaments. We have to do the basic ass ornaments.
Where are the little ones? So we have some gold ones here. And then we also have
some mixed metal ones. How cute. I just kind of want it
to like stay neutral. We’re gonna do the big ones, and then accent with the little ones. How cute. Tadaaa! – Cute. Dangle dangle dangle. (cheerful music) – From one snowflake to another. – Aw thank you snowflake. – You’re welcome. These are cute. These make it look very Winter Wonderland. I got some cute
little flock pine cones. How adorable! They’re like 12 of these. – Oh we should have put up those. – What?
– Smelly ones.
– Oh my God we forgot. The most important imperative step to setting up a fake tree is
setting up your smelly goods. If you don’t know what
the smelly goods are here they are. They will change your life. I’m sure almost everyone has these. But in case you don’t, what is this brand?
Scentsicles. Scented ornament. It smells like a freaking
real Christmas tree. – You just hide them under your tree. – And you hide them in your tree. They’re intoxicating. – They last a long time too. – We just bought new ones this year, and we use the other ones for what? Three Christmas, three years in a row. So they’re worth the hype. Trust me if there’s one way that you wanna upgrade your
space and you can smell it too. I mean it’s like it wears off a little bit after a while, but if
you get up close and smell it.
– You put in like three,
and then if they run out. – Yep. Great idea. Okay, that one broke. Look how cute this is. Next up we have these
that I got last year. These are little mini macro mays. These are the freaking cutest ornaments I’ve ever seen in my life. So we have six of these
that we’ll spread out. But how adorable? How boho of me. Now all that’s left are our special ones, right?
– Yep. – So for our like kind of, Oh my God I almost dropped it. (laughs) For our sentimental ornaments, we have, as I showed you this one here which is from sweet, sweet Leah. She got it for all four of us girls. So, Alexa, Jess, and Leah all have matching
pineapple ornaments. Next, we have, we didn’t get this in Japan. I’m not gonna lie. We just got this at World
Market a couple of years ago.
But this is to commemorate
our trip to Japan. Such a special memory. So got our little cat. So a couple of AZ ones. This one was from its
called Citizen Home Decor. They are a local Arizona crafting shop. And this was just so cute. We couldn’t say no. Got our little AZ. Our little blue state, look at her. – Oh, she’s so blue. – She is so damn blue. This was a gift from Drew’s mom last year, for our new home in L.A.
I’m so sad I don’t wanna talk
about it. Let’s just, Lalala. Sad. We miss her. We don’t miss our neighbors but we really really miss L.A. And now for the fun ones, I feel like I show these every year but it’s just so important
that we show them. We’ve had these for, I think three Christmases now, maybe more. First and foremost, we have
to, put on our parents. – Oh they go on the top. Our parents go to the top of
the tree every single year. We have, forever my president, Barack Obama, and first
lady, Michelle Obama.
A.k.a mom and dad. If I find their shop
I’ll link it down below. There’s no like branding on it anywhere. But we got this at a local market probably in 2017 or something like that. Then we also went back. This was probably like
either the next year or later that Christmas season. But we went back cause they
have tons of faces on ornaments, like so many different,
Buddy the Elf, movie stars, like everything you could
think of, are just hilarious.
And we decided to get two
of our icons if you will. So I got Prince, who is one of my biggest
musical inspirations ever. And Drew got David Bowie. So we got our two icons, two Kings of androgyny. We love it. All that’s left is these two. I think these are both from 2018. Yeah, they are. We didn’t do anything for 2019 or 2017. – You got us one and
then my mom got us one. – I believe I got us this one, which is our low family for 2018. And then your mom got
us this for Christmas, that same year which is the two of us. The most important step, in finishing it off is the tree topper. We got a new one this year wow
she’s got a really big plug.
Go for it. I think I did it last year.
I- Pretty sure. – Wow. Now it’s Christmas. Drew is the King of symmetry. He loses it
if it is not symmetric and up to his standards. So what are your thoughts? – It’s good enough. – That’ll do.
– It’s good. – Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. By the way, we’re not religious. So when I say like Christmas, we’re not we don’t like to
celebrate like “Christmas”, we just like open presents. – We just like presents.
– We just like presents. (Drew laughs) – Happy winter solstice. – Happy winter solstice to you all. – Happy Hanukkah. – Yeah happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa. Now let’s do like a few little decorations around the living room and
then that’s, that’s a wrap. We did it. We did Christmas. (Christmas carol instrumental) – Goodbye fall. Hello Christmas. Goodbye cedar pumpkin. – Hello?
– Hello holiday spruce. How’s your sandwich? Oh, you haven’t had it. Looks so good.
– Want a bite? – Yeah kind of. – Did you get everything? I don’t think you got it. Oh, you let me know. – That is so good. – Want more? – No, that’s your sandwich. Very good though, thank you. (Christmas carol instrumental) – Tadaa! Christmasy. (Christmas carol instrumental) – All right everybody. I
think that’s gonna do it for me and vlog mass day one. I hope you enjoyed it. I’ve had so much fun so far. I’m so excited for what’s to come. No matter if I do like a few vlog masses, no matter if I do every day I’m just really excited to
celebrate the holiday season with you all and connect with you all. I know it’s not an easy time for all of us and hopefully,
these videos can just give you a little something
to keep you company or distract you from
life for a few minutes. That’s my goal for this. And I just love you all so so much. Thank you so much for
supporting me and for watching. And if you’ve been here since
the very first vlog mass I did I’d be so curious to know, or at least when you started
watching vlog mass on my channel.
Is this your first year? Have you watched for a few years now? Let me know in the comments. But yeah, if you have any suggestions of things you wanna see me do during vlog mass, leave them in a comment below for sure. And until then, I will see you very soon. For vlog mass day two. Bye. (cheerful music).
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