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I came to film someone. Emma Norris or Emma Morris?
Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. Today, I thought I would show you around our house
at Christmas and show you how we do our decorations, and just show you a few things have changed
since our last house tour. I will link the old one down below because that is a very
detailed one, so if you want any other information about tables, chairs, things like that it
is probably in that house tour. Yes, come in. This is our front room. This is where
we tend to sit and watch TV at night and it's also my office. On the couch, all we did to
make it a bit more Christmasy was change the pink throw for a red throw, and then I also
just put one of my little Christmas cushions on. This is really cute. It was done by a
local shop, and they put each of our family's names on it. It says the Norris family, and
we're all little penguins as well. I'll link everything down below of you want to go and
check it out.
Next to the couch, we have the fireplace with a little electric stove. We found this on
B&Q and it's great because it has a setting so you can make it look like there is fire,
which makes it all cozy, but there's also a setting in here and you can turn the heat
on so you can actually warm up the room if it's a really cold night. We've also just
added all of these lanterns to this area. We just felt like it needed a bit more. The
lanterns are from various places. I think most of them from Amazon. We found little
electric candles to put inside as well, and then on some of them we've added little battery
packs of fairy lights. These little plates are for Santa's goodies and the reindeer's
goodies as well. We got them from Poundland. I think it was a pound for both of them. Up
here on top of the fireplace, I did this little DIY in a Christmas hacks video. You can go
check it out if you want to. It was the Poundland Christmas hacks video. It was really easy
to do. We also have this garland, which we found on Cox & Cox. I love that website. Also
some family snow globes when we've been to visit Santa's Grotto.
Over here on the stairs, we have another garland, which is the same one that was on the fireplace
from Cox & Cox, but we added in a little battery pack of fairy lights just to add a little
bit of sparkle to it. We've also hung all of our family's stockings along the staircase,
which I think looks really, really nice. We've got all of the same ones for all of us. We've
done it age order. We've got Jackson, Caleb, Fraser, Mummy, and Daddy. You can tell I bought
all of these four at the same time and then the next, I think two years later, Jackson
was born so I ordered his, so his font is slightly different, but all of them were from
a place called Elm Tree Studios. I found them on Not On The High Street. You can personalize
all of them and they are really a good size. You can fit a lot of stuff in these ones.
I like that all the stockings are there. There's probably too many of us to hang them all on
the fireplace.
This corner of the room is my office space. There's also a tree right next to it which
is in the window, which is nice because you can see the lights on the tree when you pull
up to the house, so that adds a bit to the outside as well. We've had this tree for about
eight years. It's fake. All of our trees are fake. It's really quite tall though. This
is where we keep all of our family decorations, like all the stuff the kids bring home from
school goes onto this one. Little decorations like this. That's Caleb's hand. I think he
was like eight weeks old. We have Caleb's first Christmas and Fraser's first Christmas.
We even have our wedding day. See? All the decorations on this tree are really, really
special. Each year, we get one of these, actually. I'll just show you there. We get on of these
ones. Matt's sister, it's like become a tradition. She gets us one every single year. It's cute
to follow the years, how the kids have added to our family.
No more.
This is one that Caleb brought home from nursery when he was a baby. This is Fraser. I think
he was only one in that picture. This I talked about actually, in my Christmas hacks video.
Because we get fake trees, I hang fragrance sticks on them. I found them on Amazon. You
can get them in pine smell or cinnamon as well. At least if it's not real, it might
smell real. There's already a few Christmas presents under the tree, and then a few over
here that I actually need to wrap as well. Over here, I have a Yankee candle burning.
This is glittering star. It's a new scent this year and it's really, really nice so
I thought I would just put that on. It smells very festive. I feel like this is probably
our most Christmasy room in the house. This is where Santa will leave all the presents
on Christmas morning, so this is like chaos when opening present and then we can go into
our other living area for breakfast and stuff like that. It's really, really nice and cozy.
This is our main kitchen and living area, and for the first time ever we decided to
have a tree put up in this room. It's a much more color coded, fancy new tree. I'll show
you that in a second, but first up, there's a few bits over here. We have a little light
box. This is actually supposed to be 11. I don't know where the other 1 went.
It's Christmas Eve.
It is 11 days until Christmas, not one. We've got that, which is actually for Fraser, and
it's got this really cute little remote control so you can change the colors of it and stuff,
so the kids like to change that. I actually got this little decoration in Poundland. I
thought it was so good for a pound. So, so cute. There's a little switch on the bottom
so you can turn it off and on. I just thought it was quite sweet. Over here, I have a glass
vase of baubles. They're the baubles that match the tree. I did have some fairy lights
in it as well, but I've recently taken it out to put on a little tree that is in Caleb's
room. There's also the elves just over there. We have three Elf on the Shelf's, so they're
just hanging out there at the moment. I'll just show you this over here. This is Jackson's
favorite little Christmas scene. I put this on Instagram and so many people asked me where
it was from. I found it on Amazon. I think I just put in Christmas scene with music.
You can turn it on, and he really likes the music. It changes color. I got him that little
snow globe and music thing because I just thought he would love it. I used to love stuff
like that as a child.
Also, on the window, this is where they play Play-Doh and a bit of a play area, but the
elves actually brought these little window stickers one day, I think they got them in
Poundland, and then they said can you decorate the windows with them? So, the boys have kept
taking them off and on. So, that's their little decoration there. Since having our new kitchen
done, we haven't really been using our dining table very much at all. The boys tend to sit
and eat at the breakfast bar. If you haven't seen our full kitchen tour, I'll link that
down below as well because I go into detail about what it used to look like, what it looks
like now. We've had a few things changed on the table. We just added this piece of glass
because the boys tend to color on the table and it was always getting really messy, so
we had a piece of glass cut to go on top and it's been amazing. We've also got the crackers
on here, because as I said we don't really use the table at the moment. The crackers
that we've gone for this year were from Cox & Cox as well. We are hosting just our family
and Matt's parents this year and these ones are luxury ones, so hopefully they'll be really
good.
We also have a little flower arrangement in the middle of the table. We had this done
at a local company that does artificial flowers. They're just fake with a mirror vase, which
kind of matches our mirror splashback in the kitchen. This is the tree. It's again fake,
again from Amazon, but we think it looks like a real fake tree. It has the fragrance sticks
on it, and then all the baubles, all the pink ones, are from Amazon and these white ones
as well, but there's a few on the tree that are from Cox & Cox. This little bell chain
is from Cox & Cox as well. It's got pom poms on it and jingle bells. Under the tree, we
got this wicker skirt from Amazon. It was less than 15 pounds. I've had so many comments
about it on Instagram. We love it. It's like a whitewash and we think it looks really good
in the room. The only other Christmasy thing really in this room is this little tree here.
It looks really nice at night, all lit up. Again, this is from Cox & Cox. We bought it
last year.
This main room has so many windows. We have bi-folding doors going all the way around.
Because you can always see outside, we decided to put loads of fairy lights in the garden
this year. Matt has hung fairy lights that go all the way around on the fences. We also
have this little penguin which is lit up, and this little deer family as well. It just
looks really, really sparkly in this room at night. I also just wanted to say it took
us years and years to get all of these Christmas decorations. The first Christmas we had together,
I think we only had a tree. Each year, we've decided to invest in something. The stockings
alone were quite a layout, and then one year we bought our Christmas Eve box and one year
we bought another tree. So, if you watch this and you're like oh my God, you have so many
decorations, it's actually taken us so long to build up to all these decorations.
Coming upstairs, in our room the only really Christmasy thing we have is Christmas bed
sheets. I change them every year. These are from Next and they've got little polar bears
on them with Christmas trees and scarves. We thought that was really cute. I should
probably get some Christmasy cushions, but I haven't.
Another investment next year.
Yeah. Coming this way in the hallway, there's a beautiful wedding photo of us.
So festive.
It's not festive. I love that. In Caleb's room, Caleb loves decorations and decorating,
so he has his very own little tree in his room. It's a tiny one from Amazon, and you
may be able to tell that he's decorated it himself. He's very proud of it. On his bed,
he's got some festive sheets as well. I found them on Amazon. They say elf yourself on them.
When you lay in the bed, you look like you're an elf and the boys love it when I take photos
of them in the bed being elves. Coming into Fraser's bedroom, this is one of my favorite
rooms in the house. This year, he has a Christmas tree as well. We actually did a challenge
for an Amazon thing and they sent us another tree. This one is such a luxury because it
is prelit, so you don't have to put all the lights on. You just plug it in and you have
lights. With this one, we went for a rainbow theme. We tried to do it in different colors
with the kids. I don't know how much it worked out, but it's nice and colorful.
Mommy was a little bit drunk when she put on the star.
Over on his bed, he has some festive sheets as well. Also from Next. They look like they
are cross-stitch with deers, Christmas puddings, little Christmas trees as well. Yes, we like
those. Although there's nothing festive in his room, I don't want to leave Jackson out
so I feel like I should show you his little room anyway. There has been one change since
the last house tour, and that is that we took the big nursing chair out of his room and
we put it in our room. This is his little bed. It also goes to a cot bed when he's ready.
He's got two big things of toys. He's also got a little Lego table in his room now as
well. This little rug I got from H&M. It says this is my happy place. The bookshelf. I'll
link everything down below if you're interested. He still has this changing area over here,
but we were literally just saying the other day how we think he's nearly ready to potty
train.
Merry Christmas, Jackson.
Merry Christmas. You get no fairy lights, no nothing.
No tree.
Or tree, no. Yes, that's it for our festive house tour. I hope you enjoyed it. Ask me
any questions you have in the comments below and thank you so much, as always, for all
of your support during vlogmas. I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.