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- [Paula] Y'all are in for the biggest treat today.
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I've got two of my adorable, adorable friends here.
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And they are gonna show us
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how to set a beautiful festive holiday table.
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And y'all have all met Emily before,
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Emily Peterson that does my hair and makeup
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because Emily's actually done videos with me before.
0:32
But I don't think y'all have ever met
0:34
this most precious man in the world.
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His name is Chris Johnson.
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And he is talented.
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Both of them are so talented.
0:44
And they have recently purchased
0:48
an old farm home,
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and I'll let them tell you all about that later.
0:56
Because it's going to be like a wedding venue
0:58
and it's going to be incredible.
1:03
So they're outside right now just gathering some greenery.
1:08
You know, I've always been a firm believer
1:11
that shop in your yard first,
1:14
and then if you can't find what you need go to Stover.
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So I'm fixing to call them and see them.
1:23
See if they're ready to come inside and get started.
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So y'all sit down, get your cup of coffee,
1:31
because these two are incredible
1:35
and they're not a couple, they're best friends.
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Emily is married and has a little girl named Eloise,
1:44
that's adorable.
1:46
And Chris is just flipping all over the country,
1:50
doing his thing with his,
1:54
I think it's called
1:56
Christopher Johnson,
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- Designs. - [Paula] Designs yes.
2:02
I couldn't remember if it was interiors or designs.
2:05
So if you live
2:08
in this area of the country,
2:10
I'll make sure that you know how to contact them.
2:14
So let's go inside y'all
2:18
and see what they're cooking up.
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Yeah, we're cooking today. We just ain't cooking food.
2:23
So this is the thing y'all
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Look at this pretty boy.
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He is so pretty.
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- He might not be as sweet as he looks.
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- Oh he looks like a little angel.
2:35
- Oh I am an angel.
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- He's got the best hair and at him blushing.
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- Well there's a lot of product in there Paula.
2:41
There's a lot holding that up.
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So y'all are finally getting to meet Chris Johnson.
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And of course y'all know Emily Peterson
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from all the videos she shot along with me.
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She did my hair, my makeup today.
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- And you look beautiful. - Oh well thank you.
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Listen, Michael said she's a magician,
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(Chris laughing) not a beautician.
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- He gives me too much credit. You're pretty on your own.
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- Own. Well, thank you.
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So I want to give y'all a little background.
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I first met Emily,
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through,
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a mutual friend that she worked with.
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And so that was fun. One of the best days of my life.
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- Aw, mine too.
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And then as our relationship grew,
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I realized that she had very, very good taste.
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And so somehow we got to talking about,
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can you do the house at Christmas?
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Because we were doing a shoot there or something.
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And she walks in with Chris,
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her best friend.
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And I know y'all have seen
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that big peacock in my living room before.
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Well he stayed with River Bend.
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He didn't come with me this time, this move.
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But Chris had that bird up in our Christmas tree.
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- He sure was.
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- I said "Ooh, there's a wild boy."
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So Chris has got very, very expensive taste.
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Emily is more like me
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and lot of folks out there.
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You know we like the best for the least
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and we'll shop in our yard or our house first,
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before we go to a store. - Absolutely.
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- So these two,
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they kind of medium each other out.
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Because they have bought this old farm mansion,
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was it a mansion, a plantation, what was it?
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- It's a large home.
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It was built in the thirties, so it's historic.
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- So yeah.
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- Yeah.
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- And he has a farm house on his own,
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but this is more our plantation home
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but this is more of like,
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what would you call it?
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- I'd say,
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oh my gosh.
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- It was originally its own town.
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And it had a movie theater, a bowling alley,
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all these extra rooms. - In this house?
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- In this house, on this property.
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- On the property. - Oh on the property.
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- It had a dance hall, - No.
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- a restaurant with a bar. - So it was a little town?
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- It was a town.
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- It was a town with its own water tower and everything.
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- It was actually called Charles Georgia.
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It was, yeah, they started construction in the Thirties.
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So I think that they completed it in 38.
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- And the family that did that own movie theaters
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and had a lot of other businesses too,
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but that was their main thing.
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So it's got a lot of old Hollywood feel to it.
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It's a really interesting property.
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- I have only seen pictures y'all,
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I can't wait to come up there and see it.
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But these two have purchased that home together
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and they are gonna make it available to folks
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for weddings or anniversary parties.
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- Engagement parties. - Anything you want to do.
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- Baby showers.
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- Anything that you want to do.
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- Come spend Thanksgiving with us?
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- Yes. Yes.
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So, they'll be able to take care of you as far as food
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and catering and...
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- We hope that we have everything there for you,
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whenever you come and you can just enjoy yourself
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and your event, we're happy to do your flowers.
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Anything that you need.
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- See, that's wonderful.
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A one shop stop. - Yes.
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- So I asked them if they would come set a table
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for us for the holidays.
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So thank goodness they said yes, they would love to do that.
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So I'm going to kind of step out of the way
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and I'm going to kind of be y'all's voice.
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Hopefully I'll be able to ask them the questions
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that maybe y'all would have for them.
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- Absolutely.
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- So Eddie helped me okay.
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Help me remember the questions.
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So y'all have just come in from cutting some greenery
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out in the yard.
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So I'm going to step away.
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- Okay.
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Are these really, for me?
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- That's for you. That's for you Paula.
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You've got two.
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- Y'all I want you to look at these pumpkins
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that they brought me.
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Now listen to this.
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They came from Lowe's, that building store.
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(Chris and Emily laughing)
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Chris found two of them.
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- [Chris] Two of them.
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- [Emily] Apparently after October 31st
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pumpkins are hard to come by.
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So they were the last two left.
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- [Chris] Last two standing.
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- Get this $9 and 99 cents.
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- Correct, correct.
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- And Chris said I could have them.
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- It is yours.
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- I love, love, love them.
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And who would think it flows?
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- Well.
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- I think the wood and stuff like that for Lowe's. Okay.
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So I'm stepping out of the way.
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- Okay.
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- So y'all tell us how you would start
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to pick your theme and all that.
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How do you it?
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- Well what worked for us was we actually
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had these pumpkins leftover from Halloween.
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So we thought,
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I think those would be perfect to set
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at a Thanksgiving table.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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- [Emily] For a container, that would be,
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instead of using...
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- [Paula] Yes, you don't have to buy a container.
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- Absolutely. So what we did is we took the tops off.
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We probably took out,
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I don't know what you would just say Emily,
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four inches off the top?
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And then I learned from a good friend of mine,
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Carmen Johnson, she suggested taking liquid bleach,
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put like a cap full in a spray bottle and spraying
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the inside of these pumpkins.
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So they would last longer.
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And it really does work.
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- [Paula] On the inside it won't rot as fast.
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- Correct, correct. That is the thing.
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And then we actually do it on the outside too.
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We spray the outside,
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it cleans it sterilizes and helps become a good container.
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- [Paula] A teaspoon of Clorox.
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- You know, yeah, a spray bottle.
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So, yeah.
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So that's what we do with these arrangements.
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And these are, we've got mums and roses,
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Magnolia that we just clipped from Paula's yard,
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Hypericum berries.
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- [Paula] I love these things right here.
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These little white berries. What are those called?
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- [Chris] Hypericum berries.
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- [Paula] And will they dry good?
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- Actually, I don't know. Eddy do you?
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- [Eddie] It sounds like a Cranberry texture.
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- [Paula] They're beautiful.
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- Yeah, typically there's the green and this color.
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- [Paula] Oh and they got yellow on them.
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- Yep, yep.
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- They come in several different colors.
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There's a lime green, a peach or red.
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So you can, depending on the holiday you can kind of,
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we also stuff these with the Oasis.
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So it's the stuff that you,
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it makes a really good foundation
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for being able to build your flowers.
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Sometimes it's hard whenever it's just a loose situation
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to be able to.
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- Absolutely. And transporting.
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If you are traveling for the holidays
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and you've pre-made these,
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that work would help to keep it all in tact.
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- [Paula] And of course it keeps the flowers watered?
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Absolutely.
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- [Paula] To keep them hydrated.
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- And you can find those at your craft stores as usual.
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Just soak them for 24 hours.
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You don't want dry socket with the flowers.
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- [Paula] So the inside of the pumpkin for 24 hours?
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- The actual Oasis blobs. - [Paula] Okay.
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- So what you'll do, Paula is take a five gallon bucket,
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fill it with water.
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And usually about three Oasis blocks will fit in there.
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But you don't want to push down
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and she mentioned dry socket cause
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the actual inside of
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the Oasis will not absorb water if it's forced.
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So you just want them to eventually just sink down.
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- So once they sink down to the bottom,
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you know they are ready.
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- [Paula] Okay.
10:45
- Yeah.
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- [Paula] That's good to know,
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you didn't know that, did you Eddy?
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(cross talking)
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- [Paula] Well, y'all look so pretty,
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on camera.
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So y'all get going.
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- We'll get going, okay.
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- [Paula] Now talk us through now as to
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what you are doing.
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- So Paula's table is an eight place setting table.
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So we thought three of these pumpkins
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down the center would be good.
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- I think, yeah I think it can go down a little bit more.
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- Then of course, we're going to fill in with some other...
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- And I'm gonna start with my favorite part,
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the placemats and stuff while you do that.
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- [Chris] Okay. Perfect, perfect.
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- These placements are bad to the bone.
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They are beautiful. And you know what?
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I think I could make things.
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- [Chris] I think you could too.
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- [Emily] I think you could too.
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- Michael has taken,
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Bamboo? [Eddie] Reed yeah.
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- The bamboo and he made a ship or boat out of it.
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Remember Eddy?
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Hopefully we brought that with us.
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But yes, you could just get all these stems
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and make sure they about the same size.
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And then of course your,
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your little wood sticks there.
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And it's just wired in.
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I think that would be a wonderful, easy craft.
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So let's try doing that next Eddy.
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(Eddy and Paula laughing)
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- Fall is very crafty. You can do lot of things.
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Well, sometimes the older I get my,
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my thinking cap slips off.
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- [Eddie] Now what are these chargers?
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- Okay, these are just some simple chargers
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that we picked up somewhere along the way.
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- Oh, they're plastic.
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- [Emily] Yeah, ain't that great.
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You'd never know.
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- When you said...
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- [Emily] And that probably makes Chris cringe.
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When I brought these out to use, he was like "Ah."
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- You know, y'all have to choose your battles.
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- We have to choose our battles.
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We've certainly had some that's for sure.
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- But you know what, we've survived them all.
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I think we're 20 years in our friendship.
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- [Paula] So y'all went to school together.
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- We did. - We did, yeah, crazy enough.
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But he likes to tell everybody I'm older than him.
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- Oh, she's much older, she's far older.
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- [Paula] What two months?
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- Two years. But who's counting.
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- [Chris] Who's counting.
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- Chris and I used to host
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the high school parties together at his,
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he had a pond house
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and by the time we were done with high school,
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most all of the cheerleaders, the basketball team,
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everybody was forbidden to go out there.
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It had such a reputation.
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- [Paula] No, a bad reputation?
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- It was definitely a party house.
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A good time.
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- [Paula] For the kids.
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Now this is just beautiful.
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And this is a little on the,
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- Rustic side. - Yeah, the rustic...
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- [Chris] I think it looks perfect with your existing table.
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- [Paula] I think this is perfect for my home.
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- [Chris] Its perfect.
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- [Paula] And I want some of these.
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- [Chris] Remember where we found those?
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- Well, I don't want you to cringe if I told you.
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- Well you know he's gonna cringe.
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- They're from Hobby Lobby.
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- [Paula] Hobby Lobby?
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Love it, love it.
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If you can't find it at Hobby Lobby, they don't make it.
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- [Emily] That's right.
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- [Eddie] And what about the Turkey plates?
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- These are my mom's Turkey plates.
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A lot of times we use...
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- [Paula] So these are real?
14:50
- They are there, they're the Johnson Brothers,
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and we don't really pull them out,
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really ever.
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I don't think I've ever had Thanksgiving in them until,
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I was like, "I'm hosting Thanksgiving.
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Can I please use the Turkey plates?"
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- [Paula] You know,
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it's funny how we get these things
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that we just love so much.
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And we love them so much. We don't use him.
15:11
- That's that's exactly right.
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So my theory with that is,
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if you have it, you might as well use it.
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You know, there's no time like the present.
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- That's right.
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- Just enjoy it while you have it.
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- And look what Chris is setting down.
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He's setting down some silver tumblers.
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- [Eddy] Goblets, goblets.
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- [Chris] Beautiful. These are Emily's as well.
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And I believe she's got a collection,
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quite a collection there.
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They are beautiful.
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- They are just beautiful.
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And they're pretty lightweight.
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They're not real, real heavy.
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And they are a silver plate, right Emily?
15:53
- [Emily] They are yes.
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So they're pretty easy to clean, easy to polish.
15:58
- Paula had mentioned a couple of the flowers
16:02
that we would have used in the pumpkins,
16:04
and this yellow one here,
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let's find the little guy, right here.
16:08
This reminds me of a time that it was right in
16:11
the beginning of mine and Emily's party hosting days,
16:13
after high school.
16:15
But anyway, we're hosting an engagement party
16:19
at my house and we had gathered everything
16:23
off the side of the road.
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Cause we really didn't have a budget to go out and buy.
16:27
So we gathered everything off the side of the road.
16:29
Anyway, at the party, we had these huge,
16:31
big yellow arrangements
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and people thought they were beautiful.
16:35
But we noticed that everybody started sneezing
16:37
and coughing.
16:38
Finally one of Emily's friends walks up to her,
16:43
it was like we were hosting it for her.
16:44
And she said, "Oh, I'm sorry. Is that Goldenrod,
16:49
in your arrangements?"
16:50
And if you know that, Goldenrod is,
16:53
people are very allergic to Goldenrod.
16:57
- So major party-fail.
17:01
But we survived.
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- And hopefully y'all got
17:06
where you could afford more than Goldenrod,
17:10
and killing your guests.
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- It's changed a little bit, but not a lot.
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- [Paula] Listen, I have actually used,
17:22
what is that stuff outside the gate?
17:25
It's so poisonous.
17:28
But it's so pretty when it blooms .
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- [Chris] Let's see.
17:33
- [Paula] They're pink and some are yellow.
17:34
- [Eddie] Oh, Oleander. - Oh, Oleanders.
17:38
- I have actually used those in a flower arrangement
17:40
on the table.
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- [Chris] I love it.
17:43
- I couldn't help it, they were so pretty.
17:45
And I made sure they didn't naturally touch any of the food.
17:49
- Okay. So Paula,
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our place settings are going to be,
17:52
we're using Magnolia leaves.
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- Oh my gosh.
17:55
- That we have taken a Sharpie marker
17:57
and handwritten everyone's name.
18:00
- Genius.
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- So very free.
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If you have Magnolia in your garden.
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- [Paula] I know Emily was smiling.
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- So I'm going to let you pick your spot.
18:12
- Fabulous. Well, I kind of liked that chair.
18:15
I like being close to the kitchen.
18:17
- So you are right here.
18:19
- [Paula] So if anybody needs anything,
18:20
I can quickly jump up and you get it.
18:21
- [Chris] Okay, perfect.
18:23
- This is an incredible idea.
18:26
Now these are miniature leaves from a Magnolia tree.
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So, they have all different size leaves on a Magnolia.
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And they have selected the smaller leaf to do that.
18:42
That to me, that is genius
18:46
and cost nothing.
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- Which is something that I like.
18:51
So with this table setting,
18:53
we decided to keep it simple because on Thanksgiving,
18:55
nobody wants to go with the fest...
18:57
- [Chris] I like that even better Paula.
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- [Paula] I like it up there on the goblet.
19:02
- That's very pretty.
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- [Chris] I love that.
19:05
- So you can see it.
19:06
- You can see it much better.
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- And you can see your Chai.
19:10
You don't mind me doing that, do you?
19:12
- No, I think it's perfect.
19:14
- You know why?
19:15
I just love when we get to play together.
19:18
I love playing.
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- So much fun. And that's where ideas are born.
19:22
- That's right.
19:23
- So we were thinking with the table today
19:24
to keep it more simple,
19:25
we would not do all the silverware,
19:27
all the salad plates and everything.
19:29
Because on Thanksgiving, a lot of times you skip the salad.
19:32
Sometimes you don't have to fool with all the plates
19:34
and a lot, especially in the south, you do it buffet style.
19:37
So you can grab your plate, decide that you want something.
19:41
And then I keep the stacks of the salad plate
19:43
and bread and butter plate on
19:45
the dessert buffet or where your salads are.
19:48
So people can just fix it themselves.
19:50
If they decide they want that.
19:51
- [Paula] I think that's a grand idea.
19:54
And oh my gosh, I was fixed to ask you something.
20:00
What was I gonna ask?
20:01
Eddie if I stick out my tongue,
20:03
would read what's on my tongue?
20:07
What was I thinking?
20:12
Gosh, I can't remember,
20:15
but it'll come to me, it'll come to me.
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- So that's pretty much it.
20:20
We just scattered in a few small pumpkins around.
20:24
- I love the green pumpkins with
20:26
the orange.
20:27
- Just kind of bring some more color back through.
20:30
- [Paula] Yes.
20:31
- Chris said that if you didn't,
20:32
what was that about the aunt that you didn't like.
20:34
- Oh yeah, you actually Paula this is a great idea.
20:36
If you've got a family member, an aunt and uncle.
20:39
I don't have any, cause I love all mine.
20:42
But if you do,
20:43
you can always put a bigger pumpkin there.
20:46
You know.
20:47
- So you don't have to see them.
20:51
- Well, this is a good height
20:53
because you could still sit and see the person.
20:55
- And have a conversation.
20:56
- Yes, and have a conversation.
20:58
- And that's very important.
20:59
- Yes.
21:02
Oh, I know what I wanted to ask you, Emily.
21:04
If you would show people
21:06
the correct way for your silverware to be placed.
21:10
- Sure, absolutely.
21:12
- Maybe this one down here is that easier to...
21:15
- So the way that I remember
21:17
and I said this the last time I was with you, Paula.
21:19
You put your fork on the left.
21:22
Cause there's four letters in fork and four letters in left,
21:25
Knife and spoon on the right,
21:27
five letters in each of those.
21:29
And that's just an easy way to remember it.
21:30
- [Paula] How about that.
21:31
- [Emily] I mean.
21:32
S P O O N, five.
21:34
- And I have to do it every time.
21:36
I say it to myself every time.
21:37
- Well, I do it like this.
21:40
You know. Bread and drink.
21:42
That's a D and that's a B.
21:44
- That's a great way to do it too.
21:48
But there's all kinds of little,
21:50
it's hard to remember how to do it.
21:52
I mean,
21:53
and you want it to be right whenever people come in.
21:54
So, and there, it's set up to function.
21:59
So when you grab your fork, you know,
22:01
it's functionable,
22:02
but it's just,
22:05
it's hard to remember how it goes every single time.
22:08
- And this is just beautiful to me.
22:11
Now the flowers I have a feeling that y'all went
22:14
to a wholesale florist house?
22:17
- We did, we did.
22:18
- You wouldn't go pay retail?
22:20
- We did. We did.
22:22
But now the Magnolia of course came out of her yard.
22:25
So we didn't have to buy the actual greenery to go in it.
22:28
But the...
22:29
- And to be honest with you,
22:30
if you didn't want to go buy all those flowers,
22:33
which I love, everyone loves flowers.
22:35
Just the green and the orange would be beautiful.
22:39
- Absolutely.
22:40
- Yes you wouldn't even have to go to that extreme.
22:43
Yes, yes.
22:45
- Because it's go big or go home.
22:49
- You know I'm with you.
22:51
That's why I'm getting so big.
22:56
And you know you can pick up flowers from
22:57
the grocery store.
22:58
- Absolutely. - Absolutely.
23:00
- You know, the little bundles.
23:01
- Absolutely.
23:02
Trader Joe's always has a really good flower options,
23:05
Honestly like Publix.
23:06
We actually recently ordered some online
23:10
the other day and...
23:12
- Did you?
23:13
- We did.
23:14
- How was the price?
23:16
- Well, actually the price of flowers,
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like everything else right now, is out the roof.
23:22
- And having to go to the grocery store.
23:24
- Yeah.
23:25
So you just have to be conscious of those things.
23:28
And if you can gather things out of your yard
23:30
or off the side of the road,
23:31
like we did with the Goldenrod,
23:33
those things definitely.
23:34
- But be careful what you pick.
23:36
- Yes. Yes.
23:38
Well, you know what?
23:39
I just, I bought some fresh Eucalyptus from Kroger.
23:43
Kroger has a very good floral department.
23:46
- And that dries nicely.
23:48
- Yes.
23:49
And so I bought Bolide, but Eddie and I just let it dry.
23:53
It smells so good. - Absolutely.
23:56
So it's just easy and easy, easy do.
24:01
And my aunt Peggy taught me years ago,
24:04
how to go out and just cut greenery from your yard
24:08
and make a beautiful big arrangement.
24:10
- Absolutely.
24:11
- It makes such a statement. - Gorgeous. Yes.
24:13
- Yeah, you have the Camellia,
24:15
you have the Loquat, you have even Spanish moss.
24:18
You've got all the Spanish Moss.
24:20
- You see I hung some moss over there on
24:22
the tree.
24:24
- You know, actually some Spanish moss,
24:26
tied up down here, would've been really pretty.
24:29
- That would be beautiful.
24:30
- We might have to add that to it.
24:33
- Yeah, there's some laying right out there
24:35
that you can go get.
24:37
I love the moss.
24:39
- I do too.
24:40
- And over here, I see that you've...
24:46
- We added that little guy.
24:47
- These are precious containers.
24:49
And they look like your placemats.
24:53
- Chris has a collection of all kinds of things like that.
24:56
Like, if you need anything,
24:57
he's the man to call for those kinds of things.
25:01
- Chris has got
25:04
so many things that his fingertip.
25:06
In fact, when I said "I got to get me some chickens",
25:11
he said, "no problem."
25:14
Next thing I knew
25:14
he and his sister showed up with that 10 chicken.
25:17
- And you know what?
25:18
He's been wheeling and dealing like that,
25:19
since he was a little boy.
25:23
- You just tell me what you do Paula.
25:25
We'll figure it out.
25:25
- Listen, you will never be broke.
25:31
All right, so.
25:35
The dessert table and the salad bar,
25:39
I guess you could clean off a sideboard
25:42
and do everything right here so it's close together.
25:47
And it would just be a matter
25:48
of clearing off all that.
25:51
- It's gonna be self-serve.
25:53
- Yes.
25:54
And I think you want it
25:55
as close to your food as you can get it, right?
26:01
- Absolutely.
26:02
- Let me ask you this. Paula.
26:03
Where would your food,
26:05
you would have your food up here?
26:07
- Yes.
26:08
- Okay. So your turkey would be up there as well?
26:10
- Yes, yes.
26:12
- Let me ask you this.
26:13
How do you prepare your turkey?
26:14
- Well, my favorite way is fried, Chris.
26:16
- Well, some things you just have to fry.
26:18
- Some things you just have to fry.
26:21
From butter ball, to real butter balls.
26:25
I've done it.
26:26
- Oh good. All right.
26:29
I've also fried butter.
26:29
- Okay. It's delicious.
26:32
I just do it and you know, balls,
26:35
put it in the freezer and then let's see.
26:39
I can't remember the last time I did one.
26:41
I can't remember what I put them in.
26:45
I may have to dipped them in little egg or something.
26:47
- Okay, okay.
26:48
- And did the Panko and fried one.
26:50
- Oh my gosh.
26:52
- And I mean you drop it just for a minute.
26:56
- Okay.
26:56
- And then you put that ball
26:57
on top of a piece of fresh fish.
27:00
- Oh my goodness.
27:01
- That couldn't be anything but good.
27:02
- And you could chop up like Rosemary or Basil.
27:07
- Oh my. - Oh gosh.
27:08
- Or Oregano, you know, whatever fresh herbs you grow.
27:14
And it really is good.
27:15
- That would be amazing. - On steak and fish.
27:19
So if you're looking for a way to fatten up a dish,
27:21
try that one out.
27:23
- It's the time of year.
27:23
- 'Tis the season
27:25
- 'Tis the season, eat Rum balls.
27:30
If y'all enjoyed the video
27:33
that I did with Emily and Chris,
27:36
they showed us how to set up pretty, pretty, pretty,
27:40
holiday table,
27:43
without spending a whole bunch of money.
27:46
Probably the most money y'all spent
27:47
was on the flowers, right?
27:49
- Yes. and we recycled the pumpkins from Halloween.
27:52
So that was the dual purpose for that.
27:54
- Yes. So they're going to show you
27:57
up because they had three beautiful pumpkins
27:59
lined up on the table that were filled
28:02
with all kinds of beautiful blooming flowers.
28:05
So they're going to show you how to make
28:08
your own pumpkin vase.
28:13
So there y'all go.
28:14
- So we started with cutting the pumpkin open
28:17
and Chris did all the handiwork for that.
28:20
He scooped it all out
28:21
and then we put the Oasis blocks in there.
28:23
Just shoved them in there.
28:24
- But y'all excuse me.
28:26
But didn't, y'all say y'all sprayed it with Clorox modern?
28:30
- Correct, correct. We did.
28:32
We treated the pumpkin and it helps with the longevity
28:35
of the actual flowers growing in it
28:37
from algae growth and whatnot,
28:39
as well as the lifespan of the actual pumpkin.
28:42
So we did scrape the pumpkin out.
28:44
We mixed,
28:45
just a cap full of bleach with a little.
28:47
- Into a spray bottle of water.
28:48
- Of spray bottles water. Correct.
28:51
And then we, so it's treated and ready to go.
28:54
The Oasis sat for maybe 24 hours in a five gallon bucket
28:58
of just plain water.
29:01
And you want to let it sit for 24 hours instead of forcing
29:04
it because it could get dry socket.
29:05
And that what that is, is it creates a...
29:08
- Dry pocket within the Oasis itself.
29:10
- Yes, like a tooth, when you get,
29:12
when you get a tooth pulled.
29:13
- So you don't want to shove it in,
29:15
you wanna just...
29:16
- You don't want a dry socket.
29:18
- That's right, you don't want to dry socket,
29:19
your flowers won't like that.
29:20
So then I've started,
29:22
we start kinda with a little bit of a base of Magnolia
29:25
and if you didn't want to do flowers...
29:27
- Can we just do this a little bit,
29:30
so they can see how you've got that Oasis down in there.
29:33
- Absolutely.
29:35
- It's nice and snug in there.
29:36
- It's nice and snug.
29:37
- Yeah you want to make sure,
29:39
Chris has always good about making sure
29:40
that you have enough so that you're not sticking
29:42
your flower through and it's not getting water.
29:44
You want to have base that's...
29:46
- But now once you put this wet Oasis in,
29:50
do you add any more water?
29:52
- I did.
29:53
I added to about here just for traveling purposes,
29:56
just in case it did rock.
29:58
But I would say add about this much water.
30:00
Cause sometimes you will miss your Oasis
30:03
when you're poking your flowers in there
30:06
and you just want to make sure
30:07
it's gonna absorb some water.
30:08
- Yeah. So you want it to be able to keep drinking.
30:11
- Correct.
30:12
- Okay. Thank y'all.
30:13
- So even if you didn't want to do flowers,
30:15
you could do just a bunch of Magnolia in it.
30:17
And that would be beautiful too.
30:18
Cause I love the color combination of the green in the lime.
30:21
- I do too.
30:23
- And this was all gathered in your front yard.
30:26
- I know.
30:27
You know I said,
30:29
"you've got to give me plenty of Magnolia trees in my yard,
30:33
because I use them definitely for the holidays."
30:37
- Absolutely.
30:38
- And even when its not a holiday.
30:40
- Year-round.
30:41
- And I like to find these drapey pieces,
30:43
so you can find some that she can kind of plug in,
30:45
and then let it kind of cascade down the pumpkin.
30:49
And Chris mentioned earlier you have some Spanish moss
30:52
that would be pretty cascading down.
30:54
- Yes.
30:55
- You want me to run out there
30:56
and get y'all some Spanish moss?
30:57
Yeah, let me do that. I'll be right back It.
30:59
- Okay we'll keep building these flowers.
31:01
(cross talking)
31:03
- So just start building.
31:05
I kind of like to put a mum in front of the Magnolia
31:10
and I want to make it kinda like just a ball of flowers.
31:13
It's kind of what we're going for, right Chris?
31:15
- That's right. Real compact.
31:19
If you can with your flowers.
31:21
What about Arie?
31:22
- Whatever your taste is with it.
31:24
You can't mess it up.
31:25
And I like that they look kind of wild.
31:29
That's more my style.
31:35
- So I'm just going to make more
31:36
of these small little table arrangements that we had
31:39
in-between the pumpkins on the table.
31:41
So what I did is took three,
31:43
basically three small clippings of little gem,
31:45
Paula's Magnolia, and stuck it in here.
31:50
You could use as little as one rose, two roses,
31:53
but you just take your rose and just stick it in there.
31:57
- Is this enough guys?
31:58
- Oh yeah that's perfect.
32:00
- That's perfect. That is perfect.
32:01
- And you know, it's supposedly full off red bugs.
32:06
So if you're worried about that,
32:08
you can throw that in your microwave for about a minute
32:12
and it will kill any kind of insect that might be in it.
32:15
- That is a great tip for that.
32:18
- There you go.
32:20
- I just roll with it.
32:22
- Well, I do too most of the time.
32:29
I love this in containers to the Rosemary.
32:32
- And the smell.
32:34
- Oh gosh.
32:35
- I'll go by and I'll just knock
32:39
the Rosemary bush out there, oh.
32:42
- Just to smell it out there.
32:44
- It just permeates Michael's cigar smoke.
32:47
(everyone laughing)
32:51
He gets so touchy.
32:54
- And that's a very nostalgic smell. I like that.
32:57
- I do too.
32:57
- You do?
32:58
- I do yes.
33:01
- I like the smell of a pipe,
33:03
not a cigar they just...
33:06
- [Eddy] Well there's different varieties of cigars.
33:09
Some do have a...
33:11
- And you know Michael smokes expensive cigars.
33:14
You know, he ain't gonna smoke the cheap cigar.
33:17
- That's why he smells so good.
33:20
- I lost one.
33:23
- [Paula] Oh, and I love him like that.
33:29
There he is.
33:35
- [Paula] Your Peonies is opening up.
33:37
- I know finally,
33:38
we never really got ours to open up.
33:43
But we use all the tricks for that hot water.
33:47
What all did you do to get the Peonies to open?
33:49
- I did hot water.
33:51
So I cut the stems about an inch.
33:55
Well, a little more, probably two inches of the initial cut.
33:58
And then I'd cut on an inch
34:00
every four or five hours.
34:03
And try to get them to suck. - So they keep drinking.
34:04
- You really have to nurse them.
34:07
But they're finally opening up.
34:09
- And then they grow so easy in the cold don't they,
34:12
up north. - They do.
34:13
- We don't have a much, we don't have them here at all.
34:16
- [Paula] No.
34:17
- [Emily] But they're beautiful.
34:19
- I mean I love that Peonies,
34:20
I'm right up there with the Hydrangeas.
34:25
On my love for Peonies.
34:26
- Yes, absolutely.
34:28
- And Paula, this is not Goldenrod.
34:33
- He's telling all of our secrets.
34:38
- If you don't like your guest,
34:39
make a flower ring out of Goldenrod.
34:43
- For sure. You can run them off real quick that way.
34:46
- "Ooh, I got to go home mom. I'm allergic to something."
34:51
- So you just kind of keep sticking.
34:54
If you see a hole,
34:55
you kind of fill it with your greenery or there's really...
35:01
- And see Eddie,
35:02
these will open up in probably a day or so.
35:05
These are the Peonies.
35:08
- [Eddie] Yeah, just keep them.
35:09
- I've never seen a Peonies quite that color.
35:12
- It's beautiful. It's beautiful.
35:13
It looks so good with everything we did with the...
35:17
- Yes, yes. The contrast.
35:20
- [Eddie] Now were those out of water when you bought them?
35:23
- They were, they were.
35:24
And typically when you're buying wholesale,
35:26
they'd been out of water for a while.
35:28
So that's one thing when you're buying flowers,
35:32
you should instantly cut at least an inch,
35:34
two inches off of them.
35:35
And go ahead and start feeding them.
35:37
They need water.
35:42
- [Emily] We were running around trying to find
35:44
the buckets to put them in.
35:49
And that's about...
35:50
- [Paula] Do you ever bring your greenery up?
35:52
- [Emily] Yeah absolutely.
35:55
- [Paula] You know,
35:56
there's almost no right or wrong is there?
35:58
- No there isn't.
36:01
It's totally up to you.
36:03
I mean, you can just keep...
36:04
- Everybody has a different little touch.
36:07
- Absolutely.
36:08
Or sees, the moss just makes it.
36:11
- My gosh.
36:13
So I love all the different textures that you bring into it.
36:16
And that's what I do feel like what
36:19
the blooms or the flowers do is bring that in.
36:21
- I love the berries and then I love the thing
36:23
that looks like a little comb.
36:25
Do you know what that is Eddie?
36:27
- [Eddie] What's that?
36:28
- This little green thing.
36:29
- I love those yeah.
36:31
- [Eddie] I don't know. I mean it looks like a comb flower.
36:34
You know like a comb flower.
36:36
- It's so pretty.
36:37
- But that's about all you do.
36:38
You just keep sticking if you see a hole.
36:40
- Look at this Camaeo here.
36:43
- Yeah that's beautiful.
36:44
- How about some Rosemary in it?
36:46
- I know listen,
36:47
I stick this in my flower arrangements all the time.
36:51
Cause it smells so stinking good.
36:53
- It does smell good.
36:54
And especially with Christmas coming up,
36:57
that's a great thing.
36:58
- Yes it's like a room deodorizer.
37:02
- There you go.
37:04
- That's a little big. - Here we go.
37:07
Here we go.
37:08
- Thank you.
37:09
- Sometimes have to bite it with your teeth.
37:14
- Sometimes you just do what you have to do.
37:17
Well that's it.
37:19
See how easy?
37:21
And you know what?
37:22
I wish we had time for you to do just a green one,
37:26
so people could see how pretty
37:28
and you could just add beautiful ribbon colors.
37:31
- Oh yeah, that would be great way.
37:33
- Whatever your color scheme is.
37:38
- There's really no boundaries, I mean no rules.
37:42
You know.
37:44
- No rules. Just right kiddies.
37:48
So have fun.
37:50
Putting your stuff together.
37:53
- I love Rosemary, Paula.
37:55
- It smells amazing.
37:56
- It is incredible.
37:58
And I'm just going to stick pieces in there.
38:01
Just so you have the smell.
38:05
So there you go. We got plenty of Rosemary.
38:09
Well, y'all got to come back and see me, kiddos.
38:13
- We'd love to.
38:14
- Cause people are gonna love spending time with you.
38:20
So until next time.
38:22
Chris and Emily.
38:24
Love and best wishes and pretty flowers.
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