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📆 TIMELINE: Bookcase build turned ✨EXTWEEEM✨ living room makeover | MaCenna Lee's non-stop procrastinating
Although I believe others have mentioned MaCenna had been bringing up building bookcases even before September 2024, I'm starting this bookcase build (turned extreme living room makeover) timeline from the point she makes her first dedicated video about it. 📆 September 19, 2024 MaCenna announces the bookcase project and shows the "design" as part of a Fiverr sponsored ad. https://preview.redd.it/kymkumw3nctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3111e986230630dca1a113bda2c7ecd698ff0c2 https://preview.redd.it/307amzs7nctf1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1554acfd13b64bfbf5f499483e5779565af53c00 📆 September 24, 2024 In this vlog, "flea market decor shopping & hosting family after renovations," she visits the flea markets to shop for things to put inside the bookcases that she hasn't built yet. 📆 October 1, 2024 During the Q&A, MaCenna announces she'll be doing the bookcases in November (2024) because she wants to decorate them for Christmas. https://preview.redd.it/g14g7inunctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbb90d83263cd5f801f72ab51063ba590b198b22 Quote (video transcript): yes I have it in my schedule to work on in November, cuz I want to do the patio first and then I want to do the bookshelves. I feel like it would be really nice cuz I'd love to decorate it for Christmas, so I'd love to have it done for sure. 📆 November 19, 2024 It's the middle of November and no mention of the bookcases in any of the vlogs since Oct 1, even though she "planned" to work on them in November. She posts a vlog full of excuses called, "DAYS IN THE LIFE: feeling lost, project delays & trying to get on track for the holidays." 📆 Also in November 2024 [I can't see exact dates of reddit posts while using the app, so this could have happened before or after the vlog above] MaCenna does an Instagram Live Q&A and confirms she wants to build the bookcases in November still, before Christmas, or during Vlogmas. During the IG Live she gives lots of excuses about why the "patio" makeover isn't done + why she hasn't started the bookcases yet. Clips from the live were shared here in the sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/XOMaCennaUnfiltered/s/vQ5eUfgBeR [From the comments on the linked Reddit post, it seems she also came to the decision of doing them for Vlogmas during that live or a post on IG stories shortly after the live.] 📆 December 2, 2024 It's Vlogmas Day 1, and MaCenna announces she changed her mind, and will NOT do the bookcases during vlogmas. 📆 December 10, 2024 Another Q&A. This time it's a "Wrap & Yap" for Vlogmas Day 9. Someone asked about bookcase progress and she says.... Quote (video transcript): I want that to be like the first project that I kick off in 2025. I haven't figured everything out but I think that that's naturally going to be the first one that I tackle. I had this idea to to do it over vlogmas. in this time of year it's already so chaotic with my film schedule, and just the holidays in general, to tear up our living room because it would be like I would have to like really dive in and like work on that project every day. it was just, it's just too much, my brain kind of started to shut down and I was like, oh I'm already tired even thinking about that, uh so I just like couldn't take that on. especially with like finishing the patio, which I'm going to dive into tomorrow, uh and then decorating for the holidays and stuff, it was just too hard. 📆 December 25, 2024 It's Vlogmas Day 24, and instead of just NOT mentioning the bookcases again, since she already said she'd do it in January, she instead breadcrumbs her audience by announcing that she's preparing for the bookcase project. Quote (video transcript): I also want to do the bookshelves in the new year um because I've feel like it's just like such a dead space like we need the storage and it's a dead space. [referring to the area behind the sofa] 📆 January 14, 2025 It's a new year and MaCenna's first vlog back after her holiday break. She weirdly smushed some winter decor in with the video about the LA fires. In this vlog she starts her 2025 breadcrumbing about the bookcases. She brings out a bunch of old books that she claims she bought for the bookcase project she'll be starting soon (🤣) and she tries to cram them on the entry console as part of her "winter decor" segment of the video. https://preview.redd.it/w0wc0i45pctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=1193b066cb484b52c1ed5a6df243de9a733bc9a7 📆 January 16, 2025 MaCenna decides it's time to share her plans for 2025, in her vlog titled, "2025 Goals & HUGE announcement you won't want to miss!" She shares what she wants to do & achieve in 2025. [Spoiler from the future: she did none of these things] Interestingly, she does NOT mention the bookcases amongst projects she wants to tackle. In fact, the bookcases aren't mentioned at all. Foreshadowing, perhaps? 🤔 📆 January 23, 2025 MaCenna spends an entire shopping video looking for items to decorate the bookcases she hasn't built yet, or even measured for. She also states that the shelving of the bookcases will be purely decorative and the bottom will be cabinets for storage. Timestamps (2:36), (12:05), (21:24), (21:30) 📆 January 25, 2025 MaCenna is shopping for items to put in the imaginary bookcases again! In this vlog she's on the hunt for "bookshelf things" at an estate sale. [She also shopped for patio items—she still hasn't finished the "patio" makeover that she insisted on doing betore the bookcases, back in October.] https://preview.redd.it/544x7cmlpctf1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd321d47dd9be99f2e18ec293632e0b4465fa942 📆 February 4, 2025 In today's vlog MaCenna starts off letting the audience know that she's still "collecting" things for the bookcases, but before she can do that, first she has some URGENT things to do for work. The urgent things ended up being going out to buy items to COMPLETELY COPY the valentines day post another creator made. You all may remember—we talked extensively about how ridiculous it was, here in the sub. https://preview.redd.it/nivs6snspctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=73f3b208d67b98c92031737ea3a77b3835bf2d31 📆 February 11, 2025 The Texas cottage vlog series begins as MaCenna hightails it to Texas in hopes of getting 1 million subscribers. 🤭 📆 March 18, 2025 https://preview.redd.it/p9t093a3qctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=b72bb51b20d3fcaeb77a505a7692fa5e2e7cf4aa MaCenna is back in LA for a few days and decides to take the opportunity to further breadcrumb her audience with tales of bookcases to come! She reminds us that the entire wall in her living room will be bookcases ONE DAY. But for now she's going to make it a gallery wall, so she can enjoy the art she has collected, even though she plans to be in Texas most of the year... Wait a minute... 🤔 📆 June 3, 2025 MaCenna couldn't ditch Texas fast enough after that hideous bathroom reno. Now she's back in LA, and just got her nails done for her "feminine phase." We later learn that means she actually won't be touching another project for the foreseeable future, due to not wanting to mess up her nails. https://preview.redd.it/8dqiw6wjqctf1.png?width=751&format=png&auto=webp&s=be292cbc62443b15e247861f0387405eb18701b2 [Spoiler from the future—she'll keep this same set until OCTOBER and only get them filled/maintained ONCE during that 4 month period] She also can't wait to TALK about the new projects she'll be working on now that she's back in LA for the whole summer. Projects like making pillows, hanging blue plates, and the vanity mirror. Noticably missing from the project list? Bookcases. 📆 June 17, 2025 Today's vlog is "malibu beach day & organizing our home." MaCenna drops bookcase breadcrumbs by showing the audience where she's "collecting books for the bookcases" in the garage. 📆 June 24, 2025 She's shopping for the imaginary bookcases again! This time she bought THIRTY (30) books for $30. Well that should surely be enough shopping for the bookcases now, right? She also reminds the audience about the cottage bookcases she built over 3 years ago. https://preview.redd.it/wb7cte7tqctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=939c3f304600da4298c84672c8cbb5c4e77a00fb Anyway, she crams her 30 books in the garage, probably never to be seen again, because now she's WATERCOLORING for 100 days [spoiler: she doesn't follow through with that either] 📆 June 29, 2025 Another shopping vlog. 😭 She buys a vase for the bookcases that don't exist yet and that she hasn't even measured for. But surely she must be close to building it by now, right? I mean she said she'd be building them in September 2024, and now it's June 2025, so she must be close to starting.... right? 📆 July 1, 2025 Guess what?! She's rattling off a list of projects she's going to tackle soon, like working on the guest bedroom (spoiler: just nightstands sponsored by Anthropologie) But she's also "getting her brain primed" for the bookcase build!🎉 To emphasize the "brain priming" she does a painful thinking gesture for some reason. We totally get it, MaCenna, thinking hurts! https://preview.redd.it/xq0lstpgrctf1.jpg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a421d0bbc25c2b7f06bc4b4d1301f663253da50b 📆 July 11, 2025 Whew, it has been several days since she was "priming her brain" to work on the bookcase, so she spends today's vlog SHOPPING for items to put inside the imaginary bookcases again! https://preview.redd.it/ydhk7l7nrctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=c13ed397028530f01d1f4f5d88794a8ca8477490 She states she's "on the hunt for bookshelf decor." Later she says she's going to "dive into the living room as well and do like the bookshelves and stuff" (8:04-8:09), and will use some smaller art from her gallery wall in the bookshelves. Those imaginary bookcases are SO FULL OF CRAP ALREADY, and they're not even built yet! 📆 July 29, 2025 Shopping again. 👉🏾🤯 Romeo finds a piggybank that he wants to display on the imaginary bookcases. Well, because it was Romeos suggestion and something HE wants to do, she of course hates the idea...but buys the piggybank anyway for some reason. https://preview.redd.it/6guqtyl0tctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=e80ef460aafffa47f9f4d4e29eb59dd841ca6293 📆 August 1, 2025 📍✨ The vlog, "roadtrip to discover what's next in HOME DECOR TRENDS," that we think is about her trip to a home design show in Vegas, becomes the official marker for when... 📍📍 the bookcase project morphs into an EXTWEEEEEM living room makeover. 📍📍 It's only a few second statement, but it changes the project from "bookcases" to a "LIVING ROOM MAKEOVER." Quote (video transcript): I'm starting on the living room. August is going to be like the living room makeover. So, August is in like a day or two. So, I've got to get started on like gathering my supplies and stuff. So, stay tuned. Living room makeover is underway. There's a lot of projects that are going to go into that room. And I'm excited to see that room that we spend so much time in come to life. That would be great. 📆 August 5, 2025 We're officially in August, the month she most recently dedicated to this project, so MaCenna decides she needs to buy wood and trim for the bookcases she'll build. https://preview.redd.it/2cy3md19tctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=5cbc35ad345b5342ed91b42f1739caabea0cdfff Oddly, she starts by shopping for TRIM for the bookcases, even though she hasn't chosen wood. She decides she also needs trim for the TV frame. She takes pictures of trim in the store, and buys nothing. She sits down with a new Anthropologie mug to tell her audience how this entire month (it's August 5, as a reminder) has been the hardest month ever. She's laying the groundwork for dipping out on the bookcase/living room makeover. After overwhelming herself by looking at trim, she tells the audience that actually the bookcases will be "phase 2" of the living room makeover. Likely because it allows her to procrastinate another week. 📆 August 12, 2025 https://preview.redd.it/gix69sjytctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe630b1a1c84b40ad95356539acd1d2cc8f544c3 This is it! She's going to buy wood for the bookcase build. Oh no, she got overwhelmed and left and didn't buy any wood at all. She also doesn't "design" the bookcases, as the title would have you believe. She goes home and talks about how she needs trim to match the wood she didn't buy. (yes, I know, but that's what happens!) Lastly, she comforts herself by forcing the audience to watch her unbox a haul of her online shopping addiction. 📆 August 14, 2025 https://preview.redd.it/8gi1kztuuctf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=22af93a2d7b1153cb8d8035b4c58715e21af2e16 MaCenna decides that even though she doesn't have any wood to build the bookcases, she needs to build a worktable for her saw, which she'll later use to build the bookcases. (sure, Jan.) She builds a wobbly uneven worktable. Seems proud. She also buys stain for a totally different unrelated project and says that it's a good test because she might want to stain her bookcases this same color. Even though she hasn't chosen the wood yet, and literally hasn't decided on the type of wood she'll be using or what color the wood will be, she's considering stains for some reason. Ok. 🫠 📆 August 22, 2025 We're shopping again 👉🏾🤯 She talks about needing to order curtains for the living room (as part of the makeover). She knows she wants roman shades, but she doesn't actually order any. [Keep in mind that if she's using Twopages—her favorite company because they'll sponsor/gift them to her—it will take about 3 weeks AFTER ordering for them to arrive.] Then she takes us shopping for...yup, more bookcase decor at the flea markets again. As a refresher: she hasn't even measured, or bought a single piece of wood at this point. 📆 August 27, 2025 August, the month dedicated to the living room makeover and bookcases is over, with no progress on either portion, except shopping for decor to cram inside the bookshelves. Quick monthly recap of August "working" on the living room & bookcase project... no wood decided on no wood purchased no measurements of the space taken no trim decided on or purchased for the TV frame or the bookcases no curtains ordered MaCenna announces that she's heading out to Texas for a quick trip, and that she'll START on the bookcases when she returns. https://preview.redd.it/yg6jqms5vctf1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21f1581b0196ad6ef043976e1c0f2ccb2f3dcc99 📆 September 9, 2025 MaCenna is back from Texas and as promised she jumps right into building bookcases! Oops, no. [Checks notes 📝] Actually she has now decided she needs new sofas, or fabric for new upholstery. Or both! So she spends a lot of time shopping for both upholstery fabric, and a different sofa for the living room makeover. She decides on nothing, and goes home empty handed again. No new new sofa, not even a single fabric sample to consider. Absolutely no progress made. Still, she takes a moment to tell the audience that the living room makeover is her priority. And moments after saying that, she turns around and starts redecorating Romeo's office that she has taken over. Lastly, she announces she will be stripping the the beams in the living room the following day. 📆 September 12, 2025 In this vlog she empties the living room. She says she promised Romeo it should only be a few days. 🤭 She... Doesn't strip the beams. Instead she makes a test spot with stripper because she thinks it's going to be too hard and she might paint them with Retique-It instead. She also plays dress up so she can record the "before" footage for the main channel and social media. Other than taking the living room furniture out, no progress was made. 📆 September 16, 2025 Yay, Romeo has stripped one beam, which means it's time for MaCenna to drag things out by doing another Q&A! The title of her video mentions design plans, but she's actually just answering fake questions for a Q&A literally nobody cared about, like where she plans to put a xmas tree. Half way through September and 1 beam has been stripped for the living room makeover and bookcase build. https://preview.redd.it/07ztpx25wctf1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba6cd6eba3c2396b049d0e870cfca147315c03d8 📆 September 19, 2025 At the end of a vlog titled, "fall bedroom refresh" MaCenna announces she'll be posting the first episode "Chapter 1" of the living room makeover/bookcase project on the main channel "VERY SOON" [Spoiler: this was a lie] 📆 September 26, 2025 After pretending like the living room makeover and bookcase project didn't exist for a couple vlogs, MaCenna picks things back up and goes shopping for trim, for the THIRD TIME. This time, specifically for trim for the TV frame. She buys a single piece of trim, that's not enough to do the whole frame, but says she'll get more at another location (she did not). Progress made on the actual makeover and bookcase build since the last video about it - 0% Possibly 1% if you consider her buying a single piece of trim that she didn't use. https://preview.redd.it/7hbuu9piwctf1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=f38a70a55709e261b4dbafd836c55a6ee7fdcd6f The video concludes with her saying she's going to "prepare " to work on the fireplace, which she claims will also be in "Chapter 1" of the living room makeover video that was already supposed to be published on the main channel the previous week. She then claims that "Chapter 1" will be on the main channel this Sunday (Sep 28th). [Spoiler: this was a lie] 📆 October 1, 2025 She's back with another excuse after failing to upload the "Chapter 1" main channel video for the living room/bookcase, yet again. This time, she painted 5 bricks on her fireplace, determined it a failure, and spent the next few day's running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to find brick veneer for her fireplace instead. After transforming herself into Goldilocks, where every brick was not quite right, she finally finds exactly what she's looking for, but there's not enough in stock. https://preview.redd.it/wpa7zevkxctf1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1c6e6087247de54d8e68801db8aa52feca83944 She later calls another location and they have the brick veneer she liked in stock, in abundance. Instead of heading to that location and buying the veneer that she liked, she instead does more googling and more shopping around only to eventually come home completely empty-handed, having bought nothing. She has successfully procrastinated and delayed her main channel "chapter 1" videos, yet again. 📆 October 3, 2025 MaCenna is back at the hardware store getting brick veneer again. Only this time she visits the location that has the brick she wanted in stock. Somehow, she leaves with a completely different brick. She doesn't explain how or why, she just carries on as if the original brick she wanted in the last video was a group hallucination the audience had. https://preview.redd.it/vlkwz67qxctf1.png?width=880&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b604e0929df1e1bb05094334e6eb86743919ed5 Now, with a completely random different brick in hand, she hurries home to... Put up Halloween decorations?! She ends the vlog without mention of the "Chapter 1" video for the main channel, or the bookcases, or any living room makeover progress. Guess we're back to pretending she's not MONTHS behind. xo Bye guys! submitted by /u/ihearthorror1 to r/XOMaCennaUnfiltered [link] [comments]
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