Decorate With Me For The 4th Of July!

[Music] hey guys welcome back to another decorate with me video the fourth is always one that I'm excited about because it kind of kicks off the holidays for the rest of the year so I always love when it's time to bust out my fourth of July Decor I wanted to start out in the family room because this was the room I was the most excited to decorate but these buntings they are literally being held up by thumbtacks and a prayer and I'm being for real right now I had nothing else to attach them with so I'm crossing my fingers that they will stay up so far so good it's been a couple days and they have not fallen down yet anyway I will link what I can in the description these buntings were just Amazon finds and they were super affordable so I will have these linked at the top of my description just so they're really easy to find [Music] so I had a different picture sitting right here but my mom actually gave me this last night and this is a drawing that my great grandma did years and years ago um so my mom's Grandma my great grandma Yeah my mom's mom but I thought this was perfect to put in this Frame and to put it on the shelf so anyway I love this for a million reasons but especially because it's from my grandma it's pretty cool [Applause] moving on to the breakfast nook I know this is a favorite of all of you guys um for each season but something I always like to do is use treats and jars that have the color scheme of whatever the holiday is during Christmas I love to do candy canes or those oldfashioned Christmas candies and that's just a simple way to decorate I always like to use practical items or just things in jars and things that we are actually using or eating [Music] and then this container I actually found at an antique store around Christmas time so I've been holding on to it to use for the fourth and I was really excited about this find but as far as decorating goes for the four there's not much creativity here it's mostly just me shoving Flags in about every square inch of my house I feel like I overdo it I definitely overdo it every year between the flags and the buntings there's probably like a thousand of them in my house I kind of just like to put them all over the place [Music] standing underneath the lights look to each other's eyes tired snowflakes are coming down collaps into water when they hit the ground I hear the sound of empty streets yesterday is G sleep so all that's left is you and me I can promise you're the only thing I say hold my hand and hear the words I say close your eyes and let us Fade Away build a secret place for you and me let our minds be caught up in a dream [Music] quiet voices in the night time is running out of sight lonely wind is passing by tries to carry all the Whispers that it finds the walls are listening when we talk making Echoes as we walk there's no one left but you and me it's like made our place that only we can see it hold my hand and hear the words I say close your eyes and let us fade away build a secret place for you and me let our minds be caught up in [Music] standing underneath the lights look into each other's eyes there's no one left but you and me it's like a made up place that only we can see [Music] I wanted to include this re well it's not a recipe but this cake that I make every 4th of July in this video because if you want to try it out this year you're going to want to be prepping for it in advance so I know I've shown this on YouTube I created a real about it last year so I'm sure or if you followed for a while you've already seen this cake but it's just so cool that I have to make it every year and I love to share it with you guys so we're going to make it again all you're going to need I would get three cake mixes two of just your basic white cake mixes and then you're also going to want a red velvet so three total and we are going to turn this into a flag Mario is my little assistant today and he's going to help us make some cake okay so we'll let's get the the white cake mix first first can you dump in the [Music] water all right woo we're living life on the edge okay good job one one two three three is all we need okay pour it in wow good job let's put it down push the button good job [Music] I'm first making the white mix so I'm just going to split the batter in half and you're going to want two of the same size circle pans grease them up really well and again I'm just going to split the batter right in [Music] half when it comes to the blue I'm going to make this a little thicker so it will be more than like it'll probably be 34 of the batter rather than splitting it half and half because you need the blue cake to be thicker than the other cakes that looks good and we will pop this in the oven so now we have our three white cakes our two red and our one blue and you probably can tell this is a little bit thicker plus I'm going to be removing the the bump off of these cakes so now the next step is I'm going to take one of the white cakes and one of the red cakes and we're going to cut some circles out I just removed all of the tops of the cake so these are completely flat they're a lot thinner now and so now that these are thinner this is about twice as thick and now we're going to cut out the circles so I'm just going to use this as my stencil and then cut around and we're only going to be keeping the inside of this red piece I usually like to do it two times around make sure that it really got cut all the way through and then we're going to just get rid of this part I'm trying to film with multiple cameras and I forgot to hit record during this part so I kept the outside Circle for the blue the inside circle of one red and one white and then we have two regular white cakes and one red so now we are just going to stack this together hopefully this makes sense and it's going to turn into a black we started with one of the white layers then I have a red white now it's time to stick this one on top and then we are going to stick this one and this one inside of the center [Music] he