 for today's video we're gonna be doing a clean and decorate with me and just starting to throw some fall vibes into my house. I actually think eventually in a few weeks I'll probably get some real pumpkins and get like a little bit more fall going on but if you guys have watched my channel for a while you know that when it comes to holiday decor I love decorating for holidays but I'm a very neutral person I like things to kind of go with the decor I already have and I don't kind of go overboard I'm definitely a little more minimalistic when it comes to decor so fall is probably my favorite holiday or like time of year to decorate for and I love Christmas but I think fall has a little bit of a win over Christmas for me just because I love the smells that come with fall and the food I can't wait to share fall recipes with you guys in the next little while and there's just something about it that I really love although now that we are in North Carolina it doesn't necessarily feel as much like fall as Pennsylvania does you have all the leaves and the trees in Pennsylvania you just can't beat the way that the mountains look and everything whenever the fall season rolls around and obviously I'm a little ahead of the game doing YouTube but we're always one step ahead generally when it comes to this kind of stuff so this is a little bit early but I thought I would give you guys some inspiration to just start bringing some fall vibes into your life into your house doesn't have to be all the way you can just dip your toe in the fall season and here is four tips I have that you can do that the first tip is to put some cinnamon in your coffee you can either shake it right into your coffee but the way I like to do it is I use reusable K cups so I just put my coffee grounds into my K cups I put a little bit of cinnamon across the top put it into my cure egg and make my coffee that way and honestly today was the first day that I did that this year and it just brought back so many memories of doing that through the fall season last year the second tip I have for you guys is one to make your house smells super spicy smell all those fall vibes and that is to do a great fall oil blend and obviously we can do candles I have a candle that I'll show you guys a little bit later but this is a way that even if you're not out and about you can go right now and throw some oils in your diffuser I'm gonna call this little recipe warming up to fall it six drops of clove six drops of orange four drops of cardamom four drops of Kessa and four drops of ginger the third way that you can start bringing some fall in is to switch up your ladder boards or your chalkboards I have both and I love the fact that I can kind of slide in the next season without getting all my decor out by putting a cute saying on or a Bible verse or a great reminder or just something that's fun or even humorous sometimes I get questions all the time about where I get my letterboards and to be honest I think most all of them I have found at home goods or TJ max I don't know if I've ever really paid like the full price on a letterboard oh another great place is Hobby Lobby wait for them to go half off and you can get them super inexpensive my fourth tip for you and we're gonna be doing a little bit of this today is to just bring in some neutral fall decor like white pumpkins you know things that don't bring in the browns and the oranges yet and just stick with those neutrals I personally like that for the whole season but I know some people really enjoy all the oranges and reds and that sort of thing so you could start out with your neutrals and then add in the brighter colors as the season progress all right so there's my four tips for you let me know in the comments if you try any of these or if there's something that you already do and let's go ahead and get started in our decor so I'm gonna take you guys out in the dining room we're gonna lay out our decor if you've never done a decorate video with me I really like to lay out all the things I'm gonna be working with kind of get inspired and then I'm gonna be going into the living room and cleaning up a little bit my kitchen and my living room is what I'm gonna be focusing on today and both of them are pretty big mess right now and then I'm also gonna be pulling down some decor that I'm going to be putting away that I'm not gonna be using for this season I had went a little bit bolder I did a bolder wall hanging for a summertime and I'm ready to take it down and just kind of switch things up so let's go ahead and head out to the dining room and I'll show you guys what all we're gonna work with today which is the best way to decorate it inspires me so much to see all my colors together and I'm still really loving the like light green vibes that had going on last year I picked up a few things at Hobby Lobby the other day and I actually have some footage which I'm gonna show you guys some of their fall decor to be a hundred percent honest I wasn't as crazy about their fall decor this year as their stuff they had last year I really like neutrals and they didn't have a ton of neutral stuff but another place I like to check out is Big Lots so I'm hoping at some point in the next few weeks I might stop in there and add a few more things but I'll show you what I found at Hobby Lobby so I picked up this candle it smells so good and yes it's orange but it smells really good it's a buttery pumpkin is the smell of it and it's very like soft kind of a vanilla pumpkin and if you guys watch my channel a lot you know that I do do a lot of essential oils but when fall time comes and Christmas time comes I just love the way it looks to have a burning candle sitting around it's just so cozy and just kind of gives that ambiance you know alright so the second thing I picked up was this and this was not in the fall section I don't think I'm not sure what area it was in but I know I got a hat box which of course is always a score so it's these like wooden beads and as you can see each of them have a little clip on them I don't know where I'm gonna use them at one thing I did think about doing is I have these little like husk thingies from Walmart I think I got them from Walmart a year or two ago and I could clip them on this I just felt like this would be a great piece even to go into Christmas that I could clip little things on maybe even Christmas cards something like that and it's really a pretty good size alright so the last thing I got is what I'm gonna do on the wall instead of what is there now which is the wall hanging and I'm actually gonna have Corey help me out with this because he's a lot better at doing all of this and he actually I mentioned that I needed some screws and anchors and stuff for these and he like went to Lowe's it was like within an hour of me mentioning it found everything I needed even found me gold screws so that they matched so it was just the sweetest thing so anyway he's gonna help me out with these so they're these little hooks and I'm gonna put them across the wall and I have like a cute hat to hang on them I just love the Rattan detailing on these I have six of them so I'm gonna put them above the couch you guys will see how it looks I'm really excited I also love the fact that they are kind of like more of a gold color so yeah those are the things that I got to go with my fall decor I know they're not super fall related but I want to pull in a little more neutrals kind of tone down my living room through the fall and winter time just make it a little more relaxed so these things will help me out with that I started out by just getting my living room all picked up and just cleaned up kind of back to its normal state so that I could feel really inspired and think through where I wanted to put the different decor pieces that I have for fall and what I want to take down it just a mess just makes me unable to think so having it cleaned up definitely helped me feel the fall vibes and inspiration here is what my decor has looked like in here for this summer and I had put all of this up here this while hanging has got like a little bit of that orange in it some blue in it just a bunch of different colors and like I said I'm looking to go a little bit more neutral right now kind of pull out some of the colors so I'm going to take out like this blue guy right here and this pillow and obviously change up the wall so I'm going to now actually like empty off this shelf possibly take that stuff down I may end up putting some stuff back up but sometimes it's just easier for me to start off with a little bit more of a clean slate so I'm going to take everything off that wall I probably will use these baskets within my decor but just not on the wall because I think they look really fall oriented and just bringing in kind of that natural fibers so let's kind of undecorate and then we'll start to redecorate to dust off my little shelf I have here I grabbed my Norwex dusting mitt and just took it and rubbed it up against my clothes it gets static electricity and then it collects all the dust off of your surfaces it's super awesome and then these are the screws and the anchors that he picked up for me I don't know the names of them but if you want to pause the video and write them down in case you're looking to do a project similar to this but they worked out super well and obviously the gold screws matched my hook perfectly after that I went ahead and measured off my couch and measured off my wall just to get everything really centered I also had a long level I was working with just to try my best to center the hooks above the couch so when you're using anchors you just get a drill bit the correct size for that anchor you drill a hole and then you take a hammer and tap the anchor in this makes it so that you don't have to necessarily hit a stud but you get a really strong hold so in case I was hanging something a little heavier off of these hooks it wouldn't damage the wall behind the hook so my coffee table area and I decided to put this woven tray in I just feel like those tones bring in such a fall vibe especially when you think about how the cornfields look during the fall time they've got that golden look to them that's why I love incorporating baskets during the fall we're moving on to the kitchen and like I said it was a pretty big mess it was in need of being cleaned up so I went ahead and got started on the dishwasher and reloading it day and last night I kind of ran out of daylight so I decided to finish up cleaning up like the dishes and stuff and we actually made dinner and then I just kind of stopped everything I was doing with the decorating and stuff and I'm re-picking up today so I'm gonna finish up some cleaning and then add a few fall touches here and there I also want to put a couple things over on my little coffee bar that I have in my kitchen and yeah we'll see what else I get done. My kitchen was in real need of being washed down so I put some dish soap in the sink and then I added a little bit of cinnamon essential oil just to bring in those fall smells I know that we often gravitate towards the fall cleaners that the stores carry during this time of year but one way that you can go without all the chemicals is just to add a little bit of cinnamon or clove essential oil brings in such a great smell. I just put some dish soap and some baking soda into the sink and went ahead and scrubbed it down with a scrub brush I just think this does a great job and then sometimes I take an Envirocloth from Norwex over it all just to make it nice and shiny but this day I was kind of in a hurry and just needed to get the sink cleaned out. My coffee bar just to replace what I had there kind of changed things up and put the cinnamon into my little shaker there I just needed to fill that and added a few small pumpkins. Then on our bar area I got one of those baskets that was actually hanging on the wall and I added in some small pumpkins and then this area used to be where my coffee bar was before I changed things up and now it's just kind of a decor area in my kitchen. Now I think I'm definitely gonna do a second wall cleaning video because I also want to do some deep cleaning just for the season change and everything but this kind of got me in the mood got my house smelling really good smelling like cinnamon and all the fall scents going on and it just put in a little bit of fall here and there and it just makes me excited to do even more like I want to do something with our front porch and I won't give away too much but it's definitely got me inspired today. Let me know in the comments when you guys start decorating for fall I would love to hear from you I always respond to the ones that I can sometimes I get a lot so I have to you know divide my time out on how much time I'm gonna spend responding to comments but I love reading your comments I read every single one of them and if you guys are new here I'd love it if you subscribe join to my channel I do lots of cooking and cleaning and decorating and mommy content also don't forget to give this video a like and I'll see you guys in my next video