CHRISTMAS IS HERE | How to Decorate the Perfect First Impression for Christmas

0:02 oh dear Christmas Is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Here hi I'm Rebecca Robson and you're in my home today I am making my grand entrance which is what I've always wanted to do which I'll tell you about in just a minute but I wanted to also tell you that I'm excited to be partnering with Audible in this video today I'll tell you more about that as we go some of you have watched the video that I put up I think it was in February of this year and it was me going to Dallas Market where I was selecting all of the parts and pieces and the things I

0:49 was going to use in my decorating this year but there was something else that I wanted to do I thought you know there's only so many things that I can do in this same space and have it look different although I really want you to see how this house this is my third Christmas here how this house is evolved particularly the entry way what I can tell you is that I took on a big uh initiative and that is I decided you know what I've got to make this thing I can't move the walls but what what are the tricks and the the things that I have in my bag of magic that can make a difference in any room

1:35 I decided to go with the old mirror trick it was an idea I had and Clark Robinson from Robinson Glass actually made it happen for me this was such a difficult initiative honestly the installation was incredible it took six men to put this glass and this mirror in over probably a two we period of time but wow I love how this turned out there's information about it in the description box below it took a rather insignificant entryway and turned it into a grand entrance why was that so important and why did I want to get it done before Christmas because I knew I was going to do some spectacular Garland up the staircase so now it looks like the Garland is going up both sides of

2:22 the staircase and I just think it turned out so great leave me a comment below and tell me did these mirrors make a huge difference or what so I did it for me but I also did it for you and I did it in time for [Music] Christmas so let's take a look back at what I did just about I don't know 5 days [Music] ago today I'm going to show you how to create the most beautiful luxurious full Lush looking uh garlands for your stair rails I have two different garlands that I picked out at Market this year and these are available through Amber Marie they'll be links below look at this one

3:08 has beautifully heavily flocked the brush bottle a bottle brush kind of look and this is the second style of Garland it's much more Lacy and Airy you can see here now none of these stay the way they come when you open them up in the package you have to sort of fluff them out but I felt like if maybe if I combined the two of these together I could come up with something that would look very rich and [Music] yummy and you can see there's a lot of holes in this it's very open so it'll make room for this second garland that I want to bring through

3:53 it all right I'm going to start by actually threading this one through this Loop why not take advantage of the things that they already provided us right and I'm literally going to just wind this Garland into the other by spreading apart the different branches style branches and the idea the hope is when it's done it looks like it's all one Garland not two and you kind of have to just show it whose boss you know you have to just sort of be rough with it to a certain degree and don't be afraid of getting FL loed up because you will get flocking all over you it's either flocking or uh glitter

4:38 these days right yeah it is part of being a Christmas crazy [Music] lady the way you hang Garland on a banister can vary Sometimes some people like to run it straight up the railing like this and that can be pretty and there's times when that works but for me I'm a little older and I like having a banister that I can grab so I instead do something called the swag and in the past I've swagged it this way and then I've swagged it this way and then I've swagged it that way so you see how pretty it is from both sides but now that I have these new fabulous mirrors in here thank God they got in in time

5:25 for Christmas um I have to experiment and see what going to look the best given my new mirror situation so I have some pipe cleaners here and I'm just going to wrap it around and do a real quick survey and of course I'd love to get a comment from you which way do you like best obviously by the time this video goes up it's going to be too late but let's see if I chose the one that you selected how about that this is if it's Swag on this side and of course then you have to adjust everything so that it's not turning in on itself very pretty from this side not so pretty from that

6:16 side all right let's see what that looks like it's way prettier but not on this side I think what I can do is add some pcks to the back side so you don't see this spine but there still is another option and that is that I bring in my old heavily flocked Garland and use it as a base let's see what that looks like this is pretty but I don't know if it's really full and Lush enough for where I'm going this year what I'm doing right now is I'm kind of opening this up so that I can lay that new Garland in the center of it with this puppy so I'm going to take these and use these as twist ties and then I will fluff all of this out

7:03 and see how I'm doing this I'm taking the new one reaching down taking it to the the stem here and twisting and then I can cover it up like a multitude of sends are you going to do a stair rail this year if not just look at this from the standpoint of what you can do with garlands if you have a Garland you don't love it can you wrap it into another one and then love it and maybe you even need a third like I did here okay it's enough for me to stand back and see if I even like [Music] it which one do you think I'm going to pick I want you to leave a comment below

7:50 am I going to go with the Airy choice or am I going to go with the full Lush look so here's what I think I'm going to do I'm going to do both I'm going to do the areer choice in my swags going up but when I get to the top where there's a moment I'm going to add in some thicker more Lush pieces and make that absolutely yummy in the beginning of this video I mentioned that this video is being sponsored by audible any of you who have watched me for any length of time you've been a subscriber you know that I seldom do brand or sponsored videos why is that well number one I don't want to sell you

8:37 something but number two I don't want to sell you something unless I believe in it right very rarely will you hear me talk about a brand well today this brand is something that I am so like I would pay them don't tell them shh but I would pay them to let me bring their name up in my video because what this is is audible I'm not kidding you it has changed my world let me tell you when I used to use them I when I'd go on a trip right in an airplane I would think oh I'll just listen to audible or when I was driving up to LA and I had like 2 to four hours of driving but guess what all of that has changed for me now you know when I listen to audible I listen while I'm putting my makeup on because trust

9:22 me it is a very long process and it helps me just like go off into another world and I'm not kidding you when I say it's changed my world because I am entertained all the time there's never a moment that I'm lonely I'm always involved in some other world some other story I get to know the characters I fall in love with them what I started to do this year while I was doing my Christmas decorating was start listening to the Clifton Chronicles it's by Jeffrey Archer I think there's six books I didn't even watch TV at night and here's the thing I can go run an errand I can do my GR grocery shopping when I'm in the hair salon for 3 hours good Lord I am always listening to audible so when they called and asked me if I would do a

10:09 collaboration with them and put them on my YouTube video I was like well first off I was listening when they called I'm like oh my God yes because I love you guys I think you're the greatest thing ever if you've never done it before copy the code that's on the screen right here and text it to 500500 and you will get Audible for free for 30 days so I have to go right now I'm going to do all these garlands I'm going to rinse and repeat I have to do 10 of these now that I've decided what I'm doing so I'm going [Music] under now that the two garlands are assembled I've gone through and I have pre-wired in the places that I think it's going to attach so now it's time to

10:56 put the Garland on [Music] I have the basic skeletal shape up the way I want it the way that it comes around and gracefully gets to the bottom of the staircase I have 1 and 1 half garlands left and I'm going to go through and use those pieces to create a moment I mean we all have moments right you have your moments and you know you do so these are additional piics that I got from Amber Marie when I was at market and I want to see what it looks like to add this kind of look and I have this

11:44 one this is one of my favorites I use this in my family room this year this is a big piece I wouldn't use a piece that big but what would it look like to add that to this Garland and then I also have these really beautiful blue green berries which is the color uh my color accent this year with all the champagne gold and silver so that's what I think I'm going to do is make my moments really beautiful using these particular [Music] [Applause] [Music] pieces [Music]

12:36 with all my little Precious Moments established I'm now ready to light the Garland we're going to lay these on and find out just exactly how many I need one important little thing to keep in mind is that you always want to establish before you start your lights where you're going to plug them in for me these are all going to be connected and they're going to plug in upstairs so I've got my male end of the cord uh right here and this will plug into the next one and as they all the way get all the way up to the top bam right around the corner is an outlet once you've got your lights Loosely laid on top of your Garland to see how many sets of Lights you need for goodness sake before you tuck them in make sure you turn them on to make sure

13:24 they work last thing you want to do is spend all that time tucking these in and finding out you got a dud string of [Music] lights as you watch all of my videos throughout this series this Christmas you're going to see the ReUse of these bows on a lot of different these ribbons anyway on a lot of different things that I do so kind of see how that ties through in the overall design of the home we'll start with this one I love this ribbon because of the way it crunches but it's thicker and not really transparent so I have precut a piece of wire and I do that because it just makes it easier to get to it when I'm ready uh

14:10 it's a pretty good long piece because I need it to go not only around the bow but then around my decorations I'm going to start by gathering this here and then I make a loop and my Loops are relatively small to begin with this first one because as I go out I graduate the size of the loops so you see that Loop and then I make a second one and I twist it when I get there okay then I make a second one and I look at it from the sides and try to determine if that's kind of even I twist it again and by twisting it what it does is it puts the pretty side of the ribbon consistently on the front where this doesn't have the glitter now look how the graduation of size begins

14:57 to take place when I get it here I gather it together and I twist it you see how this one is longer than this one then I'm going to bring this around and do the same thing over here to make sure that these Loops are about the same now you have to have finger coordination to do this well but you hold this all together here then you take your piece of wire and you wrap it around the center and I'm going to tie it on the back because that's where I'm going to want these wire pieces to be so I can attach it all right now let's take a look at how pretty this one is and see how this ribbon just allows you it stays in its position you can make it look as though the wind your Ascot is flying

15:45 behind you that's what that looks like to me so we'll put that on there and see what that looks like let's move on to the next ribbon and I'll do this one quicker and you can just see those steps being repeated and then you just sort of squeeze it together as tight as you can here this is where it's nice if you have another person with you who can stick their finger in there you know what I mean all right so that's our second option

16:33 ready now I will tell you every single one of these ribbons are represented this year in my Christmas tree is how that one looks isn't that pretty I mean that could be in a wedding right so I'm going with the shear and I'm going to take the bow that I made and then I'm just going to make a number of these to go up on all these locations and then I'm going to weave the rest of the ribbon through out the Garland and uh we'll see where we're at when we're we're done okay let's do [Music] it all right now I'm going to show you what I do with the thin the thinner ribbons now remember all these ribbons have wire on the edges which is what

17:18 makes it possible and I typically use I love this this these two that are velvet and then they have the gold metallic on the back and then this one actually has little bugle beads hello how beautiful is that and it picks up the light so I have two main ways that I use them and I use them more as like little tapers so I cut pieces lengths in advance and then I just roll them up and I make it as round as I can so I get it like this and I just sort of you know you don't want it to be oval shaped you want it to be round and you bend it in then when you're done you undo it and you've got this ringlet effect that you can make as big as you want or as tight as you

18:17 want all right I have this beautiful acrylic reindeer that I think would look great sitting right here on the top I'll have to wire it in but this is the next to the last thing that I do because I'm also going to add some beautiful Christmas balls as a kind of a final T moment I just use some of this gold wire that I have uh to make my own hook for this because I want it to hang at a certain height and I was fearful that the uh hooks that I used on my tree would be too short [Music]

19:06 this year my theme is oh dear Christmas is here one of the reasons for that is I have so many deer in my house I just thought it was a cute play on words but I love deer I think they're fabulous I even have one right here topping my staircase we should go through a name them all we're going to call you Dasher because it looks like you're running that's Dasher okay well I don't see a Dan here but we'll figure these other guys out anyway hey you now don't be trying to peek in there to see what's coming because that's going to be in another video probably tomorrow just saying as I

19:52 do each one of these rooms by the room all the rooms around it will be dark they're done done they're just not [Music] lit so these are all the Pottery Barn or they can also be gotten at Amber Marie these candles that have the flicker flame I love those and they can't start a fire so they're super clean and easy and I have them on timers everything in my house this year is flocked all of the greens are flocked then I have these spectacular ribbons in all different colors and the Styles and I use them and I incorporate them from one room to the [Music]

20:38 next but here's one thing I love this is something I've had for a while I used this on my queen tree do you guys remember the queen last year well this was part of her [Music] peum oh and then here's the other thing is on the back side so because I was running this and it's against the mirror I wanted it to all swag on the inside because that's where the mirror is and it was going to reflect it what did I do to make that okay I added some pics on the backside here to fill in CU otherwise it's just you're looking at the spine like the trunk essentially so by filling in some of these picks and

21:25 then adding three clumps these are like CL clusters of balls that are different and have the colors and I don't know I just felt like it brought some of the attention of those moments over to this side so that the people walking down here weren't like you know I don't know what do they call it sliced liver Cod Liver chopped liver ain't chopped liver in my house in this corner this is the entrance to my kitchen and it's a very narrow wall it's not even the same width as the door but there is enough room to do something but what last year I actually put a tree here it was a green tree and this year I brought in my 5

22:12 foot flocked tree and I have it in a rustic pot but it fits in this really weird awkward space I decided I didn't want it just to be another Christmas tree with all the ornaments and just a you know a repeat of what I've done in the other rooms so I used one of the things that I got at Market this last year that I love and it is this chain Garland this Garland is so beautiful and it's chains and you can just drape it however you want to fit the different [Music] spaces over on this side adjacent the stairwell I kept you know I have a very narrow console table here and it's

22:58 narrow because it's not a particularly wide hallway but I kept these colors in mind so something I started doing a couple years ago is actually buying inexpensive it's not posters but it's prints from an online source and I like to go in and buy things for Christmas so that it'll go with my theme I love the trees so I brought a tree in here that sort of mimicked this look and then we've got Comet hello [Music] Comet comet is came with a bowl on his head and he's holding Christmas balls now what Christmas balls do I put in there I put in all the colors that are

23:46 in this art piece even though the art piece does have the colors of my scheme it includes some other colors primarily this beautiful lilac and [Music] Plum I think to myself do I want to stay true to that seafoam green the light blue Aqua that gray those colors that I picked and I do but I also included another ornament now when light goes through it you can see that it truly is an amber color but when you come and you look at it close up it has an iridescence to it that brings in that

24:31 shade of purple that is exactly in the [Music] painting in the spirit of keeping close to details I have this awkward little corner here not much drywall maybe 24 in before it leads into my family room but it feels like it's kind of empty and needs something so I have these three black and Brass Lantern LNS that I got at HomeGoods a couple years ago and they've got the battery operated candles in them it's just a little something but I think because they're the graduating sizes and then I just added a clump of a little bit of snow here greens my berries that are on other aspects of my design and then my favorite ribbon to

25:18 the top something very small very simple but it does complete a little awkward area this concludes the reveal of my entryway I'm very curious to know do you like my theme this year at least what you've seen so far because tomorrow I'm going to show you the living room and then you're really going to understand the theme I also want to know what do you think about these mirrors did this make this Wow first impression impact that I was looking for or going for I hope you think so all right you guys I am so excited for you to see the rest of the videos that are coming we've put a lot into it this year and it's all for you

26:03 to help you make your home as beautiful as possible not only at Christmas time but all throughout the year I also want