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- Hey y'all.
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As promised,
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Eddie and I are gonna show y'all
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how we have done Christmas around here.
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And if you'll remember,
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I did a video with a couple of guys that own
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Get Lit
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Jax,
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and the Jax is for Jacksonville.
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And these guys go all over
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doing lighting up people's Christmas lights.
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So the colored lights,
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Mike did those right Eddie?
0:28
- [Eddie] Yeah, yeah, he did the fence and the--
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- Uh huh-- - Trees.
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- [Paula] The fence, yeah, and the trees.
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And-- - But the house.
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- [Paula] The house and the garage
0:38
was done by
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Get Lit
0:42
Jax.
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And,
0:46
I think it looks so pretty.
0:48
Kind of looks like a winter wonderland to me.
0:51
- [Eddie] Yes.
0:52
- [Paula] Getting it to you.
0:53
- [Eddie] Yes.
0:54
- [Paula] And I wish we could do those
0:55
beautiful garages that Mike has but--
0:57
- [Eddie] Maybe next year we'll
0:58
tackle those. - Yeah, maybe next year.
0:59
We'll have to save our coins.
1:01
(Eddie and Paula laugh)
1:04
But everything turned out so pretty.
1:06
Now these little reindeer,
1:08
I actually found those at Sam's when,
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was it last Christmas Eddie, or?
1:12
Christmas was two years ago?
1:14
- [Eddie] Yeah, I think it was two.
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- [Paula] And I just thought they were so pretty.
1:23
I just love those little deer.
1:25
It's like we caught them
1:27
out here trying to eat some good stuff up.
1:31
And Eddie did
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just beautiful wreaths
1:37
on the garage doors and the,
1:40
the gate, the fence when you come in.
1:42
And even our little chickadees
1:45
have a wreath. - Yes the little--
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- And they have a red light in their,
1:53
in the hen house,
1:54
because someone told us
1:57
that a red light will encourage them to lay more eggs
2:01
because they had really gotten down to,
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I mean like two or three a day.
2:07
And they should be
2:08
laying one egg per chicken a day.
2:13
But oh, how pretty.
2:15
And Eddie you even put a wreath up on the
2:18
gate going to Nick and Jody's house.
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Oh, it's so pretty.
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I wish I could just stay out here and
2:27
just look and look, and look.
2:33
And it's all very, very simple.
2:35
A lot of greenery. - Yeah no,
2:36
I think we kept it pretty simple
2:38
this year. - Yeah.
2:39
I don't think we did a whole bunch
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this year, Eddie.
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I know, I didn't particularly do so much,
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but I know you worked awfully hard
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on this gorgeous front door.
2:54
- [Eddie] And this year we tried to use a lot of
2:56
greenery from the yard.
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- [Paula] Uh huh, Yes.
2:58
- [Eddie] Spray painted some
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silver and gold. - Yes,
3:01
yes.
3:02
- [Eddie] Paula Deen Green.
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- [Paula] Yes, and look at those beautiful pine cones.
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- I know. - Where did we get those?
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- [Eddie] You know, I mean we've had them forever
3:09
and we just keep using them and using them.
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- I know it and they're just exquisite.
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I don't ever recall seeing any that big.
3:19
And we found these
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crystal balls
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at,
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in Albany at Anne's Secret Garden.
3:30
Which I just love Anne's stuff.
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If y'all are ever in Albany
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or go to her Facebook,
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Anne's Secret Garden.
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She's got some gorgeous stuff.
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And these we bought from Anne's Secret Garden.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, yeah.
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- And these stay out here all the time.
3:50
But last year Eddie thought putting them in the
3:55
planters would be good.
3:57
And of course these little pillows over here,
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sometimes in the least
4:02
expected places you can find neat pillows.
4:07
I mean, this is Walmart.
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And this is the most beautiful,
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he's like a crocheted Santa.
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- [Eddie] Or a hook, or a like a hooked rug.
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- [Paula] Uh huh, a hooked rug.
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He's beautiful.
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And I've never seen another one since.
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And Eddie and Mike did all this,
4:31
which really sets everything off.
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The other day, I'll tell y'all a quick funny story.
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The other day, our electricity just went off.
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And Michael's brother, Nick, and Jody live right next door.
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They've lived there their whole entire life, or Nick has.
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And, so Nick called Mike and he said,
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he said, "Has the Griswolds knocked out all
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of our electricity?"
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(Eddie and Paula laugh)
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Because we had just put up all these lights.
5:03
And I thought that was funny.
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So we're known as the Griswolds this Christmas.
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But y'all come on in.
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Come on in, y'all.
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Oh that greenery smells so good, Eddie.
5:17
- [Eddie] It does.
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- [Paula] So to me,
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the mantle is a showstopper.
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- That's where we
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started it all. - Eddie did.
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Yes, Eddie did every piece of that y'all.
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Every piece.
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- [Eddie] So this is all out of the yard.
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- Uh huh. - We've got the--
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- [Paula] Yep.
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Our palms. - Palms.
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So we got the holly leaves.
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- [Paula] You sprayed them.
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- [Eddie] Crepe myrtle.
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- [Paula] Look at these holly leaves, y'all.
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He sprayed them. - This is crepe myrtle.
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- Oh yeah, that's right's. - That's crepe myrtle.
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- [Paula] That's right. (Eddie laughs)
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- [Paula] And look how beautiful it makes it.
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Just beautiful.
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And what Lou?
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Sometimes the simplest things.
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And look at this precious Santa head.
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I can't remember where I got him, Eddie.
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But,
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he's beautiful.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, he looks like an old time.
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- [Paula] An old-timey Santa.
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- [Eddie] And speaking of Santa, there's--
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- [Paula] Yes.
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One of my
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most treasured possessions.
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My nephew Jay Hires,
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Bob and Jill's son,
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and Kari's brother painted that for me one Christmas.
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And,
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I treasure it.
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I just treasure it.
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Jay's no longer with us,
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but
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it brings back good memories of
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when Jay was here with us and,
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I just love it, Jay was such a talented artist.
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He actually graduated from SCAD
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and his talent was just
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unlimited.
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So I hope that darling boy is
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happy and content now.
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So Eddie set up the Byer's scene here.
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And this is kind of the musicians.
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- [Eddie] This is the Nutcracker suite.
7:29
- [Paula] Yeah, the Nutcracker suite.
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And, I love the piano and the lady playing the piano
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with her candelabra.
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It's just beautiful, beautiful.
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- [Eddie] And the Mouse King.
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- [Paula] Uh huh.
7:46
And over here, Linton came in the other day
7:49
and he said, "Oh, Guinea, I love this.
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I love this staircase."
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And he was putting his figures on it.
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- [Eddie] His Transformers.
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- [Paula] Uh huh, his Transformers.
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- [Eddie] Mr. Scrooge would
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not like that. - Yes.
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- That's-- - Yes.
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- [Eddie] Mr. Scrooge's staircase.
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- [Paula] Yes.
8:07
But you can get accessories like this
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for your Christmas dolls.
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And look at this picture right here, y'all.
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That's Gus posing
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as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
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(Paula laughs)
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It took us forever to get that picture,
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didn't it, Eddie? - Yes.
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Many, many takes.
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- Yes.
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And over here,
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we've just got the Byers everywhere.
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Now, I made these
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Christmas stockings
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back in
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1972.
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So they would be,
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help me,
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hit me Eddie.
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- 51-- - 28.
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- 50-- - 38, 48,
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over 50 years old.
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And I've still got the mama,
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mama, Jamie, and Bobby stockings.
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And of course they were way too little
9:05
to use as their stockings.
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I couldn't have,
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or saying I couldn't have gotten anything in them.
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So
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we moved on
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to bigger ones but I treasure these.
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I treasure these.
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It's so pretty.
9:23
And every Christmas I put out
9:26
pictures from Christmas past.
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And let me get up here Eddie and open,
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open these up.
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I can't believe I don't have them framed.
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And both of these are of Bobby.
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1980, I didn't put the date on that one.
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But look at Benny, ain't he precious.
9:51
And this was the cover to cooking with Paula Deen Magazine.
9:56
One Christmas, look at.
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I had three little boys,
10:00
but,
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we put,
10:05
we put our Christmas pictures out.
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And Christmas pictures all over here.
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And this-- - This is,
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this is kinda your prize possession right there.
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- [Paula] Yes, yes, yes.
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This is all the grandchildren.
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And they would have a hard time finding
10:28
their picture on the tree.
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So Eddie said, let's make a separate one.
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A separate tree.
10:36
And so we did.
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Look at that precious little Jack,
10:39
that little book right there.
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Oh and Bennet.
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And I have a lot of Jack and Maddie here
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because they're the oldest.
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They've been around the longest.
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Look at little Davis.
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I just love looking at these pictures.
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Of course, we've got the dolls here.
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And our Christmas tree.
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Last Christmas, our friend Elaine Sea Bolt brought me
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the red truck
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and the red wagon.
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And over here, I love this picture.
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I was at Pigeon Forge
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turning on the Christmas tree lights at,
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on the island there at cooking with Paula Deen
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and Eddie grabbed a shot of Santa Claus kissing.
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Miss Claus, which was me.
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(Paula and Eddie laugh)
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Oh, I thought that was just so sweet.
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So this ornament is full of,
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mainly, it's full of
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my--
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- [Eddie] Ragco-- - Ragco, yes.
12:03
- [Eddie] And vintage--
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- Now this-- - Italian.
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- [Paula] This is so old.
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- [Eddie] And that's-- - So old.
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Yes. - Martha Washington.
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- [Paula] Martha Washington.
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Old, old,
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old, old, old. - And the Venetian.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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And look, that was one of the first,
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that was one of the first ones
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that I found.
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And I found them at a yard sale in Albany
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before we ever moved to Savannah.
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And,
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I just love that clown.
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But I know I've got some older ones,
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but we had so much y'all.
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I know I've got box after box,
12:45
after box of more ornaments.
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And,
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but seems like I got tired
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of putting the ornaments on
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because that was kind of my job.
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- [Eddie] And we don't have the the big tree anymore.
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This is-- - I know.
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But that's still a big tree. - It's still a big tree, yeah.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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And stand back here, Eddie, and get that mantle.
13:04
I don't know if we were too close to it for them to see.
13:09
But you did a spectacular job on that mantle.
13:13
- [Eddie] Thank you, that was kind of take two,
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our first-- - Yeah.
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- [Eddie] Try.
13:19
I think the heat got to the fresh greens, so.
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(Paula laughs)
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Let's see how long, if this,
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this might take us through Christmas.
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- Oh well, I'm gonna keep our fingers crossed.
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Last year we brought the,
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the garland down to the floor.
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And this year Eddie did a short,
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and I like the short so much better.
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- [Eddie] Yeah it's a little cleaner looking.
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- And over here.
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And I'm a nut for,
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for--
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- [Eddie] Snow globes.
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- Snow globes, I couldn't think of the name of it.
13:53
And over here, this is one of my favorite cabinets.
13:58
And we just have different little scenes.
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Bubbles gave me this one Christmas, the
14:06
Sea Captain Santa.
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And Byers also has
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snowmen.
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And this one down here, I love this one, Eddie.
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The artist.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, Bubbles I think gave you that.
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- Uh huh, she did.
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She gave me that one too.
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All right.
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Like I said, we didn't go crazy this year y'all.
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In our little den in here,
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we did very, very little.
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Very, very little.
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Except for our snow globes.
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And this is a beautiful, beautiful
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set of dolls from Byers.
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It's a Salvation Army group.
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And I love them.
15:09
Oh, yay.
15:10
Now we can see.
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- [Eddie] This is a nice, cozy, dark room.
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- [Paula] Uh huh.
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- [Eddie] I love it, it's--
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- Yes. - Kind of like a library.
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- Yes, oh I missed turning a snow globe on.
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So, you know, not a whole bunch in here.
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And I do want y'all to see
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this is a beautiful light fixture
15:33
that we had made for this room.
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But you can't see it now because
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Eddie covered it with all this beautiful stuff.
15:42
And you added the red balls today,
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didn't you? - I added, and the cardinals.
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- [Paula] Yes, I saw the cardinals.
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And I love it.
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I just love it.
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And this is just ivy right here.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, it's spray painted.
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- It's spray painted ivy. - Spray painted ivy,
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and spray painted
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Holly.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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- [Eddie] And then the Crepe myrtle.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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And for my centerpiece on my table,
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I just did my apple tree.
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Which I just, I love using the fresh fruit.
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- [Eddie] I'm glad you did it.
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Last year you,
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said you, just didn't wanna do it last year.
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- [Paula] I didn't I didn't do it last year?
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- [Eddie] You didn't do it last year.
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(Eddie laughs)
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- [Paula] Well that was, that was lazy of me.
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(Eddie and Paula laugh)
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And over here,
16:30
Eddie has the dolls.
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- [Eddie] And then this is just the traditional,
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traditional colonial.
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- [Paula] Yep.
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This is just the scenes.
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And these are the accessories that you can buy.
16:45
I love the gate and the fireplace.
16:47
Let's see, where is the fireplace?
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- [Eddie] It's over with the
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Christmas Carol.
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- [Paula] Oh, okay.
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And I love this one.
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And my friend Diane Cook sent me this one
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and this one-- - And that one, yep.
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- [Paula] And one more, didn't she send three?
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I'm positive she did.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, I think it's up on the shelf up there.
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- You sure, it wasn't this one?
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- [Eddie] I think it's over there on the,
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on the-- - But these are vintage.
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What does the date say on that?
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20--
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- [Eddie] Can't tell.
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- That may not be it.
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2014 or, I don't know, I can't see.
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But like I said, the old ones just thrill me to pieces.
17:41
And,
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like I said,
17:45
very, very light,
17:50
over here.
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And this is my nativity scene.
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And somehow little Jesus' arms got broke.
18:00
But I found this when we went on a cruise to Mexico.
18:06
And I thought it was so pretty.
18:08
Just
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the solid white.
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To me, it's just beautiful.
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Now, this is from our Paula Deen store, isn't it?
18:20
- [Eddie] Yes,
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yes.
18:23
- And look at this precious Santa Claus lamp,
18:25
somebody gave it to Eddie.
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He brought it in here
18:29
and said I could use it for the holidays.
18:32
And of course we got our beautiful house that
18:36
was made and sent to us.
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Hadn't it been a year?
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- [Eddie] Yeah, it was last year yeah.
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And I just put vintage snowman lamp next to it.
18:49
- Yes.
18:50
We had all the Christmas,
18:53
this was made for with Christmas trees
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and poinsettias and all that.
18:58
So we took that off though
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because we wanted to use it year round every day.
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Because it's so beautiful, so beautiful.
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So that is it, y'all.
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That's it.
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- [Eddie] I hope everyone
19:21
had as much fun decorating their property as we did.
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(Eddie and Paula laugh)
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- Well, I just love watching you, Eddie.
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I love watching you do it.
19:30
So I hope you enjoyed our little tour
19:33
because Eddie and I love being
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with y'all so very much, and Theresa.
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And we thank y'all for all the love and support
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that you've shown us through the years.
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Through the year and years.
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And just know that we hope to always be there for y'all
19:53
sending you love and best wishes.
19:55
Merry Christmas
19:57
and Happy New Year.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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