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Hi, friends! 🧡

This one is a little diary entry from two very different autumn days at home: one sunny, one gray and rainy. Both were slow, cozy, and full of small things that make a home feel ready for the season.

There’s no talking in this video, just soft music, ambient sounds, and my subtitles. So grab something warm to sip and settle in.

Candlelit fall mantel with a framed skeleton painting, pressed leaves on canvas, pumpkin candle holders, and a snake plant.

What happens in this video

☀️ Day one: the sunny day

Hanging a family memory board in the kitchen for the kids’ schedules, school papers, and upcoming tests. In next post I’ll show you my no-drill method how to hang the board on the wall.
Caring for my plants and trimming the tired branches.
Trying kitchen towels from Action for the first time.
Unpacking our little box of Halloween décor and hanging the fall garland I sewed myself (an oak leaf, a chestnut, an acorn and a fly agaric mushroom 🍄).
Swapping the spring frames above the sofa for the paint-by-number paintings the kids colored last year, plus autumn leaves.

🌧️ Day two: the gloomy morning

Baking cookies straight from the freezer on the last school day before the break. Wait for my next post I’ll show you how to easy bake from a freezer.
Hunting through my cookbooks for a cinnamon roll recipe.
Making homemade breadcrumbs from leftover toast bread in the cooling oven.
Resetting the spice cabinet: wiping, checking expiration dates, and refilling jars.
Rearranging a shelf and making a crystal vase lamp with a battery-powered string of lights.

And Sandy is there for all of it, naturally. 🐶

Labradoodle sit on the coach with my handmade fall garland

Read more on the blog

📌 How I set up our family memory board (no drilling): coming soon…

🍪 How to bake cookies from frozen dough: coming soon…

🎨 Our paint-by-number paintings from last year: Youtube video

Things I mentioned in the video:

Memory board: Xenos

Nano tape : Action

Wash tape: Action

Weekly planner: Dille & Kamille https://www.dille-kamille.nl/weekplanner-specerijen-a4-00044738.html?q=agenda

Fall garland patterns: Etsy

Chapters:

00:00 INTRO

00:16 Hanging the memory board

03:40 Plant care

05:45 Kitchen towels from Action

06:57 Halloween box and fall garland

09:27 Fall frames above the sofa

11:08 Rainy morning: baking cookies

16:00 Homemade breadcrumbs

17:08 Spice cabinet reset

25:49 DIY lamp

A little tip from this video:

Portion your cookie dough, freeze it already shaped into cookies, and bake fresh, warm ones whenever you like. Future you will say thank you. 🍪

What’s next:

Cinnamon rolls are coming in the next video! 🥐 Tell me below: what’s the one little thing you’d refresh at home this fall?

Thank you so much for spending this cozy time with me. 🧡

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