Mayah the Maker

13/10/2026

09/10/2026

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! 🚨

If you’re on the hunt for Black Santa this Christmas, RUNNNNN, don’t walk to Kirkland's !!! 🏃🏾‍♀️🎅🏾🎄

Because WHY did I walk in there and find all this goodness?! 😭😍

Now y’all know I wasn’t about to gatekeep! Consider this your official holiday shopping alert! 😂

Kirkland’s, I SEE YOUUUU! 👏🏾❤️

🎅🏾 Tell me which one you’re adding to your collection!

07/10/2026

I only have one picture of him like this on my phone.

But before Black Santa was easy to find in stores…he was my Daddy. 🥹🎅🏾❤️

Every October, my Daddy would start growing his beard. He had a Santa suit custom made, and when Christmas came around, he became Santa.

He’d visit local churches and even set up at his barbershop so families could bring their children to take pictures with a Santa who looked like them.

And I LOVED it.

I’ve always been a Daddy’s girl, so whatever my Daddy was doing, I was somewhere nearby supporting it. 😂 But this was different. It felt familiar. It felt safe. It felt like Christmas.

The community didn’t quite see it that way yet.

Black Santa was unfamiliar. He looked different from the Santa people were accustomed to seeing, and not everyone understood it. After a few seasons, Daddy stopped.

But our family never forgot.

As the years went on, if we couldn’t find Santas that looked like ours, we painted them. We made them. Or sometimes, we just didn’t have Santa at all.

And now, all these years later, I realize why finding Black Santas every Christmas means so much to me.

It was never just about Christmas décor.

It was familiar.
It was safe.
It was fond.
It was home.

It was Daddy. ❤️

So when y’all see me lose my mind over a Black Santa in the middle of Hobby Lobby 😂 just know there’s a little more to the story.

Before Black Santa became part of my Christmas aesthetic…

Black Santa was my Daddy. 🎅🏾❤️

06/10/2026

Because between the ribbon, ornaments, picks, garland, lights, Black Santas, “just one more thing” trips to Hobby Lobby AND the fact that I decorate for a living…sir, this was never going to be a reasonable number. 🤷🏾‍♀️😂

…Tuh! And it’s the first Amazon Prime Deal Day???

Anywayyyyy…while we’re discussing Christmas budgets 👀🎄✨

If YOUR budget includes having somebody else make the magic happen this year, holiday decorating dates are booking NOW!

Residential + Commercial Christmas installs available.
DM “CHRISTMAS” to get on my schedule. 🎅🏾✨

05/10/2026

I KNOW y’all love Christmas. But how many of y’all need a little HELP with Christmas?! 😂🎄

Not necessarily “come decorate my whole house” help — although PLEASE know I would happily get my hands on that tree. 👀😂

I mean…

“How do I put ribbon on without fighting for my life?” help.

“Why doesn’t my tree look full?” help.

“I bought all this stuff…now where TF does it go?” help. 😭

THAT kind of help.

So this week, I’m diving into DIY holiday decorating and sharing some of the tricks I use to get that luxe, finished look.

First up: RIBBON. 🎀

Drop your Christmas decorating questions below because I’m building this week’s tutorials around what YOU actually want to know. 👇🏾🎄

28/09/2026

POV: I’m on my annual hunt for Black Santa 🎅🏾🎄😂

And when I see him… I’m stopping. Every. Single. Time.

Ornaments, wrapping paper, figurines, mugs, décor — if Santa looks like us, I need to investigate immediately. 😂🤎

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is finding pieces that make the season feel a little more like home. The representation, the nostalgia, the joy of seeing Black Santa tucked into the Christmas aisles just does something to me. 🥹🎄

So consider this the beginning of my Black Santa sightings for the season. 😂🎅🏾

Tell me: WHERE have y’all spotted the good Black Santa finds this year?! 👀 And if your Santa isn’t Black (because not everyone is and I firmly believe in representation that looks like whatever reflects YOU) - then tell me where you’ve located your favorite Santas!