DIYing VIRAL Christmas Decor + GENIUS Decorating Hacks🎄

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to make this recreatable for you so I actually ordered some tablecloths these are satin tablecloths they do come in different colors I actually have the red colorway right here it kind of probably maybe comes up a little bit more pink on camera but it's so pretty and look at like the satin it's really nice they're $11 a tablecloth and they cover a pretty large table but I thought we can use this as the fabric for the base of our bows how I'm thinking this going to be done is I'm going to be using one tablecloth for the bow portion on top and then another tablecloth for like the strands coming out of the bow I'm going to pop these in the dryer quickly to get the wrinkles out and then we can get to crafting you can see how much better it already looks I put it in there for like 2 minutes and I folded it in half I'm actually going to cut about I'd say like 8 in off of one of our tablecloths because that's going to be the center part of our bow so I'm just going to chop off some put this aside for a sec this large piece here is going to be our bow I'm going to make sure that the satin side of the fabric is against the table because we are going to be adding some chicken wire in the center of this to structure it here's the chicken wire I got this at Lowe's it was like $10 for the chicken wire so I think this bow will cost us around $30 I'm going to go ahead folding in the other direction and then I'm hoping that this will meet up and I can glue them together perfect this is going to be rolled down the length and then the satin fabric is going to be hot glued together just like that the width of our bow here is going to actually be the width of whatever chicken wire that you're using glue them together so add a bead it doesn't have to be perfect either because I feel like the looser the fabric is the more of like that flowy satiny look it's going to [Music] have now we will connect our ends in the [Music] Middle with the 8 in piece that we cut off earlier I am going to just use this as the center of the bow flip this around and then hot glue this on the back side look how good this looks you guys this is exactly what I was going for you probably can't see this but I have some just white floral wire um just any wire that you have I'm actually going to just kind of string this through the backs side of our bow you can just pierce it through my wire attached and we are going to put this in the tree does it look large and in charge it's very large yes okay I need to take a look I haven't seen it yet does it look astronomical it's actually quite cute yeah I like it looks like a pillow we have half of our bow the largest component you can also reshape this if you'd like cuz it has that chicken wire inside and now I'm going to create the kind of pieces that fall from the bow to make it look like a fully tied bow with our second tablecloth I'm actually going to cut this just directly in half longwise one of our ribbon ends I'm just going to use a small piece of wire and just wrap it around like the cluster at the top just like this and just wire this under the backside of our bow you can just do a little drape we're going for Grecian we're going for coet and gorgeous Vibes so cute is that [Music] sheep look how freaking cute this bow turned out please don't look at my internet down there I just focus on the bow look look how cute you guys it literally looks like a silk pillow almost um I probably could go back through here and do a little steaming if I wanted to but I love how the tablecloth actually drapes on the branches and it's also really nice cuz you can kind of like adjust it and tweak it as you'd like to here's a look at it kind of pulled back look how cute it looks we're also figuring out the lights up here they're not working at the moment but do not worry cuz it just I mean honestly I'm staring only at the bow so I love it it looks so oh good before jumping into our next project I want to give a big shout out to our sponsor 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this one is so cute I've been loving seeing these across social media and these are creating little gingerbread houses out of the $5 little wood houses that are currently on sale at Michaels the ones that are on sale at Michaels are actually like these little Christmas themed houses and they're currently $4.99 this one is the Santa's workshop but they have a bunch of different styles of wood houses and I've been seeing people across social media turn these into gingerbread houses and it looks so much fun use puffy paint we're going to paint them Brown it's a really simple project and I also grabbed this one which this one is a wooden bird house so this was not part of like the $5 ones however I think this could be such a cute gingerbread house as well I'm mix a bunch of this with just some of this oh that'll be a gorgeous gorgeous gingerbread kind of want to start off with the little Workshop house so I'm going to give this a full coat of our brown paint to start so the white puff paint is going to be our icing and then this brown paint is going to be our [Music] gingerbread here's this one and Marie is actually over here painting another one oh wait am I doing that I don't know which camera to look at going to be using this tulip puffy paint this is just in the color white we couldn't find it actually at any stores locally I have a feeling it's because this is a viral project right now like super viral so many people are recreating this it's actually really cute how it kind of looks like icing too like the texture of it looks really nice this is a little harder to decorate than I thought oh but you want to know what could be cute is like to outline our little sign okay then I'm going to do it also has like some pre-printed details in there that you can also follow so that's kind of [Music] fun highly hanging cross the door neighbor singing TS of your it's so close hardly can wait waking up on chrristmas children dream without a care the season everywhere so come home there's no better place waking up look how cute this turned out I am obsessed with this little gingerbread house project it looks so good and I feel like there's a bunch of stores that actually sell these little gingerbread house like Decor pieces I think anthropology sells something similar to this but we crafted this for probably around like $7 of material in terms of paint and the Little House figurine itself I think I might like time lapse this one and share the process of doing this one too but I love how this looks and it has like a little light inside as well I think look how [Music] cute bells are rocking to The Chet no nothing else is the same waking up on Christmas Day waking up on [Music] Christmas [Music] Day we are now going to dive into a project that isn't necessarily a viral DIY project however I feel like every store has a version of this around Christmas time my shop last year had a version of this and it was one of the first items to sell out in the holiday shop which by the way if you have not checked out the holiday store over on loone fox.com you guys you have to check it out because we have so much freaking holiday stuff this year ornaments garlands wreaths everything last year we had this brass picture frame ornament and I'll pop it up on the screen it was such a favorite and I know stores like anthropology and a bunch of holiday shops online have very similar picture frame ornaments and I figured why not make our own because I thought it would be cute to make a bunch of them and then be able to put little photos in them you can even put small tiny paintings in them if you wanted to I actually ended up ordering these resin molds on Amazon and you get a bunch of options in one little pack and these are the perfect size for like little ornaments and then I also got a pack of resin this is the epoxy resin Fast cure so this should be a faster cure let's mix equal parts of the resin with hardener once your mixture is all mixed I'm just going to pour them into our molds very carefully and let them Harden [Music] it is now the next day and I'm going to go ahead and take our resin out of the molds and see how these turned out pop out so so easy it's kind of satisfying who this one is going to be good I can just tell one's out I have this little one the detail on this one is so good I love the square shape that is so cute look at that one it like reveals the detail the S this one's stunning wow this one is so pretty I love this one oh my gosh it's like art newvo with seashells on the sides and a little seahorse on the top the really nice thing about having the molds too is you could make a ton of these so until your mold decides it wants to break one day you can make an unlimited amount of these ornaments which is so fun we're just going to start off by painting these black because I want them to kind of look like antiqu ornaments so I'm going to go in with black so that it's in the deepest parts of the ornament and then we're going to brush a gold over top honestly going to haphazardly paint these black you probably could spray paint them too it' probably be [Music] quicker they C black is on all of our frames now so we can go in and do our rubb and buff which is going to make them gold this is in the antique gold color I'm going to go in with like a little detail brush like this and just go right into the rubb and buff and paint this right over the top of our black sections but you can kind of go a little lighter because you want the black paint color to sit underneath [Music] I have a few old art books that I like to pull Pages out of sometimes and utilize them and so I think I'm actually going to use this one here just going to go ahead and place over the top my little frames and then cut them out of course you could put photos of whatever you want inside of these but I think I want to do like little oil paintings and hang them on a mini tree [Music] radio up and the blinds put down you love it when nobody's around I want to call out B town but you bite my lip don't make a sound I'll be down if I'm leaving without you [Music] these look so good look how cute these little tiny painting ornaments turned out and I wasn't even planning on them to be paintings at first they were just kind of frame ornaments but they turned into little oil paintings and I think they turned out so cute I feel like you can even make these custom as little Christmas gifts if you wanted to or something else I was thinking is hanging this off of like a stocking with like a little name in it and using it like a little name tag or even using these as like gift tags I know that'd be a lot of work but could be a cute idea uh but I love these and I'll link all the supplies for you guys below this next project we're working on is actually one that I have seen going viral across Tik Tok mainly and I think I actually saw it on Instagram as well but mainly short form content and that's actually using a pool noodle to create a centerpiece for your table and I've seen a bunch of people do this but one lady she did it and she bent the pool noodle in half and then stuck these wine glasses in it and and then zip tied them together and added like floating candles in the wine glasses but I really want to do it with taper candles and I also really want to make one for fall because I'm actually hosting Thanksgiving this year so I figured why don't I create a fall one and then kind of keep in mind that you can do the same exact thing for Christmas time for our pool noodle hack to create a centerpiece you're going to use two pool noodles and as many candlesticks as you'd like just make sure they have a flat bottom on them because we are actually going to be zip tying the pool noodles around the candle stick so you can opt for one pool noodle and just cut it down the center if you want to do less flowers or you can do two pool noodles like I did and then just zip tie it every other Candlestick to make sure that everything stays nice and in place and once it's all zip tied together you are at the fun part where you get to decorate the entire thing now also keep in mind you can totally paint your pool noodle if you want to paint it like brown like the table or whatever color you want to paint it as a base but for this tutorial I really wanted to just share with you like just straight off the bat covering them fully with stems and my stems here I actually got them from two wreaths that I picked up at Target on sale they have a bunch of fall stuff on sale currently since we are going into holiday and I found these two wreaths and I just pulled all the leaves out of the wreath bases and it created the perfect amount of stems and also the leaves were like the perfect length for the centerpiece that I created and I just repeated the entire process going down the whole entire length and I really wanted mine to be grand especially for the purpose of this video to share with you kind of how cool you can actually make this and how big you can make it the other great thing too is that you can actually transport this really easily so you can like put it on top of your fireplace mantle or put it on the dining table and kind of move it around but just add all your finishing touches some additional stems a few candlesticks to finish it off and that is how I created this really cute pool noodle Center piece which is ideal for Thanksgiving for Christmas dinner whatever occasion you have coming up we have made it to our final project in this video and this one is more so like a hack compared to the other ones which I feel like were more projects this one actually is a few different gift dropping tools that I want to put to the test and actually see if they make gift dropping any easier I've seen these on social media for the past couple years when it comes to Christmas time and I've never tried them out myself so I want to give them a go and the first one is actually the e.l.f cutting tool and I was served a billion ads for this last year like it is such an ingenious tool and I think that the person that created this like was a young guy and he made so much money from this tool but then also I saw this one and you clip this to the edge of your table then it actually holds the paper roll in the middle and then you can also add your tape to it so it just makes the process easy and I'll also link them for you guys below so if they do work you can pick them up I want to start off first with the one I really want to try which is the elf tool the nice thing about using this is it kind of keeps your entire roll intact so you slip it over the roll like this and then you would ass essentially slide it on down and it just cuts a absolute perfect strip of paper every time like I think that is absolutely crazy and then you pull out how much you want and it holds it for you and then you kind of pull it down flip it and slice that's just so nice and convenient and I also know like let's say this is the only tool you have you can also go back through and even cut down like this paper to be a little smaller this is absolutely a 10 out of 10 and I know a lot of people were creating dupes of this um but this one is the patented version and I'll link it for you guys it's the little e.l.f this next product comes with two clips and they actually attach to the edge of your table so I would just CLI one on like this put a roll in actually move this just a tad slide in your paper and then youd clip on the other side side and then look you have this nice little gift dropping station so you can pull your paper out and then you can also take just a roll of Scotch tape and clip it on the side and it will hold I love how this just allows you to roll the paper out it just keeps it nice and tidy at the end and if you had a bunch of presents to wrap I feel like this would be really nice and come in handy and I like how you can also just clip it on the end of the table and that concludes today's video of testing and trying out viral holiday DIYs and I hope that you guys liked this one and maybe one or even four or even five of these projects you might want to recreate for your home this year or to pick up to make your life easier such as a gift dropping hack so let me know in the comments down below if there was a project in this video that you liked or if there's one that you're going to be recreating I would love to know I cannot fully decide if I'm going to be keeping the bow on the tree down here or not it was more so like a creation that I wanted to do because I've had a lot of requests for it I've been seeing a lot of people wanting to do large bows on their tree this year but I think I think I might go ahead and actually transform that tree into like the holiday shop tree because we have so many cute ornaments over on the website and I want to just put them all on that tree over there until then I will catch you guys over on Instagram and Tik Tok make sure to follow me there both are Lone Fox home you can also subscribe here on the channel for brand new videos every single week and I will catch you in my next one bye guys [Music] [Music]