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- Hello, friends,
thank you very much for joining us.
You're joining us,
but unfortunately the people were meant to be collabing with
(laughs) in this video are not joining us,
and that is Shaaba and Jamie.
We actually did a little festive,
gingerbread house decorating video with last year,
you can click the card in the corner up here,
and we were like, "Hey, won't it be great next Christmas?
We'll stand next to each other,
we won't have to talk to each other through a door.
We can be really close,
(she laughs)
'cause COVID won't be a thing."
And yet, (crickets chirp)
probably sliding back into a lockdown.
- I'm making it all okay by eating White Rabbit sweets,
which were my favorite childhood sweets.
- White Rabbits.
The White Rabbits do make it better.
- You can buy them in Chinese supermarkets.
(hands thudding) Gingerbread.
Can I just say they are still called gingerbread men
on this actual packet. - Yeah.
- I think if they were called gingerbread people,
would people know what they are?
- Oh my god. - "What is that?"
- This feels like a debate that you have
with that uncle that's still a bit stuck in the '80s.
- There's three with bow ties and buttons,
and three with scarves,
and I was thinking, well, the scarves could be unisex,
and I thought, what?
They could all be unisex, Claudia!
What the hell?
Women can wear bow ties.
- Yes, anyone can wear a bow tie.
So Jamie and Shaaba aren't here,
both because obviously we should be keeping our distance
from people due to the new variant, and also we're ill.
- We both have coughs.
Mine is only bad in the evening
(Jessica laughs) and the nighttime,
and Jessica's gets progressively worse throughout the day
but then seems to be a bit better in the nighttime.
- No, mine's bad in the nighttime.
We wake up with the bed-
TMI, TMI.
How is he fine?
Constitution of an ox. - 'Cause he's sucking all
of that antibody life out of me at night.
He feeds three or four times still.
Anyway, we've done our lateral flows,
they've come back negative.
Let's make some gingerbread men.
- Whey. - People.
(Jessica laughs) Gingerbread people.
- Let's use Rupert's. (laughs)
This is Rupert's mat.
- He has two of them. (Jessica chuckles)
- That he eats with. - Mine's upside down.
(Jessica laughs)
They're very helpful, even for us
to remember where everything goes.
- A little Montessori thing. (chimes jingle)
Oh, how far into this video did we get?
- At the moment, he sits on his Tripp Trapp chair,
and we bring him his little tray,
and as soon as he sees the tray coming over
with the green place mat, he's like.
Actually, he does this.
"Whoa!" Doesn't he?
He's so excited.
Today's dinner was broccoli,
and I've never seen anyone so enthused about broccoli.
He grabbed it with both hands and was just like "Argh!"
But it does look pretty awesome.
- Broccoli is, I think, his favorite food.
- Yeah, I would say so.
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(coughs) They provided white writing icing,
(Jessica laughs) and green writing icing,
just to do the bow tie look,
and Jessica has provided these pens.
- Yes.
- And it says 5.50 here as a price,
and I was like, wow, she's actually bought these
from a shop that I wasn't with her with,
so this must have been bought a long time ago
because I go everywhere with her.
Or I should say she goes everywhere with me.
And then she says, "Yeah, they're from a long time ago."
(Jessica laughs)
It says best before
the 14th of July, 2014. (timpani thuds)
- They might not be edible anymore.
That's quite, you're quite right.
I'd also just like to say
that they may have been purchased
in a country that is not the UK.
- I think they're from the US.
I was wondering because it says FDA approved
and we don't do that here.
- Also it says that they're kosher,
which generally isn't something
we write on our products here.
- Well, why would this not be kosher?
- Yeah, who put meat next to it?
- Exactly, do you know what I mean?
- That is a good point.
- This ice cream is completely gluten-free.
- I really hate when they write
that ice cream is gluten-free.
- They write that quite a lot.
- Yeah, they do. - What ice cream
have you ever had that's got gluten in it?
- Cookies and cream. - Okay, well.
- When they're like, cookie dough ice cream.
- Yeah, fair enough.
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The word safety doesn't generally make people excited.
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- Why don't we do a challenge?
- Yeah. - You use your pens,
I'll use the icing, - Oh no, oh no.
- and then we'll see whose is best.
- (laughs) I have to use the pens that are seven years old?
All right, fine. - We'll have faith.
Christmas is about faith. - I have faith in Christmas.
- What shall we do?
Let's do a challenge, okay, first one.
- You gave me these, is that not a challenge?
- Yeah, yeah. - Okay.
- Shall we do a nutcracker?
- A nutcracker?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- First one is a nutcracker.
- Jesus Christ, I can't remember
what a nutcracker looks like.
- We're gonna draw
different types of-- - Where's the nutcracker?
There's the nutcracker. - Yeah. (laughs)
(Jessica laughs)
- Here we are, we're going for it, we're going for it.
- You should do quite well,
'cause you've got a...
- He's got shouldery bits,
a nice belt situation.
- I like that you're talking out loud,
so I just get to copy what you're saying.
I'm like yeah, okay.
- Oh my God, wait.
This is not fair.
- Just cracking myself up here.
(Jessica laughs)
Mine looks like an American football player.
- Oh my God, what happened to his head?
- He's wearing a hat.
- Right.
- Oh dear.
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(both giggle)
Okay. (laughs)
I think it's very good,
but I wouldn't think it was a nutcracker
if I bought that from a shop.
I think it looks like a trapeze act.
- Oh, I see that. - Doesn't he?
With his little suit.
- [Jessica] I totally see that.
- Like a '50s. - Yeah.
- No, 1920s.
- He's a Victorian trapeze artist.
- Yes, exactly.
(cymbal clangs) (Jessica laughs)
I was inspired by--
- Why did they give you bright green?
- He's got coat buckles,
like big, proper buckles. - Mm, he does.
- And then he's got a belt. - Very good.
- He's got the furry shoulder puff things.
- Oh he's got shoulder pads, this guy.
- He's got a big white beard. - Oh.
- And that's meant to be his mouth,
(Jessica laughs) the nutcracker mouth,
because obviously he's a nutcracker
- Right. - and he can crack nuts
with his mouth. - Mm.
- Also drew the rim of a hat round his head,
and then you just have to imagine the rest of it up there.
- [Jessica] Gorgeous, gorgeous.
BFFs.
- Right, so that was challenge number one.
- When I was a teenager,
I used to get bronchitis all the time,
and my mum used to have to punch my back every night.
- Okay. - (laughs) Sorry, that was it.
- It sounded like there was something else coming.
- I think what we should do next is Christmas jumpers.
- Okay. - Do you remember last year
when we made Christmas jumpers?
That was fun, (Claudia laughs)
and we had to try and hide your bump.
- Yeah, but it was a massive jumper, so it was all right.
(warm festive music)
And as always I am done, I have completed my challenge,
and Jessica is still doing hers 'cause, of course,
she's gone for something very complicated.
- Oh my goodness, shush.
Oh my God, do you know what I really want to watch,
that I'm hoping comes back soon?
"The Crown".
When's the next season of "The Crown" out?
- [Claudia] Yeah.
- That's a good show.
- We've got ready-to-roll red icing.
- Uh-huh.
- Ready-to-roll... (Jessica laughs)
And holly red icing.
- Yeah. - Ready-to-roll
- Yeah? - evergreen green.
- Yeah, yeah. - And ready-to-roll white.
- I'm slightly disturbed
as to where you think this is going.
- Well, I can't be bothered right now,
but we could have made
these gingerbread men-people absolutely epic.
Have you finally finished? - This is Darcy.
- Have you finished your Christmas jumper now?
- This is Darcy.
It's a punky Christmas jumper. - Okay.
- It's got sticky-out bits around the neck.
- Oh, I see, right. - Like punks wear.
- Like a dog collar.
- It's got reindeer on it
and a very fetching zigzag pattern,
- Mm-hmm. - I think you'll find.
- Which is quite classically Christmassy, isn't it?
- Very classically Christmassy.
- Well, I went for a more classic, just is a snowflake.
Screaming with Christmas delight.
Just like, "Aah, it's Christmas!"
Or they're just really cold,
'cause they've got a massive snowflake on their chest,
and a snowflake because every person is unique
just like snowflakes.
- Oh my God. (chuckles)
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You know who the real snowflakes are?
People who can't accept that the world's moved on.
- Okay, right. (Jessica chuckles)
Third, final Christmas person.
- Okay. - We've got nutcracker,
which actually is a Victorian trapeze artist
and an American football player,
we've got people wearing their Christmas jumpers,
- Yeah. - a punk
and a very ecstatic person. - Freezing to death.
What about a Christmas party outfit
because we can't go to Christmas parties?
- Okay, (coughs) Christmas party outfit.
(Jessica laughs)
- What would you do at a party anyway?
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- I really need some red icing but...
(Jessica laughs)
- What?
- Nothing.
- Are you laughing at my Christmas outfit?
- No, I am not laughing at your Christmas outfit.
You do you, honey.
- You don't even know what it is.
It looks really awesome.
All right, my guy's ready for the Christmas party.
- Oh no, I think the red has run out,
(Claudia giggles)
so now (laughs) mine looks a bit naked.
This was going to be me,
but now it is unfortunate.
- It's you. (both laugh)
Going out for your Christmas party.
- It's a very sheer red dress, unfortunately.
- With a yellow bow.
- Yeah, it's like a bow tie but it's a bow.
- That's your party outfit, is it?
A red dress. - It's what I ended up with.
- A red dress with a yellow bow sounds delightful.
(Jessica laughs)
- I mean, I wouldn't put it past me.
- Okay. - Although it's very day wear.
- Yeah, not a big talking point,
unlike my Christmas outfit. (Jessica laughs)
It's basically a custard yellow shawl.
- [Jessica] Yeah.
- [Claudia] That comes basically like a poncho almost.
- [Jessica] Yeah, yeah.
- With accented bits in white sequins,
and then around the neck is a choker,
- Mm-hmm. - necklace scarf,
with holly projections, - Whoa, amazing.
- made of felt, - Stunning.
- and then two shiny, ruby red diamante things
for the holly bits. - Absolutely amazing.
Why are you naked?
- No, that's just like a--
- Oh, is it a skin colored bodysuit?
- Yeah, anyway, the point is,
I'm just showing the main idea behind it is
this person has gone to the Christmas party
as an iconic Christmas pudding.
- Oh, a Christmas pudding.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
Well, walking in together, I have to say, totally outshone.
- Well, you know what this means?
- What does this mean, darling?
Oh.
- You know when sometimes you think about something,
(Jessica laughs) and it makes it taste like it?
- Oh, yeah.
- It's like a gingerbread man
and a Christmas pudding in one.
- Whoa.
- This is a really good gingerbread man.
- Oh, thank goodness,
I'm pleased you like them.
We have the six from this kit and a whole other kit
in case this went terribly wrong.
No, mainly because Jamie and Shaaba were meant to be here.
- Can't stop eating it. (Jessica laughs)
- We'll just end the video here then.
Thank you so much for watching,
and thank you for being a part of our Vlogmas.
Again, this year we don't have a PO box open,
but we are so grateful for everyone
who's giving us Super Thanks,
sending us Christmas wishes through my Ko-fi,
or even just sharing the videos is really supportive.
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