May Winter Bring You Peace, Rebirth & Happiness ~

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Good morning, early birds! And if you're not an early bird then that must make you a night owl. Either way, good morning and good afternoon and evening to all!

I wanna show you guys some behind the scenes things around the factory, one of my personal favorite festive rooms!

Let's take a peek inside the Winter Wonderland room, shall we? This is where myself and the Oompa Loompas have our winter parties and Secret Santa giveaways!

~WINTER WONDERLAND~

This beautiful area completely changes in decor every month with transformations in amazing landscaping, water features, suspended decor from the ceiling and awe-inspiring scenes throughout. But during the holiday season is when I believe it becomes the most gorgeous. With the large glass dome atop the area, you get fantastic scenery sightings inside during the day and the area is provided with wonderful lighting for nighttime viewing as well. Because we all know that nighttime is when everything beautiful sparkles. ✨

This 8 foot long train travels around the huge Christmas tree and is surrounded by hundreds of multi-colored Poinsettias. In one of the train cars, a digital camera faces forward and can see what the train sees as it travels around the track on a nearby television monitor! One of my trusty tech Oompa Loompas thought the camera would be a magnificent addition and I couldn't agree more! Isn't that genius?

Every month, you'll have a different theme from huge flower pots and fields of daisies during the spring to an amazing Asian theme during the Chinese New Year. Any time you are fortunate enough to stop by the factory, should Covid ever go away, you will be astounded at the beauty and creativity of this unique attraction! Let's not forget the beautiful rocking horse to the left, that does indeed work! Also, this is one of our tallest Christmas trees in the factory, although it may not look tall on camera, it's actually standing close to 24 feet! That's like six Oompa Loompas stacked on top of each other, ha.

These are leafless white Christmas trees, added decor to balance out the color scheme. We were going for a snowy and colorfully-bright Santa's Workshop North Pole theme. Though half of the Oompa Loompas wanted the theme to be Polar Express, with nothing but faux snow made from powdered sugar, elves and trains everywhere. But who knows? Maybe this year we'll vote again on themes or infuse the two!

This cute Polar bear is a remote controlled animatronic that was designed specifically for the Oompa Loompas to ride around the factory on. One of their most adorable ideas to date, in my opinion.

And what would a factory be without reindeer? This is a favorite statue of mine, it was a Rudolph model but unfortunately the glowing red nose had to be removed due to overheating, which started a small fire.

Oversized ornaments for an oversized tree, nothing more.

Ah, the Nutcracker! Yes, I almost forgot. This design was requested by Santa himself (yes, Santa is real, do NOT debate me) as he and Mrs. Clause love to visit the factory during Christmas time and feast with us. It's a joyous time, really. And we make sure to put it out for them every year.

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And that, people, brings us to the end of our little virtual tour! Unless I forgot something? Nope, I don't think I did. I hope you enjoyed! I must say, this has to be one of the most fun and cozy places in the factory, mostly because we spend so much time changing and decorating it throughout the year! And Christmas happens to be my favorite time of the year. Should I ever open my factory to the public again it's definitely one of the rooms I'll include in the next tour! Maybe I'll even do a Christmas tour and show off all the beautiful decorations in the factory.

But til then, see ya on the flip side!

- Willy Wonka 🍫

Merry Christmas!! 🎄Rb to give the person you rb'd from a present! 🎁✨

How do you come up with your financial planner/organization?

I organize percentages, range, demographic (that mostly being children), costs, income and do's and donuts (do nots), get it? Ahaha!

Ahem. Excuse the sloppy handwriting, I was in a rush. This is basically a short overview of the benefits to what's called "affiliate marketing." It's a pretty simple concept. For instance, you want an online store to sell your brand of candy. So you search out and find what's called an "affiliate network" and advertise your goodies to a seller, or an affiliate marketer. Should you be lucky enough to get someone interested in selling your shiz-na-ee, they would then set up a website or link to your line of candy. And every time you make a sell from their links or site, you both get paid. In other words, you have sustainable income, depending on how popular you are of course, and they pocket what's called a "commission", a sum of money earned through sales. You know how those greedy and money hungry YouTubers get paid a percentage by a sponsor just to shove a product down your cute little throat? Same thing, really. Unless you're the greedy YouTuber. But isn't that neat? You can still market your business right from your bedroom with ease. And in the times of Coronavirus where people can't physically go out to stores as much, this is my newest strategy, because I have to keep that revenue coming in! And the rest is pretty much the basic 101 stuff. Blah, blah, blah, economic decline, global panic, business thingy, you understand? Great! Loved your question, by the way!

I was wondering about your veggie garden; what's the trees with the black dots all over them? They look scary 👉🏼👈🏼

I assume you mean this type of tree:

These are called Jabuticaba (Ja-boo-chi-ka-ba) trees. They're native to Brazil. The "black dots" are fruit, we harvest them for wine, jelly & juice. They're about the size of a grape. The only big difference between this fruit tree & any common fruit tree is the fruit grows on the tree bark. They have medicinal properties, too. Scary looking for sure at first, but very healthy, plentiful & delicious. We have quite a few foreign veggies & fruits growing here year round. ☺️

Jonathan Borba

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~ ashlyn 🍃

I want to watch the night sky

& drink tea with you. 🌙

It's shitty but I made this for you hope you like it 💕💕😘💕

Really? For me?! Goodness, how long did this take you? It isn't bad at all, you're very talented and it's gorgeous! It's very sweet of you.

Thank you! ☺️

Curious. What was your favorite character that you ever played and why?? :)

Answer:

Ding ding ding! (Certain people are going to be pissed at me for not saying Vic' or Dante). Lol. All of my characters have a special place in my heart, though. The reasons why (among others):

I'm very much into sci-fi, I like fantasy & exploration so being able to become an imp & experience this completely alternate universe was really fun. 🌿

The wardrobe, as always, was my favorite part. Do I really need to explain this one? Lol. ✨

CGI effects/inserts. CGI & inserts can be dope as hell when it's done right. It's always impressive. 🧡

The magic. Omg, the magic. The battles. The adventure. The adorable racially diverse villagers & their huts. 💚

I love the character development - how his indifference, immaturity & mischievousness later led to leadership, badassness & loyalty. Fun fact: I cut my hair for this. He was supposed to originally have red hair but instead of dyeing my entire head we went with highlights because I didn't want my hair red for eons, I had other things to do. 🍃

So yeah, these are a few of my favorite things.

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