- Hello lovely people.

Welcome to my 2019 vintage gift guide,

and I'm really excited to share with you

some kind of ideas I have had

for nice things you can gift your family and friends,

or yourself, because no one is saying

you can't just make

a fancy stocking full of things for yourself.

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What?

By the way, this jumper is available

from the merch shop beneath this video.

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If you've been following me in Instagram,

you'll know that I have been doing

an advent outfit challenge, where I choose

a commenter on each of my advent outfit posts

to send a Christmas card to.

I've been so excited, writing them all,

and sending them off, because seriously,

I am one of those people who loves giving presents,

even more than I love receiving them.

So I decided to send some more presents out.

Keep watching until the end of the video,

when I have a very special giveaway announcement.

But time for another quick announcement before that.

I would like to welcome all of the newest members

of The Kellgren-Fozard Club, because we have really grown

in the last few days, and I'm assuming

that's because YouTube have just opened up

the function to some more countries,

as they are now allowing people

to purchase channel memberships

directly in the YouTube IOS app.

And I think it's just in a few countries currently,

but they have told me

that they will be rolling it out farther soon, so yay.

If you don't know what The Kellgren-Fozard Club is,

it's a little private members club

that I have here on YouTube,

where people can support the channel,

and at the same time, get access to fun things,

like a monthly behind the scenes video.

Birthday shout-outs, members only posts,

customer emojis for livestreams, oh don't forget,

we're all having a livestream on the 21st,

and you get my little face after your name in the comments.

On with our exciting Christmas gifts.

This year, I wanted to do something a little different,

and a little more sustainable,

and focus on true vintage gifts.

Because what is 2019, if not all of us

panicking about the environment?

By the way, if you haven't seen Leena Norms's

"A Guide To Positive Panic" series,

then definitely go check that out, it's very informative.

I learnt things like wrapping paper is not recyclable.

If you put it in the recycling,

it will contaminate everything,

and maybe your entire street's recycling

will be put into landfill, so, wow.

To be honest, this is the first year that I lived in a house

that doesn't have an open fire,

and I'm very used to just turning off

all the central heating, and sitting in that one room,

keeping ourselves warm through burning wrapping paper.

Yes, England really is like the films.

But I now know not to put the paper

into the recycling this year, so.

Newspaper and brown paper are recyclable, however,

to wrap things in that.

And I'm going to be using up the wrapping paper rolls

I do still have, because otherwise that is wasteful,

but only to go to people I am sure are fully aware

they can't recycling it, or I'm seeing them in person,

and handing it them, and can tell them not to recycle it,

which is a very weird thing to say,

because normally I'm telling people the opposite.

Next year, I'm going to look into wrapping in cloth.

Please remind me of that, in November of next year,

because I have memory problems, and I will forget

the existence of this video even, so.

Probably in a few days.

So Claudia and I headed to our favorite antique shop

to see what we could find.

(happy music)

We're in Lewes, and we're going shopping

for some second-hand goodies.

- What's this? - What is that?

- [Claudia] Don't know,

but it's making me think it's for that Pullman.

- It's a compass. - Oh.

- [Jessie] But I don't know why

it's got all these bits inside, maybe you gotta like...

- Wow. - There's a mirror.

- [Claudia] It's a very fancy little compass.

- The first thing to catch my eye

were these 1980s gold-toned scarf clips.

Now, since fashion is nothing if not repetitive,

you can find a lot of things

that are kind of 1940s and 1950s elements

in things from the 1980s.

I don't actually intend to use these as scarf clips however,

I'm just going to clip them onto my shoes,

and make my shoes look like they have a fancy buckle.

They're in really good condition,

and which for things that are originally '40s and '50s

aren't necessarily, isn't necessarily the case.

They're quite weighty, though actually,

and they're very, very pretty.

I love a good cameo, makes me really pleased.

I've always wanted a proper cameo brooche one day.

As such, they're kinda a great little accessory

that you can really use in a whole wide variety of clothes,

which means that they're really super wearable,

'cause you can use them over, and over, and over again.

And I'm feeling feeling fairly better,

or I've just had a lot of Lemsip,

because I'm like woo, (laughing).

But yeah, I'm good.

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Now the second thing is this filigree gold brooch,

which I'm in love with.

It's so pretty, it's a bow brooch, guys, it's a bow.

And it's filigree, like my engagement ring.

This is gonna look absolutely wonderful

accessorizing some of my dresses, okay.

- Reminds me of something my grandmother had,

she had this little coronation thing,

which had like little horses carrying along

the queen's coronation carriage.

And it's real, we'd always play with it.

I love like little moving things like this.

Bit of Lego.

- Why'd you need to buy anything new?

Ever?

There ya go, done.

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The third thing I don't have to actually show you,

because Claudia felt to hide it from him,

and then he took it.

But we found some really great kids toys

at the antique shop, for our nephew.

It was this really lovely little car that we found.

He's really into them at the moment,

especially working vehicles.

He's not even two, but he's really into

anything that's like a truck, a tractor, a digger,

police cars, we managed to get him a little fire engine,

which he was like yes.

There was a massive bags of Lego at the shop,

which was so much cheaper

than you could possibly buy Lego for now.

And a huge box of cars.

They had obviously separated out the ones with lead in,

but do use caution, don't give a lead car to a child.

We've learnt these lessons now.

If it's not the lead that worries you about secondhand toys,

but you are actually quite worried about germs,

buy toys you can boil.

Like the aforementioned Lego.

Or there are all sort of plastic cars,

which you can just (lips smacking) (air blowing),

ah, I mean don't take it out while it's still boiling.

I don't know why I did that.

Vintage red and gold baubles, excuse me, how beautiful.

Next up I was absolutely delighted to find

this set of original 1950s baubles.

They're amazing, look at these.

Oh, I'm in love.

So as I mentioned, we have a very small nephew,

and he loves coming to our house,

and playing ball with Tilly, absolutely loves it.

First thing he does when he walks in our front door

is he has to try and find a little ball,

that he can bounce on the ground,

that Tilly will chase.

And he came to our house,

after we put the Christmas tree up,

and took a ball off the tree, and tried to bounce it.

(imitating glass shattering)

Yeah, it was one of my grandparents glass baubles,

so that went well.

For the great thing is he has now learnt not to do that.

So, that was wonderful.

It was very scary for him, he was fine,

he's absolutely fine, don't worry,

he threw it far away enough from himself

that he was in no danger.

He can throw surprisingly far,

but yeah, so now he just knows

not to take things off a tree and smash them,

so that's good.

You may feel a bit like oh, I don't know, I feel bad,

having these beautiful baubles, and they're vintage,

and what if I ruin them.

I mean, really don't worry about breaking your things,

because A, it's lasted this long,

probably quite durable, and B,

what is the point of having something if you don't use it?

And as a vintage decor lover, I just couldn't pass up

the chance to get my hands on some baubles.

And think what a lovely present that could be for someone.

If you know their colors, obviously.

Or hey, if they're the type of person who loves

a completely multi-colored tree, go for it.

Find them a beautiful vintage bauble.

Please let me know if you've done that for someone,

'cause I think that's a great idea.

I mean, for me, I only have things on my tree

that are red and gold, so you'd have to be very specific.

I have a color thing, it's weird.

And then I met something that made me very, very happy.

(gasping)

Cape, apparently from the 1850s, can I try it on?

(happy music)

I do really want it.

It's 95 pounds.

Quite a splash out purchase.

But so nice.

She's an 1850s, beautifully designed woolen cape,

and she's so beautiful (sighing).

Did I buy it?

Of course I bought it.

(children cheering)

How could I leave her there?

Will I wear it?

Oh you bet, yes, yes I will.

So is that a gift you could give to someone else?

Yes, yes it is, yes sure.

Is it a gift mainly for me?

Yeah, yeah.

Should see such a thing and should you

purchase it for yourself, yes, yes yes yes.

Christmas is about treating yourself too.

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It's hideous.

What is it and why?

- [Claudia] I don't know, (mumbling)

I remember my grandmother's house.

- Classical really cool DVDs.

There are some amazing old films

that you just find on Netflix,

and actually it's quite nice

just to have the physical copies as well.

I love "The Philadelphia Story".

It's one of my deep favorites.

If you have an old film lover in your life,

picking up some of these DVDs is an excellent idea.

They're so, so cheap.

We got three for a pound.

I left the other one downstairs, and I (mumbling).

But anyway, so we got three for a pound,

it's such good value, and this will bring you laughter,