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15 October 2015

Cozy Fall Home Essentials

Fall just calls for WARM and COZY!

Warm colors and warm drinks, comfort food and pumpkin everything!

We have Halloween stuff up until Halloween, but usually right after Trick or Treating I pack it all up while we unwind. I am on the hunt for Fall stuff, not Thanksgiving, just Fall.
I am NOT looking for all things pumpkin or leaves. I am just choosing a couple colors that already go with our home, which is mostly grey, black, white and browns. I am maybe looking to add a little orange to that mix and some yellow and a touch of gold.
Some things I am watching my favorite resell pages and thrift shops for:

A couple pillows like these!

I really love the sweater pillows! So cozy!

And I need a couple of these, I haven't attempted them before but I might!

Anyone make these?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/247404515/scented-velvet-pumpkins-set-of-4-olive?ref=hp_mod_rf

And I am LOVING all these cute tartan throw blankets!

And to mix it up a bit I love this!!

Sources for all this stuff right here!

We keep our blankets and a couple extra pillows in this basket, it's fun to be able to add a little color but not have it take up much space!

totally should have swept again before taking this, eh, real life.

And while I would love to go all out and do everything seasonal, I am doing just my favorites!

Swapping out some pictures, changing up our chalkboard. I love these!

adding a couple of signs and doing our mantle

Once the big stuff is done, I like to add just a couple smaller things that aren't too loud or big or attention grabbing. Cute subtle things.

Love this!

I don't know that I would hang it, but on the mantle maybe.

And these seem like a simple DIY, would look cute in a little vase!

And doing our kitchen table

This year our table is quite a bit smaller though.

What do you change out for Fall?
Any Favorite DIY projects?!

01 October 2015

Halloween Decorations '15

Before we moved I got rid of about 50% of our Halloween decorations. I still have some extra with no place. Partially because we also got rid of most of our furniture and partly because we have a mobile 1 year old with grabby hands.

So it's a lot less this year in some ways, and in others there are more because the TV isn't on the mantle. I think I am actually liking it better here!

When I stopped shopping (for the most part) in the Halloween section, or at the season shops is when I started finding some of my favorite things.

I don't mind a LOT of stuff as long as it's cohesive. I pick up random black, white or silver things now and even if they aren't traditional "Halloween", they seem to make their way to the Halloween stuff. Especially books and signs. This Old Soul sign was at a summer show and I don't think they intended it to be Halloween inspired but it just works for me. I could leave it out year round though, with how much I like it.

So choose a couple colors and go with it, don't stick to Holiday specifics, just choose some colors. Rhinestones and camera, books and pumpkins, ribbon and candles. They all work together with almost anything else you add in your colors.

Sharing some real life here, coffee that is 3 hours old and I am still drinking it, our ugly kitchen cabinets in the background and we haven't got the baseboards all cut and put up since we decided to get new ones.

I didn't buy a single Halloween decoration this year, my mama gifted me the crow skeleton, she knows me well :)

07 October 2014

Halloween Decorations

I was really hoping to go all out again, we put our house on the market last week and we accepted and offer just 3 days later! We are closing just a couple days before Halloween (if all goes well this time!) So, no Halloween decorations this year!

Sharing some from last year and the year before instead!

You can see all of my previous Halloween posts HERE

I just want to share my favorites, the things I am already missing the most!