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Good Morning guys Welcome back to Tokyo
I'm at Ushka's house again and we do
have lots of work to do this weekend
that's why I'm down here but because it
is the weekend before Christmas we
thought we would also do lots of
Christmassy stuff while I'm here so I
thought I would invite you guys for one
last cozy vlog before the holidays so in
Japan the holiday season the most
exciting thing about it is lucky bags if
you've been following my channel for
years you know that it's super fun at
the end of the year lots of Japanese
companies will gather up the items that
didn't sell or sometimes they'll buy
brand new items and they'll package them
together for lucky bags and we're going
to be doing that for our stationery
business this year can't wait so that's
our main project for the weekend I'm
wearing some new frames today from
glassesusa.com
they have very great affordable frames
so many different styles to choose from
on their website you can add
prescription lenses to any frames you
can also add blue light protection lots
of fun stuff to choose from so I will
link my frames down below if you'd like
to check them out first item on the
to-do list today is making some
Christmas wine okay so this is what you
will need for making the mulled wine
we've got cardamom
cloves
fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks and some
orange peel
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depends on if like if you like lots of
ginger
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usually like two but these are kind of
small so it doesn't matter that it's got
like all that can you use any kind of
orange yeah any kind of orange is fine
and again if you like more orange just
add more
sometimes I break it if I can
It's like super tough
so
cinnamon, cardamom
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I can give you some of this to take with you I've never seen these before
This I get from the Indonesian
supermarket
If it's open we'll get more flavor
mmm smells good already yeah
cardamom's amazing
It's really rough It is rough whatever I
used to count but now I don't
then we just boil it for like I boil it
for about 10 minutes okay
and then I'll just leave it to steep for
I don't know a day or so
we can drain it later tonight
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So while we're waiting for our wine
ingredients to boil
I actually have some presents open from
viewers and there's one from my friend
Emma in here
this first cute package is actually from
Japan this is from Alev in Osaka
Thank you so much Alev that was such a nice
surprise
cute cat tape
ah it's my favorite card this is
probably the best Christmas card
that exists in Japan, it folds out into a
3D
Christmas tree with a bunch of cats
hanging off of it I've gotten this one
for my family before it's such a cute
Christmas decoration here we go
how cute is that
aw cute
I'm very excited for this one of my
favorite teas is a rose-flavored black tea
wow this smells so good
this is gonna be so yummy look at that
how pretty is that
oh and a bunch of cool stickers
I'm going to secretly
stick these all over
Chris's studio don't tell him let's see
Chris's studio, don't tell him let's see
if he notices
thank you so much Alev that's great I
can't wait to try it Next I have a
little present from Emma I met up with Emma
yesterday for lunch and she gave me this
It's in a really pretty
Japanese patterned bag which I love I'm
gonna have to find another use for this
what do we have here oh cool tin
it says matcha
matcha mochi
oooh they're like little senbei crackers
[crunching]
It's really light
oh they're really good
they're so light and fluffy
mmm Emma these are delicious thank you
and finally I have a gift from
Andrew in America Thank you so much
Andrew
Ooh what's that
ah no way is it one of the tamagotchis?!
two or three vlogs back I drove past the
tamagotchi store
in a taxi and I was like what there's a
tamagotchi store I had no idea and I
looked it up online and
they were selling these tamagotchi smart
watches
like a tamagotchi that you wear as a
watch and Andrew got me one what that's
so fun I haven't had a tamagotchi in
ages
I love them this is exciting
and it's so cute
love the design I love the rainbow
[Tamagotchi noises]
while our wine mix is steeping we're
gonna head to 7-eleven because they have
some Animal Crossing items out that
neither of us have seen yet and we're
gingerbread houses
got a few things to pick up
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we found the new cup noodles oh do they
come with something oh they come with
stickers
cute this is what I get every time I
come to the conbini
dried persimmons so good
so this is the other Animal Crossing
thing they have so each bottle comes
with a different one it's um a little
desktop calendar
Ooh I want October
oh cute that's cool
yeah I've already got November oh this
it shows some on the back there's April
oh all the different ones yeah
they also have these they're um
files plastic piles
if you buy two ice creams you get one
free file
they've only got one left
that's it it's a cute one though
it is cute yeah yeah I'll get one let
me get some ice creams
do you have a preference
black thunder is good have you had black
thunder? Yeah black thunder's amazing
Let's get some black thunder
what's that penguin is that tokyo banana penguin?
tokyo banana penguin ice cream yeah that's new
so we're picking up some candies for our
gingerbread house now
I'm happy with those
yeah I think that should be good
I'm going to get us some extremely expensive
grapes
I splurge on these whenever they're in
season cause they're so delicious
say hi there you go big girl how much do
you weigh now
big girl
Pixel
does not like being held all right we're
recipe now if you're looking for a
really easy Christmas cookie to make for
the holidays
this is a good one I think it should be
pretty simple here's the recipe if you
want to pause this
and
check it out
so we're going to be tripling the recipe
because I'm going to be making some for
my friends for Christmas presents
I feel like the best jam to use is
probably raspberry but if you have
something else I'm sure that would work
anything tastes good with shortbread I think
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so when you're all done it should look
something like this it doesn't have to
look perfect you're going to cut them up
anyways we're going gonna do a test
round with a different design no idea
how this is gonna turn out but we're
just heating up the oven and then
they'll go in for about half an hour I
believe oh 35 to 40 minutes
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time for gingerbread houses the last
time I tried this was on the Tokyo
Creative video where we failed horribly
so
hopefully this year goes a bit smoother
the issue was the icing last year it just
wouldn't stick so nothing stuck together
so we're making these miniature
gingerbread houses from Ikea they should
be easier than making a giant one
I would think anyways
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Nice
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all finished I think we did a pretty
good job this year this one has a bit
too much snow
but it looks realistic this is North Japan
in gingerbread form
Ushka's look really good
fancy
all you do is like mix this with a
bottle of wine and then add some sugar
if you like it sweet and boil it
and that's it you'll have some mulled wine super easy
hey that looks okay yeah yeah that looks
really good
Looks amazing
good morning welcome to Christmas
celebrations day two today is lucky bag
day we are starting off by doing some
washi tape lucky bags because for some
reason we have so much washi tape left
over I think we bought too much
we get too excited when we see cute ones
in the store there are some really
pretty ones these are sakura tapes left
over from the spring
these ones are my absolute favorite
how pretty is that it's
waves at sunset
and
this cloud one
so pretty
so we're gonna put together some little
lucky bags of washi tape only and put
them in these
mount fuji bags that'll be our first
project and then we'll be making oh yeah
like that
there's a completed one and then we'll
be making lucky bags with
all the other stuff so
if you are interested they will be up on
our website link is in the description
box
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okay we're all done making our little
fuji washi bags so next we're moving on
to making the giant lucky packs this
one's a little more confusing because
we're gonna have 19 items in each pack
and we need to make sure they're all
equal so we've divided all the items
into sections we've got washi tape
little mini cards, note cards, stickers
we've got some really good 3D cards left
which is nice
a little bit of everything really and
then we'll have to calculate how much to
sell them for we're probably gonna price
them pretty low because it'll be nice to
just clear everything out and start the
year fresh in 2022.
we found these cute fukubukuro
bags to pack everything in so we're
gonna use these we should be able to
make 70
in total
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we're all finished we did 70 of them
ta da
we are
relaxing with our lunch now we got
falafel brothers it's a really nice
falafel shop in Shibuya it's huge
it's so heavy
so I'm just gonna eat this and then I'm
going to get on the shinkansen and head
back home hey guys welcome back to
Sendai I had to show off my Christmas
tree because this is the first year that
I've splurged on
an almost proper sized Christmas tree I
usually just get one from the dollar
store for like 10 bucks but
I thought I'd get a slightly nicer one
this year so I had to show you guys and
I have one more gift to open as I was
leaving Ushka's house one more package
showed up for me from Germany thank you
Ube it's pretty heavy
what could be inside the customs form
doesn't give me any hints
oh it's an Advent calendar card that's
awesome
thank you so much this is really cool
a very Christmassy tin filled with
Maro is very intrigued
what could it be Maro what is it?
oh look at that
it says
lots of German
I don't know what it is but it looks and
smells very yummy
you guys are gonna have to help me in
the comments here what have we got
what am I looking at here
ooh I love nougat and finally
he's killing me with these names
yep I'll be waiting for you guys to help
with some translations in the comments
but these all
smell and look very delicious so thank
you so much for that if you're
interested in getting any new glasses
I'll have these frames linked down below
in the description box thank you so much
classesusa.com but yeah I guess that's
it for the videos before Christmas and
probably until the end of the year I'm
not sure if I'll have another one out
until
next year so I wanted to say very happy
holidays to all of you guys and happy
early new year and I'll see you in 2022
thank you so much for supporting my
channel over the year it was a bit of a
crazy year things didn't really go as
planned so thanks for sticking around
and kind of uh waiting around for me
while I healed from my surgery etc I
really appreciated your patience with
that and hopefully next year
will be better and I hope that you guys
will be allowed back into Japan ASAP
don't really have any updates on that
for you unfortunately there haven't been
any updates from the government but my
fingers are crossed because it's really
sad that nobody is allowed in right now
but I hope you guys all have a very
lovely holidays Merry Christmas to you
if you celebrate and I'll see you guys
again next year bye for now
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