Decorating My Cottage for Fall Cozy Fantasy Decor & Magical Autumn Crafts

🎵 Apple Edge & Sunrise 🎵 🎵 Meets my skin 🎵 🎵 Even with my eyes still closed 🎵 🎵 Feel it coming in 🎵 🎵 Golden 🎵 🎵 I'll follow golden 🎵 🎵 Golden 🎵 🎵 Frozen spring 🎵 🎵 Rainbow trout and hummingbird wing 🎵 🎵 Golden 🎵 🎵 Gold hairs 🎵 🎵 Gold rings 🎵 🎵 Gold leaves 🎵 🎵 Golden 🎵 Hi everyone! Welcome back. So if you've been with me for a while, you probably know the drill that every year around the start of September, I like to take an entire day to decorate the house for fall. And this has become a little tradition in our family. We just like to make a big event out of it. We make food and we make crafts. And we just have a lot of fun getting ready for the season ahead. So that's what we're going to do today. I have some fruit drying in the oven. We're going to use that to make garlands later on today. And I think I'm going to start upstairs with the reading nook area this morning because I just got that all set up and I did my little whimsical reading nook makeover. It's pretty fall already, but I think I can add a little more decor in there to kick it up a notch. 🎵 But I'm such a fool for you 🎵 🎵 You got me wrapped around you, let it linger 🎵 🎵 Do you have to? Do you have to? Do you have to let it linger? 🎵 🎵 I was wrong 🎵 🎵 If you could get by 🎵 🎵 Things wouldn't be so confused 🎵 🎵 And I wouldn't feel so used 🎵 🎵 But you always really knew 🎵 🎵 I just want to be with you 🎵 🎵 But I'm in so deep 🎵 🎵 You know I'm such a fool for you 🎵 🎵 You got me wrapped around your finger 🎵 🎵 Do you have to let it linger? 🎵 🎵 Do you have to? Do you have to? Do you have to let it linger? 🎵 Okay, so I think we are pretty much done with the upstairs. Now I want to make an autumn moon wreath. So this is kind of similar to the crescent moon wreath I made a couple years ago for my Practical Magic dinner party that I did with my sister. But this year I want to update it a bit with a willow wreath and some flowers in fall colors. 🎵 This is not the effect of a loss or a vex 🎵 🎵 This is you 🎵 🎵 Hand me the key to your door 🎵 🎵 Give me one solid week 🎵 🎵 Give me four years 🎵 🎵 To climb the stairs and pine 🎵 🎵 John, it's time 🎵 🎵 Let me be the moon you shine 🎵 🎵 Let me be the honest home where you can rest your tired mind 🎵 🎵 I was just a girl only nineteen 🎵 🎵 Twisted in my head 🎵 🎵 So don't try and tell me to help 🎵 🎵 This is not how you help 🎵 🎵 You don't know me now in any way I've said 🎵 🎵 Don't get tired 🎵 🎵 Honey, I won't keep you long 🎵 🎵 I was just calling out to find out if you're still in town 🎵 I love to make hot cider during the fall because it's kind of like a simmer pot that you can drink. It makes the house smell really good and it tastes delicious. So last year I made kind of a traditional hot spiced cider. This year I'm doing a little bit of a spin on it and adding cardamom and ginger so that it adds a little extra depth of flavor. 🎵 I sit, the sky is blue 🎵 🎵 Close my eyes, there's a blanket 🎵 🎵 And everything that I was is make-believe 🎵 🎵 Daydreaming of you 🎵 🎵 Daydreaming of 🎵 🎵 Swinging a star at dawn 🎵 🎵 Sleeping with the TV on 🎵 🎵 Throw the cliches to the sea 🎵 🎵 Cause you're everything that I want 🎵 🎵 I will always be daydreaming of you 🎵 🎵 Daydreaming of you 🎵 🎵 Daydreaming of 🎵 It's time for a little snack so we're going to make some pumpkin baked brie. I've seen this recipe before online a few times and basically what you do is you take a wheel of brie and then you wrap it in puff pastry and you can add whatever toppings you like. And I'll link those blog posts below to the different recipes but I want to make my own spin on it. I think I'm going to add pumpkin butter, maple and maybe a little bit of pecans or cinnamon just to kind of round out the flavor of the brie. I think it's going to taste really good together and then we'll make a little snack board with the brie and some crackers and fruit. 🎵 Do you think of me? 🎵 🎵 Never hearing me talk to myself in the morning anymore 🎵 🎵 With it all just turning, turning, turning 🎵 🎵 Turning, turning, turning 🎵 🎵 You don't think about it 🎵 🎵 Maybe it scares you 🎵 🎵 Like it scares me 🎵 🎵 What do we do 🎵 🎵 With all the possibilities? 🎵 🎵 Doesn't it scare you? 🎵 🎵 Like it scares me 🎵 🎵 What do we do 🎵 🎵 With all the possibilities? 🎵 🎵 We don't think about it 🎵 🎵 We're just falling to it 🎵 🎵 There's only drying 🎵 🎵 We don't talk about it 🎵 So we're remaking the little lantern village that we did last fall and hopefully this year it's a little bit more Obie-proof. Last year, when he was a kitten, he would climb behind the lanterns and knock everything over. It was like a little Godzilla situation. So fingers crossed he's too big for it this year. Obie! Wanna watch a movie? Okay, so we have Maple Pumpkin Blossoms from last year. So this is August, 2018. You have to wrap it around. You're so gloomy. 🎵 Ba-da-dee-bum-bum 🎵 So we are in the library room and we just opened up the twin bed into the full king-size bed. It's so nice having this convertible bed set up because during the day this is our reading nook and at night we can open it up into the king bed, throw a movie on the projector and we call this our movie pit and we just like to hang out in here at night, especially during the fall and winter, which is usually our binge-watching season. We watch a lot of movies and TV this time of year. And speaking of, I would love to hear if you have any recommendations for good fall movies and TV shows. Lately, I've been watching so much Vampire Diaries and I re-watch it pretty much every year. I love the show so much. It kind of reminds me of my teens. But I think I'm driving Alex a little bit crazy with it because it's all I want to watch. So let me know if you have any other recommendations for us. Okay friends, I think that's about it for our decorating day. We did a lot of stuff today and I'm pretty tired but I am feeling so grateful for everything right now. I feel grateful for our home and being able to fill it with little things that bring me joy. And it's really been healing for me being able to make this space feel so wonderful and comfortable. I've shared a little bit about this in other videos but when I was growing up, I had a lot of instability in my home and we moved a lot. So there was this feeling that wherever we lived, we couldn't really get settled. And I never really felt this sense of comfort and peace and belonging in my home. And it's really been wonderful to create that as an adult. And that's why I love days like today so much. It's just about celebrating this sense of comfort and spending time with my little family, Alex and Obi. So I am just feeling really, really good. And I'm so grateful that all of you are here and I can share this with you. So thank you all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you soon, friends.