Answering Your Questions And Sewing A Vintage Christmas Stocking!

Are you and james planning on getting any more animals? Hello, darlings, merry christmas, it's so close to christmas, and i don't even have a present under the tree at the moment. I'M staying at my family's and dad even has a huge present here that he couldn't fit under the tree and it's wrapped in newspaper. I'Ve got my tea here, so we're gon na have a nice crazy chat. Since i've asked you guys to ask me some questions. So i've got out all of your questions here and there are a lot so i'm not sure whether i'll be able to get through them all, and this is going to be a little bit of a crafty, cozy chatty video. I just want to say sorry if you can hear banging in the background the neighbors are doing some construction, so i apologize for that. I'Ve made a little stocking here out of some nice red fabric and a cute little trim for the top of the stocking to make a vintage inspired stocking. You will need two types of christmasy fabric. I have opted for a lovely, bright red and a festive pattern fabric. I used a couple of vintage photos as reference, so i could make the stocking as close to the vintage stockings people may have used in the 1940s and 50s. A lot of these were decorated, with what looked like felt, shapes and adorned with sequins. So i cut out some christmas shapes to go along with my name, which i wrote in running writing and i thought a christmas tree would look perfect against the red stocking. Once i had my felt pieces cut out, i then began to cut out a stocking shape with pinking shears to prevent any fraying inside the finished piece. I sewed the two stocking pieces together and then attach the festive print to the top of the stocking which i folded before sewing it on. So it would give the stocking a bit of stability for when it hangs, i'm just going to go in and add some little felt pieces that i've been cutting out this afternoon. So i've done my name in running writing. So i'm going to sew that on and then the other pieces i'm just going to use a hot glue gun, because i want to make my life easy. I have so many questions to answer from you all. So, let's get started, i'm going to start by hand sewing on my name onto the stocking. I did plan on doing two stockings one for james and one for me, but um. I just don't have enough time. So i'm just doing one for me. I'M pretty bad at multitasking. I am going to try my best to answer your questions and not totally zone out in making this stocking. I'Ve got my laptop open here with all your questions. Okay, so i like this question: are you planning on renovating other parts of your home? I love the kitchen renovation, video congrats on 150k. Thank you so much yes, i would really like to do some more renovations because it is an old home. There is a lot that needs to be done in our house, so it can get a little bit overwhelming thinking about all of the things that i want to do to all of the rooms. But it's going to be a big job. I think maybe the next room i might want to do is either the sun room or the bedroom. I don't know when the last time it was painted, but the paint is coming off the wall and it's flaking off, but it sounds like oh yeah easy. Just take away the paint, but you don't know whether it's a lead-based paint so we'd have to have that tested before we went ahead and started chipping it away, because that would be really really bad for your health. So, yes, you may see some renovating videos in the near future enjoy your videos so so much. What i would ask is, do you dress in vintage clothes daily, or is it only for the videos love it either way? I'Ve had quite a few of these questions. Asking whether i um see, i already can't multitask, i'm not thinking clearly, i've had quite a few questions asking that, whether i wear vintage all the time and i do wear a vintage style pretty much every day. I think i own one pair of track pants or sweatpants, but they're more pajama pants when it gets really cold, so i'm always wearing some sort of vintage style. My hair is not always done so i might be wearing a vintage sweater top and some 1940s trousers and my hair might be straight. So i don't curl my hair every day, i'm not fussed with that when i'm at home. But when i go out, i do like to make sure that my hair is either curled or put in some sort of hairstyle. That is vintage. Another question is how's uni going much longer to go. I have finished my first year for nursing and i have my first placement at the beginning of the year. In january it was actually postponed. It was meant to happen in october, but we had a covered case at the hospital, so i couldn't go in. I'M really excited for my first placement. I don't know entirely what to expect, but i am really excited and i'll. Let you all know how it goes. I'M gon na try and start doing some sewing. Thank you to this person for such a lovely comment. I'M not going to read it all i'll. Just read out the questions. What is your favorite thing about your house? It'S so adorable that i know it must be hard to pick. Oh, i don't know what my favorite thing about the house is well. Actually, i do now: we've just renovated our kitchen, so the kitchen is probably my favorite thing and what is your favorite modern thing to do? There are a lot of modern things that make our life so much easier. I do really enjoy being able to have a modern tv in the house and being able to watch things on netflix and stuff, like that, where we wouldn't have had that back back in the 1950s. So this is from the same question: what are the top three holiday things that make your heart feel happy? Well, i absolutely love decorating the christmas tree while listening to christmas music, it just really gets you in the christmas spirit and eating yummy food. Definitely i love christmas food here in australia. It'S really hot. A lot of people usually eat seafood for christmas, which is not totally my thing. I much prefer having a roast dinner or a baked dinner, even though it's really hot you'll be eating your christmas lunch, your christmas dinner and sweating, while you're eating hot food, but it's so worth it so good. Another thing that i really like is giving presents: there's something so nice about gift giving and when the other person really appreciates what you've given them, sending love to you, james, maybelline ward. Thank you so much whoa, i'm tangled this question is a really good one. I absolutely love your channel. Thank you. I'M an aspiring vintage clothes collector, but i struggled to find diversity in my styles. Besides lovely white collar blouses, and an assortment of sweater vests when shopping at thrift stores, how do you decide what's worth buying? Do you have certain criteria for the clothes you pick and also does your shoulder length hair, make it easier to do the vintage styles? Thank you. So much for all the compliments about my hair, so shoulder length. Hair makes it so much easier to do. Hairstyles. My hair is actually getting a little bit too long at the moment. The only plus side about having long hair is, you are able to do a bit more of an updo and roll. Your hair shoulder length. Hair is just perfect for curls and any sort of vintage hairstyle, so i would say: go for it chop it off yeah my hair's, probably about this long. When it's straight, you can go for a little bit longer than that. If you want or around this length, but it is really good when you set your hair at night and then your curls are going to be around shoulder length. I think that can happen to everyone. You kind of get stuck in the few items that you might have and you just keep rotating on certain things like white blouses. I wish i owned more white, collared blouses, so you're really lucky you've got a lot when i go to the thrift store. I don't know whether i have a particular way that i look for clothes. I usually gravitate towards colors that i like or if i see a blouse, some sort of collar or puffy sleeve that i like and usually when i'm thinking of that and i find it in the rack and i pull it out and it just so happens to Be perfect for me and if i do find a really nice style, that is maybe a bit ill-fitting, it's not going to fit my waist perfectly. I don't rule that out i'll. Take that home and i'll alter it. I don't know whether i'm very helpful with my advice, i do have a video that i'm making about going thrifting in the new year. That'S going to be coming out, and hopefully that can give a bit more of an insight as to what i do when i go to the thrift store and what i'm looking for. So i hope that helps. I'Ve literally just been talking this whole time and i have not done anything with the stocking, i'm so mad with multitasking. Okay, hello, sage, congratulations on reaching 150k subscribers! My question is: will there be another season of dining through the decades love from belgium? Yes, of course, there will be another season of dining through the decades and i've yet to decide what era i might put out a poll in the new year asking you all what decade of cooking you'd like to see, because i can never decide so i need Your help to choose what decade of cooking we should do so another question: my hair is terribly straight and fine any tips on setting pink curls that stay all day by the way. I love your channel and positivity. Thank you. Thank you. So much the best advice. I can give you for straight and fine hair is making sure you're using a setting lotion to set your hair so spraying that all over before you roll it and then once you roll it keeping it in for as long as possible. So i would say around 10 hours to try and set that curl as much as possible and then, when you take it out using a lot of hairspray that should hopefully keep it in. So i hope that helps so another question: this is a really lovely comment. I won't read it all out, but thank you so much maggie. So where do you find your personal items like your handbag and such as i'm looking for one and cannot find one anywhere? I don't actually have a lot of handbags. I have two that i use the first vintage handbag i bought was actually pretty sure it was five or ten dollars, which is amazing, such a good bargain, and i think it's around the 1930s or 1940s. I picked that up through an app called depop a lot of the time. You can't find really great deals when you are using secondhand clothing, apps and people will sometimes put things up like that for a really cheap price, i would say: keep an eye on places like depop and poshmark, even ebay and etsy. You can change the little bar on the side that sets the price, and then i also picked up my second vintage bag, which is a 1950s purse, and i got that from a garage sale. If you know there are garage sales in your area, go to those estate sales, you may pick up a lovely vintage bag, so yeah just keep your eye out. This is a lovely question. Congratulations! You absolutely deserve it. You'Re such a sweet person and all your videos are fun to watch. Thank you so much. I have several questions. Do you have any siblings? Yes, i have a younger sister, her name's april, and the other question is: have you ever traveled outside the country? Yes, i have i've been to japan, new zealand and southeast asia. I'Ve been to lots of third world countries, but i haven't been to anywhere in europe yeah, i'm very excited to go traveling in europe one day when kovid kind of dies down a little bit. What'S your favorite movie, i don't know what my favorite movie is. Yes, i do it's the sound of music and titanic and greece. I love them all so good and if i could enter any fictional world from a book, what would it be? I have no clue. I i don't know, i'm sorry. I can't answer that one i there are too many books too many fictional worlds. I think yeah. I can't choose all right, i'm going to turn on the hot glue gun, so i can start attaching everything to my stocking. So so far i've attached my name and now i'm just going to add my little christmas tree and a little rocking horse and everything that i've cut out. So the glue gun is heating up. I'M just going to keep answering some questions. What is your tip when purchasing vintage items on a budget, i would say pretty much getting everything from the thrift store going to the thrift store is so cheap. Usually when you go to a ordinary thrift store, sometimes they're getting a little bit expensive. For some reason. Everyone seems to be putting up the price on things you know, because it's designer, or something like that, but usually going to the thrift store - is cheap and you're able to find pieces of clothing that replicate a vintage style or look vintage for a really reasonable price. A lot of the time i find vintage nightgowns at my local thrift store, i would say, go to the thrift store. If you want to get things for a great price, it smells bad. Oh it's actually leaking. Oh just burning, my finger. Pardon me. I have like those cobweb things everywhere, my compliments and congratulations: you're, beautiful and inspiring lady. Thank you. What else could your channel be about if you weren't into vintage, happy holidays and best wishes from russia? Honestly, if i wasn't into vintage and making videos about it, i probably wouldn't be doing youtube. I would be doing something else. I would say my channels changed and evolved from my initial idea of wanting to do hair tutorials. If i wasn't doing vintage videos, i don't think i'd be on youtube: yeah, i'd, probably um. I don't know why i'm studying nursing so i'd probably just be a nurse um, yeah. Okay, i've got to turn the video off. I'Ve got glue everywhere, one eternity later all right. I just finished the stocking that was kind of stressful. The glue gun was kind of smoking and i had glue cobwebs everywhere. The stockings finished now, but i'll show you towards the end after i've answered a few more questions, congrats on 150k yay. My question is: where do you get all your vintage papers and stuff from? Thank you so much um, i'm assuming by vintage papers. You mean vintage wallpaper, so the vintage wallpaper i got was from a website an etsy store called hannah's treasures. I i think i got about eight rolls from there. So usually it comes in smaller quantities because there's not a lot of vintage wallpaper left. There are some designs that have a lot of length left in them and you can do that for something like a really big wall, but otherwise the smaller pieces. You can only do for like covering a wardrobe or putting in a picture frame or something like that. I hope that helps this is not a question, but i thought i'd read this out because it's so sweet. I love that you exist sage. Thank you for the beaming of your bonnie light across the world. That'S very sweet! Thank you very much and a question from marla. You are just amazing sage seriously. I see you producing your own show on a major television station. That is very generous of you. Thank you. Where do all of your ideas and creativity come from and then the motivation to execute and produce such incredible videos? Thank you. So much, that's really sweet! Honestly. I don't know where my ideas and creativity come from um. I think i am. I am a creative person, so i am always coming up with ideas. They'Ll just pop up to me and i'm, like. Oh i've got to write that down. I need to make a video for that. I enjoy watching movies, i'm an avid movie watcher. So i appreciate what they do with editing and i kind of try to do some of the stuff that i see from the movies and i try and incorporate lots of different camera angles to try and make it interesting to watch, because i think it's pretty boring. If you just have one camera angle and someone's just yapping away, i'm actually doing that right now. This is one camera angle and i'm yapping away. I feel creative when i film videos like that with the day in the life, because i get to experiment with like heaps of stuff that i might not have done before, whether it's a camera angle or catching the light in a certain way. Yeah. I'M kind of nerding out at the moment and motivation, so i'm not an extremely motivated person, but it really helps when i have a deadline that goes for university as well. I tend to leave my things a little bit to the last minute, but when i've got a deadline and when i've got a deadline for a youtube video, i can make that happen. I can put it up the past couple of weeks. I haven't put my videos up on time. It actually stresses me out a lot because so much has been happening. These last couple of weeks, we've had family we've been traveling, um, i'm not at home. At the moment it throws a bit of a spanner in the work when you aren't able to upload on time i'm kind of going on a rant. Thank you so much milo for your comment. I haven't read the whole thing out loud, but you're just so sweet. Thank you. Well, congratulations! Sage! You deserve it. Thank you. So much um are you and james planning on getting any more animals? Yes, we are. We are planning on getting another little animal. So if you don't know, we've got two chickens, mabel and maud i'll answer. Another question within this question from harriet, but someone asked: how did we name the chickens like? How did we come up with their names? I love old-fashioned names and i was looking online at all of the old-fashioned names and you know names that are suitable to call a chicken. And i really like the name mabel and i was like what's another. What'S another name that can go with mabel and i kind of thought you know i'll go with the same letter, so i wanted it to start with m as well and because i feel like especially getting two chickens, you kind of have to name them names that Complement each other james and i were like we should name the other chicken mored, because james's grandma beryl, her middle name is maude and we just thought it was really appropriate to name our chickens, maple and ward. My battery's running low, i'm going to go charge. The camera i'm going to try and answer as many questions as i can. My battery is really low and i'm not going to go charge it because i think i'm going to lose light because it is late in the afternoon and the other animal that we might potentially get in the near near future is a little poppy. My family has a jack russell called binbi and she is just the sweetest dog on earth, she's, so obedient, and she just has the best personality. So that's kind of um persuaded me to think about getting a little jack russell. So, yes, that might be happening in the new year, um a lovely one from christiana. Congratulations! I cannot express my gratitude enough to you for everything you bring to me. Thank you so much. You have a lot of questions. I can't answer them all, but i'll, try and answer some of them um what things in your childhood shaped your love of vintage. My dad has always had a lot of antique and vintage items, so i've always been surrounded by that throughout my whole childhood. So that's probably shaped my love for vintage and we used to live in an old 1900s farmhouse, so i've always loved old homes. I'Ve never liked modern homes. Whenever i would see a modern home when i was younger and up until this day, i just don't like it, there is nothing in me that finds anything appealing about a modern house, i'm just an old soul, and i have always and always will love old homes And vintage clothes and furniture and all that sort of stuff, and what's my favorite comfort food that i like to cook between dining through the decades in general, i don't cook vintage meals every day, it's only really for the cooking show, and then, if i do really Like a recipe, i will keep cooking that i love a delicious curry. I love tacos and i love just a classic english. First dinner. With a little bit of battery, i have left i'm going to answer a couple more questions. Will you wear a dress as a 1950s nurse when you graduate when i graduate as a nurse, i don't actually think we're allowed to wear dresses in australia. Everyone wears scrubs, so i don't actually know whether i would be allowed to just rock up in like a white 1950s nursing uniform. So i would love to, but i don't think i can. The other question is: are you made fun of for the way you dress? No, i've never had any negative comments at all about the way i dress. Maybe people have glanced at me like what is she wearing like? Is she going somewhere but um? I'Ve had some people. Ask me like? Oh, you know, are you going to a special occasion and i'm like? No, this is just how i dress. They don't care, they think it's really cool. I'Ve always had a really positive response from people in the public and my family. I'Ve never had any negativity. Also, there were a lot of comments asking about like when am i getting married, and when am i having a baby, i promise i will let you all know when that does happen. If you have heard some other noises here, i have little binby here. My family's doggy say hi billy stinky breath she's the best dog, like i said, she's the reason i want to get a little a little jack russell, that's just the best. She has the best personality ever um and she's just chilling out here at my feet. I'M sorry, i wasn't able to answer everyone's questions. Thank you so much for 150. 000 subscribers. You are all amazing, i'm so happy to have you all here. It'S such a lovely and kind vintage community that we have here on the internet. So, thank you all and i'm actually going to have the rest of the year off from making videos been doing this every week for more than a year. So i think i need a little bit of a break and i'll see you in the new year. Merry christmas, everybody! I love you all! So much and i'll see you soon, bye, bye! Merry christmas, oh gosh! How many what day is it so i'll insert um applique honestly, i think i'm gon na have to close the window. Ah, you can still hear the knocking those smell good at all um um. I think i have a dog hair here. So hap got hair on me, i'm so happy. I still have a hair on me.