celebrating my BIRTHDAY & finding vintage decor | XO, MaCenna Vlogs

[@addisonamendola3541]

Happy birthday!! I’m a professional framer and a great way to fix old frames is to make a mold out of epoxy sculpt or moldable silicon from the existing part of the moulding that is still intact, use mold release/Vaseline inside the mold you made, and use epoxy sculpt or plaster to fill the mold and glue the new piece on the frame. A little paint and patina will make it look like the damage was never there! That’s typically how we repair antique frames in our shop and it gives them a much longer life😊 love your videos💛

[@andreypj3619]

Hi, thank you for sharing this! can I ask what paint u use and what to use to patina? I have these 2 matching wooden gold gilt frames with some red paint showing through. I was thinking I could add gold leaf but I felt like it would look too bright. Perhaps there’s like a gold acrylic paint that would blend better.. thanks for ur time if ur able to answer!😅

[@cindyqueenofyou]

Yay! I came here to say this!! I do this with everything that I find that's damaged (not just frames) I've replaced hands on statues, etc.

[@addisonamendola3541]

@@andreypj3619 we use rub n buff or some watered down acrylic paint for the patina :) if there is red underneath it was definitely hand gilded, but if it has some patina to it then both of those options and some gold acrylic paint would help camouflage the repair! I would use a heavy bodied acrylic paint for the gold, definitely recommend bringing a picture of the frame to the store with you to try and find a good match as gold can vary in undertones

[@cbenji2]

Thank you for sharing that.

[@Beruthiel45]

Thank you for that info! Very useful to know. 👍😊💕

[@nicolemorello4692]

That brass easel would be so cute on the kitchen counter with an old family heirloom recipe card sitting in it!

[@CheriJ11]

I framed one of my favourite recipes that my Mom used to make and it’s written in her handwriting. It’s a treasured keepsake now. I hung it in the kitchen but I like the easel idea even more!

[@donnadillon5525]

🎉Happy Birthday!! That lemon looks like a grapefruit. Have a wonderful Birthday party ❤

[@MrLilbetter]

I would love to see a Drew and Macenna collab on a room together. I don't know if it would ever happen or even if it would ever work?? But it would be SUPER interesting!! 🤗

[@amywalker3811]

Maybe even if they collaborated on a room from each of their houses?!! I’d love to see that!!

[@gracestrumpfer1254]

They should do a master bedroom collab and bring in some his and hers vibes.

[@ludovica1914]

Yes! I think it could so work because the French Country/Dark Academia and Eclectic Spanish Revival have some serious overlap potential in my opinion! They could totally do a modern eclectic like Mediterranean situation!

[@MrLilbetter]

@@ludovica1914 I believe it absolutely could work too! But I understand that Macenna is a very solo act, and it's in no shape or form shade, she did mention that, and we have to respect that it's ultimately up to her what she wants to do! But absolutely! SO MUCH overlap it would gorgeous to see what they could do together if that's conducive for what they both want

[@ayeeangie21]

100% yessss

[@andreamarielachaves878]

I go through life looking at stuff and thinking "oh, Macenna would love that!" or "Drew would love that!"

[@denises9426]

Me too!! 😂

[@ingeborgroos9415]

I find myself almost buying stuff that they would love even though it doesn't fit in my space at all!

[@michellelockhart964]

😂😂😂 me too

[@michellelockhart964]

I see sweatshirts that Romeo would like too! 😂

[@totallytourist]

This is too real😂😂😂

[@terrichaney4580]

My son has a lemon bush/tree and get loads of lemons on it. I took 30 lemons and you could hardly notice I took any. I brought them home and found a recipe for lemon cello. I’ve made two batches now, and each batch makes 14 bottles. It tastes great and makes great gifts.

[@lovly2cu725]

LEMONCELLO CAKE

[@kathleenrichardson6695]

Lemon butter is delicious and easy to make. Great on toast, crumpets and meringues.

[@lauramitchell6725]

terrichaney: Let me send you my address!🤣😅😂

[@nickylast7405]

The joy you had when you picked your lemon was awesome!

[@virginiaraffaeli8332]

Happy 35th birthday MaCenna!!! I'm 26 and finally moving into my first apartment that isn't a flatshare. You've filled me with inspiration and ideas, and can't wait to decorate and diy! Happy birthday! Hope you live the year of your dreams with Romeo, your parents, Kingsley (and hopefully baby Lee). Love you❤

[@joyceholtzinger451]

To fix that damaged frame you can make a mold from silicone caulk, the kind you use to caulk around the home. (video on KZbin naturally). once you have the silicone mixed up, just roll it out like a fat sausage and then flatten it to a thickness which will encompass the molding on the opposite side. Let that set up and then fill it with plaster of paris. When it's dry. You have a replica to replace the missing part of the frame. (I found a video that said you can mix some white glue or Mod Poge into the plaster of paris to make it stronger and less crumbly) Mother youtube has never steered me wrong. LOL!🥰 Happy Birthday!

[@crosie9670]

AHHHH I was literally on your page looking for updates and this suddenly popped up! Yay!!!!!

[@patsygoddard2791]

Same

[@juliarobinson4825]

I feel like Macenna is going to be a real taste maker one day. I have been following her for a while so I just noticed how much her audience grew. I always notice that her taste isn't always exactly what is currently most popular. This is kind of what makes me think she's going to keep growing and be as influential as the designers on HGTV network in the early 2010's.

[@michellem434]

I love how you stop and enjoy flowers ! It's the little things in life.

[@victoriacochran4532]

Happy Birthday! You deserve all the best thrift and vintage finds!

[@salmonpchase1963]

A product called Amazing is what you need to buy for recreating the missing pieces on the frames. It’s two of their products, one is Clay that you make a mold from other matching parts on the frame. After the mold drys, you use the other resin like product and pour into the mold. It hardens and turns white in 10 minutes. You can even cut with a scissors for a few minutes before it hardens. However, you will need to paint the pieces to match the frames. I did this on a dresser with missing fretwork and it turned out beautifully. Love your talent, your sweet personality and keep up the good vlogs!

[@shannonmcrae1364]

MaCenna I think you would look so cute with short hair !!!

[@jennyvillarreal5490]

Your house is so beautiful and is coming together so nicely. I love the idea of the reading nook next to your desk! I think a chair with some color or a pattern to make it a distinct zone separate from the rest of the room would work. By the way, Alison Roman when she was at New York Times Cooking had a video about how to preserve lemons in jars. May be worth looking into. You can make fresh squeezed lemonade, too, which is so refreshing in the summer.

[@JL11775]

You and Drew shopping together is the best!

[@maggieglycerineclown2531]

Hi MaCenna, I have been following your channel for the past couple of years and watching your confidence and projects grow with you in that time has been honestly exhilarating. There have been a few moments when I have straight-up cheered at my laptop screen (when you dragged your bathtub across the cottage by yourself, when you got the stain right in the living room, when the bookshelves were finished with the face frame all around, when you finished stripping the beams). I got so used to watching you every day during Vlogmas last year that during your break in January, I revisited a few early cottage videos and was just blown away by how much you have really achieved. I admire your can-do attitude but I’m also glad that you allow yourself the time to recover-I always prefer quality over quantity and I know you do too. The relationship you have with your mom feels a lot like mine with my mom, so that always feels comforting and nice as well. The most recent podcast episode about being underestimated by men was my favorite so far. I turned 32 a couple of weeks ago, so happy belated birthday to us both. Thanks for making me feel like I can take risks and try anything. I’m so excited to watch your beautiful new California house grow with you and am mighty jealous of the brick floors. Can’t wait for the kitchen reno (and the planning episode was delightful!). I’m glad you were able to do so much to the formal living room that the icy rug disappeared. Sometimes stuff just works out that way. Rooting for you from Seattle. I would have put my bed downstairs too. XO, Maggie

[@clwm2dlw]

I'm glad you had a great birthday. I love that you're so excited about a fruit picker!!

[@cgrayson3519]

shoulda bought that cute little clock, perfect little moody moment for on top of the rich brown fire place. love everything you do❤

[@JamiRayVintage]

You can use a two part putty to make a mould and then pour the missing mould with resin and paint gold. That will be so good fixed up!

[@erinmoore9681]

I looked for this comment on the frame detailing

[@diannebernau3293]

I saw this done on a furniture flip channel yesterday on Elegant Updates channel. She used Amazing Mould Putty and Amazing Resin to make missing details on a wash stand. Kacha also does this for her furniture flipping on her channel, too.

[@rachelfetters5370]

i've never seen a hot pink hydrangea before.. those are stunning!! i'm so obsessed with your garden 😍😍

[@sueblaisdell2430]

A drop of ammonia in the rinse water will make your glassware sparkle. An old trick from my bartender uncle. Works beautifully.

[@claudialaurendeau2865]

U guys need to get a loupe so u know if its a copy or not. and u can make a mold of your frame trim.

[@TheMichelled2]

Those little ceramic jars would look adorable on your kitchen window ledge with flowers in them.

[@juliacummins6724]

your new stone marmalade and mustard jars would be cute vases in your kitchen window. Happy belated birthday, hope your day was all you could have wished for.

[@malindawoodring881]

I love the little French jam pots and crockery!

[@terrigodfrey8260]

Love the marmalade stone jars!

[@kittyglitter8186]

Kinsley thinks that little pitcher is her own coffee cup! Cutie pie!

[@vickicone6355]

Love how the simplest things (a.k.a fruit picker) brings you so much JOY! Good Job Romeo 😊

[@jasmineteehee3612]

Happy birthday Macenna, how sweet is Romeo, he is a keeper as we brits say! Big hug to you on your special day.

[@lisanestor5464]

Happy Birthday MaCenna!🥳 Your videos always make me so happy! I’m so glad that I found your channel! Your videos are the highlight of my week and you inspire me soooooo sooo much!🫶🏻You are the one that made me find my decore style and made me not do as everybody else just because it’s trendy! Thanks too you, I now LOVE vintage things and the small details in things! I hope you know how amazing you are! ❤️Keep being yourself! We love you!

[@redraven7948]

WELL SAID!! 💜

[@Gicaisand]

Omggggg this mimosa eggs yellow plate in the background I’m looking for one of this for so long ! Thank you so much for your videos, I love taking my coffee with you in the morning, it is like meeting an old friend 😊

[@justineallen6071]

For the frames- liquid latex moulding, is to make really detailed missing pieces from the frames. Saw on Chateau de la Ferte-youtube channel. She used this to replace moulding in her salon.

[@kobaa5139]

The clip of you and your mom in the intro @ 0:29 makes me heart happy everytime I see it

[@annalinneajohansson]

(I guess YT doesn't like links in comments so I'll share the product names instead) For fixing the missing pieces on the frames I would use *Alumilite 10570 Amazing Mold Putty* and *Alumilite Amazing Casting Resin* It's super quick and easy to use and makes perfect replicas! Happy birthday Macenna! 🤩

[@torridallavilla5048]

The two matching Chairs look so much better!!!

[@donnamodzelewski6923]

The clock would have been perfect on your mantle. Happy birthday!

[@audreyschmitt200]

When life gives you lemons and your boyfriend buys you a lemon picker for your birthday, make a joyful moment in a vlog and make everyone smile 💛💛💛💛💛💛

[@dianebenavente513]

Juice your lemons. Freeze the juice In lemon trays. Then you can put a cube in your water. Happy Birthday!

[@shep526]

Happy Birthday!! Just a suggestion for your desk area....move your desk in front of the other set of windows(left of the bay area) and then put the chair near the door in front of the right side of the bay window. You'd have the view for the desk and the chair. Hope you're able to find a solution.

[@tracyball5041]

That fruit picker is EVERYTHING, well done Romeo 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️

[@sophm08]

Happy Birthday! 😊 it's so amazing to see you pick up the Keiller's Dundee marmalade jars. Dundee is only a 30-minute drive from my hometown. It's meant to happen with these things, but it's still so strange seeing you with a bit of Scottish history so close to me, all the way over there. Amazing ❤

[@Beruthiel45]

I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne and have lived in Alberta Canada since 1967. I recognised the marmalade pots immediately and it's nice that those travelled so far from home. 😊💕

[@wee0007]

After seeing how cozy and gorgeous your formal living are is. I cannot wait I to see how you decorate for Christmas 🎄

[@lynnsalberg5647]

I’ll put the candle snuffer out too because I think they look so charming. However, I use the straight piece to turn down the wick and pull it back up so my candles don’t smoke when I blow them out it works out really well. They often come for sale in a sec with the snuffer. I highly recommend !

[@gwendleburks8904]

My two favorite KZbin people together. Seem like so much fun. Happy belated birthday 🥳

[@TLCinCA]

The marmalade jars are from Scotland. My husband is from Dundee.

[@chupachups11]

I've been following you for years and I found you among the people Drew follows because I was looking for someone else with similar aesthetics.. and now you are literally my favorite person on KZbin and the only one who has notifications turned on on every channel🤍🏹

[@LisaAdams.75]

I’ve never seen anyone so excited about picking lemons 😅. You’re too cute MaCenna ☺️

[@Brijeanius]

Absolutely use your snuffers! I love mine, and there's no risk of wax blowing. ALSO the estate sale was crazy, just like looking at my own home! With the crystal, rugs, and quilts... I'm so glad and blessed to have relatives over the centuries keep and carefully maintain such beautiful pieces!

[@Kujawa_Powa]

I feel like that black and stone clock would look SO good in the room you just redid!!! Put it on the mantle or your vintage long desk table thing!

[@lauramitchell6725]

I know,when she was saying “I don’t know where I would put it”, I was thinking,isn’t it a mantle clock? So maybe……..the mantle? 🤣😅😂

[@janicajosef-espiritu7763]

Happy birthday! The view from your office nook is so beautiful! And your idea adding a little reading nook there is perfect! 💟

[@marymaryquitecontrary]

Meyer lemon was my thought, too. If so, lucky you! So sweet, and I once had one (home-grown) that was big enough one would make an entire pie. Also, where I live (Phoenix area) just about every home with a citrus tree has a picker. It's one of those ASMR-type things, so satisfying, you will love it. Very thoughtful of Romeo.

[@carolmackenzie2283]

Your marmalade stone wear is from Dundee Scotland, that’s where I am from made me smile, happy birthday.

[@TLCinCA]

My husband is also from Dundee.

[@kallienielsen3898]

You should build your own bay window bench and do the same detailing as the stair wall but just add antique casters on it so you can move it away/ around. Also those cornflower pillows would look cute in the bay window.

[@ginistewart9636]

Love your French marmalade and mustard crocks but my favorite is the artist sketching art! Happy birthday!

[@ElleBlissSolorio]

Macenna, your laugh blowing out your birthday candle gives me LIFE. Genuine happiness, and it’s everything you deserve. Happy belated birthday ❤️

[@jessicamorris7332]

Happy Birthday! I would love to see how to repair that frame with the impression method you mentioned!

[@Mymusicscassandra]

Happiest birthday to you who is making me realize I had been into doing renovations since I was a kid and to you who inspire me and teach me the most. It’s almost 1 am in my country and I’m watching so exciting missed you hope you had a wonderful birthday ❤

[@MarieSunesen]

Store bought fruits often have a thin wax coating to make them prettier and last longer. That's why it's shiny. Fruit trees needs fertiliser and pruning to give a good fruit harvest. You're so good at research so you can properly find the best method for your trees online.

[@BobiJadue]

You and drew >>>>>

[@marywest2896]

put your desk over at the far window where the chair is now. that will free up the other 2 windows for your chair, have the back facing into the room, you can see out all three windows...

[@christianroilaparan6246]

MaCenna being excited about small things is giving such positive energy. Love it!

[@paulinasamayoa9542]

Happy Birthday Belle!!! I just love how you get excited by the little things just as much as you get excited by the big ones!!! big hug from Guatemala!

[@Rachel_Collins]

That fruit picker is so coool!!!! Cant wait to see what you do with that gorgeous window facing the pool, definitely need a cosy reading nook/workspace somehow! ❤❤

[@megcreates2.0]

I love those mini crockery’s!!!!

[@cathywatson1420]

Happy Birthday to you! I enjoy your channel. I can’t wait for you to back to Texas. I am ready to see the house and yard finished. Hope you have a great day!🎈🎈🎈🎈

[@rhondabozeman7089]

Happy Birthday!🎉 I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed escaping to your California home. The Texas one is great but there is just something about the California ✨✨✨ I sometimes think I was born in the wrong era. All the details and character are just so…I don’t even have words. I can’t wait for you to post the next vlog. Thank you so much for sharing. 💕💕💕

[@monikamelilloboissewilcock2666]

Hi Macenna, Happy Birthday!!! Idea for you frame fix Use hot glue on a part of the frame that's good. Use a good amount. Let cool a bit but still slightly warm, peel off. Bam, you have a mold!!!

[@pamelab1175]

Happy Birthday MaCenna! It was fun seeing you and Drew together. You both do like some of the same things. But Drew is into Spanish and metal because of his house. Your’s is more of a comfy cottage. So you want artwork. Not that Drew doesn’t have his own artwork he loves. After reading some of the other comments. You should do a collaboration with Drew. Someone else’s home. Your houses are evolving how you want them.

[@daisygutierrez8601]

Happy Birthday ! Heres a hint for you pic with missing edga... Use clay to make a mold of the edge from a good part of frame. Then pour plaster of paris . Before the clay hardens you should be able to pop out the plaster . Let it dry then glue it to you missing spot ..paint it ..your good at matching ..and tada. Your done. . Hope this helps you . ❤

[@brendacampbell7537]

Happy Birthday MaCenna. ❤ I hope that you had an amazing day. The front room looks so good, it was the perfect angle for the haul. You picked a great house to have long lasting memories for years to come. Luv you, Romeo and Drew.

[@judyshallstrom415]

You can fix it. Use Fimo or Sculpy clay to make the old. I doesn't shrink when you "fire" it in the oven. An air dry latex is another way to make the mold. I prefer the fimo/sculpy solution myself. Then you can use your choice of material to make the pieces you need. Before you go the day route though I would check with specialty wood shops. I have been surprised to find molding exactly like missing pieces on furniture I'm restoring. I love that frame. I know you'll do it justice. Repairing the gold leaf will be pretty easy. There are still sources for gold foil (not the craft store stuff). And probably some in CA. Have fun. Happy Birthday, love your channel.

[@Justlivin904]

Omg all those vintage stoneware jars!!! 😮😮

[@makorepo11]

Obsessed with watching you create your beautiful home🎉

[@pagesinked]

About the lemons YES they do sometimes put vegetable wax on fruits and veg too. That's why you always should wash/rinse your produce. Trying to buy organic is good but not always possible.

[@tammydavis797]

I have a clock just like that! It’s a mantle clock! Looks so good on the fireplace mantle! 5:13

[@sandyrobinson1845]

Just love all you’re videos You are such a warm caring host Love all you’re adventures and thank you so much for sharing you’re Family with us Kingsley with a toy of some kind just warms my heart Happy Happy Birthday!! Glad you have such a Great Friend in Drew Love you both💜😊

[@marcellasolima7099]

Happy belated birthday MaCenna, an estate sale and flea market and awesome treasures…my kind of birthday. I went to a flea market here in Arizona and we go at 7am and home by 10am because here it’s hell hot at 114 by noon. Love Kinsley thinking everything is for her, too cute.

[@lisadevries992]

Happy birthday Macenna! 🎉 To answer your question about the lemons, yes they polish fruit, there is usually a wax coating on most fruit (apples, citrus fruit etc.). Sometimes they even "paint" them to get a more vibrant colour which is wild to me!

[@gretaherbst5833]

You should use the vintage marmalade jars for coffee stirrers and coffee spoons. So cute!

[@gretaherbst5833]

And Happy Birthday!

[@pamdavis6604]

Keep in mind you need to fertilize your fruit trees twice a year. I know this cause I have a orange, lemon, grapefruit trees. I had a professional come out to check out my trees to see if they were healthy and no diseases. He told me that fruit trees need the fertilizer to nurture the tree to produce fruit. Fyi McCenna ❤❤❤❤

[@susangooden1055]

Happy birthday! And many more! You don’t know how happy your videos make me. 🎉

[@SheilaMiller-od7qn]

Happy Birthday MaCenna!! I just love your home and I always get so excited to see what you will do next!! This is just a thought for your fire place in the livingroom - why not paint it the same as the fireplace in the front room - I absolutely love the color! Thanks for all you do!!

[@BeyonceDaly]

Happy belated birthday MaCenna! You deserve all the happiness in the world and we’re so incredibly proud of you, watching your videos makes my day 100 x better. You’re a ray of sunshine and the world truely needs more people like you.

[@melissacasad3003]

The glasses look like candelwick! Love that brand!

[@akelly4207]

You could do an air dry clay (the foamy flexible stuff) impression of the detail in your picture frame on the side that isn’t damaged then use that as a mould to make a matching piece in resin or hot glue. Really simple and you can’t tell once you paint it to match.

[@gypsyrhodescovers]

I'm so glad you had an awesome Birthday! I think you may have some Imperial Candlewick tumblers from that Estate sale. They are so cute!

[@robsgirl7778]

Love love love the marmalade and mustard jars

[@michelelouise7011]

I wonder if that L sectional piece would be able to fit in the couch? So it's 4 across instead of 3? It looks like you have lots of room on either end so could work and then do a smaller chair in the window spot?

[@patriciahawkes386]

U can buy some molderble material that u can mold along the existing part in the frame take it iff when it sets and the pour plaster into the mold and glue it onto the frame. The chateau owners in france do it a lot.

[@cheriwhitley8385]

I loove that oak stand!!!oh McCenna, the gallery wall looks awesome!!i looooooovvveee your home!!..Happy Happy Birthday McCenna🎉🙏🩷🇱🇷

[@hannahpinner606]

Love the Dundee marmalade jars! I live near Dundee and got so excited to see that you bought them. 😁🥰

[@roxanneboley178]

Love the glasses too but I'm a collector of Candlewick glass which has bubble accents as well.

[@MKYang10]

I think the extra seat is a perfect lounge chair for a bedroom. Crazy idea but I wonder if you could build a detachable wooden frame with arms to give it a new look.

[@Pamcreatesjournals]

Happy birthday! 🎉 how about your desk behind the sofa like a sofa table? Everything is looking awesome

[@m.k.278]

MaCenna, every French home I have ever been in has a large mirror over the fireplace. You know the kind, brass/gold frame with rounded corners on the top. Start hunting, your living room is screaming for one!!

[@imMsGabbana]

happy birthday! you’re my favorite!! also when you mentioned the curio cabinet I was picturing it in your Texas house by mistake 😂 I got so used to it

[@lacesandribbons3895]

Hello you really are just a jewel of a person and when I don’t get a chance to watch your videos I miss you…..I just love you ….you do have the cutest little personality and you’re just a genuinely sweet person..I absolutely love that.😊 and I love Kinsley❤

[@amandasavoie2823]

INDIGO SUNSETS!!! Ahhh your intro hypes me up!

[@roxyn3535]

For the frame. You can paint over the pattern with a rubber paint ( a few coats) after it drys take it off and make a mold out of it. And then fix that part that broke off