Don’t burn yourself out Sophia. Just do what you feel comfortable in doing. Your faithful viewers will understand. We are all feeling overwhelmed in these times. I don’t know how you can do all that you do. Mantle looks beautiful !
Oh Sophia!! I’m so glad you are taking time for a vacation! You have so earned it. I, for one, will appreciate you taking time for yourself!! Yes, you need time to rejuvenate!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Sophia, please take care of yourself! Enjoy your vacation! We will be here for you! A good friend of mine just got diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and I have been taking her for all the testing and getting her port. My husband and I aren’t doing Christmas this year like we normally do and that’s ok! So please take care of yourself! He will understand!
Giving myself a break this year usually we have a big halloween party then I throw a christmas party then a new years eve party skipping the Xmas and new years parties to take care of my mental health. Peace to u
I see that you are expressing overwhelm and no wonder! You have given and given so much to me over the years that it is time to take care of you for a change! I will be here to enjoy whatever you have to share in your comfort and at your leisure and is always at my leisure Merry Christmas to you and yours and a spectacular year to come.
Love, love , love the mantle! But then again I always do. Like many other's have said, I hope you have some time to rest and have fun this holiday season. 😊
So beautiful!! We will all be here so enjoy your family, enjoy your vacation, we will see ya when we see ya! Merry Christmas to you and your family! ❤😘😊sa🎅🤶🎄
Hi Sophia, it’s been a while since I’ve commented on any of your vlogs, but I felt I had to make a suggestion. How about next year post 1 Christmas vlog on each of the Sundays in advent? The rest of the time you can vlog what you want to, or not at all. It’ll take the stress off you a little bit. Just a thought. Anyway, Merry Christmas and happy new year. ❤️🎄
Sophia, the mantel is stunning, i dont know how you do it. You obviously have a talent for decorating. Im so sorry you have gotten hurtful comments from viewers. Please take the time off you need over Christmas and enjoy your family. Thank you for all the videos you put out this year, and over the last 8 ish years i have followed you.
I think this is just one of those years - everyone I know and I are in the same boat. Way behind, working too much. I have cut down on what I do and have streamlined my decorating. We can only do what we can do - we deserve rest and down time as well. I love the way the mantle came out.
No matter what is is that decorate, it always comes out beautiful. Sophia you have every right to enjoy your time off to do the things you enjoy. Your a wonderful mother /wife and you work so hard. So enjoy yourself while you can. I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
I have always loved your mantle displays and this is my favorite one yet! I love the little houses, the traditional colors and just your overall design. You could be a stylist for a magazine!
Loved this DITL - thank you. Your mantle looks beautiful and your living room looks so warm and cozy. I have followed you for years and have loved watching you change and evolve. 💜
Sophia, your mantlepiece display looks very traditionally Christmasy and so beautifully done. It looks great next to your white Madonna statues in the cabinet too. It is also so nice that you have all your curtains hung in time for your festivities. Loving your new display cabinet. I have a very old mahogany bookcase which was my mum’s with exactly the same fretwork pattern frontage. I would love to have room for a similar matching display cabinet, but unfortunately I don’t. Anyway, please take time for yourself and don’t feel you have to do everything to please others. You deserve to have a rest and restorative holiday because you work so hard. Merry Christmas to you and your family.🤗🎄
Yes Vlogmas is a chore! I am posting 3 days in one video and only posting twice a week. But I have been having fun doing it this year. I’m behind on decorating too as hubby has & I have been doing house projects since middle of November. Painting exterior of house, doing some landscaping and making a Catio for the 4 cats. I just finished my front porch decor today 🙀 I will leave it up thru the middle to end of January though.
Really beautiful Sophia at first I didn’t think the gold twigs would work but with that ribbon it really really looks beautiful. It added the right touch🎄
Yay for vacation and taking a break 👏🏻🥰 You deserve it!! Thanks for sharing what you have this season but definitely glad you are taking your time for yourself. 🫶🏻❤️ Also love those “Debbie” 😉houses they are so sweet. They look good on your mantle.
I only have 10 days vacation this Christmas and I have to get my basement painted before I go back! I’ve been putting it off since summer vacation, so I better get a move on!! Love your vlomases very much Sophia! Thanks for your hard work!
I understand 💜 this has been a tough year alot sickness and death in my family and always something going on. Just enjoy your vacation and Christmas 💜 don't worry about vlogmas. Mantel is beautiful 😍 💜
I really like your living room makeover, it looks so neat and uncluttered, the mantel and fireplace looks good with less decor, it's your house decorate it the way you like, and your China cabinet is gorgeous!
Love the Revere pots and pans, and still have a few from my mom ! IMHO, seems like they do better on a gas stove than on a flat surface cooktop. I grew up about an hour away from where they were made in Rome NY !! And I just heard that the St. Jude relic was recently at the church where I went to when I was growing up, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Syracuse NY !! Merry Christmas to you, Sophia, and the whole family !!
I loved the mantle last year it was definitely over the top something I had never seen before but I love this one just as much for its quiet simple beauty. Great job as always Sophia
It looks lovely. Would you consider simplifying just this year to one tree? Or could you delegate baking to someone else? Or could you get your family to wrap each other's presents from you? I know you can and do want to do it all yourself, but you are pushing too hard. I started simplifying myself. My house is still very festive but I gave away some things and didn't put up some other things. No one noticed it at all!!!
The mantle is beautiful. Please take time away from filming and youtube. We all love watching your videos. And, we will be right here. You are doing things a little different this year. So, putting down your camera and phone will be something different too.
Beautiful mantle! You have a great eye for decor. Take a break, do less, film only what you are inspired to do...trying to keep up with expectations of viewers is not healthy. Many of us appreciate the content you do share and are fully aware of how much effort you put into it. Many of us also spend less time on social media during the holidays...because we are also busy and spending time with our families. Merry Christmas! Enjoy your vacation.
The quilting of the dragonfly, and the colors/patterns, is gorgeous! I look forward to seeing you talk about the relic of St. Jude, I’m Catholic too, how exciting. And enjoy your vacation! Of that means one vlogmas a week (so two more) then so be it. Many content creators are cutting back this year. And they don’t even have jobs outside youtube as you mentioned. You really have three full time jobs, your regular job, youtube, and Etsy/thrift shop. You do 10 times what the average person does, Sophia, I’ve always noticed that. So you can pull back a bit and we will support you as always. Any ugly comments are coming from people who don’t have good will toward you or anybody, and they’re miserable in the,selves so they lash out at happy people. Merry Christmas and many blessings to you and your family this season and in the new year! We are looking forward to going to midnight mass this year.
There won't be much of Saint Jude they corralled us in and out. I filmed what I could. The content creators I talk to are pulling back because it s getting uglier in the comments. Since the pandemic it seems people have completely lost social skills and what is appropriate to say to others. Creators are busting their behind to double on content, and folks are just being plain ugly and unappreciative of the efforts. Like it is expected, and we can t complain that we are tired. So many quit mid way. They feel it' s not worth it anymore. It s always the same thing, the few ruin it for everybody else.
No way! I plan on a third one. I am just behind this year and feeling the pressure because some people have complained directly to me that my christmas videos and decor weren't posted yet.
Sophia, not understanding why you feel you have to write a card in response to every one you receive, whether it's Christmas or during the year. That is not a requirement by anyone's etiquette rules. You are stretched way too thin. Your supporters and admirers do not expect that of you. PLEASE relieve yourself of this unreasonable task. ☺️
I had a lady write a second card to me one day to complain that my initial Christmas card was not festive enough and demanded a do over. This is a true story. I tried to explain I had written over 300 cards and was out of the good christmas cards. She was not having it. So I ended up promising a proper valentine s day card, which I did. Never heard from her again after that. You guys don't know what goes on behind the scenes for content creators. I guess that s why so many leave and go behind pay walls like Patreon. We are just trying to share some real life stuff, entertainment, mindless content for folks to unwind at the end of the day. 80% of which is enjoyable to make and share. But there is the 20% that comes out of the woods around holidays and they have expectations. Personally and on the subject of etiquette, I am appalled that I am that far behind in responding. I believe sending a card back nurtures a human relationship with people and for some folks, truth be known, it may be the one and only card they receive for the Holidays. It s a way of giving back. I just have a lot going on right now that I am not sharing not even on Patreon. But I ll pull through like I always do. Thanks for your encouragements.
The world is becoming more and more rationalist at the expense of feelings and empathy. It is time wasted on life to dry his heart. Sophia, you are kind and your pretty cards written and sent with love and sincerity will make people happy. It’s the only thing that matters. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Don’t burn yourself out Sophia. Just do what you feel comfortable in doing. Your faithful viewers will understand. We are all feeling overwhelmed in these times. I don’t know how you can do all that you do. Mantle looks beautiful !
I don't know how she does everything & works full time. I couldn't. I WOULDN'T. She definitely needs to give herself a break.
Oh Sophia!! I’m so glad you are taking time for a vacation! You have so earned it. I, for one, will appreciate you taking time for yourself!! Yes, you need time to rejuvenate!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
I understand. You do what you have time to do.
You know what? It is totally ACCEPTable! I think we are all feeling this in 2023. You do you and I'm perfectly fine with that. ❤
Sophia, please take care of yourself! Enjoy your vacation! We will be here for you! A good friend of mine just got diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and I have been taking her for all the testing and getting her port. My husband and I aren’t doing Christmas this year like we normally do and that’s ok! So please take care of yourself! He will understand!
Giving myself a break this year usually we have a big halloween party then I throw a christmas party then a new years eve party skipping the Xmas and new years parties to take care of my mental health. Peace to u
I think you should really enjoy your vacation and do what makes you happy. ❤❤❤
Mantle is beautiful!!! Slow down Sophia and smell the roses!❤❤. Merry Christmas!!!
I see that you are expressing overwhelm and no wonder! You have given and given so much to me over the years that it is time to take care of you for a change! I will be here to enjoy whatever you have to share in your comfort and at your leisure and is always at my leisure Merry Christmas to you and yours and a spectacular year to come.
Your mantle looks beautiful!!! Great job!!!
I love the traditional colors of Christmas, the mantle is BEAUTIFUL and I appreciate you sharing with us!
Love, love , love the mantle! But then again I always do.
Like many other's have said, I hope you have some time to rest and have fun this holiday season. 😊
Sophia! Barkeepers Friend for your copper bottomed pots! It will make cleaning them a breeze!
I'm more of a traditional gal, so I love the mantle!
Enjoy your vacation! Do it!
Looks gorgeous and I love how you always find a way to feature those lovely 12 days of Christmas houses - a treasure!
Wish I could give you two thumbs up.
I gave you one of my thumbs, now you have two😂
So beautiful!! We will all be here so enjoy your family, enjoy your vacation, we will see ya when we see ya! Merry Christmas to you and your family! ❤😘😊sa🎅🤶🎄
It looks so wonderful!! Please take time to relax!! 💖
The mantel is the best one you have ever done. Don't play with it anymore. It's perfect. Good job.
Hi Sophia, it’s been a while since I’ve commented on any of your vlogs, but I felt I had to make a suggestion. How about next year post 1 Christmas vlog on each of the Sundays in advent? The rest of the time you can vlog what you want to, or not at all. It’ll take the stress off you a little bit. Just a thought. Anyway, Merry Christmas and happy new year. ❤️🎄
Love your mantle. You enjoy your vacation and have a very Merry Christmas.
Sophia, the mantel is stunning, i dont know how you do it. You obviously have a talent for decorating. Im so sorry you have gotten hurtful comments from viewers. Please take the time off you need over Christmas and enjoy your family. Thank you for all the videos you put out this year, and over the last 8 ish years i have followed you.
I think this is just one of those years - everyone I know and I are in the same boat. Way behind, working too much. I have cut down on what I do and have streamlined my decorating. We can only do what we can do - we deserve rest and down time as well. I love the way the mantle came out.
Mantle looks great!
No matter what is is that decorate, it always comes out beautiful. Sophia you have every right to enjoy your time off to do the things you enjoy. Your a wonderful mother /wife and you work so hard. So enjoy yourself while you can. I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
I have always loved your mantle displays and this is my favorite one yet! I love the little houses, the traditional colors and just your overall design. You could be a stylist for a magazine!
The mantle is beautiful. I love how you do the ribbon.
I love the way it turned out!
Absolutely gorgeous mantle. Hope you enjoy your time off and do things you like to do.
I love the mantle! You are do creative and you choose things that go together, so we'll!
The curtains are lovely and the mantle looks great!
Hi Sophia I love your channel 💗, you inspire me to do lots of things in my home, keep it up girlfriend 💗 💖 😊
Loved this DITL - thank you. Your mantle looks beautiful and your living room looks so warm and cozy. I have followed you for years and have loved watching you change and evolve. 💜
Mantel looks beautiful! 🎄👍
I love watching you decorate. So talented!
Lovely Sofia. Thank you for sharing your home with us 😊
Sophia, your mantlepiece display looks very traditionally Christmasy and so beautifully done. It looks great next to your white Madonna statues in the cabinet too. It is also so nice that you have all your curtains hung in time for your festivities. Loving your new display cabinet. I have a very old mahogany bookcase which was my mum’s with exactly the same fretwork pattern frontage. I would love to have room for a similar matching display cabinet, but unfortunately I don’t. Anyway, please take time for yourself and don’t feel you have to do everything to please others. You deserve to have a rest and restorative holiday because you work so hard. Merry Christmas to you and your family.🤗🎄
Yes Vlogmas is a chore! I am posting 3 days in one video and only posting twice a week. But I have been having fun doing it this year. I’m behind on decorating too as hubby has & I have been doing house projects since middle of November. Painting exterior of house, doing some landscaping and making a Catio for the 4 cats. I just finished my front porch decor today 🙀 I will leave it up thru the middle to end of January though.
Enjoy your time off. The mantle is lovely.
You have such a beautiful fireplace and mantel us perfect for decorating
It looks beautiful 😍. Less is better. You know how to make things work and look amazing. 😊
I have been waiting for your vlogmas! I look forward to it every year!
I like that you changed up!! Looks lovely.
Really beautiful Sophia at first I didn’t think the gold twigs would work but with that ribbon it really really looks beautiful. It added the right touch🎄
Lovely mantle ❤
I like this year's mantel a lot!
Your mantel is so gorgeous .❤
Gorgeous ❤❤❤ I love it
Yay for vacation and taking a break 👏🏻🥰 You deserve it!! Thanks for sharing what you have this season but definitely glad you are taking your time for yourself. 🫶🏻❤️
Also love those “Debbie” 😉houses they are so sweet. They look good on your mantle.
I'm a bit late to the party but your mantle looks beautiful! I love the plaid mesh!
Finally the costco Christmas wrapping paper has been used up LOL. Have a blessed Christmas and New Year Sophia and family
Isn't that something? That roll lasted almost a decade!
It’s so hard not to over extended ourselves
Just beautiful!!
I love the mantle❤
The mantle is gorgeous! Don't worry about us, we want you to have a vacation. After all, a woman with 3 jobs deserves a rest! 😊
I only have 10 days vacation this Christmas and I have to get my basement painted before I go back! I’ve been putting it off since summer vacation, so I better get a move on!! Love your vlomases very much Sophia! Thanks for your hard work!
I understand 💜 this has been a tough year alot sickness and death in my family and always something going on. Just enjoy your vacation and Christmas 💜 don't worry about vlogmas. Mantel is beautiful 😍 💜
Same here. It’s been an awful few months. Watching Sophia and some other channels is part of my outlet.
Yeah, me too 😊
Sophia, your mantle looks beautiful. Please dont worry about filming for Christmas. Enjoy your time with your family. God bless you❤
I love how you styled the mantle. It’s really a cheerful Christmas look.
I really like your living room makeover, it looks so neat and uncluttered, the mantel and fireplace looks good with less decor, it's your house decorate it the way you like, and your China cabinet is gorgeous!
Soooo pretty ❤
Quilt on ❤
Days come and Days go. Just enjoy each day for yourself. .
I love it 😂 I also wish that corner by the mantle light was on too. It's so cool.
I I were you I'd skip it all except the quilting and the reading!
I might next year. I would not be the only content creator who stopped doing Vlogmas .
Your mantle is always beautiful! Have you tried putting the curio with the Madonna’s against the wall next to the fireplace?
It would block the window. There is a casement stained glass window on that wall.
Love the Revere pots and pans, and still have a few from my mom ! IMHO, seems like they do better on a gas stove than on a flat surface cooktop. I grew up about an hour away from where they were made in Rome NY !! And I just heard that the St. Jude relic was recently at the church where I went to when I was growing up, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Syracuse NY !! Merry Christmas to you, Sophia, and the whole family !!
Those copper bottom Revere are the absolute best pans we ever owned. Bar none.
I understand . Hard work … Take it Easy .
You did good girl!! Looks better with the garland pulled up. Very Christmasy, can't wait for part 2.
I loved the mantle last year it was definitely over the top something I had never seen before but I love this one just as much for its quiet simple beauty. Great job as always Sophia
It looks lovely. Would you consider simplifying just this year to one tree? Or could you delegate baking to someone else? Or could you get your family to wrap each other's presents from you? I know you can and do want to do it all yourself, but you are pushing too hard. I started simplifying myself. My house is still very festive but I gave away some things and didn't put up some other things. No one noticed it at all!!!
I can hardly wait for you to put up the main Christmas tree.
Take some time off from video's for Christmas. You deserve it. We love you.
You also need a Break from everything . Your always Busy .
I love it.
The mantle is beautiful. Please take time away from filming and youtube. We all love watching your videos. And, we will be right here. You are doing things a little different this year. So, putting down your camera and phone will be something different too.
Loving your vlogmas. Mantel came out beautiful. You have more energy, it makes me tired watching you!!😂
Believe it or not I put ketchup on my copper and let it set ,soon it will look brand new😊
Beautiful mantle! You have a great eye for decor. Take a break, do less, film only what you are inspired to do...trying to keep up with expectations of viewers is not healthy. Many of us appreciate the content you do share and are fully aware of how much effort you put into it. Many of us also spend less time on social media during the holidays...because we are also busy and spending time with our families. Merry Christmas! Enjoy your vacation.
The quilting of the dragonfly, and the colors/patterns, is gorgeous! I look forward to seeing you talk about the relic of St. Jude, I’m Catholic too, how exciting. And enjoy your vacation! Of that means one vlogmas a week (so two more) then so be it. Many content creators are cutting back this year. And they don’t even have jobs outside youtube as you mentioned. You really have three full time jobs, your regular job, youtube, and Etsy/thrift shop. You do 10 times what the average person does, Sophia, I’ve always noticed that. So you can pull back a bit and we will support you as always. Any ugly comments are coming from people who don’t have good will toward you or anybody, and they’re miserable in the,selves so they lash out at happy people. Merry Christmas and many blessings to you and your family this season and in the new year! We are looking forward to going to midnight mass this year.
The red trees against the yellow walls are stunning. The mantle is so classy and beautiful. Love!
There won't be much of Saint Jude they corralled us in and out. I filmed what I could. The content creators I talk to are pulling back because it s getting uglier in the comments. Since the pandemic it seems people have completely lost social skills and what is appropriate to say to others. Creators are busting their behind to double on content, and folks are just being plain ugly and unappreciative of the efforts. Like it is expected, and we can t complain that we are tired. So many quit mid way. They feel it' s not worth it anymore. It s always the same thing, the few ruin it for everybody else.
Beautiful! Where did you get “Debbie’s houses?
She made them for me.
OMG. I was on Amazon search for DEBBIE’S HOUSES😂🤪😂
Lol
Hello!
Your missing the stockings hung from the mantle
We don't do stockings.
Maybe just keep one Christmas tree this year to save you extra work🤔
No way! I plan on a third one. I am just behind this year and feeling the pressure because some people have complained directly to me that my christmas videos and decor weren't posted yet.
@@mygreatchallenge I don’t blame them tbh😊, your videos are part of our holidays tradition 🤣😊❤️🥰..
You re joking. Right?
Sophia, not understanding why you feel you have to write a card in response to every one you receive, whether it's Christmas or during the year. That is not a requirement by anyone's etiquette rules. You are stretched way too thin. Your supporters and admirers do not expect that of you. PLEASE relieve yourself of this unreasonable task. ☺️
I had a lady write a second card to me one day to complain that my initial Christmas card was not festive enough and demanded a do over. This is a true story. I tried to explain I had written over 300 cards and was out of the good christmas cards. She was not having it. So I ended up promising a proper valentine s day card, which I did. Never heard from her again after that.
You guys don't know what goes on behind the scenes for content creators. I guess that s why so many leave and go behind pay walls like Patreon. We are just trying to share some real life stuff, entertainment, mindless content for folks to unwind at the end of the day. 80% of which is enjoyable to make and share. But there is the 20% that comes out of the woods around holidays and they have expectations.
Personally and on the subject of etiquette, I am appalled that I am that far behind in responding. I believe sending a card back nurtures a human relationship with people and for some folks, truth be known, it may be the one and only card they receive for the Holidays. It s a way of giving back. I just have a lot going on right now that I am not sharing not even on Patreon. But I ll pull through like I always do. Thanks for your encouragements.
My jaw fell down reading about the lady who said that your card wasn't festive enough. Geez!! I'm at a loss for words!
@@carolb9234 It's incredible. Unbelievable.
The world is becoming more and more rationalist at the expense of feelings and empathy. It is time wasted on life to dry his heart. Sophia, you are kind and your pretty cards written and sent with love and sincerity will make people happy. It’s the only thing that matters. MERRY CHRISTMAS