60% OFF CHRISTMAS Decor Haul | Hobby Lobby Clearance Shopping Spree & DIY Vintage Hacks

I don't know about y'all, but I am still decorating for Christmas. So when I heard Hobby Lobby dropped their Christmas to 60% off, I headed straight over there and I'm bringing y'all with me. I'm gonna show y'all what I got and what I do with it in my home. I would love to have tons of Christmas trees in every room all over my house. So I for sure want to grab some of these. I love these flocked ones right here. They have them with the pots, but I rather this so I could put it in something else like a brass piece or a basket. They're $21.99. So they'd be about $9, 60% off. I like these. They have a very natural look to them and they're gonna be about $10 today. These are some two foot flock trees and these are gonna be about $7 today. I don't really worry about what the bases of the trees look like because I like to thrift my own baskets and brass planters to put the trees in. Look, this is a bigger tree and I put it in a large brass planter. How cute is that? And I absolutely love the way that this tree looks in my house. All of the branches are wired. So I was able to kind of like droop it down over the crock. Only got one of these, but I wish I would have purchased more. I love this blanket in traditional colors. I take these blankets and I use them kind of like a tree skirt. I'll stuff them in a basket. And also don't forget that you can cut them up. So if you had several smaller crocks, you could cut one blanket up and fill tons of different planters. And I'm hoping next year I will have some rockers on my front porch. And I think this blanket will look so cute, just draped over a rocker. I haven't added a lot of hooks to my house yet, but when I do, I'm definitely going to be using some of these just to hang on a hook and add a little pop of Christmas to that room. And of course, you know, you can just use it as a blanket, but I wanted to give y'all some other options. Wait, this would be really cute for a little Christmas photo shoot. This blanket would also look really great just draped on the bench in my foyer as well. And they also have matching rugs in this pattern and pillows as well. I love these red velvet bows. They look great in my decor and this is a great size. They'd be about $5 today. I think the pops of red just look so good on my front porch. A nice, simple wreath with a red bow. And I kind of use it as tree toppers as well. And then y'all already saw how I put it on this basket. I bought some more of these red velvet bows because I would like to add some more wreaths to each of the outside windows on the front of my porch. Kind of like the front door, just a simple wreath, a red bow, and I think that is perfection. These are napkins and table runners, but I want y'all to remember that this is also fabric. So you could turn this into some cute little cafe curtains. You could cut it up and put it in a basket with a Christmas tree. So definitely when you're looking at these items, think of other ways that you can use it. Also, sometimes these double line placemats, you can open it up a little bit and stuff it and turn this into a pillow. These are napkin rings, but they could also be little wreaths so I don't like to change out all my decor, but maybe just add a Christmas ribbon or a wreath to my year round items and bam, it's decorated for Christmas and these are gonna be about $1.50 today. I added a red bow to these mini wreaths and hung them on my trinket trays. I think it is so adorable. I also use them kind of like candle rings. So I put it on top of this riser with a glossy white and gold Christmas figurine and just put the glass cloche right on top. And over here, I just put it on a brass candle holder with a white candle. Y'all know that I love the Santa mugs. I was hoping to grab these at 75% off, but they only have a few left. So I'm gonna be grabbing these today. These are fine, cute Christmas decor, but y'all know I love a vintage old chippy look. So I took these that I just bought and I'm turning them into these. Look at all of the chippiness and the texture. So I'm gonna tell you how I got to this step and then we're gonna do one more thing that's just gonna take it over the top. So the first thing I did was put the Dixie Belle Bonding Boss in a white. I didn't go for full coverage. I just kind of stippled it on because I don't mind if a little bit of the color comes through, but this'll help it stick, since this is a very glossy surface. So I did that first and then I went over it with a layer of Gustavian white milk paint. And that's what gives us this beautiful, flat, textured look. And like I said, I don't mind if there's a little bit of color coming through. Now to make all of the details and the texture really pop, I'm gonna take the Dixie Belle Dirt in the color Earth. It's the brown color. And I'm just going to dust it over the cup. You just dab it on and then kind of just brush off all of the excess. And what's gonna happen is it's going to just settle in all of the little cracks. And texture, and just give it that old kind of chippy look. And I can keep, if I don't want it to look dirty, I'll just keep dusting it. That way it doesn't, you know, get too much on the white paint. It'll basically just settle into all of the texture. I like Tinnity, so I still have more to paint, but I had the idea of putting them in a cloche or an apothecary jar on my kitchen island. I thought that would look really cute. Of course, real vintage ones would be so much better, but every time I find them, I sell them. So I don't have any. And if you can't find any either, go see if you can get some brand new ones at the stores. And then you can just do this technique to them. And then you'll have some cute, little vintage chippy Santa cups. And you can find all of the products to do that on my website, juliesdesignsanddesigns.com. I'll have everything linked in the description for y'all. Since these cups are so small, they would also make really good Christmas ornaments. Can you imagine a tree in a kitchen just filled with these? Big Santa pictures. They are gonna be $8 today, y'all. And you can get the matching Santa cookie jars for $11. These trees are a little bit pricier, but they are actually pre-lit. They're gonna be about $20 today. I think I'm gonna grab one and then try to snack some more at 75% off. I just noticed they have several of these pre-lit trees that have been pulled out of the pot. I'm gonna see if I can get a better price on these because I don't want the pot anyway. So I'm back home and I was opening up my Hobby Lobby haul. And I got these trees for $13, which I was excited about until I realized that I actually need the pot to light these up because the battery pack was at the bottom of the pot. So now I have trees that won't light up, you know, that have lights on them. Honestly, I would have paid a few dollars more for the tree to light up, but I didn't realize that that was gonna be an issue until I got home. So let me know if you can return clearance items to Hobby Lobby because I'd rather return the $13 trees and buy the $20 tree that actually lights up. Sometimes you can find great year-round items as well, like these garden flagpoles. They would be $2.88 today. These might be my favorite small trees. They have such a vintage look for them. They're the perfect size to literally stick in any vignette. And they're gonna be about $2 today. So I'm gonna grab a few of these. It was really easy to pull the bottom off of these trees. And look at that. I feel like it will fit in everything. So I grabbed this little crock out of my kitchen and how adorable is that? So I'm hoping I can score a bunch more of these because I feel like they're just so my style. They're gonna go with all the things I like to sell. And at Christmas time, you know, when I'm selling items, I like to accessorize them and that is so cute. If I didn't already have a bunch of wreaths hanging up here, I think it would be cute to add a Christmas tree to this Demijohn and that one. But I think with the greenery I already have, it would just be a little bit too much. They have tons of garland. Do y'all put garland on your tree? I don't think I ever have. I'm open to it. I just haven't done it. But this garland caught my eye with these little harvest veils. I think this might be cute to add to some like greenery garlands that I have. I'm just gonna have to put some antiquing wax on this to make it more my style. But they're gonna be, I think, $4.50 today. So I'm gonna grab two of these. This stuff is like my secret weapon. You can take anything that is too bright. It doesn't have to be gold. It could be something that is colored and you want it to be darker and more vintage. And you put this Dixie Veil Van Dyke Brown Glaze on it and it just gives it that awesome vintage look. So it just kind of tones it down a little bit. But I mean, there's nothing wrong with this. I have bright gold on as well and I like that. But I've used this Van Dyke Brown Glaze on a lot of the pieces and fixtures around the house. So I feel like it just kind of makes it cohesive and makes everything kind of look similar. I wanted to put a garland in this entryway and I thought the bells would look really cute just kind of hanging down in it. But I don't know, I'm kind of running out of time. So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to complete all the ideas I have for Christmas. These are some brighter gold ornaments that I added the brown glaze to, and I just love this look. Here are some gold ornaments on another tree I have in my house. Why don't y'all go ahead and guess in the comments how many trees I have in my house right now. But I don't like this, they're so bright. But I just decided to put them up and if I have time, I will take them down one by one, add some glaze to them and put them back up. I feel like some of the smaller trees are still a little bit expensive for the size, except for these, they are cute and they're only gonna be about $2.40 today. So this will be another good one to just put anywhere and add a little bit of Christmas. I can maybe even get some little tiny ornaments. I think they have some right here. So you could add some little cute ornaments to these trees as well. Can never have too many crocs. Perfect fit. I grabbed these little ornaments and look, they match perfectly with this vintage tree that I have found at the Goodwill Bins. I guess I did not read the packaging. It's actually a garland. That would look really pretty hanging on this mirror if I put a garland up here, but I already have that wreath. So I'm not going to redo this area since it's kinda done. I'm gonna see if maybe I can just string it on this little tree right here. All right, this is why I don't do garland. I wanna get a bigger tree because I thought it would look better with this garland because the other tree was just a little bit too small, but I cannot, I've been working on this for 10 minutes. I cannot figure out how to make this garland look cute. I just wish it was little ornaments, which I guess I could cut it up and turn it into ornaments, but I don't want to take the time to do that. It's fine. I'm just gonna call it done, move on. That looks pretty good, right? Did I ever show y'all these cute little paper mache Santa boots? I put a bottle brush tree in this one. I probably need to find a little tree to put in that one so you can't see the inside. And then over here, I have a bigger one in a cloche. And actually everything here, except for that tree and that garland I just put on, it is thrifted. So the cabinet, the mirror, and all the cute little accessories, even the candles, even the candles are thrifted. These are toothpick holders, but how adorable would that be with a little bottle brush tree in it? And these you can use to put your Christmas cards in. Don't forget that these little place holders make great little picture holders. I finally found some smaller flock trees. These are only gonna be $2.40 today. And these are the only ones I found like this. So I'm gonna get all three of these. They are already putting out the Valentine's Day decor. Look at these precious little snowmen with their hands up. Adorable. My teenage daughter has some of these trees in her room and they are so beautiful. They have them in lots of different sizes. This is Ryan's room and she has her own tree in here that she decorated all blue and white. So you might recognize some of these from the DIY ornaments I made last year, but she also DIY some of her own for her tree this year. And these are the little glass Christmas trees that we saw at Hobby Lobby. I did thrift these though, but they reminded me of the ones at Hobby Lobby and I think they are so pretty. Oh my gosh, is this not the most precious apron ever? I wish they had it in a child size. I would get me and Wren matching aprons. These little Santa hats are adorable. You can add them to pictures of your kids or even to little figurines to make them Christmassy. You could do the same thing with these little picks. You can just put them around the neck of your figurines that you have out all year long and they are ready for Christmas. And I think I need some of these little minty Santas for my trinket trays. My son Brandon drew these birds for me when he was six years old. So of course they come to every house with us. I will always have them up. I love them, but I thought it'd be adorable to just add some little Christmas hats to them for Christmas. And I think it'd be funny if you had some pictures of your kids, you could maybe add a little Santa hat to them. Y'all try it out and send me a picture. Add one little guy right there. And this one I think will go right there. The third little guy, I want to put him in my foyer. I have this precious little brass magnifying glass. And there he is. Here's some other minis that I grabbed that I guess I didn't film. And I actually already used these, look. I made a little garland to put right here in this crock with the Christmas tree. And I haven't used these yet, but I think they're really cute if I just needed to add a little wreath to something and they have little stickies on the back. I had to try it on something. So I just put it on this little brass candlestick. Wait, I bet it would be even cuter on the candle. It is, look how pretty that is. Totally just elevated that candle. Wait, I got an idea. I decided to light these candles for this video, but I feel like they're burning pretty high. Is that normal? I don't normally light candles, but they are really burning. All right, let me finish this video so I can blow them out. But look, I'm gonna need to go get some more of these because they are adorable. They look good on the red, but I really love them on the white. White and gold is just my jam for Christmas. All right, I think I am done shopping. I honestly did not get that much. I limited myself to items that I knew for sure I wanted to put out right now, like these velvet bows, these little wreaths, blankets, lots of trees. And then when it's 75% off, that's when I will come and grab stuff I want to stock up on for next year. But for now, I just wanted stuff that's going out today, hopefully. Leave me a comment down below and let me know if you fill your house with Christmas trees for Christmas, or this is just a me thing. I hope you enjoyed today's video. It was a little different. Wasn't even planning on doing this. I was just gonna go to Hobby Lobby and film a quick reel of the items that I wanted to purchase. But like I said, all those items I wanted to put out right away. So I figured, you know, kill two birds with one stone, actually get it done and not procrastinate for a week and show y'all how I use it because yes, a lot of my decor is thrifted and I love thrifting, but I also love going to the store and buying new items and incorporating that into my decor. And you know, sometimes you just can't thrift everything. So a lot of times I'll buy something new from the store, change it up, modify it, make it more of my style. Just like those cute little vintage Santa cups or like the bells that add some, you know, brown glaze to. So you can get new items and still make them look old. I hope y'all got some ideas from this. I'm actually gonna work on another YouTube video tomorrow with more Christmas ideas. So if you are like me and way behind and still decorating, maybe you can take some of those ideas and use them this year. If not, you can, you know, follow them away from next year. I really thought that I would have this whole house decorated by December 1st and not even close. But you know, it's a new house. So a lot of things I'm just figuring out like, oh, I need this to put here. I need this put there and how I'm gonna hang this garland up here that I don't wanna hang it up. So I feel like next year I'm gonna be on track, right? Well, I'm gonna head out. I could go to Hobby Lobby because I have to return those trees. I hope they let me return them. And I feel like now that I've actually put some of this stuff out, I'm like, I want some more things, especially that tree. I really, really like that tree. I think it's so pretty in my house. In the store, it wasn't like quite fluffed and you know, like it's supposed to look, none of them were. And once I had it in my house, I'm like, ah, that one is so pretty. So I don't know, do y'all know when it goes down to 75% off, should I wait or should I try to go get at 60% off? I feel like after y'all watch this video, you're gonna go buy everything. All right, I gotta go. I may or may not be going to Hobby Lobby.