 Hello and welcome everyone in our living room slash dining room slash gym and probably hall as well This is only room I can use to decorate our Christmas tree and we can't move anything from here So I decided to decorate our boxing bag for that I have created cone from two cardboard cardstocks and I decorated very hard way with the garland and Then I add their ivory Branches and another garland. It was such a hard job I have to say I spent hours to decorate this one I didn't film every single steps of this creation or every single steps of what I created later on Which you will see in this video. I filmed just a bit in pieces just to show you What Christmas in my head are? Lots of creativity and lots of enjoying to create for the year As you can see that the boxing bag was moving on the sides a lot That was very painful. So I decided to fix it. I fix it with the tape You can see that here. That was like a brilliant idea and Meanwhile when I was thinking how I will decorate it I did also or centerpiece and again you will don't see all Redecorating or last year centerpiece. You will see just steps how I took off the last year Decorations and how I created moon shape from Christmas Wreath Ring It was amazing idea. I have to say I did enjoy it so much to create from that Wreath Ring Shape of moon and fill it with lights led lights and then fill it with resin I did enjoy it. Also. I did enjoy to use Decorations I bought our collection for diorama settings. I bought I think two three years ago I finally use it here in our centerpiece. You will see that in minute little threes and Little forest animals and I have to say this year diorama is amazing. I really love it You can see also that I used the resin to feel that I think I said that to feel that moon I didn't feel full moon shape because that will kill kill me. I guess those fumes from resin So I add the resin just in those tops from the moon and it's enough. It's holding really well. I I also used my fake snow in my centerpiece. That's mix of white sand with glitter and glue and I cover it Cover with this paste that fake snow I used as a first and I have to say it looks amazing that final result is awesome Yeah, I think you will see that immediately and as I said, I didn't film everything because you know It was just step here step there and it will be too confusing. So this is just quick sneak peek what I'm doing for Christmas and I also created a little village for our window and you will see that now for this Christmas are these gorgeous Gingerbread houses and And they are designed to be as a page in your junk journal or as a Holder money holder pocket for your journals or just a cute little insert, but you can also create Beautiful decorations for your house using these and I would like to show you how you can do it First I will show you how to use these in your journals As an insert as a page in your journal, you're gonna fussy cut out outline around these houses and You will follow this line between houses and continue to that second house and cut out Both houses as one single piece together like this and like this Then you're gonna grab your houses and where there is That line you're gonna fold it You have your beautiful insert to your journals. You can decorate it with snowy effect You can add there some stumps. You can distress the edges and Add it to your signatures and the decorator with these your journal or just simply place it To some pocket and keep it there like little decoration For making these as a Pocket or money holder you will need to fussy cut out this white spot between houses and Make them as a two pieces If you will notice I am cutting all images with the white board around I'm not getting exactly to the edges the white Edge around the images it makes it even more Wintery like with that snowy effect so you don't have to be Stressed about any kind of exact fussy cutting Every single of these images. They do have that white border around the image And so you do have your two images done You can take a glue Put the glue on three sides And glue the images together and then you do have your pocket for your journals or Money holder you can add their money. You can add their note and give it as a card to somebody You can also use these images as a home decorative element I added to the background or backside of my pieces This silvery wallpaper. I do have here this self-adhesive Wallpaper So I glued my papers to this self-adhesive wallpaper and then fussy cut out those houses And I'm gonna create decoration on or Fireplace mantel using these images. I'm gonna Attach the houses together using these led lights. They are really beautiful And they do have a different type of Lighting so I can choose from Eight of different type of lighting using this button for that I need to cut out every single piece separately and Also, I'm gonna be cutting the windows and Replacing windows with acetate piece. So first I'm gonna fussy cut out these images on separate pieces and that's silvery Wallpaper in the background that will help me to keep a nice beautiful shining in inside I'm cutting the windows now and as you can see I'm not cutting exactly I'm taking my knife and just go Kind of like push through the paper around Window frames and as I said, I'm not taking it exactly Because it's such a small image And just like this I'm kind of pushing it out Here It will be lots of cutting because there is lots of houses with lots of windows But I hope in the end it will make really beautiful Christmas village So I'm gonna continue with all these other houses as well. Oh There will be so many windows and I will come back once I do have all windows cut that and prepared I Have all Windows cut it. It was some job. I have to say I did here and there. I left the windows full and I cut them on that second piece So when they will be put together, I will actually have piece of that You know that metallic Metallic wallpaper in the background. So I didn't cut every single piece exactly same Now to make it stand as I want to make it like a decoration on my windows I'm gonna be using these off-cuts. I do have from those sheets and Mostly it is about two inches in the width the strip so I'm gonna take my scoring board and I Think I would like to have gap But we in those houses about half inch So first I'm gonna cut it on one inch because that will be enough One inch strips and I do have many houses So one inch strips. I'm gonna cut it here from my off-cuts Then these off-cuts I'm gonna score on one quarter and three quarter one quarter here three quarter here and the gap between Will be gap between my two Two shapes those two houses I'm gonna fold my score lines. I Have scored and folded most of my off-cuts from the houses. I'm gonna take double-sided tape and I'm gonna place double-sided tape on this side Then I can take two houses Measure how big piece I need here on the bottom and one Somewhere on the roof and I can start to glue it all together So one here on the bottom and one on the roof. I'm gonna take the backing from this one Get up my other part and kind of place them together. I can stand it up And place them this way or I can try to make it manage it on my table somehow put together Hold hold together I do have something like this. I'm gonna fold as you can see. I didn't put this gap this hinge Totally on the bottom. I'm gonna fold a little bit The card stock on that house this way and now it can stand and I can put through that house my light and Slide it through have many houses next to each other So slide this wire through two houses and then go back probably in the top, you know a Top a tash. I figured the name floor top floor So I can build my houses. I'm gonna make this way all my houses and show you how I will put them together. I Do have my little village put together and now I can take the lights First I need to make it straight a little bit. I do have four meters long led lights So I believe it will be Long enough to put these together In some cute Decoration I do have four Darker houses and three kind of like lighter color houses. So I'm gonna go You know always one darker One lighter. I think these are big So it will be this this this and that Okay So I can go here on the bottom and if I will want so I can secure The lights always on the edges of the house With a strip of double sided tape Maybe if I want to see where the lights are I can switch it on and place them the way I will see them the best I'm gonna take this paper tape This is very light medical tape and it will be Strong enough to hold my lights In the houses and just tape it on one side and like this And tape it on other side and I'm gonna take another house And do exactly the same slide it through Maybe keep the gap between Or place them Right next to each other. It depends what you would like to see I do have small windows. So I'm gonna put them close together I do have all houses on that wire and I still have lots of those lights Left, so I'm gonna go kind of like a bug And I'm gonna fix them close to that first floor windows Now I do remember first floor windows to make sure there will be Spreaded lights everywhere in those houses And again, I'm gonna fix it On both sides with that tape one here And one on that opposite side And going through to all these houses back with that wire And these lights will hold my houses together in one row So I do have them put together and now it's time to place them on our window And this is how our room, how our living room looks now And how the boxing boxing bug changed the look I have to say that even my sons are surprised and they said that it looks amazing. We should do that every single year I love those droppings from the bottom of my tree. They do look amazing Those white balls you can see they are styrofoam balls And I use them also to decorate our window in the kitchen With kind of like droppings. This is idea what I saw on Pinterest And I have to say that I'm very very Satisfied with this creation. It makes me so happy that I don't have to do anything else Unfortunately my nails got damaged a lot and I had a request to show how I am repairing my or how I am doing my nails So after my showcase of this changed boxing bug You will see a little bit kind of like short way to show how I am creating my nails How I am designing my nails. It's very easy. I have to say So just a little bit more of my changed boxing bug. It was a lot of fun to do I have enjoyed so much and I'm so happy that I sort out Or I solved my issue or my problem. How How the heck I will fit some Christmas tree in this small space I can't imagine my Christmas tree without Christmas without Christmas tree So I'm very happy that it it did work out And just a little sneak peek on our Little tree trees. I created just a little forest in my home and now about my nails So I'm on my table because here I am always making my nails. I do have here my coffee tea My UV lamp Today I'm gonna be using these nails. I found them on a temu. They were Much cheaper than usual nails. I'm Uh Getting from amazon A usual nail nails. I'm buying at these. These are gel Strips something like this self cured or Semi cured semi cure curing It's not this this one semi curing Gel strips And I do have this one closed. I'm not gonna open it These uh Danny and Tony are The best these are you saw them on my fingers They are really beautiful these So these are the best I I had till now I have to say they comes with this little package Here where um Kind of like napkins or with alcohol To wipe any dirt from your nails. They come with the sanding file with this wooden pick and with Amazing scissors. I have to say so first what I'm doing every single time. This is that uh hardest one With this side, uh, you can get off any kind of acrylic. Uh, it will sand anything this size the side of the sanding Sending sanding pile. It's that soft one Which is make your nail very smooth. So every single time when I'm making my nails. I'm smoothing my nails Just a little bit. It doesn't have to be like you will take your nails to you know parchment paper To tissue paper like like totally thin. No not at all just um wipe anything or Sand anything you have on your nails if you had nails uh fake nails Either acrylic or gel Before so sand it down And then every single time it's good, especially with these it's good if you will take uh wipes Wet wipes something Without oil you need to Wipe off any oil any grease you have on your on your nails That's crucial to make sure these will hold Because my nails are really fragile. I'm using tips Last time I had those french tips those white ones, but these They do have beautiful pattern and I don't want to break that pattern with French nails or french tips. So I'm gonna be using these clear ones Uh, I do have glue for nails Here this one. It's really good So I'm gonna prepare my nails. Uh, now I'm gonna Kind of try to catch anything what shouldn't be there. Then I'm gonna be using 99.9 alcohol This is alcohol, which I am using for craft as well And for cleaning my nails. It's the best one So I'm gonna be using that alcohol Spray it on wipes and then clean my nails So I do have prepared here My left and right hand To get it glued And it's kind of easy, you know Apply the glue on the bottom of your Tip And then just place it and hold for a second The best is to Do one hand cut the nails. I mean cut those tips Do other hand And again cut those tips In the size you need So I I do have those nail tips done What I'm doing I think every time when I'm placing those fake tips I'm sanding them a little bit Because what I noticed if I will sand them just a little bit not too much And wipe it again with that alcohol ink. These are holding much much better And much much longer So I just sanded it with that softened Softened side It doesn't have to be ruined So I kind of sand them all and wipe it off again with that alcohol And the application of these is kind of easy, but you have to be Precise. I'm not sure how to explain it Do not flink it Something like that There is so many ways how you can place it from here To the end you can place it from the side to the side. So it depends How big tip you will take and how big fingers you have I'm always placing those tips or those Gel strips a little bit from the end of my nail And just Fold it fold it And then this is crucial You can take it off straight away. You don't have to have it that film On your nail and this is kind of like what will make your nail Hold for a longer time If you will take a time here And you will press it to your nail You should use this wooden pick And with this wooden pick you should kind of press it and stretch it. Don't forget. These are gel nails. So you can stretch them a little bit. You can Make full coverage of your nails with this one. Just play with it. Don't forget to press it especially in on the sides and on the end of your nail So I've been stretching around those tips And I have to say that with the left hand i'm doing better job than with the right hand Just stretch it around your nails To make sure you will cover everything. See here. I do have spots, but here this one goes really nicely Like this And now When you are ready, just put your hand And I'm leaving there always two minutes Yeah, I had both of my hands in there two minutes You can do this one, but You can also bend the nail As you can see So, uh, the best is To put the top coat but before you will put the top coat You would need to shape it So i'm gonna cut the nails Take the File and start to shape my nails I have spent some time to To shape the nails. I'm not sure if If is it okay, but it looks okay. They went a little bit yellowish I will see So now that top coat and here Just nice coat especially on the edges Because the edges are getting Lift up Really easily so especially on the edges Put there a nice amount of the top coat and that's all That's the thing i'm doing and place it of course place it to uv lamp And your nails will be done There is so many so many styles And colors and the decorations On these on these uv strips and I have to say That I am feeling all the time that my own nails are getting better I had really terrible nails a long time ago really terrible. So what do you saw how long they are now? That's kind of like miracle and I do believe that it is because I'm not sure you know you you can just stick it. It does have some medical glue or or what And it looks like it's healing my nails. It's making them stronger slowly, but it's it makes them stronger So that's all i'm doing with my nails I can do acrylics. I can do Classical gel nails even on my hands. I can do that. But since I found these I'm not gonna do anything else because this is really fast easy It doesn't I don't have to spend hours to create my nails. So it's it's a really best choice And here for everyone who loves to create their own Christmas decorations Uh, two years ago. I actually made this video which I found recently in my In my computer. So I'm gonna kind of like walk you through. I'm gonna cut it A little bit because it was such a long video I was inspired by Pinterest with that the bed spring Craft and I did many things two years ago and I also created snowmen It was inspiration by Feichig youtube channel I will put that link for that channel down below go to have a look And I have to say I did enjoy it. You maybe saw the snowman under or This year christmas tree. I did used styrofoam ball I think it does have eight centimeters in diameter And then I did used one bed spring first what I did I coated that styrofoam ball with bindex. It's It works kind of like glue and then I coated that styrofoam ball with my snow or sand glitter sand That's the mix of white aquarium sand and iridescent glitter I left that ball to dry and then I went to decorate the spring So I took again that bindex. I coated all that bed spring with bindex because it works like a glue and then I dip it in my mix of weathering powder a rustic weathering powder and Cinnamon that's my homemade mix. It looks it makes beautiful rusty look So I dipped all my that spring into this powder mix And then I coated that spring one more time with that bindex glue To make sure that everything will hold nicely here. You can see How beautifully it looks as a rusty Then I cut it from cardboard three pieces which will make a hat lately Two circles one large one that will be for bottom of the hat One smaller one that will be for top of the hat And kind of like curved strip, which will be Like body of the hat that large circle. I covered with Denim fabric from both sides because that will be visible from both sides And those other two pieces I covered with same fabric just from one side because you know inside it will be invisible Once I had all pieces covered with fabric I glued them together to make hat. It wasn't too hard to make it. You will see that in minute Yeah, here you can see I did used hot glue because it dries really fast I left on all pieces a little bit of the fabric around because Denim Can be distressed really easily distressed. So it looks more vintage And Once I had the glue that top hat all together. I took black painting And I used black acrylic paint to change the color of that hat to make it more vintage and more suitable for my snowman I also needed to create nose for my snowman. So I used cotton pads and baby but Those cotton pads are made from two plates. So I split that one cotton pad On one half. I applied that binded because it does work like a glue I wrapped it around that cotton bud and then with that other half I filled this shape of nose to make it more fluffy and full and I filled those pieces With that binded glue to make sure that everything will hold nicely once all was filled with That cotton and the nose shape was the way I wanted. I applied that binded outside Kind of like cover all that nose with that binded to make it strong And make sure it will hold in that shape For coloring of my nose. I did use two colors yellow and red and I mixed kind of like orange color To make sure that the nose will looks like carrot It was easy to do. It was really fun to do. I do remember that That I made so many noses like this and I wanted to make so many snow snowmans like this, but somehow I didn't add at that time But this was really fun to do for the eyes of the snowman. I did use beads. I had the black kind of like flower beads and As a bulb of eye, I did use just pins and I colored them with the black acrylic paint to make it Kind of like those, you know black coal eyes Then I started to put the head of the snowman together If you will notice I Cut it a little bit of that snowball or that styrofoam ball Make it flat to make sure that the hat will hold properly For gluing all parts. I did use uhu glue because that was wonderful glue It was holding everything nicely and for the gluing those pins And flower beads. I did use hot glue gun Then I glued the carrot nose On the right spot and then I glued inside also those eyes And the head of my snowman was done From the one inch circles. I glued together Buttons for the body of my snowman These buttons or these circles. I did paint it with first brown acrylic paint And then on the top I added also the red acrylic paint to make it like a vintage red Kind of like smashed and distressed buttons These buttons I glued on the body of that spring Bad spring body using hot glue. It was holding really nicely. It's actually holding till today really well So I did glued always one button from the bottom one button from the top And with this I decorated full body of my snowman Once I had this done. I used yuta string and I kind of created a bed for the head of my snowman Then I With using hot glue. I also added The jingle bell using yuta string and on the top of the hat I added some little decorations And that's all my sharing for today. I hope you did enjoy sneak peek into my Christmas preparation. I'm so happy that that boxing bag worked out the way I kind of wished for I had to start so early just because I wasn't sure if I will be successful And if this wouldn't work I will have to came up with some other idea and I didn't know what I I can do In our home So thank you so much to all of you who stayed with me Till now and who watched me to create a little things for our christmas I hope you did enjoy it and I hope you had a fun Maybe I did inspire you to create some of your decorations. I hope you are ready for a first advent week Weekend it's this sunday. So first candle should be light up. I wish you all a beautiful weekend Happy preparation for christmas, and I hope I will see you soon