Hello all you sonsy folks and welcome to the first day of vlogmas
{Jingle bells}
I asked you guys over on Twitter what you wanted to see me do for the first vlogmas video
and the majority of you said that you would like to see me decorate
An advent calendar
so
That is what we're going to do today
I am just gonna roll my sleeves up before we get into this by the way
So that I don't get anything on this really cute doggy reindeer jumper
So I've got a bunch of stuff that I bought from Hobbycraft. Pretty much
Yeah everything's from Hobbycraft, this included.
If you're in the UK, this was 15 pounds in Hobbycraft.
They have a bunch of different ones
originally, it was gonna get the
Train set one
but they didn't have it in store when I went to buy it.
Funnily enough I was in Hobbycraft today and they had it.
They also have like light-up ones, Christmas tree ones
presents piled kind of ones
A bunch of different ones, basically.
And funny story
I actually had this advent calendar before
and I decorated it and it looked so pretty and I absolutely loved it
and then I put two candles in front of it
And at one point the candles must have tilted
And yup
I set fire to my advent calendar.
I suppose it's better than setting fire to my Christmas tree or something like that
But that one was pretty much ruined so I was really glad to see that they had the same ones in stock this year
Thank goodness. So now I can
Redo it, make it look all beautiful and keep it the hell away from candles
So the other stuff that I've got is just very basic kind of Christmasy fun stuff. I have these
paint brushes which are like a pound I think. They're in the kids section at Hobbycraft
By the way, I'm not sure if there's a Hobbycraft in the US or in other countries
I think it's just a UK thing, but I'm sure you can pick these stuff up in like
normal kind of and
erm art shops, or hobby shops, I guess.
I also have this which is the closest I could get to rose gold in paint from Hobbycraft
It is "metallic, acrylic high viscosity"
Don't quote that word have no idea if that's what it is
And it doesn't actually say but it's like a coppery kind of color
Then the reason I got this paint was because the stickers that I got for the numbers on the doors
Are these wee rose gold stickers.
I find things like stickers and stencils much easier for me when it comes to decorating stuff because
of my tremor. If you don't know about that then you can check it out in the video on my channel
I'll put in the description box below in case you want to find out more about that.
But, basically, trying to like freehand stuff
no
that does not work with me
it winds up looking
atrocious
so
Yeah, I bought two of these because when I first had this calendar and decorated it
I only bought the one and then I didn't have enough the numbers to do the double digits
and I had to go back and buy more.
So I figured- I mean definitely enough to do them in that but I figured better safe than sorry
Yup
Other stickers we have these little erm
Christmas trees. Wow forget the word for "Christmas trees" on the first day of vlogmas. That's really good work there.
Um and little stars and the trees are like different designs
Don't worry. I'll show a close-up of this.
And
Yeah, basically the plans for these is to like stick them along
like the bottom bit and stuff like that
I'm not entirely sure what my plan is for this yet. I've got a rough idea of what i want to do but
we shall see.
And then I have to use which are already open
but these are little like
Christmas trees on a little gold block thing
Just tiny wee ones
And I'm thinking about putting a couple of these in this little bit here.
That made a horrible noise. Hopefully you didn't pick that up in the camera.
And then
That is it.
That's basically all I have. Everything's just quick and simple with this because I feel like if I go over the top
then either: it will turn out awful
or
It will turn out great and I'll accidentally set it on fire again.
So we're keeping it simple.
I also have a little plate. This is just a little paper plate for putting the
paint in to.
I'm going to do the paint last which is possibly risky but
I feel like, if i do it first, I'm just gonna get paint everywhere
So
let's do this!
Just a quick disclaimer by the way guys
I am doing this straight on the table surface. If you're going to be painting and stuff
you might want to put something down
I'm not too bothered if this table gets paint on it because it's quite easy to wipe off on this table
Plus I'm planning on getting a new table next year so
not hugely fussy about that
But if you are you are in your parent's house or something like that and you feel like doing something like this
I recommend putting something down so you don't end up grounded for life
Let's just get started. So I'm gonna start with the numbers
And try and get them
as straight
as my trembling little hands with allow
oh my gosh
You know if I can ever get the thing open anyway
there we go
Toodles. I'll pick that up later.
so
I'm just gonna do them in
order. You can obviously do them
in like
any kind of order you like. I'm just gonna do like
1,2,3,4,5 blegh. I'm being dull, basically.
I'm gonna keep the top one as number- I don't know if it's number 24 or 25
{tapping}
I think it's- Oh no. There's only four on the bottom one
Oh i'm confused now
I should have done this before we started
Two seconds
There's 25!
all good
So yeah, I'm gonna do the top one. This big door
as number 25 and then start
one across to five
five across to ten so on
Um. I'm going to have to have this facing me. There's not really any other way I can do it
Actually
Let's place it down. You might be able to see that a bit better
Starting with 25. I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna go into a montage here and I'll be back in a second once I've put the numbers on.
{we wish you a merry Christmas; instrumental}
And there we have it. All numbers on the little doors
done!
So next I'm going to put these little erm
Christmas tree decorations on to certain bits. i'm not entirely sure which bits yet
I want to put some of the stars on the top one with the
25 so the trees will probably go
On this plain board bit that doesn't actually open. It's just a little bit in the middle
So yeah! Cue another montage I guess
{calendar scrapes on table}
Let's go
{we wish you a merry Christmas: instrumental}
i just went completely crazy and used all the stars
on the top part
and I'm not even sorry
Tree time
{we wish you a merry Christmas: instrumental}
And it's done
I just put three little trees on the bottom here
which I think looks really, really cute
and
fills that kind of plain white bit
It goes without saying, I think, that obviously
Decorating your own advent calendar. You can do whatever the heck you like.
You can use stencils. You can free hand
I'm using stickers, like I said, cause
tremor. Makes it easier and I didn't have number stencils that
I liked for the
the doors so
I saw these stickers and I was like
"That'll do" and I'm actually quite pleased with how they turned out
Maybe I went a bit crazy with the number 25, but
I think we can ignore that {laughs}
It's 25. It's Christmas Day. I'm allowed to be excited and cover it in stars
So now I am going to do the Christmas tree a little
The little like
wire Christmas cheese, I guess they are.
And I think I said that I'm going to put them next to the number 25
I'm just gonna try and find
some really nice pointy ones
so I'm planning on putting them
In this little bit here. Like a couple of them on each side
Possibly one in the top as well.
If I can get a nice bushy one.
That one's a bit ruined. Oh my gosh. Some of these are a bit
like yeah, they're attached to each other so
{mumbles to self}
Yup
And these don't have sticky bits on the bottom so I've got my
trusty hot glue gun charging behind me
and it's disgusting and old but
I'm just going to put some hot glue on the little wooden bit on the bottom and then place them on the
advent calendar
Oh crap that's a lot. Oh stringy glue.
Lovely. oh my gosh {chuckles}
OK that doesn't want to go away. Get off!
ew oh my god
Think it's gone. Here we go.
The glues probably dried by now
{mumbles to self}
So the first one is in and now I'm just going to do a quick montage while I do the rest.
{Jingle bells: instrumental}
Okay, so there we go. We've got the little Christmas trees on here.
I'm thinking, because I still have a couple left, that what I might actually do is put um
two on the bottom on the corners so that all the trees aren't all up the top.
And there's some down here too
But before I do that
I'm going to go in and paint the roof bit
I'm going to try and avoid the chimney and leave that white
And I'm also wanting to make sure I don't get any of the gold paint on
The rest of the advent calendar.
So I have some masking tape that I'm going to use
erm
That I inconveniently haven't put out on the table
So i'm gonna go get that and then I'll be right back and in to a
masking tape/painting montage.
{Jingle bells: instrumental}
OK so that is the paint on it.
It's probably going to need another coat of paint to be quite honest with you
so what I think I'm going to do is
leave it to dry, do another coat and then come back in the morning and
finish off with the
little Christmas trees down here
and
Then I will show you a
clip of
the finished
advent calendar
{Deck the halls: instrumental}
So good morning guys. I am back
I have done another couple of coats of the copper paint because
the one coat was definitely not enough
And I've taken the masking tape off now and
now I'm just going to do the final bit of the calendar which is to add these little Christmas trees
The same ones that are on the top just down in the bottom two corners down here.
And I have my trusty glue gun again, so
trying not to burn myself
Don't know if you can see the steam coming off that but man.
There's also
more annoying stringy bits
So one down here
And
one down here
Turning that off before I forget
And yeah
I am done
So I'm going to show you a little close-up of the calendar now. I'll just insert that.
{Deck the halls: Instrumental}
So, what do you guys think?
Am actually pleasantly surprised with how it turned out.
Considering my artistic abilities are not amazing
I expected much worse than this but
I really like it
It's definitely
one that I'll be keeping away from candles. That's for sure.
Anyway, if you guys are making your own advent calendars
then please make sure to tag me in pictures over on my social media
which will be in the description box below
Or just add me over there and come and chat and we can get excited about Christmas together.
I really need some Christmas movie recommendations so if any of you have those
pop them in the comment section below or let me know on my social media.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I'm back with another vlogmas video tomorrow.
And hopefully I'll see you then.
Thanks watching guys.
Bye!
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