We Went ALL OUT with DIY Christmas DECOR … What do YOU think?

Y'all, this is a huge showstopper. This right here, oh my gosh. Like, this entryway is always one of my favorite pieces. Hello, y'all. Look at this. It looks so store-bought. It's not like, spoiler alert. First of all, this is our baby changing table. Really simple. I would also like maybe get some gold like silverware. I think that could be really cool. Y'all, welcome. We are so excited to invite you inside for a full tour. But before we dive in, I want to show you around the front porch of the house. Oh my gosh, y'all. We have spent this entire month getting crafty, having so much fun with you guys, and this is the big reveal. But before we do, there's already projects right out here on the front that we have to talk about. Starting off with Lauren's amazing doormat. Y'all, this is a huge showstopper. Our entire Christmas is made with this doormat. Like, holy cow. We are going to always have to teach it the way that Lauren just did with this amazing Jew. Um, such a really unique doormat. We've never done it before. It looks amazing. It's stunning. Uh, if you haven't watched her video, go watch it. Holy cow. 10 out of 10. Unbelievable. That is huge. And it's really, really, really been able to make our front porch like wow. And if you have these double doors, you know, it's hard to find doormats that will kind of work with it, things like that. Um, next I want to showcase for you guys these adorable wreaths. We've had them for many years. Um, we love it. And then Lauren and Courtney took these white bows and kind of just brought together all of our ribbons, everything you would ever need. Oh my goodness, how amazing, how adorable does it look. I seriously cannot believe uh just how it like fits all of our colors, all of our style um for this theme that you're kind of maybe picking up on. Next up, if you remember shopping with us, this was a like kind of a showstopper for Courtney when we were at Hobby Lobby. And I totally see why. We took this little sleigh and boy oh boy did we elevate it with the garland with the quilt. Y'all, the whole shopping day Courtney kept saying it's a quilted Christmas and boy oh boy it is a quilted Christmas which is so much fun. And then have y'all seen the trees? These are trees that we actually got at Hobby Lobby. But uh Lauren and Courtney actually went through the trouble of sanding every one of them down, taking off all this crazy glitter. There's still some actually on here. And then they painted it just to fit the theme as well. So, this is another crazy crazy DIY. Um I I think the trees really are amazing and just like just just a showstopper. I love the pillow. So incredible. Over here we have um the pot with a tree with a bow and then even more trees and a snowflake. Oh my gosh. Like seriously, everything is coming together so good. Um I'm obsessed with it. Lauren, what else do you want to add here? Let's switch so I can hand you the mic and see what I may have left off. Oh my goodness. >> I mean, out here we talked about a whole we did a whole debrief on how to decorate, how to take what you have, starting with your big stuff, adding your fillers in later. I really think you all at this point, you're pros. Like, you're going to know exactly how to decorate your porch, exactly what to do. So, I can't wait to see what you all do with your theme. Okay, are y'all ready to go inside? >> Let's do it. >> All right, y'all. Let's go ahead and head on inside. Okay, as soon as we walked in, this right here, oh my gosh, like this entryway um is always one of my favorite pieces. But this art that is right here, y'all, a showstopper. This is a frame that Where did you get this? Walmart. Walmart. Oh my gosh, we love this frame. We've used it a couple times, but we were able to take some of the flannel fabric. We were able to honestly I would take this plastic out like I want to be able to see our canvas. I want to be able to fill that HTV. Um it is so good. So we just took the flannel fabric put it in there. Beautiful. Then we're able to take you know just like a pennant banner um and glue it on and then HTV have a holly jolly Christmas. Oh y'all it is incredible. Then we've used a lot of items that we always have here. like this is, you know, nothing a lot that was bought besides the ribbon and some of our trees that we grabbed. We love that bow that we grabbed. I loved showing you guys some of the places where we've uh purchased items and different things like that. So, it's super super fun. Now, I will say we will still continue decorating our house. We have missed out on some of our garland and things like that. So, it's not everything we'll do. Um but it is quite a bit. So, when you come on in here, this normally has a different piece of art, but we just added this awesome awesome I forget where we saw this at. I want to say it was at Kirkland's or not Kirkland's, it was somewhere, but anyway, we adore this. This is really, really cool. Um, just the little bow. We loved adding the little wreath. And then we added another bow. You can see there's a lot of ribbon this year. There's a lot of different things like that. This is one of the pieces we had from last year. If you watch the uh the attic video, the Courtney waited in line for this item, her and Lauren uh to get it at a thrift store. So, that's super cool. Lauren, I love that you put all our remotes in here. This is This is going to be my remote box away from my children this holiday season. I love that. This little uh tree, absolutely obsessed. We've just added little bows to it. Something simple. you know, you don't have to go all out with every single tree. You do, which is really fun. So, I just adored that. But now, here is a showstopper. So, I just want to show y'all number one, this fireplace used to be stone, and last year we went ahead and just modernized it. Um, so it's all sheetrocked. It needs to be We have a few touch-ups to do, but that's not here nor there. But this is always a showstopper with this garland. like, oh my gosh, the amazing amazing uh awesome little DIY with the metal. Can you cut metal? Spoiler alert, you can. Super fun. We loved being able to add that. The stockings were awesome. But this tree, oh my gosh. I'm going actually let Lauren explain the tree because they threw this tree together, not in a bad way, in a really great way, in like a little over an hour. like they were they're becoming pros with tree decorating and you're you're going to be shook. So, let's swap. >> Okay, so here is the thing with tree decorating. Me and Courtney every year have such a hard time when it comes to decorating the tree. And I think that is because there's one of two things that you're going to have to do when you decorate a tree. Either you leave your tree completely bare or you have to fill it up this big with this many things for it to really be a showstopper. And here's the thing, don't overlook the pick section. These picss take up so much room and feel so much. That's what you need to start with. If you're going to be using picss in your tree, start with your picss and then go to your largest ornament or your second largest piece. So, we started placing our picss everywhere first and then our largest part was the poinsettas that we got from Walmart, y'all. So, we added all of our poinsettas. Next, then we just kind of started filling in. You can see we had these little curly ue pickicss as well to add some dimension and some little flavor to it. These I remember growing up, my mom was obsessed with these. We had them everywhere in our tree. And I kind of like how they are, you know, still part of the tree decorating. Courtney has never done these before, but she actually really likes these. So, I call that a win. And then from there, you're just going to fill in with kind of like your secondary ornaments in places. And guys, another thing for a great filler is ribbon. And look, it's not a full piece of ribbon. You cut your ribbon into strips. And all you do, you're going to stuff the top part in the tree like this. Let me put my snowflake back in. And then you find where you want your bottom part to stick. You stick that in. And then you just come in and kind of like make it look like it flows with the tree. That is the trick with the ribbon. You cut it in strips. Stick the top in. And honestly, wire ribbon does work best for this because you can kind of manipulate it and look like it's flowing through the tree. So yeah, that is what we did this year. You can see we used a lot of different textures. We have our velvet. You have your gold sparkles. We have like a tweed here. Felt jute sweater material. It's so there's so much in so many textures and colors. And honestly, I'm obsessed with it this year. I love it. >> Okay, y'all. The tree is absolutely fantastic. So, come with me. We're go head back over here to this little 25. Um, hello y'all. Look at this. It looks so storebought. It's not like, spoiler alert. First of all, this is our baby changing table. All of our boys are getting so big. I don't know if we'll need this here much longer, but um I'm obsessed. So, this, you know, we normally have other art, but this is our sign this year, 20 uh 25, but it's a stencil and we mix the paints and we're able to do the distress look and you know, you paint a layer, you add and you take away and you sand it and like so good. Lauren, is there a video on this? >> No. >> No video yet. Oh my gosh, y'all. We're holding out on you. Now over here, this is one of the most magical places. Like having this all laid out. Now I have three toddlers, so this will not be out all the time. Um, we are missing some candlesticks. Long story. We will get those in. I kind of love how simple this table is. Um, we used the Hobby Lobby place mats. We were able to grab the This is what's crazy. Courtney got this idea as soon as she saw it. She was like, I one of the things Courtney said in our shopping video, she does not like uh having green ornaments on a on a green tree, but she's like, I love this ornament and I want to use it somewhere. So, that's exactly how we ended up with these here. Um really simple. I would also like maybe get some gold like silverware. I think that could be really cool. Um so, we may do that this Christmas. And y'all know we'll be decorated like this until Christmas. So, listen, we're having a holly jolly Thanksgiving here at the Bill House. So, it's super super cool. Um, next, I just always have to give a shout out to Lauren and Courtney for these two shelves at our house is so hard to decorate. Um, but they're so fun and just all the bows and all the trees and all. We did highlight some of our these are DIYs. So, these are paper. These are made with paper. These little stars right here. Adorable. Adorable. Adorable. And and just so you all are aware, I want to show you talk to you as I show you. This tree right here was actually bound for the trash. And if you look at it close, you can kind of see how scraggly it looks. But adding that little bow to it changed the whole look of it and allowed us to use it for another year. You remember these paper stars here from last year? We kept those and we are reusing those. These are also part of last year that we are reusing. Some of this stuff has we they have had for years at this point and we're just re we're just reusing and re-imagining. That one is new. That's >> new. >> Yes. Remember in the haul video you pulled him out and I said he was so cute. He is new. And then the tree up there is also new. Those are the only. No, not the only. That one's new. Polar bear is new. The little snowman. Oh yeah, the reindeers are new. Those are new. The snowman is new. And then I think the only other thing new are these little houses right here. And they were ornaments. This is our hot cocoa bar. So we just have this set out. And you know when we have friends over, we'll have little uh, you know, hot cocoa and we'll be able to, you know, make them a classic one or a caramel one, things like that right over here. I like having it right next to the uh espresso machine so that you know you can heat up your water, you can add all the hot chocolate, you can do all the things whether you're making coffee or not. Super super fun. And then what we'll end up continuing to decorate is more of our like actual kitchen. So, normally I'll kind of show y'all like a little more inspo. So, we've added let's walk around this way. So, we've added um this is a new tray we got this year. Um, and it's styled. And we're popping in with some of our colors of blue. And we have another little tree. Actually really like this. Um, that super super fun. And then we've started decorating over here in the corner. But y'all, this little area over here usually goes big. And then these windows. I mean, listen, when we moved here and I started doing dishes right here, looking out at our beautiful Cherokee Lake here in East Tennessee, y'all, it's what's up. And yeah, we normally just need to do some garland here and things like that. But y'all, it is October 9th when we're filming. So, this video will probably be posted very late in the year at the end of the month. We just did it. We did Vlogtober. We did Vlogmas all in celebration to get you guys ready for Christmas craft week. This is not even all our Christmas projects. Like, y'all may think this is everything. No, we have all brand new DIYs, paper projects, uh signs, new tools, new techniques, everything. But you have to have a ticket to Christmas craft week. So, go ahead, click the first link down below, grab your ticket to Christmas craft week so you can craft alongside us all year long. All right, Lauren, we did it. Woohoo! So fun. Listen, when we started this journey, I think I don't even remember what you and Courtney said. >> Um, I looked at you and I said, "Okay, that's fine." Um, >> we have had so much fun, y'all. Just getting so much more comfortable in the camera, in front of the camera, bringing you alongside us for all of our crazy endeavors. Like, this is really what it's like just being on the Makers and Learn team and getting to craft alongside us. I never thought everything we would document with this little camera. I know. Used to we felt like we had to have a whole production team when really we are the production team. >> We got promoted >> and honestly it's so much more fun. I feel like you all get to see us in the real raw unedited version. Um and you get to see our fails. You get to see our wins. I just I love this so much more and I hope that you all can see that. I hope it translates well. I hope you all understand that we are in this for you. >> Yeah, it is so it's so epic. So be sure to leave us a comment. Let us know what else you want us to see after Christmas craft week. I mean, we will be continuing to Christmas craft until the end of December. So, let us know. And we cannot wait to know which one was your favorite project and everything. So, I hope you all enjoyed Vlogtober Vlogmas as much as me and Lauren have. And it's been awesome getting to hang out with you guys. Thanks for watching. Bye.