🏠 Living Alone in my 20s | 🎅 Holiday Party, Spa, & Christmas Games w/ Family! (It got intense) 😂🎄

Happy New Year, YouTube family!! 🥳❤️ In this vlog, we celebrate my mom & sister’s birthday, attend a holiday party for wedding vendors (hosted by Whitney Heard), and visit Pingle’s Christmas Market! 🎄 I also bring my mom to a spa, pick up my oldest sister’s family from the airport, reconnect with my university badminton friend (Bernita), stream cooking with Vanessa (my best friend), and enjoy a fun-filled Christmas with my family 🥰 Marthy & I also buy a new winter coat to stay warm from Toronto’s snowstorms haha ⛄

Hope you guys have fun watching & wishing you all the best in 2023!! Let’s keep growing together 🎉

Your friend,
Mel ^___^

0:00 – Intro
0:26 – Dinner at LANNA Cuisine (for my mom’s birthday)
1:00 – Holiday Party for Wedding Vendors @ Summerset Studio (hosted by Whitney Heard)
3:20 – Pingle’s Christmas Market w/ family
3:58 – Decorating Christmas Cookies
4:30 – Which cookie design do you like better?
5:04 – Pingle’s Christmas Market w/ family
5:11 – DIY Christmas Ornaments
5:16 – Pingle’s Christmas Market w/ family
5:27 – Happy Birthday, Jaclyne!!
5:35 – Spa experience w/ my mom @ GoSpa
6:08 – Kaison thinking the aircon is on hahah
6:26 – Dinner @ Ryu Izakaya w/ Bernita!
7:04 – Unboxing utensils from Eden and Ash
7:21 – Christmas shopping w/ Marthy
7:54 – SDE Christmas Party
8:01 – Christmas Gathering w/ family!
8:32 – Opening Christmas gifts
9:06 – White elephant
9:32 – Competitive games hosted by Brenda xD
10:59 – Buying a new winter jacket!
11:34 – Wearing our new nobis jacket hehe
12:08 – Winter vibes
12:13 – Cooking stream w/ Vanessa!
12:40 – Quote of the day
12:48 – Outro

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Hi I’m Mel, and I’m a Toronto-based wedding filmmaker, freelance videographer, and lifestyle content creator. My passion for media and storytelling began with creating MapleStory animations on YouTube in 2008. Since then, I’ve graduated with my BA in Media Production (major in Television and Video), and am currently working on building my own personal brand. During my spare time, I enjoy working on my travel & lifestyle blog (melstory.ca), streaming on Twitch, and drinking bubble tea. Follow along as I navigate my way through life as a creative!