 Well hello and welcome to the vlog! It is still vlogs giving. I didn't actually vlog anything yesterday because I kind of just took the day off. I had all these grandiose plans to do all these things and I got some things done but I just decided to like take a chill pill and do nothing for the rest of the day because I was pretty busy up until about noon. So yeah, but I am currently in the car, hence the seat belt situation. I'm actually in my garage and I'm about to leave. But I figured I would check in, say hello, explain where I'm going and all of that. So I didn't partake in any Black Friday shopping. I actually bought a couple of things online that I just needed. Nothing like exciting or I don't even think I even got a sale on any of this stuff because it was just like necessity stuff. But I am gonna go over to Maple Grove. It's gonna take me about an hour to get there. It's like 430-ish, something like that and I like to either shop like really early in the day or like really late at night. So this is like my really late at night situation because let's be honest, I want to sleep in, you know what I'm saying? And the dog actually let me sleep in today to like seven. It was amazing. So I am gonna get going there. I have a whole bunch of places to go to because Maple Grove is like the mecca of all of the shoppings. So I am gonna go over there and run a couple places. I'll show you guys like a hall or something when I get home. I will be bringing my camera along with two so if it's like super super dead I might be able to vlog a little bit inside of some of the shops but no guarantees because you just never know. And you know it's like really people outside right now with all of the you know Black Friday extravaganza. So I'm gonna get going so I can get to Maple Grove in a normal time frame and I think I think that only there's only like one store that closes at eight so I'm gonna go there first and then Mosey along on my way. So I won't get back till pretty late at night but that's okay because tomorrow is a day off too so woohoo yay Sunday. All right I'm gonna go and I'll check in with you guys in just a minute. So I'm at Target and it's super late at night. It's like nine after 9 p.m. and nobody's here but while I was out earlier Jody from Life's Organized Chaos. I'll leave her links below. Sent me a text message and was like hey since you've got a target like every day can you check your target and see if they have these like little houses. I'm looking for four so it's like oh heck yeah plus I was already planning on coming to Target today anyways. Hold on I need to go down this aisle. We're trying to make a turn but my local Target only has two so I'm gonna check in St. Cloud where I work sometime next week for the other two but let me show you the houses. They're like the dollar spot playground whatever that thing is called so let me show you what it is. So here are the houses in question and I think they're like you know there's like a hole in the back so you can put like a little tea light candle or something plus I needed batteries. So anyway that's what's happening here. I think I'm gonna go look for some other things because I've got a few other things on my list and if there's nobody in the aisle I'll show you what I'm gonna buy because this is like creepy. Oh there's somebody down there I gotta go. So fun fact about me I see this like this thing from threshold every time I come here and I'm always like I want to buy that but then I never do because I don't have any place to put it and I'm afraid to put anything on my walls anyways so it just sits here waiting for me to buy it every single time I come here. Pretty sad huh? Because we all know that Target needs more of my money right guys? Seriously but like they have such cute stuff like I've been looking online. I can't do this right at this thing. I think that's really cute too. It's like totally like my no-color aesthetic. I'm like hunched over my cart all funny. Yeah I feel like I need to whisper like a baby. Oh there's somebody up ahead. I look weird. Okay gotta go. All right I just snuck down this aisle and I am not gonna buy this thing like this is what it is but isn't that so pretty? It's a big old lamp plus I like just decorated my Christmas tree today so oh it's so pretty. I love like the it's like mercury glass kind of it's like that crackle with the gold and the silver. Gotta mix those metals guys. Gotta mix those metals but a hundred bucks not too shabby for as expensive as that thing looks. Ooh look at all the holiday washy. Got some pretty blues snowflakes glitter. Here's their green bin with some socks, collie berries and some green. Yeah I'm pretty sure that I like have all of these. I think there's some just like plain rolled and a bear. The bear's watching the tape. So y'all I like candy but check this thing out. I guess big is my face. Why would you need this in your life? What is this? They're telling me to get the hell out. It's 8.8 ounces of chocolate. Why would someone need that? Thanks gosh. Oh update found a whole bunch of houses in the um holiday section. So let me show you. But blimey look at all those. I'm glad I wandered around for a while so Jody's really excited that she gets all her houses. All right whoa you see target back there? Yeah I made it out of target with about five minutes to spare. Got a bunch of stuff but yeah I needed like batteries and I got a couple gift boxes that I needed that were like smallish sizes. Um yeah just like random things I needed anyways and I think I'm gonna go grocery shopping like sometime next week. I was gonna go shopping at target but my target like my local target isn't a super target so they don't really have like the best produce so I typically like to go to like an actual grocery store for that because the produce isn't the best and I feel like it's a lot more expensive so I mean it's convenient I'm here but I'll just wait plus I have a gift card that the company that I work for gave me for a local grocery store so I think I'm just gonna use that next time I go so yeah but anyway I'm gonna get home and as soon as I get home I will start the halls giving. Is that what this should be called? I don't know I was kind of thinking about it today and I'm like should it be called halls giving or should it be called shops giving or shoppings giving? I don't know I guess it just depends on what the mood strikes me when I actually upload this so let's get home and then also I want to show you what I worked on yesterday morning slash early afternoon I was kind of like posting on social media like a mad woman so I'm going to show you that when I get home too so anyway I'll be home in just a second three two one so this is what just happened Doyle's very excited about everything in here he found the one thing that's well actually everything's not for him but that's really not for you bud no such a goofball so I went to home goods marshals target uh William Sonoma and also world market so I'm gonna unpackage all of this and then I will show you all of the things that I got because Doyle obviously wants to see everything he's like investigating every single bag none of this is for you bud I know it's so hard being a dog I know I'm sorry buddy none of it's for you I don't think he approves but he's very excited that it's on the ground I must say okay sorry about the weird placement so this is all the stuff I got at marshals we'll start over here these are all like squishy like squishy bottomed hard sold slippers these are a medium seven to eight I'm actually kind of sliding these like for my mom when she comes to visit the extra large my brother's like in between a 12 and 13 shoe so those are for him when he comes to visit also there were these the Laura Ashley this one is a five to six these are for Isabel when she comes to visit there's smushy and then these ones are like a nine and a half to ten and a half I believe that Heidi is a nine so these are for Heidi so anyway my floors are quite hard and I'm on a cement slab as well so especially when you're here in the winter it's like really hard on your feet so I'm gonna keep these here they're like for them to wear but if somebody else comes over that's like a five six like they can wear these you know what I mean so I'm just gonna put my front closet also I got some little um little like grippy guys I got actually two pillows like this I figured I just saw one because it's totally redundant and then also I got um two they come in a set of two it's like a little kitchen towel this is going to be for an upcoming giveaway so stay tuned for that and then let's move on to the next store all right so at home goods let's start on the left we got some gift tissue this is pretty neutral there's just some plain white tissue it's really hard to see sorry plain white tissue there's some silver like fleck tissue and some gold fleck tissue so I figured this would be good like a year round and then I got some star plates which I thought would be nice like for dessert you know like at the holidays or really just whenever also got another gift box a star box and then this was kind of a shape I was looking for as well so it's good to have on hand obviously I'm gonna use this one for the holidays this one I could really use anytime and I like that it's like the craft paper I needed a bundt pan because I don't have one because I'm not a good baker but I am going to be baking something for christmastime so I needed one and I needed one to be like a non-aggressive color and there was this like champagne one so I was like yep that's coming home with me also for the holidays um I got these these are a set of six just napkins and they were only $6.99 I actually went to world market before this and those ones there I think were $9.99 for a pack of six so I wanted to kind of compare the prices and I got two sets of them just in case they get dirty I also got this bin hold on let me show you the actual thing it says kitchen kitchen spaces a bin with lid I actually want to use this it says you can use it in the fridge but I'm going to use it in the freezer actually so I'm going to use it with oh these I don't have like an ice cube tray so there's two of them in here and I figured this would be a great place to like store it when you're having people over or having a party or something and um you know the bin could be littered and then also you can stack things on top of it too also they had two of my favorite containers there so I can't like I just can't pass it up you guys um this is a great container I take these to work all the time favorite and then also this one's like a double one so you could put like something in one and something in the other if it's something like liquidy I wouldn't do that but say if you have like carrots in one and like broccoli in the other and you have like some ranch or hummus or something that'd be perfect for that I got this little friend this little friend is going under the tree for somebody but I thought he was so cute so cute hello I don't know what we should call him he kind of looks like a Brutus what do you guys think Brutus I don't know but I like his stripey belly it's very fun all right let's move Brutus out of the way he's causing trouble and then I got this really cute like footed bowl very very inexpensive let me see how much it was yep 14.99 not bad at all made in Portugal it's got a little bit of detailing with like the little scallops on it or like grooves almost and I thought that that would look really nice like during the holidays you could either put like ornaments in it um what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna use it for food so I think what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna put like potatoes or something like really big that needs to go in it because it's kind of cool that's like higher you know and then I'm gonna obviously have like some food that's lower so I don't know I just thought that would be a nice little addition so that's it for home goods let's move on to the next store okay so here's actually the next two stores um I'm combining them because I only got a couple of things at every store so at William Sonoma I just got the one thing I just got the hot chocolate the year there wow hot chocolate it is delicious um I love this they also have a couple of other versions but their other one that I really like is the hot chocolate with like peppermint or like candy cane or something in it so good but I figured I'd go with the classic because I never finished them but they're delicious and it's like hold on let me open it and I'll show you what it is it's like legit a bag of chocolate shavings so you can mix it with water but you should mix it with hot milk and it's like Zabalm.com so that's what I got over at William Sonoma and then right next to William Sonoma is World Market I got these little bamboo knot picks because I am planning on making some more derby kind of things for the holidays and it was really close to the utensils that I needed to get um if you guys know over here sorry it's like a hot mess that's all my garbage by the way um my utensil bin has a bunch of these in here already that I got from World Market this is another part of the giveaway so um I don't know when the giveaway is gonna happen I think maybe around the holidays maybe after I don't know I'm like compiling a few different things so um I'm not really sure when that's gonna happen but it's got like a little like silicone baster brush it also has a spatula and then like a little flipper and then a skimmer as well so I figured that would be good also has the stainless steel handles there's quite a few that I saw out in the world today that has had rose gold and I was like ew no thank you we're going stainless steel y'all so that's it for these two stores let's go to Target all right so you guys already saw the houses from Target so I'm not gonna show that anymore because they're like nicely packaged away for Jody but I got some batteries I needed 12 double A's for all of that garland that you see actually has lights in them but I haven't lit them up yet so I needed 12 of those there's the paper hey Doyle he's looking all sad so yeah got 12 or actually I got 20 of those so I'll just put the extras in my little junk drawer I got this little ornament because that looked cute and why not and then I got this bad boy this is from soap and glory if I remember right right yeah there we go flake away I actually just finished up my sugar scrub in the shower today so I wanted another sugar scrub I figured I would try this one and see how I like it got some doves for work on Monday I got a couple of these boxes I don't like if I get more than one I just kind of show one because what's the point got one of these boxes of four some holiday gifts I just needed like a smaller size and then I got these the cheez-it extra toasty I heard that these are really good from living with Landon on Instagram so I'm gonna try them because I love me some cheez-its and I usually don't like the other flavors like the spicy ones and stuff so I would like extra toasty though so maybe I'll try those out later on this upcoming week so that is all the stuff that I got you guys okay I'm finally done with the haul like the mega crazy haul now I have to put all that trash in the corner right there in the garbaggio I took out all of the packaging of all the things that I have actually shown you guys already so yeah that's kind of what I was doing in the middle of that because it kind of drives me nuts to just have like things around well I always have things around but let's be real like a disaster but today I put up the tree you want to see do I want to show you there's the fde tree 2017 bye buddy I don't have a tree topper yet I do have one sitting here but it like doesn't work with it so yeah so seven footer from target I will post a link of which one it is down below for you guys this dog is like all sorts of excites I haven't put up my new pillows yet they're actually on the floor right behind me but I'll put those somewhere soon because I have to sorry if I'm making you guys like really dizzy this mess over here is gonna go away tomorrow probably because I'm not gonna mess with it tonight I'm gonna put up the chairs and the table that was over by the tree there that makes sense so I'm kind of like swapping some things around but closer look at the tree if you guys are interested should we like some fancy holiday music over this or something I did however post on instagram the kind of music I was listening to while I put the tree together and um there was a lot of people that messaged me back saying that that was hilarious and that I guess they like me more now so I don't know I was listening to some um gangster rap because that just gets me motivated so if you guys ever listen to pandora radio and you like gangster rap like if you don't sorry um but if you do you should check out the channel hip hop barbecue it's amazing and it's hip hop bbq not like a barbecue written out like barbecue sauce so yeah it's it's pretty good if you like what they mostly have is like late 90s like mid to late 90s and early 2000s rap so yeah it's really really good so I listened to that once in a while or if I have like a really large project like that that's what I listened to I didn't listen to christmas music and there's more stuff that went up over there put up the stockings myself and doyle if you're wondering why there's two stockings doyle gets a stocking too right bud he always gets everything yes he does oh he's so excited about life right now oh yeah yeah but it is like crazy late it's like 1040 and like the eternal debate do I eat do I not eat do I upload this footage do I wait till tomorrow I don't know oh I wanted to show you guys what I was working on yesterday okay sorry I'm like so scared of brand right now and my kitchen is a mess but that's just gonna have to wait so let me flip you around and let me show you what I was working on yesterday okay so these things are what I was working on yesterday so yeah there is a new collaboration between myself and Catherine over at coffee break planner so I did a video the last video that actually was it the last video I think it's the last video that posted on my channel so if you guys want to go back you can take a look but yeah there are these cute cute desks um these green half boxes so um we're gonna do or not we but Catherine did a Emily's home and work or work and home bundle I can't remember which one's first but you'll see it I think it's like tagged or like on the top of the page when you go over to coffee break planner I'll leave a link below as well as right now everything's 40% off for the holiday weekend as well as cyber Monday so the sale goes till cyber Monday if you enter in the code Emily 40 at checkout you get 40% off of your order and then also if you already if you order a $40 or more after the discount is applied you can put in the code free ship 40 and then that's always active by the way so if you ever spend more than 40 at coffee break planner you can always do that so you can do two codes one for shipping and one for product if that makes sense so anyway in the bundle you actually get two sheets of these um one of these sheets as well so the cute desks I'm like so excited about that also there is an option to customize the desks if you guys can see hold on I'm gonna try to focus this a little bit better there we go um sorry for the glare you guys but um the desk actually has my logo in it like my youtube logo in the monitor which is kind of cute you can do that for a dollar more there it goes the shelves to be completely honest are like my favorite thing like I love the desks like don't get me wrong but like these shelves are like my life I am kind of obsessed with them so you get the plain ones but you can also customize the frame in the center for a dollar more if you'd like and this is how I customized my sheet so it has my logo on some of them and then it also has a silhouette of a sheba which is Doyle so I thought that would look really cute so yeah and then also in the bundle you get a this is my work um sheet you can obviously tell I use these all the time um this is in the bundle as well so that was what I was working on um yesterday morning kind of all morning I feel like social media kind of like took over my life yesterday so yeah but I do have the um like this is all the stuff for the giveaway that I showed in the video so that's all like packed and ready to go but I'm gonna be giving away everything on Sunday at noon central standard time I'm hoping that this video goes live before that so you guys can enter however if for some reason you don't watch it before then or I don't get my little act together prior to then um what you can do is you can still get 40 off at coffee break planner until Cyber Monday 2017 I don't know exactly what like what time it's gonna be closing like what time like Emily 40 won't work anymore but it'll probably be late into the evening um if I'm guessing right so anyway let me show you my planner and how I use these because that's always like the most asked questions so um in the video I did uh like showing all of this I actually put this all in there so it was like a little bit of a plan with me so um here's my work and then also I went to TJ max so yeah and then Friday I put in that I was gonna put up the tree well that didn't happen I actually needed to pull this off and put it right here and then I'm gonna do another one of these because I went like home to core shopping again but I went to a bunch of different places so I think I'm gonna like list all of them underneath the little shelf and then my giveaway ends at noon central standard time at tomorrow so yeah but that is what's good at the fde house right now so I just wanted to show you guys that too so if you're like interested into like what I was doing yesterday it was that it was that I actually tried to like lay down and take a nap to not work um I laid down for like maybe 30 minutes and I just like couldn't stop like interacting with people on the social media so that was that was my issue yesterday which it was totally fine so I was like you know what I'm just gonna like take a break and figure some stuff out I wrapped a couple of packages I have like a million more to go but um if you guys follow me on instagram you would have seen that and also follow me on facebook because I link my facebook and instagram together so you can actually like I share the either videos or images um from instagram to facebook but I don't do any usually I usually don't do any like facebook exclusive images unless I'm doing like a giveaway to be honest so I just I like instagram better but I still see most of the stuff that pops through on facebook so anyway I'm gonna turn my computer on because oh my gosh it's been a long day even though I feel like I haven't done anything but yet I've done like a lot of things so yeah but anyway I'm gonna jet Doyle says goodbye to even though he's doing something back there I don't know what he's up to but um yeah I'm gonna go for today um tomorrow will be the last day of vlogs giving so yeah whoa my computer is like freaking out um so yeah tomorrow will be the last day of vlogs giving so I'm hoping that I can um get everything up like the same day if possible but it just depends on when I actually uh get my poop in a group and uh figure it all out so anyway I'm gonna go for today but thank you guys so much for watching if you have any questions feel free to post them below um you know feel free to subscribe I am here when I'm here and you can always catch me on social media too and those links are down below so hope you guys are having a great day no matter where you are and I will see you guys in the next video bye guys