Hi. Merry Christmas. Come in.
Hi.
I thought I would do a Christmas house tour. Some of you will have seen most of our decorations
in my recent decorate with me video, but this has been highly requested. So I thought I
would just show you around, and especially because this might be the last Christmas that
we have in this house. We've just bought a new house, and I can't think about it or talk
about it too much because it makes me emotional. But this might be our last Christmas here,
so I'll show you around. As you walk in, the first thing you will see
is I've put some mistletoe just as you walk in. I thought that would be really sweet,
like as people arrive or as we're saying goodbye to people, there's some mistletoe, so you
can have a kiss. Matt's filming, by the way. We also have this little welcome mat that
I love that says "welcome to the Norris residence". I had that personalized online. Then as you
walk in, I think the first room of the house is actually the most Christmas-y. We have
this little fireplace that we had made. On top of it we have put this garland, which
I got from Cox & Cox. I've just decorated the garland with some little fairy lights
that are on a wire, and just a little battery pack and some baubles, and a candle as well.
Then we have a little fake fireplace that does give off heat, and obviously can look
like a real fire, but it is very safe with the kids. Then we have these little lanterns
next to it, that we light up at night, and it makes it look really festive and nice.
On top of the fireplace, we have these little dishes that we leave out for Santa Claus,
so the biscuit, carrot and stuff will go out on these when we leave it for Father Christmas.
And how could I forget? Norman, who the boys basically call this nutcracker Norman. He
is a new addition to our Christmas decorations this year, and I thought he was really cute
at the front door, as people walk in. On the sofa in this room, I've got some new
cushion covers for Christmas. I just got them on Amazon, I think they were like £10 or
something, and they say "Merry Christmas", "Let it Snow", some reindeer and some snowflakes
as well. I thought they would just be really cute, and I tend to get new ones each season,
so I have autumn ones and I just switch it up. If I'm honest, I feel like they are too
orange-y. I wanted them to be more red like this Christmas-y throw, which is really nice
to snuggle up in. But I mean it's fine. And excuse this, we've got a blanket on our
couch, because the kids tend to get mess on it, and get pens on it and stuff, so we just
keep a throw on it from Primark. Just to protect it, but it doesn't look that nice. If you
look over here at the staircase, this is where we hang our stockings. I got them personalized
on Not On The High Street, so we've each got one. I love them, they're a really good size.
I've said this before in a video, but they were quite a big investment. We got them all
one year, and I remember thinking, like, "Ouch." It was like £200 or something. But we're
going to have them forever, and I love them. It's all got our names on them. We've each
got a different icon. So yeah, I really like them. See the daddy one.
I also put another garland on the staircase from Cox & Cox. I just tied it on with a ribbon,
and then again decorated it with a little battery pack of fairy lights, which is kind
of falling off now.
That's been six weeks.
But it looks ... yeah, sit up. We did the decorations really early this year. But yeah,
just turn them on at night and turn them off, and it looks quite nice as you walk in.
Then this is the Christmas tree in this room. This is the first Christmas tree we ever had.
I think it's 10 years old. It is fake, and it is very tall. This one definitely has our
family Christmas decorations on it. Like anything the kids have ever made, or brought home from
school, or things that I've had made of the boys, are on this Christmas tree. So maybe
I'll show you a few of them. This is Fraser's second Christmas. This is
from Fraser's first Christmas.
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Also I've shown these ones before, but I made these ones with the boys, with a list of things
that they wanted that year. I thought it would be really cute to have those memories. This
is the one from this year. It's the boys' school picture. Then there's another bauble
from this year, which is from when we saw Father Christmas. Caleb made this one this
year, but he doesn't ever want me to turn it on, because he doesn't want it to run out,
so I have to keep it turned off. Yeah, I love this one. This is from Caleb's
first Christmas. He was born end of October, so he was only like six weeks old. I think
I did this when he was actually two weeks old, that hand print. Yeah, I just did it
like at a local pottery farm. Then Matt's sister has started a tradition of buying us
these ones, you know that have the names on them, here?
Then we come into our main living area and kitchen. If you look up, right here we have
some more mistletoe. I put some more, you know, just in case.
I can't back away any quicker.
So I put that there, I thought that was quite cute. Then this is obviously our kitchen.
We've had this kitchen for about a year, and so many of you, when I said "We're moving,"
were like, "How can you move, when you've just got the kitchen exactly how you want
it?" Sorry, I keep forgetting this is like Christmas specific, so I'll show you the Christmas
decorations. I have a vase full of-
A vase?
A vase? What do you say, a vase?
A vase.
A vaseful of baubles, which are the same ones that are on the tree, which I'll show you
in a second. Most of them are from Amazon, because we've got loads of decorations from
there last year. Then if you come over here, I'll show you the boys' advent calendars.
These are new for this year. I bought them on My First Years. They did a really good
Black Friday sale, so I got these personalized, so each of the boys have one now. Caleb has
his little house. Then Fraser, and obviously Jackson.
I thought they were really cute. They've got these little doors, each with something different
on it. But the only thing which I've been telling everyone who's like, "I'm going to
get that for my kids," is the doors are extremely small. Santa has to get really small chocolates
or sweets to go in each one. But they get a new one in a door each day. They haven't
been fully filled up, because my kids would eat them all.
This is what the elves did last night. Don't get too close, it's like an old bra. The elves
used one of my bras as a hammock, and they put it there. The boys thought that was hilarious.
They left a note saying, "We found a hammock. Ha ha ha ha ha." That's what they did last
night. If you look inside the fridge, you will see
we are fully stocked for Christmas. We've got the turkey, all the trimmings, After Eights,
the breakfast, the steak and chips for Christmas eve. We cannot even fit anything else in this
fridge, so we're all set. If you come over here to our dining table,
we have fewer Christmas-y bits. I've got this little fairy lights decoration, like tree
decoration, on Cox & Cox. Then we got these ornaments, which have got a bit tangled up,
as well. You can't see the lights very well when it's bright, but at night it is really
cute because it's very lit up. Then this thing I showed in my decoration
video. This I bought when Jackson was just one, because he loved it so much. It makes
noise, and has lights, and it's like a little snow globe. You can't really see it, can you?
Yeah.
Yeah. It lights up different colors, or you can have it just with lights and not the sound.
They like that. I quite like it as well. Then in this room, we have another tree. We actually
moved Jackson's little play kitchen to put this tree up here. Again, it's fake. That
just works for our family, and we know we'll just have it for years. This is a really good
fake, because I've had so many questions and comments about it. We got it from B&Q, but
because it is a bit sparse I think it looks more real. And all the decorations, as I said,
are pretty much from Amazon apart from these ones, which are from Cox & Cox again. Then
I picked up this one in a garden center this year. I just really thought it was cute, so
I got that as well. The star was also from Cox & Cox. Also, we've
got these jingly things to go around it. Again, we've got two of those, and they are from
Cox & Cox as well. Cox & Cox has really nice stuff, but it is a little bit pricey. So you
have to like ... we just do it every now and then.
In the sale.
Yeah, in the sale. So yes, this is the tree that has less of the kids' stuff on it. Then
at the bottom of the tree, we bought this tree skirt from Amazon. It's a white wicker
... well, it's kind of like a washed white, but it just covers up the bottom of the tree,
and I think it looks really clean and nice. Over here, this is where all the toys sit.
There's not too much festive things over here. You guys have probably seen this a million
times on my channel, but we've got lots of throws, cushions, like the kids come down
in the morning, watch TV all snuggled up. And yeah, I am really sad to leave this. This
is the room that we tend to live in. But in the new house that we're getting, we are going
to have a space very similar to this, aren't we?
Yeah.
We'll make it really nice. Then in here, there's nothing festive.
But a festive log.
But I feel like, if you've never seen the house before, I should show you the utility
room. This is where we keep all the kids' arts and crafts, and Play Doh, and everything
is in here. This is where I do all the laundry. We've got another freezer as well. This is
such a useful room to have. Obviously it's good to have a downstairs loo when you have
children potty training, and this is where we wash the football boots. It's just a great
extra room, so I thought-
It's really festive.
It's obviously not that festive, but I thought I'd show you anyway.
Hey!
In this room, we also have so many windows and bi-folding doors. You wouldn't even know
in this light, but we have put up fairy lights all outside. At night, well even from like
4:00 p.m., they light up and it looks really, really festive. It goes all the way around,
and this room is all very twinkly, isn't it? Now I'll take you upstairs. There's more Christmas
trees-
All right. Mistletoe upstairs. No.
This is our bedroom, and the only festive thing in here that I wanted to show you is
our festive sheets. I tend to put Christmas sheets on all the beds each year. These ones
I got last year from Next. They've got little polar bears on them, Christmas trees, and
presents as well. That's all that we've got going on in here, but if you come with me
to-
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Caleb's room. Yeah. If you come into Caleb's room we've got some more festive sheets. These
are the G. Fletcher ones from Next, which are quite festive but also adventurous as
well, so you can actually have them on all the time. Then Caleb's got this little Christmas
tree here. This is from Amazon, and all the decorations were, and I've got a little battery
pack of fairy lights on it. He's decorated this all by himself.
Whatever.
Even star on the top. Yeah, he loves having this in his room, was super-excited about
it. Then Fraser's got a full-sized, pre-lit Christmas tree from Amazon, so I'll show you.
Again, I don't know if you can tell, but he's decorated it all by himself, and all the decorations
are from Amazon. We just got rainbow ones, because they wanted all the colors. Yeah,
that's the Christmas tree in Fraser's room. This is Fraser's bed with his Christmas bedding,
again from Next. It has little Christmas puddings on it, Christmas trees, and it looks like
cross-stitch or like a quilt or something. So he's got that for Christmas, and he's also
got like some start ones that I'll alternate. But I love Fraser's room. It's probably my
favorite bedroom in the house because the ceiling's so nice and high, and he's just
got so much space. The boys tend to play in here a lot. Caleb
will spend time doing cartwheels in this room. And excuse this, we've got a pool table up
here. The boys have this pool table that just sits on top of our dining table, but we had
friends round on the weekend so we moved it upstairs to get it out of the way. But I do
actually really love having that. So yeah. Right, so that's it for this video. I really
hope you enjoyed this house tour. I haven't shown you the bathrooms upstairs or Jackson's
room, because there was literally nothing festive in those. But if you do want to see
that I'll link our full house tour down below as well. If you're new here, please subscribe
because we're about to move, and we have lots of new interior house stuff to come, which
is really exciting but also quite sad. But yeah, hope you have amazing Christmases. I'll
be blogging our Christmas day, so look forward to that as well. And I'll see you in the next
one. Bye, guys.