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hey everyone it's Morgan Yates and I am so excited for today's video which is going to be decorating
my house for the holidays as you can see behind me I've already gotten out my big storage containers
filled with my holiday decor and I'm just ready to get in this beer early this year I think because I
don't have any big like Thanksgiving plans coming up I just felt like I would decorate earlier this
year than I ever have in the past I also just got back in town from a very festive weekend in San
Francisco and I vlogged that so I'll have that linked if you want to watch it but just seeing
all the Christmas decor that's already up there just really got me in the holiday spirit welcome
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and today's video is also sponsored by Walmart I'll be showing you through all this video but
I found a ton of very cute and very affordable holiday Decor pieces at Walmart starting at
just ten dollars so I will be linking all of them below you'll see them here in a second
from experience shopping for Holiday Decor can get so expensive but it doesn't have to be that
way without shopping their website I realized Walmart is really a One-Stop shop for basically
everything that you need so thank you so much to them again for partnering with me on this video
and the first thing we're decorating I actually did a couple of days ago so I'm going to rewind
to that clip which is setting up my tree hello the time just changed so we're about to lose
the light it's also pouring outside so it's like maximum cozy pipe so giselle's here we're gonna
set up the tree first last year the Christmas tree went in this corner because I didn't have
this like little mantely looking thing but now I think that's just gonna be too much going on
over here so instead it's gonna go right here so my lovely neighbors will get to also see it from
the street and there's nothing that ever really goes in this space so I think it would be perfect
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looking good
all right we decided this year that less is more I'm not going to use these garlands
we're gonna keep it simple with just the little gold beads and then I have these
little things I don't know what you call these so just stick them into the tree so
I'm going to try to find any little empty spots and that's where I'm gonna try to put
um like these guys and then we're gonna put our ornaments all right added those guys in I'm liking
that we ended up putting this here I think the reflection on the glass is so pretty so I think
tonight we're gonna put the ornaments on and that's gonna be the end of day one I have so many
ornaments I could honestly have multiple trees but there's not the room but I hold on to them
for the future when I one day do have enough room so all of my ornaments are like gold neutral tones
and one thing that I started doing that my family also has done throughout my whole life growing up
every year me and my sisters would pick out like one or two ornaments that represented our age or
like something we did that year like we have an ornament from where we got our first cell phones
a couple years ago I started getting an ornament to represent like every internet National trip
I've been on and especially since like getting my own place a year ago I feel like I really stocked
up last year on just like a ton of personalized ornaments and I've given a ton to Giselle as well
so starting our big collection also something I do that I'm sure there's better ways to do this
but I always just leave the ornament hook on every year it saves so much time I really just
recommend that okay this one I gave to Giselle from a Vegas trip the salon is for YouTube
I love this ornament too one of me and giselle's favorite dates was at an arcade
that's you trying to say you're done I looked great I think there's more
sentimental ornaments than Arnold I'm not done all right that is the stopping point for tonight
all right so now bring it to the present day um I do have one last note about my tree ornaments
so here's what it's looking like right now I just hung a bunch of neutral ornaments up here I didn't
end up using all of them because I think what I want to do that I've never done I don't know why
this like just occurred to me this year for the first time but I want to get like some bigger
ornaments so still in the same like neutral color scheme that I really love all my ornaments are
around the same size and I saw a photo recently that really inspired me to get like some bigger
ornaments um so I'm gonna place an order for some of those we won't see that in this video but I
just think having some contrast um will really Elevate the tree a lot add some more Dimension
all right I brought all of my Walmart packages up let me also just say I was very impressed with
the shipping time I feel like everything got here within two or three days you guys I am screamingo
I was just talking about getting some bigger ornaments three I thought this was like I guess
I did I mean I did not read the details this is a pack of three jumbo shatterproof ornaments and I
was like oh they're my color scheme like this is so cute I guess I did not read the measurements
maybe this could be some kind of outdoor decor so I don't know how I did that I think this is going
to be a little too big for the tree if anyone has any creative uses for this please let me know next
up though um I picked out three of these little Garland sets from Walmart last year I used some
artificial Garland around like my staircase going up the entrance to my house as well as
well now I have curtains but in a couple Windows downstairs I did them like above my window foreign
Nutcracker again loving the metal tones for everything basically I feel like my grandma
had like a ton of variations of Nutcrackers in her house like the wooden ones like really old
ones and I was obsessed with them so I don't know why I'm still just drawn to a nutcracker and I
just think this one is very cute next I also got um this like wooden beaded Garland so there are
a couple of these in the one package I wasn't sure if I wanted this to go around my tree or
to just have this be like in tandem with a Garland across like a piece of furniture you know like the
beaded Decor it's very trendy in general I feel like this could also be great even outside of the
holiday season but I just think this is very cute we have like the little tasseled ends and then I
also picked out a picture frame Walmart has really great affordable frame options uh this one is like
a brushed gold medal tone with the matte in here I just needed new picture frames in general not
even related to the holidays but I thought it'd be kind of cute um to put like a photo of me
and Giselle from last Christmas and this just to kind of tie in some festive Vibes even into like
the photography down here I suppose so lots of colors and sizes for these frames and I feel like
they are good quality oh yes oh yeah all right my family never really did Advent calendars like in
any capacity growing up at least that I remember but I think it's such a fun idea to just like
enjoy every day of the holiday season and like look forward to Christmas I was browsing and found
this candle Advent calendar um so we have 12 days that you just pop open the scents are listed here
on the back you know Balsam and Birch pecan and sweet creams by cinnamon and pumpkin every one of
these is different and I think this would be such a cute gift idea if you're seeing someone like
early on in the holiday season because who doesn't love some holiday candles and holiday sense
um or just get it for yourself like I did I wanted to upgrade my stockings this year again these are
just gonna go over on the little mantle thing but there's one for me in Giselle and I just saw that
these were so cute with little with these little pom-poms on there you may be able to tell up close
there's kind of like some gold Flex going on throughout this a little bit bigger than the
stockings that I had last year and Gisele and I are gonna put little stocking stuffers in each
other's these feel just like very Luxe and soft I got this two pack of battery operated candles
so they look like this they have like a they feel like normal candles it's like that like waxy feel
you put the batteries in here at the bottom and if you can see right here like inside the candle we
have these like red berries and then like tree branch looking things and I just think these
are so cute and festive and then it'll be like a little nice glow once they're turned on then in
my last box here this is feeling heavy and I think I know what it is pretty sure it's more candles I
actually might end up using the Advent calendar candles it's my white elephant present because
I'm gonna have some friends over for a little holiday Gallery so for myself I picked out two
full-size candles but this one is Noble fur and Pine um it's just like your classic Christmas
tree scent it smells so good I also think these are just very pretty like I really like the
um like glass rollers here I feel like it looks very upscale and this one is Balsam and Birch
thumbs up to both of these again everything from Walmart will be linked below I feel like I got
some good new items I guess I will start with switching out removing my pumpkin Decor that is
still out and going from there all right so I've gone through pulled out some of the decor that
I'm gonna pull from this year as you can tell throughout time I've collected a bunch of these
really cute Christmas trees last year I think I put a bunch of those like down the middle of the
table and then just kind of throughout my house like over here I need some height elements because
this picture is huge um we got some pine cones I found this sprinkle holiday kit that I think will
be fun for decorating cookies and then just for like some little kitchen towels I picked up these
as well got a couple little gold reindeer going on and then I also found some extra artificial
garlands and then I came across I'm so glad I saved it some extra wrapping paper from last year
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share over on Instagram is this like really big Gingerbread House cookie jar that I just
think is going to be very cute right now my cookie jars are overflowing so I think
having a cookie jar that's like really festive and that I can't see through I
think is going to just make this area look a lot nicer and that'll be nice
too rather than just like take up space with a decorative item it's actually something useful
without the Gingerbread House cookie jar this is such a minor change I just added
this little glass tree right here that I think is cute over here by the stove I
switched out my kitchen towels for some festive ones and then this is also very minor but I put
a tiny little tree over on my little coffee tray that I actually just got it's a really
pretty like bronzy green color and I have my holiday season coffee syrups starting with
peppermint here in the front I love making a little peppermint cold brew some oat milk
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stockings I do need to get like a legit like stocking holder thing like the ones that sit
on top of this I think I'm just gonna hang them like off to the sides that will be good
enough since I don't have a fireplace or like an official mantle also with this little faux
Garland I went in and put some additional pine cones just to kind of make it look a little bit
Fuller I am struggling a little bit at this present moment to figure out where to put all
my stuff throughout the house and I'm trying to accept that some stuff just might not get used
because I feel like that's where I always I just can tend to go wrong is that I have so many items
that I like and then like displaying them all sometimes less is more you know and it can just
look a little bit like too cluttered putting like every single thing up so we're gonna see
that is cute
I'm losing my life big time and also let's please pretend that these curtains are seamed
um for my Halloween party I switch those out to some red ones and then upon putting these
back up I need to like re-seam them and have just not gotten around to it
something else I also just think is very like cozy holiday Decor Vibes I think having a bunch
of tapered candles are just such a little classy Elegant Touch ah make sure you're
buying the right size tapered candle to go in the holder because that is not what I did
for these I think just having these throughout your house are like understated holiday decor
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here but I feel like it really anchors those tree centerpieces what do we think I also went in and
added a couple tapered candles to the dining table just because I love lighting those at dinners
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so picture this clear right now I have these flowers that are still alive and thriving so
they're going to remain the centerpiece for right now um but once they die you're probably gonna put
like a light up candle another little tree in the center and I'll just Wing that when the time comes
um and then something else I found that I actually got last year but I never got around to actually
um doing this because I found this like Christmas pack of cards and then some
little Christmas plates because something I wanted to do last year I just thought it'd
be so fun to like bake a big variety of holiday cookies you know put a few on each plate with
like a little card like wrap them up and then go deliver them to my friends I never got around to
it last year so hopefully this will be the year just a good excuse to bake a bunch of
things because obviously like Giselle and I are two people and I love the idea of like making a
variety but obviously then we can't eat all that just us too so other than my outdoor decor which
I'm not going to show just for like private see precautions but other than that and just a few
more items I'm waiting to get in that's kind of it for my holiday Decor I'm gonna show you
what everything looks like right now and then follow up tonight as well with the evening look
thank you foreign I can't remember if I showed this already but we got Garland to
go all the way around the kitchen giselle's not feeling so well she's taking a nap but
this is the Cozy night view lots of candles lit everything cozy and that is kind of it
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