Good Morning guys Welcome back to Tokyo

I'm at Ushka's house again and we do

have lots of work to do this weekend

that's why I'm down here but because it

is the weekend before Christmas we

thought we would also do lots of

Christmassy stuff while I'm here so I

thought I would invite you guys for one

last cozy vlog before the holidays so in

Japan the holiday season the most

exciting thing about it is lucky bags if

you've been following my channel for

years you know that it's super fun at

the end of the year lots of Japanese

companies will gather up the items that

didn't sell or sometimes they'll buy

brand new items and they'll package them

together for lucky bags and we're going

to be doing that for our stationery

business this year can't wait so that's

our main project for the weekend I'm

wearing some new frames today from

glassesusa.com

they have very great affordable frames

so many different styles to choose from

on their website you can add

prescription lenses to any frames you

can also add blue light protection lots

of fun stuff to choose from so I will

link my frames down below if you'd like

to check them out first item on the

to-do list today is making some

Christmas wine okay so this is what you

will need for making the mulled wine

we've got cardamom

cloves

fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks and some

orange peel

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depends on if like if you like lots of

ginger

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usually like two but these are kind of

small so it doesn't matter that it's got

like all that can you use any kind of

orange yeah any kind of orange is fine

and again if you like more orange just

add more

sometimes I break it if I can

It's like super tough

so

cinnamon, cardamom

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I can give you some of this to take with you I've never seen these before

This I get from the Indonesian

supermarket

If it's open we'll get more flavor

mmm smells good already yeah

cardamom's amazing

It's really rough It is rough whatever I

used to count but now I don't

then we just boil it for like I boil it

for about 10 minutes okay

and then I'll just leave it to steep for

I don't know a day or so

we can drain it later tonight

[Simmering]

So while we're waiting for our wine

ingredients to boil

I actually have some presents open from

viewers and there's one from my friend

Emma in here

this first cute package is actually from

Japan this is from Alev in Osaka

Thank you so much Alev that was such a nice

surprise

cute cat tape

ah it's my favorite card this is

probably the best Christmas card

that exists in Japan, it folds out into a

3D

Christmas tree with a bunch of cats

hanging off of it I've gotten this one

for my family before it's such a cute

Christmas decoration here we go

how cute is that

aw cute

I'm very excited for this one of my

favorite teas is a rose-flavored black tea

wow this smells so good

this is gonna be so yummy look at that

how pretty is that

oh and a bunch of cool stickers

I'm going to secretly

stick these all over

Chris's studio don't tell him let's see

Chris's studio, don't tell him let's see

if he notices

thank you so much Alev that's great I

can't wait to try it Next I have a

little present from Emma I met up with Emma

yesterday for lunch and she gave me this

It's in a really pretty

Japanese patterned bag which I love I'm

gonna have to find another use for this

what do we have here oh cool tin

it says matcha

matcha mochi

oooh they're like little senbei crackers

[crunching]

It's really light

oh they're really good

they're so light and fluffy

mmm Emma these are delicious thank you

and finally I have a gift from

Andrew in America Thank you so much

Andrew

Ooh what's that

ah no way is it one of the tamagotchis?!

two or three vlogs back I drove past the

tamagotchi store

in a taxi and I was like what there's a

tamagotchi store I had no idea and I

looked it up online and

they were selling these tamagotchi smart

watches

like a tamagotchi that you wear as a

watch and Andrew got me one what that's

so fun I haven't had a tamagotchi in

ages

I love them this is exciting

and it's so cute

love the design I love the rainbow

[Tamagotchi noises]

while our wine mix is steeping we're

gonna head to 7-eleven because they have

some Animal Crossing items out that

neither of us have seen yet and we're

gingerbread houses

got a few things to pick up

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we found the new cup noodles oh do they

come with something oh they come with

stickers

cute this is what I get every time I

come to the conbini

dried persimmons so good

so this is the other Animal Crossing

thing they have so each bottle comes

with a different one it's um a little

desktop calendar

Ooh I want October

oh cute that's cool

yeah I've already got November oh this

it shows some on the back there's April

oh all the different ones yeah

they also have these they're um

files plastic piles

if you buy two ice creams you get one

free file

they've only got one left

that's it it's a cute one though

it is cute yeah yeah I'll get one let

me get some ice creams

do you have a preference

black thunder is good have you had black

thunder? Yeah black thunder's amazing

Let's get some black thunder

what's that penguin is that tokyo banana penguin?

tokyo banana penguin ice cream yeah that's new

so we're picking up some candies for our

gingerbread house now

I'm happy with those

yeah I think that should be good

I'm going to get us some extremely expensive

grapes

I splurge on these whenever they're in

season cause they're so delicious

say hi there you go big girl how much do

you weigh now

big girl

Pixel

does not like being held all right we're

recipe now if you're looking for a

really easy Christmas cookie to make for

the holidays

this is a good one I think it should be

pretty simple here's the recipe if you

want to pause this

and

check it out

so we're going to be tripling the recipe

because I'm going to be making some for

my friends for Christmas presents

I feel like the best jam to use is

probably raspberry but if you have

something else I'm sure that would work

anything tastes good with shortbread I think

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so when you're all done it should look

something like this it doesn't have to

look perfect you're going to cut them up

anyways we're going gonna do a test

round with a different design no idea

how this is gonna turn out but we're

just heating up the oven and then

they'll go in for about half an hour I

believe oh 35 to 40 minutes

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time for gingerbread houses the last

time I tried this was on the Tokyo

Creative video where we failed horribly

so

hopefully this year goes a bit smoother

the issue was the icing last year it just

wouldn't stick so nothing stuck together

so we're making these miniature

gingerbread houses from Ikea they should

be easier than making a giant one

I would think anyways

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Nice

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all finished I think we did a pretty

good job this year this one has a bit

too much snow

but it looks realistic this is North Japan

in gingerbread form

Ushka's look really good

fancy

all you do is like mix this with a

bottle of wine and then add some sugar

if you like it sweet and boil it

and that's it you'll have some mulled wine super easy

hey that looks okay yeah yeah that looks

really good

Looks amazing

good morning welcome to Christmas

celebrations day two today is lucky bag

day we are starting off by doing some

washi tape lucky bags because for some

reason we have so much washi tape left

over I think we bought too much

we get too excited when we see cute ones

in the store there are some really

pretty ones these are sakura tapes left

over from the spring

these ones are my absolute favorite

how pretty is that it's

waves at sunset

and

this cloud one

so pretty

so we're gonna put together some little

lucky bags of washi tape only and put

them in these

mount fuji bags that'll be our first

project and then we'll be making oh yeah

like that

there's a completed one and then we'll

be making lucky bags with

all the other stuff so

if you are interested they will be up on

our website link is in the description

box

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okay we're all done making our little

fuji washi bags so next we're moving on

to making the giant lucky packs this

one's a little more confusing because

we're gonna have 19 items in each pack

and we need to make sure they're all

equal so we've divided all the items

into sections we've got washi tape

little mini cards, note cards, stickers

we've got some really good 3D cards left