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00:00it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas but not nearly enough for my liking I am totally
00:11little miss Christmas I'm Sarah Davies and crafting is my passion especially at Christmas
00:18that looks right thank you mama craft lovely so I'm on a mission to spread a bit of homemade
00:25festive magic each week I'll be joined by two celebrity crafters going head-to-head to make
00:38the best decorations oh it's a contest I mean I'm supposed to pick a winner man together
00:48we'll be sprucing up our trees look to perfection I think I've got a bit well yes and sparking up our
00:57centerpieces nice little so grab your glue guns and let's get Christmas crafting
01:18let the festive fun begin what do you think it's like the place doesn't it I think so
01:29you don't want to get done for breaking and entering I've rested on our first date that's before a
01:35sherry today I'm joined by actor podcaster and comedy matriarch Hillary Whitehall and
01:43corey legend tawny maudsley ready to try their hands some Christmas creativity yeah I have to
01:51say that I feel I'm slightly more in the um gifted amateur I'm excited actually because I love a bit
01:57of crafting I won't say I'm an expert when my son Jack did art projects at school I did get involved
02:05no teacher actually ever said well done mrs. Whitehall but I know they thought it well that's ten steps
02:11ahead of me and I think the last time I made something I must have been about five and I
02:15made a mess of it then I'm excited but I'm also nervous because I don't want to make a mess of
02:19things who knows how I'm gonna fare today fingers crossed I'm gonna let you do the honor oh thank you
02:25hello hello and no I'm not in the mood for Christmas at all that's how Christmasy I'm feeling
02:37are you excited yeah yeah I'm excited yeah let's do it
02:45everything my celebrity guests make over the next few weeks is to transform this beautiful house
02:55into a magical Christmas party venue for some very deserving people so let's crack on so are you
03:02excited very excited yes yes so have you done much crafting before a fair bit with the children and
03:09then there was a big break and now I've got grandchildren so I'm needing to hone these skills up
03:13now right I can work on that I can work on that yeah how about you Tony big crafter I think probably
03:18the last time I crafted was two years ago I decided to make my own front doorie oh wow yeah I mean it
03:25started off this big and it finished off this big you nearly pulled the front door off its hinges
03:29more is more kind of guys I'm a fan of my own character I'm hoping you can teach me some refinement today
03:34right okay so we're going to do some Christmas stars right two three four five you need five straws
03:41for this however big you want your star is how big we're going to cut these down to he's definitely
03:46going to want a big one because we already know he goes large I'm going to be keeping a close eye on
03:51you both over the course of the day to see who does the best we're in competition here Hillary allegedly I'm a bad
03:57loser choose your weapon you two look dangerous with those so I'm going to go I think about half the
04:06size here okay so and all you're going to do is you're going to cut all five of your straws down okay
04:12there we go right okay a little bit of twine everyone yeah this will be a brilliant one you
04:18could do with the grandkids Hillary right what we're going to do then is you're just going to
04:22thread your twine through your straws as we look important oh yes very very essential we're putting
04:29all of them through you're going to thread all five of these onto a chain onto yes you know what's
04:35happening here what's happening here remember when you were five years old and you would be concentrating at
04:40school and your tongue would go I've just noticed myself doing it right so once you've got your
04:48little necklace of paper straws all we're going to do is tie them together at the top we're going to
04:54just pull them tight right once we get to there you just take any two of them together yeah and once
05:00you've got the two together just twist them yeah and once they twisted yeah it goes underneath at the
05:05top yeah and once it's underneath you could untwist the twist oh yeah got it got it i'm back to where
05:14i started did that happen yeah you do that again so twist two of them together i had a bit of a
05:19problem with the paper straws it's my fat fingers you see that that just i mean Hillary was like in and
05:24out in that and then she whipped up a star help Hillary twist then up underneath yeah and then
05:30you just pull them apart pull them at the bottom that's pulling the wrong one apart oh i love it
05:36that looks good thank you for your help yes that is so simple Hillary's nailed that done too now
05:43i'm on a roll i'm on a roll she is on a roll well these will look great on the christmas tree won't
05:49they definitely okay the killer question go on when is it acceptable to get the trio oh 6th of
05:55november 6th of november get bonfire out of the way first and then it starts to feel christmas doesn't
06:01it i don't want it just there for two weeks i want it there for two months i want to enjoy it once
06:05it's done so i'm mad after my own heart yeah i love the christmas yeah how about in your house uh
06:10michael white tool if he had his way would have it up on christmas eve and down by boxing night
06:15yes we have an argument every year about it and i usually win actually it's up for much longer than
06:21he would like so the tree that i bought the lights built in i love a colored light michael likes white
06:28and every time i walk past i put it onto multi-colored flashing and every time he walks
06:32past he puts it onto white static so you know who's been through the room last
06:38can we take a moment to notice hello how are you oh yes no you've got three now oh you two are so
06:46cute it's only mozzie stuff yes there you go
06:52well now we've covered level one star making yes i want you to make a five point star with five
07:09sticks thank you five sticks for you sir one two three four five sticks for you lovely thank you all
07:15you're going to do is basically replicate this and then once we've got the star made we're going to use
07:20the glue gun okay to just hold that star in place now do we need any glue gun training you two
07:27i mean i've never used a glue gun so old training very welcome okay right so i've put mine on my
07:31little bit of cardboard what we'll do is we'll position the first bits down just to hold them in
07:37place do we need to wiggle it about to get glue all over it or just so once they're held in place
07:42we can go and add more glue to make sure it's really well does it matter that it's not perfect
07:46no because we're going to perfect it a little bit later when you were making things yes jack when
07:52he was a kid yeah how did you survive without a glue gun well do you know one of the my proudest
07:57moments i don't know if you remember the tracy island christmas debacle oh tracy island thunderbirds
08:04i made it so my mom made me a tracy island i would put me a machine toilet yes tracy island oh so she's
08:11definitely a crafter then sadly i think it was my finest hour yeah well i hear that's been downhill
08:17ever since but sarah yes i think i might have um glued my stars at the table i've just noticed
08:24don't you worry we'll just strategically tap it off right we'll come on look mine's come up in one
08:29piece how did you get that off the table hillary did you i got the scissors and just did you it eased
08:34it off it's coming it's coming there you go look at that is it feeling pretty sturdy it is feeling
08:41pretty steady yeah we're ready to move on to the next we are i think we are right what we're going
08:45to do is we're going to wrap our star in jute twine now you can either tie a knot in it to get it
08:51started or you can stick it down with a bit of hot glue right so what i'm doing is i'm just wrapping
08:58it around a few times just generally randomly generally randomly round each arm round each arm
09:05but then what we need to do is every now and again is pop a little glob of hot glue just so that we keep
09:11it nice and tight these are starting to look really good and they start to take shape don't they and come
09:17on this is just a bit of jute twine yeah do you think you'll get jack doing any crafting do you know
09:22what he's quite arty jack is he was an art scholar at school really yeah and went and did history of
09:29art at manchester university for about 10 seconds really that's comedy career gang what i do want
09:35you all to do at some point as well is find out which way your stars looking the best so it'll look
09:41nicer there that is my top there looking really good yeah what i'm going to do is while i'm here and i'm
09:48going to put a little blob of glue and i'm going to give myself a nice little loop to hang it and
09:54then wrap it round a couple of more times you two are getting on great there do you know what i'm
09:59going to do while you're doing that i've been working on a bigger one whoa size of that i'm
10:06feeling slightly inadequate now with our little stars exactly the same technique i've just used
10:12bigger dowels and i'm going to add a little bit of twine onto that one while you're going a little bit of
10:16extra gold gold time to finish it off you're just going to cut the end and we're just going to glue
10:21the end in right hillary's going for it going for the snip and the glue slip and the prod presumably
10:28that's it i've prodded it in a little bit what did you do then you glued it and buried it buried it
10:32yeah i've given you some lights there by the way you know oh you can be unwinding your lights yes love
10:39a light do you want me to unwind them for you to i am about to make a holy mess of this aren't i
10:43let's do a swap then so glad you're here sarah do you know what i'll keep you right
10:48do you think you could get any of your curry cast craft absolutely yeah yeah there you go
10:52they're all very jealous when i thought i was coming here is that right yeah yeah yeah oh i love
10:56that how long have you been in curry i've been in curry for six years wow wow i used to love benedict oh
11:03did you oh i loved benedict yeah amazing you know i've got my hot pants under this table oh oh we're
11:09back to show you yes hello we did one christmas episode which was shot in the middle of the summer
11:18so it's about 32 degrees we had tim healy stood on the roof of the benedict palace with his wig on
11:25um sweating spraying snow all over the road um are you going with the lights yeah so we're just twirling
11:33it round do we stick them on and then just hide that inside at the back and then we're just going
11:39to wind the lights round yeah switch them on tony let's see how they're looking oh yes and i've just
11:45added give me a nice little there sprig that we can add on to the air it just wow you've gone mad
11:51a nice little bit of foliage on the edge there right so all i've done on my big one there is
11:58added a a nice ribbon to be able to hang it up with nice tied a little bow on the front and then
12:04these are just they just all pop in just it adds a nice little something doesn't it i'm going to
12:11celebrate this this is again so simple but so effective i mean it looks kind of rustic looks like
12:19it should be on a tree loving the glue gun as well i definitely want a glue gun and then all i added
12:26was a little bit of extra gold gold and it just gives it that little bit of something else so but
12:31it's exactly the same technique as you do you two have finished anyway we have how will oh look at
12:38those i might display with my other stuff oh look could i just say something about your staff go on it
12:43would make a fabulous athlete because it's got quite a wide base like myself
12:50i'm not gloating here but i'm pretty impressed with my staff i really am our personalities have
12:55come through in our stars we've seen hillary's hers is all athletic and neat and a bit like hillary
13:01nice and slender mine's a bit rough and ready a bit round around the edges and i'm also a star with a very
13:08white piece well you know what i'm thinking of course don't you that i'm now going to have to
13:15make two more because i've got three grandchildren one for each well hillary don't you worry i've got
13:20plenty of crafting lined up the rest of the day for us we are just getting started ready to start on
13:25the next big ready for let's bring it on
13:48been out in the garden yet well hello mate i've had a cheeky walk around picked up a few bits of branches
13:52that we might use later hey oh hello someone's been shopping oh i told you we were going big
13:59i told you magic tick i love that we can get creative without needing weeks of prep just a
14:05little bit of foliage and an amazon delivery right so i've got everything we needed oh it's like
14:12christmas what well funny you should say that a little bit of four snow oh yes christmas without
14:19snow well four snow and epsom salt oh that's what's working great for a snowy look um okay i've got
14:25some glittery yarn oh of course you have a little bit of felt oh now this is right i love a bit of
14:31felt uh now i've got plenty of little twigs i didn't know how good we'd be able to forage though i'm
14:37slightly curious about the epsom yes i am is there a hot tub in the garden you you wish hillary you
14:43do we and then this oh whoa we're going to be crafting with wow look at that right so biscuits
14:51in there yeah oh no actually we're not going biscuits that's a shame no christmas cookies what
14:58we are going to do is we're going to create a whole scene inside the big jar nice liking that yeah
15:04right come on then you've got one jar each here you go hillary oh thank you very much heavy lovely
15:10thank you so tony i'm going to need those little artist palettes oh we're getting properly artistic
15:16now i thought that was for eggs so your eggs didn't fall over whale eggs like that size right pass me
15:23them here and i'll put us a little bit of glue in the middle of each of them so this is just a regular
15:27pva glue plenty of it right and then we're going to need those epsom salts and what we're going to do
15:33is we're going to create a snow scene with a little bit of a window so that you can look into
15:40the jar but you've got snow in the background okay so you could take your lid off if you wanted
15:45and i would recommend doing a little bit at a time so maybe you would do around your window first of
15:51all yeah i'm going for a wavy bottom are you hello oh tony's getting all hard so now that i've pasted the
16:01glass yeah how do i get the salt on we've got a paint and then we're just going to literally
16:06tap the salt with with the hands with your hands sprinkle situation a sprinkling situation i like
16:14it yeah but i assume we're doing the salts on this tray so that yes i'm going in she's going
16:20in hillary's going in this is lovely because it's very messy you're very messy yep how are you getting
16:25on there tony you've been very quiet i'm in the zone i'm in the zone i'm just about oh sorry i'm
16:29nicking um the results there is that a bit of sabotage going on there tony not at all this is
16:38so satisfying isn't it making a mess without getting told up for it it's great i love it
16:43so tony i'm guessing you've probably filmed christmas on curry already have we have so on about the 1st of
16:49october you come down to the set and you can smell turkey and you can smell a roast dinner eight o'clock
16:56in the morning when you just finish your scrambled eggs you then have to sit down and eat a full-on
17:02cooked christmas dinner which our brilliant art department has normally been up all night
17:05cooking this christmas dinner oh lovely brilliant oh i feel like i'm getting all the behind the
17:10scenes gossip here as well what do you want to know anyone get a bit uh blurry around christmas
17:17well a few people are probably getting murdered as it's coronation street you know but that's fine
17:22though they keep me busy because i'm the undertaker so oh right of course i used to have a very busy
17:26christmas that's looking good probably don't need to put more salt on it no i think that looks great
17:31now i think we should leave those 10 minutes and let's do a bit of a clean up get the epsom salts off
17:36the table and then we're exaggerating to go inside okay
17:46okay so while they are just drying a little bit i thought should we start and make our bits to go inside
17:51yes please yes right so you've got some glittery yarn and i thought we could all make an angel and
17:56then we could dangle it down from the top nice have you made any angels before only in the snow
18:01yeah oh yeah piece of cardboard yeah and what we're going to do is we're going to wrap
18:08this round our cardboard i mean we're obviously going to make our tassel into an angel but i mean
18:14this is how you would make tassels to decorate anything tassel-tastic it is tassel-tastic
18:20hillary i love it yeah oh my angel to be as chubby as my staff oh right if you want a chubby angel
18:28then maybe he's had a little bit more than yeah i think i might leave mine i think she'll be quite
18:34nice okay how's that he's still got that's looking good yeah good right so if you trim off your yarn
18:42all right then what i do want you to do is cut yourself now we need quite a long piece because
18:49we're going to dangle her from the the top of our jars with this so we can always trim it later
18:56okay okay yeah yeah looking good looking good with a flourish look oh she's there with the scissors
19:03thread it through yeah and then tie it at the top we're just literally just tie it just tie it not
19:09at the top nice and tight right so that's going to be our top yeah what we're going to do is just take
19:16it off the off here first unless we've wound it too tight yeah no you've got that and then we're just
19:23trimming through them all at the bottom yeah right right i'm gonna go flourish now oh oh there we go
19:30it's very satisfying it is that noise yeah i think hillary's got the edge on me she's very
19:36nimble with her fingers so i just need to be careful that i don't start losing because i think she's
19:43better than she's letting on yeah yeah i've got my eye on her now can you see that she looks a little
19:49bit rainbow-esque at the moment yes yes and what i want to do is bring her all together
19:53yeah so we're going to give her a little bit of a body and then the rest coming down so if you
19:58cut a longer piece of yarn and what i want you to do is tie it round her midriff oh several times
20:05several times okay yeah so can you see so we're going to oh so she's got a head i see well no that's
20:12going to be a body for a head yeah i've got you a little bead yes okay so all we're going to do is
20:17we're going to thread the wool through the bead that's all about the lick it's all about the
20:23lick we've got we've got this down pat now haven't we we have right now we could tie a big knot above
20:28a head but we don't need to guys because we've got our glue guns so all i want you to do is put a little
20:35blob of glue more or less into the wooden bead and then pull it down this is now like rain surgery
20:44it's hot going in hillary oh nice yeah going in oh hold through darling do you know what i'm going
20:51to do with my angel i'm going to give her a little hair trim on the bottom okay so just so that she's
20:56all a little bit uniformed so do you know what i thought i'd do i've tied a little bow for you
21:01which i thought would make her wings at the back nice so all we need to do is get the glue gun
21:09right so there are it oh tony she's gorgeous love it i think he's going to give me a good run for
21:18my money i think he's got hidden depths and i need to look to my laurels i think he's going to run me
21:26to the line bring it on i feel that she needs eyes and things oh is that a bit radical she's gone
21:37rogue not even without faces but if you want to give us some eyes we'll i'll find you a sharpie when
21:43we have a bit of a break later now obviously we're going to put them in our little snowy scenes but
21:49you could do all sorts of these you could hang them on the tree you could oh if you've wrapped presents
21:53you could use it as like a little tag on really isn't it yeah okay so if you get your jar up it
21:59should be dry now i hope you these are heavy oh yeah so bit of snow in the bottom yes please
22:07right so you've got a bag of four snow there oh it's snow for snow i love it for like the true
22:15northerner in me yes all of it no you don't want too much in that's looking good tony
22:21i'll put some christmas lights out and then your lights you see you'll just pop on top
22:27to me oh look at that it's like a twinkling masterpiece and then you can have the angel
22:33flying over the top she's going to look great in there yes dead center she looks great well we're
22:39now going to build a little village oh sorry for our angel to fly over i love it now you are crafter
22:45extraordinary right get your lid on yep let's get them out of the way and let's get started on the
22:52next bit
23:02it wouldn't be christmas without a fun festive treat and this one's guaranteed to disappear faster than
23:09santa on christmas eve i was thinking we'd do a little treat for hillary and tony a little kind
23:16of mid crafting interlude pick me up so i'm going to make some peanut butter chocolate cups in little
23:22reindeer shapes this is a foolproof way to melt the chocolate then i'm going to make them into peanut
23:34butter cups so i've just got some tiny little cake cases i'm just popping a little bit of chocolate into
23:40the base that'll form the bottom part of the peanut butter cup and then i want it to kind of come up the
23:47sides so i'm just going to ease it round like this right i've gone for squeezy peanut butter to make life easier
24:05and then we're going to seal that in with even more chocolate
24:14now i've seen the fancy chocolatiers like give them all the tap
24:19oh just levels them out perfectly then we just need to make them into reindeers so i've got some
24:24little pretzels i thought they'd snap in half and make little antlers and then i've got some little
24:31edible reindeer eyes and their red noses are just little sweeties
24:47they're coming together lovely
24:49and then they're ready to go in the fridge
25:02and then all we need to do is take them out of their little wrappers
25:06now they look smashing and i think hillary and tawny are going to love them let's have a little try
25:21let's see if hillary and tawny think that these red nose reindeers should go down in history
25:37oh i've made us a little treat oh she's been sealed again do you like them oh that is so cute
25:47have a one oh thank you so much so a little bit something to keep you going through the afternoon
25:51however i will say i have an ulterior motive as well so you know we're having a party at the end of
25:57the week right so we're inviting loads of the local people from the area who don't get to have a christmas
26:02steak oh oh so we are going to be decorating this room so everything you're making yeah it's going
26:08to be to decorate the room and these are going to be what i'm feeding them can i just say a very
26:12inventive use of a pretzel yeah yeah i'm not sure how i feel about eating rudolph i gave it it's good
26:19it tastes good tony oh it's great in one mm-hmm that's gorgeous mm-hmm that tony wasn't
26:26remotely worried about eating them do well with you hutton i'll let you have another one all right
26:32there's work to be done i thought what we could do is a little scene for inside the jar yeah and
26:37we'd start off making a little hut remember i got the twigs i'll cut you both a few little bits of
26:43card get your glue gun in and then stick the sides together right okay yeah and then stick the twigs
26:51on the sides one-handed glue gun and now and everything yeah
27:03right so my thinking was we'll stick our glue on stick the twigs on which are slightly too long
27:11right but what we can do is is then get the secateurs and just trim off the edges
27:16tilt it around you might be going radical because i think i'm going to go that way i
27:20will be to your house you stick them however you want to stick them okay so just a general spread
27:28general spread of glue some twigs might stick on a bit easier than others oh they stick fast
27:33they stick fast moving you've got to keep them moving let me get you all a pair of secateurs
27:49pretty brute strength there tony
27:51i'm going to be picking up twigs all weekend after you are yes i don't know how to tell you this
28:04you don't have a glue stick oh hillary what is wrong with me she likes a bit of glue
28:10now even if you didn't want to sit and do it with twigs you could do it with like a little bit of moss
28:15yes yes i think i might cut a little door out of my felt oh i haven't done my roof
28:21no no i'm thinking felt roof a little look this could have felt
28:27oh do you know what you could do i'm going to try and stick four of these together
28:32make a little chimney oh so i have to ask is anybody working at all over christmas i'm off
28:39i'm really lucky the whole of coronation street where the whole thing shuts down so all cast and all
28:44crew we all get a good full-on christmas don't you sometimes do a bit of panto yeah yeah i've been
28:50three oh my first ever job was in panto was it back end of the cow did you i did there was a whole
28:58milking sequence where i had to have a sequence of bottles under the the costume and drop the right
29:03bottle at the right time there was a milking sequence there was i mean yeah that was not
29:09something i was expecting to be discussing today doesn't tony's little hot look at me is it
29:14i love it i'm loving this i need another glue stick because i'm glu-tastic again hillary glu-tastic
29:20hillary glu-tastic that's your third glue stick it's just getting it's about my fifth i think it's
29:24i think you've lost count i think it's been a lot more than three it has i managed to trance through
29:30the show's budget as well in glue sticks oh yes i'm so sorry and then of course we've got some snore
29:37so if you want to put some four snore on sorry i'm taking so long doing this i know people have
29:42got homes to go to but i've just got a plan sorry i've got a plan and i'm going to stick to it because
29:50i want this to be the best it can be yeah hillary i think i've just heard someone shout happy new year
29:59come on hillary come on come on love she didn't want to part with her glue gun did you
30:06have you got the plan there hillary how's it look so i've cut it on a bias oh oh oh oh she's cut it on
30:12the bias ready to go there's the perfectionist coming out i promise i've nearly finished
30:17she's gone in with the snow oh very happy to get vacuum cleaner out at the end
30:28there we go are you happy with that i do apologize that i've taken so long
30:32right let's have a look at how our little houses are looking
30:36sarah hello isn't it yes that looks brilliant very excited i mean i was very pleased with the end
30:45result but the journey to get to the end result was definitely not my finest hour because the
30:51latent perfectionist in me came to the fore and yes i hold my hands up i am a perfectionist which
30:57is a blessing and a curse and they all look a little bit different they do that's what i love
31:03about it is that it's it's your own take isn't it you know what i do feel proud i feel like running
31:09home to my mum going mom look what i made i do i do i feel like i'm six again and i love it do you think
31:15mine was the best thank you i won't tell anyone
31:27so we've got a cabin yeah and i think we should make a tree right i've also planned you a base
31:33structure for the truth yes you'll see i've cut you a pie shape a pie shape cardboard and what we're
31:41going to do is i just want you to bend it around your hand soften it up soften it all up because
31:47you want to make this into a bit of a cone ah you want like a party hat got it so that we are going
31:53to adorn oh said foliage oh i got it i see where we're going with that yes you'll not be surprised
31:59to see we're getting the glue guns back out and i do have glue left you'll be pleased to hear not for
32:03long not for long yes i've never known anyone so trigger happy right get yourself a bit of foliage
32:12and these are just left over bits that we cut off the shrubbery in the garden it's as simple as
32:17all we're going to do is pull off the bits and then stick them to go down the tree it's interesting
32:25you've done that way because i okay well the three would it would hang i'm with you can you remember
32:37any of jack's christmas performances when he was a wee bag he did play um joseph one yeah yeah was he
32:43any good yeah there was quite a lot of waving to people going on but that's right we call that showing
32:50off yeah yeah exactly he's going for it he's just going for it so i mean you could add a bit of snow
33:00if you want i'm going to keep mine as it is because i think it looks great yeah just dip it in nice
33:04there we go yeah it's no top tree yeah right are we all ready to put them inside our snowy jars
33:13i love this mess jar coming in this is my oh thank you sir thank you thank you thank you oh
33:19you want your little log cabin in there tree in the background for a glue stick or i could just use
33:25yours where's the angel gonna go let's have a look i might need your um expert your crafty eye here
33:34down a bit left of it yeah yes are you gluing her in or just jamming it in with the lid i glued her in
33:41big reveal hillary big reveal oh oh yes it was not facing the right way actually still not happy with
33:49the position of the angel because she's not looking the right way that's going to worry me all the way
33:53home now let's see yours oh yes love it oh yes spectacular a scene in a jar i wasn't sure what you
34:06meant at first but what a great idea i mean again our personalities shone through the jar mine was a bit
34:12rustic around the edge hillary's was very precise as is hillary so um yeah i mean just put your own
34:20personality on everything that you make can't you really good idea thank you so much i love that can
34:25we do this again hello we've still got our gifts oh oh yes right let's have a clean up and let's start
34:32do some gifts perfect we're back with more festive fun and i've got just the trick to style up your
34:50favorite christmas tipple
34:54so we've done a scene in a jar i thought why not do a little christmas scene in a glass this is a really
35:01fun treat and super easy all i'm going to use a little bit of rosemary some pomegranate seeds we're
35:08going to freeze it ready now this is the low tack tape that is going to hold our little miniature
35:16christmas tree in place so you can see there i've just got a little bit of a gap in the middle
35:20that looks about it's a good size there and then you see that will be held just nicely
35:31in the glass and then we want to do freeze in place there so i'm going to start off just a little
35:35bit of water because it's going to be going into the freezer lovely and then a couple of little
35:41pomegranates in and they should sink to the bottom and give it a little bit of color
35:46and i'm going to do one of them for each of us
36:06now they are looking super and then you just need to take the washi tape off and what you'll see is
36:14that christmas tree will have frozen oh perfectly into place
36:22and then all that's left is to add your tipple of choice now i'm just adding tonic water to these
36:29oh hello you're going to love them this is a scene in a glass
36:35oh
36:43got a little treat forever what is that so we've done our scene in a jar look at i thought we'd do it in
36:52miniature and have our little scene in a glass now you can add anything you want i've got a bit of
36:56tonic water yes yep so what this is is this is just a frozen water yes with our rosemary christmas
37:05tree thank you with a little bit of pomegranate in the bottom for the color piece of and then it
37:09will float eventually yeah that is absolutely divine that would be perfect for a little gin and tonic
37:15oh my goodness oh cheers oh cheers merry christmas very christmas christmas love it
37:21and that's really pleasing shape too right okay put them to one side then because we've got some
37:26serious business to get going on please tell me you are both great at sewing absolutely hopeless
37:33we're not doing sewing are we yes we're going to sew a christmas stocking i can't do sewing i can't
37:38even thread the needle these days you'll be great at it though are you uh no right okay don't worry no
37:47needles no thread no stitching we're going for a no saw stocking yes now you're an expert there we
37:59go you're such a team office there i literally thought i am this isn't i'm going to have an epic
38:06fail yeah so all been well you should have brought something from home something christmasy yes yes
38:14yes i've got some jammies what have you got a very big oh nice surplus requirements now well it's had
38:25three years yeah okay totally i've got a little sparkly top which actually i've got two of and i
38:29thought okay because so it's ready to be upside ready to be upcycled yeah right okay so what i've done is
38:35i've cut you all out a template cardboard yeah draw around it yeah now the only problem i didn't
38:41know what fabric you were bringing and some fabric lends itself better than others you need something
38:47with structure yours would be brilliant i was not so good if you think about it you put a tangerine in
38:54the footer there it's gonna it's gonna go flying yeah so what i've done is i've already cut some out of
38:59calico for you so that we can line it in the calico which will be nice and strong yes little tip here
39:07though yes we're going to draw around the template and then leave ourselves a seam allowance when you
39:13cut it out leave an extra quarter of an inch half an inch that sort of level yeah do you guys still
39:20have christmas stockings at home we do yeah yeah with people's initials on them well hang them over
39:27the fireplace i can see that i've set myself a challenge here with this flabby material
39:37okay so this is where you're going to leave that margin
39:40doesn't matter if it's not perfect i mean it does to me but then i'll no but you won't see it because
39:45it's all right i'll live with it i'll just take a deep breath it doesn't matter hillary if it's not
39:50perfect perfect brilliant thank you very much right okay so you should have two calico bits
39:59and two bits of fabric and we need to stick our fabric one to the calico one okay okay yeah inside the
40:09margin like this one right okay because we're going to seam all those edges in
40:23do not look what i'm doing because you will go very wrong
40:26but when we glue the sides together yeah it's going to be fine okay
40:33look it's now curling up don't worry don't worry okay
40:39i mean how are you feeling about cutting up that uh amazing onesie after three years of
40:44service well i'm thinking about someone's gonna have to buy me a brand new onesie right tony needs
40:48a new onesie onesie please mum right this is the really really important bit you must go right sides
40:56together so you mean right sides together as in yes so we're going to glue the two right sides okay
41:03together right so now you're going to put the glue exactly on the line on the long side and i want
41:10you to put plenty of glue on i mean you don't need to invite me to do that i'm already there
41:17this is when i become six years old again oh do you know so many people think yeah crafting for kids
41:30and they don't realize just how enjoyable it can be we forget don't we yeah i feel relaxed it's just
41:38so nice to sit there chatting away it's all making the same thing looking at hillary's looking at mine
41:44it's brilliant so nice now we can trim it so that it's all the same size
41:51so that we don't have all of this extra bulk in that we don't need
41:55so i've cut the wrong side of the gluing now just just you watch where are you going woman
42:04he's just hacking at it with a pair of scissors i'm like just watch where are we going
42:11corny you can start the next stage yes captain sense what i want you to do is cut up two in this
42:17sort of half inch increments i've got that blue line with them just around the heel just around the heel
42:24and around the toe and it's just going to mean that when we turn it inside out
42:30it's nice and neat but be careful not to cut through the glue well that's my problem it was so
42:35good on the last task and this one literally epic fail i don't think it's an epic fail i think it's
42:44just a work in progress what did you put in that drink i knew i'd get the blue yeah i think i'm
42:51fully sealed right grab grab the toe and pull it through pull it through oh hello is it oh is it
43:00coming together it's coming together beautifully oh look hello i have to say tawny it's happening hello
43:09it's happening it's happening yours would keep you warm at night as well and then do you know what we
43:14can do add some embellishments yeah i have got a whole lord oh look oh lovely i mean oh you could
43:23add a little bit of trim around the top like this i'm desperate to do about this um just auditioning
43:29for santa what do you think hey i don't know why i'm putting that one minute oh also i am a woman of
43:37a certain age i can grow my own so i can dress it up now tawny you go you make it look epic
43:46oh who are you making it for my dog doggy stuck in what's he called bosey bosey what are you going
43:55to do you're going to do your trim and maybe he's adding an initial on hillary uh yes i will add an
43:59initial what's the dog called philly philly philly
44:03so talk us through what you've just done there hillary i've i've literally glued this around the
44:17margin do you know what but hold that up that's looking really good isn't that looking really good
44:21there gorgeous well have you enjoyed it i have loved it i don't want to go home no why i feel so
44:30content i feel like i've been away to a retreat or something it's just such a lovely lovely thing
44:37to do in the build-up to christmas and it's like ah ready yes drum roll please
44:47that looks so professional you like that oh i've got f for philly beautiful oh yes looking good yeah we
44:57like and some jammies gorgeous sarah is not known as the queen of crafting for nothing what i love
45:05most of all is her enthusiasm i think they look incredible and that for me is important in life
45:13passion that's what we want in life more passion for things i mean i'm supposed to pick a winner
45:18aren't there it's been crafting heaven can i say i've got my crafting queen and my crafting king
45:24ah is that just that one and that final high five yeah i think we should all cheers to our amazing
45:31christmas oh wonderful wonderful thank you very christmas thank you a lovely day merry christmas
45:42next time i think she looks best out of them all if i'm honest the christmas party preparations
45:48continue i think you need to trim it a bit so it goes a bit pointier at the top she's intimidating me
45:53now with two more celebrity crafters we're the craft version of destiny's child yeah
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