You have shown the world how the whole family can contribute in a very practical way how to decorate a home for Christmas without out succumbing to full n commercialism. Very nice Victoria!

@lanatrapp1589

5 ай бұрын

Amen

@Szzzzx

5 ай бұрын

I love this so much!!

I love the simplicity of your decorations. It made me cry.😢😢 You put first what matters God, then family. Be grateful for who we have, not what we have. It's absolutely beautiful.

Well done Tolya - glad you survived lugging the tree up all those stairs 😂

@adrianstevens656

5 ай бұрын

😂😅

I love how Toyla involves himself in your projects

How special to make your home so festive with ornaments you made and the branches you found as a family. Merry Christmas to you and your family.🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🎅🎅🎅🎅

What a neat vid. You and the family did a wonderful job decorating. Xmas gets so commercial, we loved the hand made ornaments and decorations. Merry Christmas to you guys.

No Kitty!! LOL The fun of cats with a Christmas tree

You're such a lovely and authenthic family!! ❤ I love the whole atmosphere you created with the self made christmas decoration. And Tolya deserves an award for bringing this heavy tree the whole way up to your apartment haha 😄💪 well done!!

@blo1314

5 ай бұрын

Tolya gets father and husband of the year! He's always smiling and positive. His momma raised him well. He's becoming the star of this show! Merry Christmas from the USA may God bless you all!

I love Tolya! His whole vibe is everything.

Such a happy family amidst all the many changes and upheaval you have endured these past couple years. I swear Tolya has a smile and smile lines embroidered on his face, as do you, Vika! It's so inspiring how you guys have remained so strong and happy during what must be some very difficult times. May your Christmas be merry and the New Year bring your family much peace and happiness! 🥰

@lizl1855

5 ай бұрын

I couldn’t agree more :) They bring so much joy and peace to all of us. I’m so grateful to be able to follow their journey and I’m so inspired by them to appreciate life more every day. Merry Christmas!

@kirstynalmeida7761

5 ай бұрын

I admire their joy so much!!! Truly inspiring.

Merry Christmas, Vika, and thanks for being a light in this world. 🎄

Wonderful! I love the natural, homemade look. An easy way to make ornaments is to make a batter with salt and flour and then cut them out with cookie cutters or freehand with a knife. They need to be baked and are fun to paint and decorate. The recipe can be found online.

7:52 Cat on the sofa, doing what cats do. Love it!

@jfocil

5 ай бұрын

😂 that's a stuffed animal

My girls made garlands after seeing your last video with recycled coloured paper. They had lots of fun. Thanks Vika, simple is best, and I love that you put the true meaning of Christmas on the wall in your home language. Love and prayers from Alison, Lynette, and Ruth in sunny South Africa ❤

You decorating your tree in handmade ornaments reminds me when my 2 boys were your kids age. Our tree was nothing but handmade ornaments and my 2 boys are 44 and 47 and they still have memories of all the fun we had when they were young. Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family! ❤️🎄

Great idea to use a Christmas tree you can replant instead of a cut one. It’s becoming more popular. The decorations look nice and festive. Agatha is always up for the next challenge and it’s so endearing. Adeline will be right by her side for everything soon. Merry Christmas to your family and a happy New Year.

So nice to be with the family decorating for Christmas with natural things.Like when I was a kid.76 now.In Canada. Much love

Best Christmas ever!!! God is so good 🎉🎉🎉 Homemade trees are the best trees!

Magical! This is what Christmas is about! Good job Vika and Tolya!

Loving your videos! This one seems magical; it amazes me how it gives me a feeling of a true Christmas.

The decorations are beautiful. Your tree is so pretty. I like to do a tree where most of the things can be eaten. I have already dried apple, oranges, and lemons. We string popcorn for garland. I also make gingerbread cookies to hang on the tree. Along with a few ornaments. Have a beautiful and blessed Christmas with your family.🌲💕☃️💕🌲☃️

Lovely Vika, you all did a great job. Well done to Agatha for all her help. Merry Christmas to you all from here in Australia 💕💕💕

This is a wonderful glimpse into your life. You are so real and have such a beautiful way of living life with your beautiful family. The decorations are fabulous, and bring such a peaceful feeling. Merry CHRISTmas.

If i ever have kids i want to make ornaments with them. Yeah the ones you use every year often to have good memories of an event or person, but making ornaments would be a good way to Make memories 😊🎄and teach them a bit about the history behind making them while doing it

Those little gold wrapped candies were my absolute favorite when I was in Ukraine adopting my sons! So fun to see them again. Beautiful video, thanks for sharing.

Lovely decorations! Merry Christmas from a great grandma in Michigan.😊 Our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are coming Christmas Eve. God bless your sweet family!

Beautiful decorations! You have a spirit of joy in your home. I love how much you laugh together. Have a wonderful Christmas 🎄!

Hats off to you, your husband, and your family for your courageous decision to change your lives despite the difficulty. The world needs more folks like you.

I love your and Toyala's humor. I was going to ask why you had the root ball with the Tree! Make sure the tree doesn't dry out (maybe put it in a large bucket so you can water the roots). You don't want the tree to catch fire. If it makes it, I guess you can try to plant it. Love the decorations and your creativity. I guess you went with stick glue for the snow flakes!😁❤️💚

Oh my goodness! The girls are growing so fast. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that Agatha was in a stroller in Russia, and it also seems like Adeline was just born. Your videos bring joy. Merry Christmas, happy holidays!

Everything is lovely and festive. I have to say my favorite part is the little shelf in the kitchen with the little trees, evergreen boughs and lights. So charming! We decorate with dehydrated oranges too. I also use tiny gourds on the tree. Christmas blessings to you, Tolya and your sweet girls.

it's so heart warming seeing the genuine excitement the children emit!☺️ i don't celebrate christmas, but i hope everyone will experience some sense of peace and warmth during the holiday period❤

Your home looks so warm and inviting for the holidays! Awesome job all of you ❤️

Your apartment looks very pretty and really christmasy. I love it very much Also love the idea of a living Christmas tree which you can plant after. They are very expensive here in my part of Tennessee in USA

Your home must smell heavenly, with the pine and oranges. Beautiful decorations ☺️🤎

Happy Holidays Vika to you and your Beautiful Family!! May you have a fantastic 2024 filled with love, peace and happiness! I love watching your family grow! I’ve been watching you over two years now and following your journey. You are absolutely lovely people and enjoy to watch. I remember when Agatha was the size of Adeline! Much love from the great lakes US! 🌲🎁🎅💜

That's a beautiful tree with a fantastic big root ball, so it will remain healthy until it's time for it to go outside again. You also have beautiful big windows with a wonderful view as a backdrop, so your decorations looked so lovely, and it was so worth persisting to get them to stick! Please believe me that you will look back on these Christmases with such fondness and love and the children will always remember this as a warm and happy family time. Merry Christmas to you all!

Victoria, I love how you make Christmas traditional with handmade decorations. So pretty and from the heart ♥️ The snowflakes ❄️ double their image with the sunshine. I’ve never thought of hanging sweets 🍬 other than candy canes. Where will you plant the Christmas tree 🎄 after the holiday? That will be a fun adventure indeed. All happy and decorated. Just lovely. Everyone please have a blessed day today and every day 🙏🙏🙏 Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎊🎆 🎉 Greetings from Georgia, USA 😊

The snowflakes on the windows look pretty, along with the tree. Merry Christmas to you all and kitty. Blessings and peace. 🎄☃️❄️

@starfishjennie

5 ай бұрын

Beautiful! You are both absolutely wonderful parents!!!!

Срећни празници, драги људи! И ми почињемо са слављем западног Божића, радујемо се када стигне Нова Године, а онда славимо Божић 07.01. и дочекујемо Православну Нову Годину 13./14.01. Срећни празници малој Агати и Аделини пуно поздрава из Србије🇷🇸❤

@aben1893

5 ай бұрын

To nije "zapadni Bozic" to je Bozic. Pravoslavci ga slave po julijanskom kalendaru 25.decembra, a katolici po preciznijem, gregorijanskom takodje 25. decembra...

Toyla you’re the man! Great job bringing the tree up all the stairs. You’ve made your family very happy! Do you intend to re plant the tree outside after Christmas? Your decorations look so pretty! Merry Christmas!

Vika! What a wonderful video to get into the Christmas spirit and to enjoy the real meaning of this special time of the year. Your decorations are beautiful and it is so nice that you shared this lovely family Christmas. Thank you Vika for all of your amazing videos-- what an amazing memory for all of you too.

I love all of the homemade ornaments and decorations. That is very clever and they look lovely. Great job!

Oh my goodness it all looks wonderful! 🎄

You did a great job with simple materials and it looks lovely! Reminded me of the early years with our children :) As for the timing, in central Europe many people don't put a tree up or decorate until December 24th, with the exception of an Advent wreath with candles for each Sunday of Advent, so you're not really late! Now that Christmas is more commercialised, there are more public decorations but it didn't used to be that way. Also, it's more ecologically sound to have a tree you can plant, especially as you have the land with your house ;). They can grow pretty big, though! Merry Christmas Vika and Tolya, Agata and Adeline!

Wow! Beautiful job, you’ve inspired me to do the same orange slices for tree ornaments next year and also the same doorway garland - so pretty. I prefer this to shop-bought decorations! Also, as a slow crafter myself, I must say you are very efficient - making so many decorations in such a short space of time (& with small children)! Well done all, lovely vlog. Enjoy your decorations 😊

The view out your windows is spectacular. Your Christmas tree was gorgeous. 🎄 All of your decorations were beautiful. I liked the bible verse that you put up too.

Great job on the decorations! They look so pretty. Agatha did a great job on her ornaments and snowflake paintings! Have a blessed Christmas! 🌲

I love how you decorated for Christmas. Agatha did a good job making ornaments. Your little girls are very sweet and cute!

I can smell it here in Tennessee....🎄🎄

Your ginger cat purring at 19:26 is one of the sweetest sounds

This sweet video reminds me of one Christmas when my husband cut down a scraggly tree that his employer wanted rid of. He brought it home sticking out of the trunk of his car. We set it up. It was a sorry looking little tree with sparse, thin branches that wouldn’t hold many of our ornaments. My husband saw the potential in It, but I was skeptical. We popped popcorn and strung it with cranberries to make a garland. We made cinnamon cutout ornaments in the shape of gingerbread men. It was the cutest little tree when we were done, and it’s the one I remember best of all the trees we’ve ever had. Vika, you will always remember this tree with the homemade ornaments.

The decorations came out very nicely! I love the branches and the lights and the snowflakes and the crafts! So very pretty ♥️🎄❄️☃️

I've always put my decorations up on christmas eve and kept them up until 6th january when the three kings arrive (12 days of christmas) which is traditional where my mother was born. I don't hold with putting them up too early, I think it's over the top. So I don't think you're late with putting them up. They look lovely and just go to show you don't need to buy ornaments to decorate. It's more personal to make your own. Have a very happy christmas. ❤❤❤❤

Very pretty. I can’t imagine how heavy that tree was.

I triple love the snow flakes, AND garland, the trees I adore the forest of trees!!! Touch of yellow Van Gogh. The ambience of lights---- beautiful!

Such a sweet family!! So much gratitude you show for what you have. Beautiful. ❤

Christmas decorations like these are very pretty and more meaningful because the family did it all together. I'm betting at least one of your cats will climb the Christmas tree though and hide in the branches. (Our cats do that.) A very Merry Christmas to all of you!!

Merry Christmas Viktoria, Tolya and family. The Christmas decorations look beautiful and the children will love seeing your final touches! Your apartment looks warm and cozy now. You may want to spray the pine tree’s root ball to keep it moist. That may help keep it from dying. Here when we cut our trees, we place them in a stand filled with water so the tree can drink. Much love from Ottawa, Canada❤️

I love the idea of using soap to make the snowflakes stick! It warmed my heart to see all the Sunday school ornaments! I make many with my SS class every year ❤

How very nice this looks! Almost all made by yourself. This is so neat. And yeah cats do climb the Christmas tree.

Merry Christmas to you 6, humans and 2 kitties ! We are so sorry that you have to go through this nomadic exile but you manage to be so strong and sunny. I wish you to spent the next Christmas at home, in a peaceful Russia (and Ukraine), and the war being a bad souvenir left behind for both nations.

Fun watching you all. Very entertaining. Agatha is such a cute little girl and so hands on. You don't need a lot to decorate well and you showed us how. May his presence fill your home with love, joy and peace.

The windows in your new apartment are fantastic! God bless you and your sweet family and may you have a very beautiful Christmas together. ♥️

Fabulous Christmas Spirit! Loved watching your family decorate for the Savior's birth.

You did a great job decorating! Your apartment looks super nice and, I'm sure, smells amazing. I love the idea of the Christmas tree being sold with the roots so it can be planted later. Throwing a tree out seems like such a waste. I switched to artificial a long time ago, but I do miss the scent of a real life tree. Merry Christmas!🎄❄🎁

Merry Christmas you guys! The Saviour is born indeed.

So homey and these Christmas videos made me smile the whole time 🎉

Absolutely loved it! Everything was done so tastefully! You showed that we don’t have to spend a lot of money for Christmas and still be beautiful! May The Lord bring you peace and joy and all your wishes come true. Maybe you can plant the tree at the house you are building, just an idea! Merry Christmas you guys! ❤️❄️🌲

Absolutely LOVE how beautiful your Christmas decorations are! Apartment looks very cozy, children will be so happy living in such a comfortable beautiful space! 🎄🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟

This is one of the most adorable things I've seen...EVER! So creative, family centered and lovely. Thank you for sharing your Christmas decorations with us 🎄🌟❄️

I was very late watching this, and it was so beautiful! The oranges, the snowflakes, the lights, the branches on the window sill...so charming! And done with your children, with so much love and so little waste or commercialisation. An inspiration!

Oh I Love all your Decorations so Gorgeous Have A Wonderful Christmas with your Beautiful Family love all your videos ⭐️❤️🎄🎁⛄️

I love seeing how other people decorate & celebrate Christmas. It's always so different but so beautiful to see. Tolya has gotten much more comfortable with the camera, it's nice to see, he's so sweet to you!!!!

I am grinning from ear to ear through this entire video. Thank you Vika, for sharing your family for the world to see. So amazing to watch a Russian family in the Ukraine from New Zealand. So cool!!! Ps you could cut the postcards into Christmas shapes if you wanted to use them (bells, Holly leaves, snowflake, candy cane etc)

It is so refreshing to see you make your decorations. Everything is beautiful. Poor Toyla bringing the tree up all those stairs. The cat was funny getting into everything. Merry Christmas to you all. Blessings ❄️🎄☃️🐕🇺🇲

I'm loving this. Love the tree! I love the idea of soap and water to put the snowflakes on windows. Very creative. omg love the kitty in the tree. I think it is tradition for a kitty to get into Christmas trees. lolol I see now what you do with the branches. That's an awesome idea. :) Kitties are going to love the branches. lol OMG love the hanging oranges with the stars. Awesome idea. Loving the little trees in the kitchen on the shelf with the branches. Looks like a mini forest. I hope you all have an amazing Christmas and new year.

I think it's wonderful to plant a,Christmas tree! MERRY CHRISTMAS SWEET FAMILY! YOUR DECORATION ARE MAGICAL!🙋‍♀️❤️🌲☃️☃️☃️☃️

So lovely to be invited into your home for your special Christmas decorating. Merry Christmas!

Your apartment looks so festive! Great job on all of the handmade decorations. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!

Beautiful decorating. I "stole" your llittle Christmas Tree forest idea. G-d Bless and Merry Christmas! 🎄

Absolutely ADORE all your decorations!❤well done! If you have some small snowflakes left over, you could hang them on the tree too, and maybe a larger one as a star for the top. Kitty is so funny😂 Hope they don't pull all the decorations down on the window sill😂

So pretty! The dried oranges look beautiful on the tree :)

What a beautifully full tree you found! Have you ever used popcorn to string for your tree? You can use cranberries and alternate popcorn on same string. We used small toys, dried fruit, broken jewelry pieces, and anything we could find to put on our tree. I think your kitty will jump up to the window sill and lay on top of the tree branches…, good luck with that as cats love window sills. Your house looks so cute and festive. I especially like the arch decorations and over the sink with lights! Vika, you and Tolya, joke around together and laugh often….I like it as I giggle too. Ty for the video, hugs for your babies, take care. God bless each of you with good health, visit with family members and happiness! Sending good thoughts your way. CarrieJo/American friend 😊

I had no idea the water and soap trick to stick the snowflakes on. We always used tape. Now I know the secret!

Very nice video! Your home looks so festive now! It was a family affair & you all did a great job! Happy Holidays! 🎅🧑‍🎄🤶🤶🎄🎄🎄😊

Cats vs. trees. Tie it to the wall, ( 2 cup hooks and string )other wise u will have it on the floor many many times. You two did a great job make it a festive time and place for ur children. Its evident how much u love ur children, u r good parents. As to the tree: Here in The US you can get both the small in the pot to keep alive by planting it in ur yard. Or keep it in a bigger pot for next year. Or the cut one that has a stand that has a place for water to keep it from drying out. And those can be put on the curb for the trash collectors to take to have it shredded for wood chips that are used for landscaping.

Clearly the cats are good supervisors because your decorations are fabulous! Merry Christmas!

Very creative work on the ornaments. A family activity, much better than store bought. I wish you and the entire family a very Merry Christmas! 👍👍

i feel at peace when watching ur videos

That was HEAVY! It looks lovely. The orange slices and sweets work really well as decorations. And I love those coloured paper trees on the kitchen shelf. Happy Christmas to your family, from mine.

Vika, this is your BEST VIDEO! It brought tears to my eyes to see the love and enjoyment you shared with us as you made your home beautiful with Christmas decorations. Homemade is the best and I am impressed. Merry Christmas!❤

Merry Christmas to all of your family 👪 . The kids are getting so big. Another great video from you 💯👍👍

Your decorations are fabulous... One suggestion for your entrance door if you have any paper or greenery left? Maybe make a bright Christmas tree shape or some stars to put on the black colour of the door...? Happy Christmas 🎄

Your flat looks beautiful, Vika! Well done! Happy Christmas 🎄!

The oranges look great. Never seen that before. Agatha is so cute!

I noticed your Christmas tree has a root ball meaning it can be planted outside after Christmas ❤ Hopefully you do find a place for it to be planted 🎅 Merry Christmas 🎅 from Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸

You did a great job! Your home looks lovely. This was such a nice family project. Merry Christmas!!!🎄🎄🎄

Merry Christmas, Vika, to you and your beautiful family! Thank you for showing us in each and every one of your videos how a simple happy and meaningul life looks like. You bring joy into our lives, I hope all your days are filled with joy as well! ❤️🤗🎄

You have to keep the roots watered, but should not be in bag, will cause them to rot or grow fungas or mold. Best to get a tree stand, to allow air circulation and keep water in base.