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Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Real Talk with Rachel Autry, where I help you delight in life and find joy right where you are.

I'm just a normal girl trying to figure out life right alongside you because that's what friends are for, right?

And today I'm so stoked to talk all about Christmas traditions.

Like what are the things that make Christmas a sweet Christmas to our family?

What are the things we do every year?

What are the things we're trying to do this year that we've loved and figured we could really just use like a fun little catch-up yap session?

So that's what this is going to be.

First off off you need

to know that this year i have ditched the like elegant neutral fancy christmas decor and i have gone

full mode pencil glitter dollar tree gold garland with amazon star garland i went to michael's Michaels on Black Friday and got like literally 12 rolls of ribbon

for, I'm pretty sure, $20. And ribbon and bows are everywhere in our house. I looked up a way of

making ribbons on TikTok with zip ties and it's changed the game. So that's what we're doing.

Normally our Christmas tree and our living groom is again like the fancy the fun and then this year it's

like tacky kitschy fun I'm looking at it right now and I'm trying to describe it it's got a big

bow at the top instead of an angel but don't worry the angel's still there she's still tucked's still tucked behind. Can't be sacrilegious. Like, she's going to still be on there. I just really wanted a bow in the front. And then we have, like, all that colorful, shiny, I mean, tacky, for lack of better words, ornaments that we've kind of collected. We get one for everybody every year that has a memory

attached to it and we've been collecting so much they don't really fit on our tree that we put in our

dining room so we do a real tree in our living room and then the fake flocks tree in the dining

room and so that one this year the fake flock tree is like the cutie patootie one and this one is like the tacky kitchy one. And I'm obsessed. You should also know our tree barely fits in here. Scrape the top, how to cut it off. It's like a 10 foot tree fit in eight and a half foot ceilings. So yeah, she's shmooshed into back. And we also had to, like, shove her a little bit more

in the corner so we could even open up our back porch door. So that's where we're at. I'm looking at

my tree right now, and I'm trying to describe it. It is little colorful icicles that I picked up

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