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10 Homemade Items to Liven Up Your Home
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Dec 2, 2022
On today's show, we are talking about homemade items! Whether you need a fun gift idea, or just want to spruce up your home, we countdown just some of our favorite ideas! #homedecor #homemade #crafting #home
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all right
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Hello everybody welcome to another
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episode of ultra Universe Live and if
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you are handy crafty or want to be you
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won't want to miss today's show so
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without further Ado let's get started
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shall we
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[Music]
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thank you
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hello everybody I keep wanting to say
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good morning it's the afternoon it is 12
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30. time for an ultra Universe Live
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episode I am here with my co-host and
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mother Karen glosser and we have some
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fun stuff for you to do today now we
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love crafting over here well at least I
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do
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um and why not do some things to make
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the house your home
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now there's one thing two things you can
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do you can buy your Decor which I do as
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well or you can make your Decor now I'll
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ask you the first question here why do
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you love something homemade versus
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something you know from Target Walmart
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something like that I think because it
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makes us feel good it makes us feel like
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we're accomplished we created something
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and it brings back the memories when you
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look at it of creating it so I think
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it's the whole thing
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um I love it I definitely like that one
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yes yeah it brings back the memories
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yeah and it's definitely fun to do and
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if you do it with somebody it's one of
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those things you can talk about down the
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line go hey remember that time we made
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that thing that's pretty cool let's do
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it again let's do it again um yeah so I
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think you know for for you use the word
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happy for me they were grateful but I
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think it's definitely something that
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shows what we can do now I would love to
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get to a point where I can make these
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guys because that would be really cool
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but I'm not that clever yet so I will
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just buy a little stuffed animals but
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the operative word Rob is yet exactly if
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I can figure out how to pick up sewing
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needles and not stab myself and good
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we're good to go
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um all right so because these things
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make us feel good we decided to find a
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um 10 actually ideas to do for your home
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funny enough they're all kind of holiday
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related
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um this is from the happy happy Nester I
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thought that was hilarious
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um and they wrote down uh 10 ideas so we
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don't have the pictures but if you want
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to click on the website follow along
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with us it has all the images it either
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has where you can buy the stuff or it
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tells you what you need so you can then
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go ahead and figure it out
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so number 10 is for all of you
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halloweenies out there who want to
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decorate the house all you excuse me all
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you need is some yarn and I guess the
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ability to tie a good knot and you can
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make a homemade spider web uh with this
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you can add on your little creatures you
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can make a whole scene this is pretty
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simple and something I think I did maybe
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back when I was in elementary school
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because I feel like looking at this
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thing it's something that a
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five-year-old could probably put
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together
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um but it's pretty cool you saw the
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pictures of it as we went what do you
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think is this something pretty uh simple
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clevery thing to put up for absolutely I
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think it would be fun to do it with your
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kids too you know in this case this
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would be funny make it a family affair
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right right so according to them all you
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need is really a spool of yarn a couple
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supplies probably some scissors and then
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basically you're going to shape it to
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your size
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um they said you could put it anywhere
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from inside to outside so depending on
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how big you want to go is really up to
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you
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number nine here I thought is really
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clever and I think I might because we
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actually have some cardboard around they
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made tiny cardboard houses and then
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painted them with glitter paint and
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decor in their particular case they made
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a little Christmas scene so they have a
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home and you're using the pictures right
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so now I'm looking at that and there's a
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little tiny Christmas tree and they put
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some fake snow this is pretty clever and
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while I'm sure so in this one they said
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there's actually kits uh it's called
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putts p-u-t-z and it actually comes you
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can build it but I would actually go
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farther and say if you have some
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cardboard lying around or some firm you
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know paper why not just cut out your own
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make your own shaped house glue it
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together with cardboard I believe you
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would want like a wood glue like a
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gorilla glue or something right and then
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when it's dry paint it decorate it
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whatever you want and it's pretty cute
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you can do a Christmas scene you can do
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an Easter scene or you just want to make
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a tiny little town like if you're a
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train Enthusiast make a little tiny
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Train Town you know it's pretty cool
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this is the kind of of stuff I really
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like for the part that while you can buy
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the kits you can really make this your
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own
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um what do you call it your own
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decoration really right what I I know I
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did like paper mache and stuff did we do
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any of this cardboard stuff growing up
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or is this kind of a newer it's kind of
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a newer thing I think we did something
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similar to it when we would do like
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candy cane houses for Christmas you know
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we would make the cardboard houses and
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then glue candy on it or something I
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don't recall so it's like the
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gingerbread without the actual
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gingerbread I'm gonna actually put this
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up on the screen Rob so people can see
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this oh perfect okay so number eight
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then and this is pretty neat so in the
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uh far back corner
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oh if you're going to go down yeah so in
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the far uh corner there's a wreath in
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the back and that's actually out of
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um fabric so for those who crochet or
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for those who knit you can make a what
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they call a chunky wreath and all you do
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is you basically take your your fabric
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you roll it and you decorate it as you
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would
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um again not something of Mali just yet
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but I've seen plenty of this stuff on on
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TV
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it's pretty cool and I like that it's
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soft I like that it's not made out of
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you know spiky little
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ugly things
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um what do you think I mean this is
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probably more of an advanced activity I
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don't know a lot of people personally
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that do this but I know I think you
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might have told me something like
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somebody who like crochets so this would
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be more yeah it looks it kind I was
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gonna say it kind of looks like one of
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those I don't know if you've seen people
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doing that huge crochet with the big
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needles in the big yarn and they it like
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they can make a sweater in three minutes
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kind of thing because it's right okay
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that's kind of similar yeah reminds me
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of that so they use Merino wool which is
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actually a specific sheep that is known
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to have very soft wool so a lot of
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people when you buy clothing actually if
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it says Merino it's a lot fluffier the
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more you wash it the more it goes but
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really if you can't pick up that one any
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kind of yarn or fabric will work
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um but it's pretty cool and honestly
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wreaths are not just a holiday thing
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anymore people put on their doors for
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just Decor uh you can make them out of
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anything and obviously fabric is one
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um what do we have next on here okay so
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if you don't want fabric what about a
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bay leaf wreath so this is one made out
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of leaves
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um I wasn't sure if these were real or
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faux but I guess you can go either way
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because I couldn't see the specifics on
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here
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um
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however what do you think I mean this is
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pretty cool especially you as a like a
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gardener person is this something you
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think you would want as a kind of a
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garden decoration because it's a plant
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basically yeah it's actually really it's
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really pretty and I was looking closer
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at the picture rub I think this is real
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their bay leaves their actual
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leave leaves so okay so they use it okay
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so it's not really good though oh sorry
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what were you saying I was saying if it
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really is real or Bailey's it means it
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also smells really good so okay so I'm
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just gonna say theoretically if you
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didn't want the real you could probably
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go with foe as well but that is kind of
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cool that it has the scent to it and
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it's also very decorative and
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theoretically because it's a lot of
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green I'd probably go ahead and maybe
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poke a couple things on there and maybe
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give it some color uh they put a ribbon
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on there I might maybe use a colorful
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ribbon instead but pretty cool stuff so
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if you have choices you can do fabric or
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or I would even maybe do like dried um
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cranberries and blueberries and raisins
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and string them and put them through the
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the wreath as well to make it colorful
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ah okay okay I see where you're going
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all right that's pretty cool this next
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one number six is one of my favorites I
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might actually do this
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it's a at home cookie box for your
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Valentine now this image right here is
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actually principle that you can find and
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all you do you cut it out you fold it
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you make it but again if you want to
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make it more your own take your own
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little box take your own whatever but
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how cool is this this reminds me of
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school when you brought your classmates
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cookies and candy
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but how cool is it and literally it's
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got an old school looking Valentine's
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you know it says 30 cents in the corner
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or whatever that is
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this is pretty neat this is one of my
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favorites off the list because this
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really you know I guess it's a printable
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yes you probably didn't draw it but this
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really shows creativity I think because
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you literally you made a cookie box you
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know instead of going to the store or
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Bakery and getting a box you made this
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box basically and if you don't want to
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use the printable take out your colored
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pencils your markers and just draw you
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know what I mean and and I could see
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this even be done for not just
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Valentine's Day but doing Christmas
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cookies or Hanukkah cookies or Kwanzaa
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cookies you know okay or Easter you know
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this would be great for Easter you know
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maybe even doing uh Easter egg well not
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not putting eggs in there but cookies
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that look like Easter eggs so I love
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this idea I love it you might have to do
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a show where we make these onions
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totally do that all right so number uh
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what am I number five now this is called
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a spring wreath so similar to the bay
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leaf these are um okay so it's seasonal
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flour so what you would do is you'd pick
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your flour for spring I can't tell you
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what those are off top of my head but
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any kind of uh spring flower that you
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have this is pretty cool so I will ask
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you then so we've seen the bay leaf and
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we see this one which one do you like
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better do you like the floral or do you
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like the leaf better personal choice I
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I put that outside that might even go in
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a bathroom I mean it's so pretty it
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could be like a nice little guest room
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yeah really really pretty really pretty
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I like them all actually I think and I
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wonder because you said the bay leaf
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smell I wonder if you get a fragrant
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flower if you would kind of also get a
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natural uh scent as well like lavender
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using lavender and letting them dry and
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I would ooh I think we should do that
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Rob we should make a lavender wreath
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lavender wreath I'm so done so we can
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tell these people like their wreaths yes
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for sure let's see now number four is
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pretty darn cute and if you like
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um felt you'll love this so this is a
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felt Leaf Garland so we all know what a
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Garland is usually use it to string
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across your um fireplace across your
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mantels whatever but why not make it out
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of something probably a little safer
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than natural leaves you know you don't
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want to burn down anything I mean I'm
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sure it Felts Burns but still but how
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cool is this all you're gonna do and I
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think I've actually seen this before
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without even reading the uh the
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instructions but but you're cutting out
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the leaf shape either by using a
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printable or just by using your pen
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and then you're sticking together on a
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long
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um you know rope string type of thing
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they went ahead and did pumpkins as well
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which I think is pretty cool and you can
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buy those felt pumpkins at like a
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Michaels or Joann's but this is really
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neat because what I like about this wine
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and you kind of uh talked upon it where
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you can do Valentine's Christmas Easter
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whatever you can pick the color to what
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you want so if you want it for Hanukkah
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right if you want it for Easter pinks
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and you know pastels if you want it for
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Christmas red and green this is really
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clever and unlike using a natural
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garland that might kind of Wither and
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die this will probably last you if you
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keep it well for multiple sittings you
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know throughout multiple years I think
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right yeah absolutely and the other
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thing I will back to say this this is a
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great family
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um kind of craft as well where you
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create the one thing that you use
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through all the holidays and in each
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holiday you add the the one that's
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specific like these are pumpkins for the
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for Halloween but you might might do a
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star for for Hanukkah and you might do I
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guess a star for Christmas as well the
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star that goes on the on the top of the
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tree right so this is a family thing I
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think again I love the idea that
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families it could be you know husband
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and wife uh you know significant other
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your kids in you it's to be done with a
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partner with another person and that's
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what I think this is really cool yeah if
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you guys are just tuning in I mean we're
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counting down some really awesome
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homemade items and it says to liven up
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your home but really it's to kind of
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make your home you like these are things
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to do to really show your other people
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like let's say you're a podcaster like
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us and you want to decorate your thing
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and this guy right here is perfect for
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something like podcasting these are faux
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flowers I've actually used these a
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million times I have a bunch of things
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at home uh that I've built in all you're
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going to do is take something like a
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cardboard back or a kind of a posture
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board back and using very strong glue I
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advise because these things don't stick
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very well use the strongest glue you can
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find stick it on let it dry and you have
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a backdrop and you can either if it's
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your home you can you know nail it in or
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use some of those command strips stick
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them up on the wall and pop it up this
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is pretty cool because as you can tell
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they mix the white the pinks you can do
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red you can do Blues you can do whatever
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and because they're faux they're not
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going to die they're not going to
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weather they're not going to smell these
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guys are going to literally be on your
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thing forever and if you use something
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like command strips you could pop it off
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and move it to another room if you want
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to Decor so I love this kind of stuff
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and this thing again it's so easy
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anybody can do it young kids older
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middle whatever it takes no time at all
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and it's such a beautiful looking thing
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it really is it's very pretty
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um I don't know what the things are at
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the top those looks like they're paper
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leaves
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that might be I I feel like it's
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probably just extra Decor like it looks
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like they cut out pages and they kind of
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like made leaves yeah very creative very
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very pretty yeah it's pretty cool I I
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personally just like the flower but I do
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it's kind of a neat oh look they have it
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over the bed Rob this is actually a uh
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something that they put over a couch or
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a bed I don't know if those are couch
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pillows oh okay so it's more like a
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living room or a you know a room I know
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these next guys are so cute these are
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ghost painted pumpkins so we painted
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pumpkins before I painted pumpkins I
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know before all you're gonna do you need
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two things you need some black paint I
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need some white paint and then you need
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your paintbrush you're literally going
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to either do one or the other you're
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gonna either paint it all white and make
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little Black Goes or paint it all black
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and make little white goes let it dry
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and I will tell you even though it's
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ghost even though it's whatever this is
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actually a year-round thing I think this
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is really cool and I think I would put
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this out and leave it out for the year
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because yeah I might say Halloween or
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whatever but this is a pretty cool
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little design and if you're not into
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ghosts maybe you draw hearts maybe Kitty
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faces maybe flowers if you do it again
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if we're gonna do a lot of the these
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activities can be done for different
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holidays so I can imagine this being
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painted red with white hearts or white
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with red hearts and now it becomes a
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Valentine's Day thing and you keep them
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out you know I I know that you keep a
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box of different decorations for
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different things or at least you used to
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um and I know I do as well so these are
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the kind of things you would bring out
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for the different holidays I love these
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they're great this site is really great
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happy happiness and I think you know in
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order to make them last longer if you
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don't want to use a real one I believe
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there are pumpkins that actually they
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they're not real they're faux but you
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can paint them and they will they won't
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wither yeah the in art stores if you go
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to art stores you can get plaster of
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Paris
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um uh forms and you can create your own
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you know or you can oh there you go yeah
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and paint them
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all right so the last one's kind of funk
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and I'm not sure why they picked Trader
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Joe's specifically maybe they have
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something but they call this the Trader
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Joe's floral arrangement DIY but really
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it doesn't have to be from them
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specifically
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um I'll have you I don't know if you
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want to look on there or quick or
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anything but
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really it's just a matter of arranging
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flowers and this is less of a
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DIY and more of just a Decor but and
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this is from personal knowledge and
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elsewhere
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um if you go to a Michael's or a Target
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or whatever you can get glass jars or
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unpainted jars you can paint your vases
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you can paint your stuff let them dry
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and then it's more of a personal touch
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because yes the flowers come from the
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store but the flaws is something that
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you or you're you're saying every other
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or your family right and Rob you're
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always talking about upcycling so this
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is another thing that you can use a can
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you know maybe you made pasta sauce the
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other day and you had a big can of
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crushed tomatoes keep the can
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paint the can
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stick the flowers in upcycle
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right no that's perfect yeah that's
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perfect I think the funniest one I've
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ever seen was a cowboy boot I don't know
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who it was but somebody I knew cleaned
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up their boots or I think they only had
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one because they lost the other one and
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they shined it up they painted it and
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they made a giant planter out of a
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tumbling Boot and they put like
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dandelions and stuff in there right it's
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really cool you can grab whatever you
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have that might be waterproof if you're
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going to use a boot rather than a can a
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can is already waterproof because it's
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it's a can it has sides in it oops you
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know the liquid so you want to make sure
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you waterproof it you spray it you make
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sure that it's sealed you can get that
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stuff I think as well absolutely
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all right you guys so if you are just
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joining in we were talking about or we
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are talking about some handmade items
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that we can make again happy happy
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Nester really cool I'm gonna have to
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grab some more info from them because
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they seem to have a really good
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selection of ideas uh we might even make
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some ourselves but the final thoughts
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now this is our favorite part then where
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we kind of just recap a little bit um I
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talked a lot so I will pass the buck to
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you and good thing well you have to pass
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the book to me because I'm mom
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um you know what I love these ideas I
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love the idea of doing things with your
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family with your friends with your
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significant other whomever it is because
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they do create the memories that last
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for a lifetime
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um and that's that obviously is
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important to both you and I because
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that's what we're doing here creating
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memories that last a lifetime just by
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doing these shows we want to make sure
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that everyone knows though that they can
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get some cool swag
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from the swag shop
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and we have all sorts of really oops I
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gotta get the right one here we got all
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sorts of really great things water
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bottles right Rob and water bottles uh
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t-shirts journals we and we're gonna
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keep adding more you know we were just
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we had to uh stop for a second but we're
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gonna add some more soon so just in time
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for the holiday season so check it out
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check it out there's lots of really
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great stuff and while you're there uh
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pick up something and take a picture of
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yourself either wearing the T-shirt or
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holding the the water bottle or whatever
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and sent it in because we'd love to
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share those pictures up on the show
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um if you send it in
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so Rob getting ready for the weekend
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right
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yeah
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um yeah so at this point we have a brand
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new selection of videos coming if you
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guys are following me at the official
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Rob Glasser Network on YouTube you will
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get a post uh probably tomorrow or
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Saturday and it'll have all of the new
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uh videos coming up you can chat you can
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share you can blog whatever
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um of course anywhere that podcasts are
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sold you can find my mama Karen glosser
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as well but yeah enjoy we hope you guys
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continue to come back and watch some
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more we have a lot of fun stuff coming
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and we'll see you next time oh my God
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goodbye everyone
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