It’s kind of amazing that in that big house there is not one thing of actual value. Even the furniture is junky. I watched the Christmas video, it’s ghastly. I wouldn’t say this publicly except she has a YouTube channel and presumably gets public comments about her videos. Not all of them can be complimentary. Unless the world has gone mad.

Call me confused. The new house she showed us while driving was still being built, and that wasn't a log cabin. It had two mini-grand staircases. Was I watching an old video or something?

The living room/den above requires a professional interior decorator. Seriously.

OMG OMG OMG!!!! I was trying to find who Liz is, traditions by the seasons, and the first site I looked at is:

THIS! Let's invite them over! My bad. My bad. If I was a Catholic I'd say a Hail Mary. :)

I'm so bad I hope I'm not going to he!! but I can't stop LOL at this quote from the link above,

"I tried watching one of her fall decor videos, but she had lipstick in the corner of her mouth and she had a weird spit string every time she spoke."

This vlogger was mentioned in the link. Make sure you down a glass of wine or two before you watch.

I think I've fallen into a Friday night train wreck hole.

Dear God.

https://youtu.be/XZ8wxEUafmQ

Oak, that site is golden! 😂😂😂

OMG Oakley, that forum is so funny! I've only read the first page, but I loved this line "I watched her back when she was trying keto. Now she looks like her diet is “carto” as in anything that fits in the grocery cart."

I'm going to hell with you! 😂

I looked at another topic they did about someone named Jen, and watched Jen's video. Goodness, it's just as "good" as the others. I bet I'm up all night tonight LOL.

Ida, I think I need some "coffee" so I can stay up. lol That was baaaad.

I gotta find out about Jen.

I just tried to watch part of a Jen video. WHYYYYYYY do such things even exist?!? WHYYYYYYYYYY???

Who are the 60K followers who watch this stuff? Are their lives so boring that they have to watch someone else's boring life??

My life is pretty boring, but I've never been tempted to follow a stranger online through YouTube.

That does it. I’m never using the word “cute” again. Ever.

I watched two or three minutes and skipped most of it. It did not seem to matter.

I have not been to Hobby Lobby, and I guess I never will.

I do not have seasonal items (except for some small Kwanzaa decorations), and so I cannot relate to changing decor with seasons. We have a wet season and a dry season, and I keep my umbrella handy in the dry season to use as a parasol. I even wear the same clothes all year, although I do wear black a bit more in December.

Now Lars, you need to put your funny pants on or get high, to find the humor in these videos.

Terezosa, I wondered the same thing. She's no Martha Stewart and her decor is pretty common.

I won't make fun of her tongue tie, but I finally understood what tongue tied meant. I even looked it up and there's a quick surgery to fix it. Apparently it leads to poor dental health.

Fun entertainment for a Friday night in Isolation Land!

My granddaughter had her tongue issue resolved when she was a few weeks old. Drs missed at birth. Caused nursing issues. So I won't make fun of her for that (but I did notice right away), but what is with her dark dark dark eyebrows?

The Jen video with the younger gal w/a dog? I watched a few minutes of one. Not sure why, but now I've lost those minutes.

Oakley, that forum is so snarky! I wonder if she ever reads the comments.

I was referring to the Jen video that I watched about two minutes of that I can't understand why people watch.

I guess that I can sort of understand people watching the Liz videos - at least they are supposed to be about decorating, not just following a stranger as she goes about her day.

People might watch for amusement, just as we are doing in this thread lol!

^^^Yes, but some of these people have tens of thousands of subscribers, who I would think watch on a regular basis.

I'm now rather obsessed with the Bakery forum. Not sure that's a good thing though.

(I have also joined with the user name FreshDJTannerHell. 😁😒)

Well, she did keep me company while I cleaned out my bathroom cabinets. Her mindless babble was a good background to organizing.

Shouldnt she be in, like event-planning and decorating somehow? She does enjoy it, and plays with it like we used to with our dollhouses.

I took another peek at Bakery a bit ago, and from what I can gather, the website is to 'critique" videos about makeup, cleaning, decor, etc. How did these people get together in the first place? lol

Bpath, I should have thought about that today while cleaning the bathroom!

Wow. Her storage room appears to be as big as our entire first floor. I am curious about the rest of the house, but so unlikely to check it out.

Used to have a friend that went all out for Christmas every year. Each year was a new theme. She bought all new decorations, loads of them. When she took them down they were donated. While pretty, so not Christmas for me.

I will admit I do a lot of decoration for Christmas. That said it is not anywhere near the extent of the YouTube woman. Not enough storage or desire. We do have a lot of vintage items collected over the years or inherited. Both my husband and I have pieces from our childhood. We are more the stuck in the ruts, probably holding on to things for too long but we love the tradition of bringing out these “old friends” every year.

Oakley, that Tikaa one, wow. So much decor. I had to stop watching because it drives me crazy when someone is constantly pointing at things in videos. I’m just not bored enough — yet — to watch someone’s finger on YouTube.

EDIT -- I just read all the comments after posting my comment. So I'm revising what I wrote and just ... yeah a lot of what you all posted resonates with me.

I cannot imagine having that much storage space! I'm amazed and feel both envious and disgusted by the excess. I appreciate the behind-the-scenes view but it's still some of the nicest storage space I've ever seen!

That Bakery site, I was a little put off by their going on about her tongue-tie. Reminded me of the "mean girls" table in junior high.

https://youtu.be/fN5Ih31Bh8Y

Here’s the log cabin.

I shouldn’t resurrect this thread, but first of all, Thank You for sharing the video. Elizabeth has been helping me in ways she would not like. I work much better with talking in the background, so I just turn her up and I get lots more paperwork and chores done. Because I don’t have to pay attention! But she keeps the part of my brain busy that would otherwise distract me. (Hmm, ADHD? Maybe . . . )

But I have a question about youtube decorators. What do they do with the stuff they actually USE? For example, today I watched Elizabeth decorate her kitchen for fall. By the time she was done, the open cabinets were full of stuff (only $14.99 from Ross! Sooooo cuuute! gag) And her countertops had stuff (apparently she likes to layer, things, like cute cutting boards), and her spices live in a terrarium next to the range, the coffee beans are in a cute box next to the coffee making appliances which sit on another cutting board, and she’s going to hang something on her range hood.

But, where does she keep her dishes? Her serving dishes? How does she cook with all that stuff on the countertops? How does she wipe the counters down? And doesn’t whatever is going to hang on the hood vent going to get greasy or splatter? (Today I looked up and I swear saw a spaghetti sauce splatter on the soffit across from the stove.)

I’m sure none of us decorate like that, but do you change out anything besides the placemats for the seasons?

You guys want to see something, check out Turtle Creek Lane on Instagram. She’s a Texas based interior designer who decorates the heck out of her house for every holiday. You will fall down the rabbit hole (pun intended) with her photos. She also does time lapse videos of herself putting them all up. It’s insane! Just one of her rooms for Easter...

^the first 2 or 3 posts were all I could stomach. I sure as hell don’t want her “decorating“ my house in any form or fashion.

That's just nucking futs, K R!

Wow, just wow. She is definitely a Dallas gal. Gag me. What is with the stone going up the stairs with wainscot below? That doesn’t even make sense. The non-seasonal decor is just so sugary. And the seasonal is oooooover the top. I always thought of the Turtle Creek area as the ultimate in elegant living, subtle wealth. If she lives there, she cheapens it.

I've seen her before and am just embarrassed that she perpetuates a Texas stereotype that many of us natives find revolting. The Dallas women I known are engineers and scientists, not fluffy Barbie wannabes. The over-the-top cheesiness of her IG is just gross IMO.

YMMV.

My previous house was unfortunately decorated by Donna Moss. I didn't hire her; the previous owner did. Her design aesthetic was terrible but my husband liked it. I agreed to buy it because the exterior was gorgeous, the backyard was amazing and the location was exactly what we needed. I did what I could to tone it down though.

Like IC said, the over the top decorators are the people who come to mind when folks think of houses in Texas. They forget about designers like Cathy Kincaid and Jan Showers. It is also why Railhead has t-shirts saying “life‘s too short to live in Dallas.” HA!

Wow, I'd forgotten all about Donna Moss. Her boutique "That's Haute" was in a strip center about a mile or so from my house. Never went in.

I used to watch her HGTV series mostly to see good/bad OTT wrenched excess, but I will say, at least she could come up with something different over what was HGTV au courant at that point--i,e, generic and mostly bland, on the other designers on HGTV

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I used to watch her HGTV series mostly to see good/bad, OTT, wrenched excess, but I will say, at least she could come up with something different over what was au courant on HGTV at that time--which usually meant generic and mostly bland in style,

Have to say, I think that's why I watch Flip or Flop/Vegas - totally not my style, but it's done well for that look/style.

One can only take so much of Property Bros and Christina's same safe meh.

Ha! I forgot about Donna, too!

Ahh, The Texas Tuscan and Chic Dungeon Decor Queen. Behold:

Oh, I forgot that time she did a “Moroccan” room (she called it that):

Use ALL the animal prints ... resin fleur-de-lis ... giant resin candle holders ... heavy velvet upholstery ... bling ... scrolly wrought iron ... faux tapestries ... crosses ... angels/wings ... pop of color: turquoise! ... bedding that looks like coffin liners ... tassels ... feathers ... gilded gold ... and on and on. Every surface in a room had to be embellished in some gaudy way. I wonder what trends she’s running into the ground now?

I think Donna actually thought "haute" is pronounced "hawt." LOL!

OMG, Jinx! Those rooms are barf-worthy.

Ida, if someone (or pet) did barf in one of those rooms, no one would ever know. It‘d blend right in. 😆

WAIT. In looking at the medieval bed up there ... those are kind of my guest room bed colors. Black, gold, creams. 🥺

BRB, going to burn my guest room and start over ...

bbstx...

Thanks a lot for mentioning Railhead. Now I'm hungry. I do love the burnt ends at Heim though.

Donna Moss used to be a neighbor of mine when I lived in the Arlington area. Her house was a lot. She had a zebra print stair runner and an impressive collection of blinged out crosses. The walls were fauxed within an inch of their life.

My picture used to be on the wall at Railhead (back dining room). I was in the 1997 (or was it ’96?) Stock Show rodeo performances on horseback. It was some anniversary year and they had a Vegas company put it all on. Trick riders, the works. Anyway, our cast photo was in Railhead for years, but I think it’s gone now. I had on my white Stetson. :)

Because nothin' says Jesus like blinged out crosses.

;-D

Jinx....

That’s so cool. Until they opened Dickies Arena my younger son’s school had rodeo day where they’d all wear western wear and go to the Stock Show rodeo. He really missed it last year.

Oh. My. That Gothic bed!! *shudder* to all those rooms.

"Haute" is pronounced to rhyme with "ought"!

I've heard it is pronounced somewhere between rhyming with "ought" and "oat." My French is minimal, but I know with certainty it's not "hawt."

;-D

Just. Absolutely. Hideous. That bed is the ugliest piece of furniture I have ever seen.

I ran into a restaurant once where “haute” was pronounced “haughty.” 🤦🏻‍♀️