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5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Home Feel More Like Fall

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Autumn is my season. Summer sunshine fades into cooler evenings and vivid colors paint everything in shades of gold, red, and orange. This time of year fosters a strong sense of nostalgia that I start longing for in early August. There are a few things I do to prepare and welcome the arrival of the season and hope they help you make your home feel more like fall.

Make your home feel like fall with these quick tips!

Make your home feel like fall

1. Smell. Scent creates an impression that is hard to forget. 73% of people think aroma and smell matter most in the home during fall. During autumn I prefer to bring in the smells of pumpkin, burning leaves, sandalwood, and caramel. Nothing too sweet, so I normally have two fragrances to balance things out.

My current favorite is a firewood candle to mimic a real fireplace. The seductive dance of scent is lingering in my house and dancing in my nose.

5 Things to Make Your Home Feel More Like Fall

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2. Taste. The tastes of fall are spicier, earthier, and linger on the tongue. Flavors like cinnamon, ginger, sage, nutmeg, and pumpkin are found everywhere. My favorite thing to do is slice fresh ginger into a cup, add a green tea bag, and steep, with a drizzle of local honey to top it off. It is soothing and warm, the perfect indulgent treat after a long day.

5 Things to Make Your Home Feel More Like Fall

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3. Sight. Now is the time to invite the outdoors in. Don’t be afraid to bring autumn decorations into you home. I love pumpkins, gourds, and bowls of freshly picked apples. On the table by my front door, there is a vase that always holds a bouquet of seasonal flowers I refresh weekly during at the grocery store. Replace the wreath on your front door with a grapevine wreath filled with faux leaves.

4. Touch. Soft throws come out of the linen closet and drape the back of my sofa and rocking chair during cooler months. I curl up with a good book, my tea, and open the windows to enjoy the crisp breeze cooling my home. Even on days when it is 80 degrees in North Carolina the sight of the my knit blankets and throws remind me that my favorite days will be here soon.

5 Things to Make Your Home Feel More Like Fall

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5. Sound. Open the door or a window or take a walk. Listen to the birds sing, hear leaves crunch underfoot, and notice crisp breeze as it wafts its way through the trees.

5 Things to Make Your Home Feel More Like Fall

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How do you make your home feel like fall?

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Make Skype Part of Your Autumn Adventures

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Autumn. Just saying the word “Autumn” encourages me to breathe a little deeper, my shoulders to drop into a deeper stage of relaxation, while my sense of wanderlust grows stronger. All I want to do is slip on my boots and head to the country for a weekend away to enjoy long drives down the Blue Ridge Parkway, take even longer walks and listen to the sound of leaves crunching under my feet. Autumn also brings sensory elements we associate with the season: crackling fireplaces, warm apple cider, leaves burning bright with vivid colors, geese honking, and the wind rustling the leaves.

Life for us is super hectic, and these getaways are important to me and my family. I have to put a little more care and planning into what we’re doing, which is why I now try and do things less “seat of the pants” and create a quick agenda for our travels. But not to worry, I’m still the one who wakes them up at 4 a.m. to tell them “get dressed, we’re going on an adventure!” Now there is just a little more organization. (It’s working so far and the only grumblings I’m hearing is from my non-morning person husband.)

Plan your autumn adventures with Skype!

5 Travel Tips to Help with you plan your Autumn Adventures:

1.      Seeing is believing: There’s nothing more horrifying than checking into your cozy mountain cabin and finding that it doesn’t quite stack up to the appealing images you saw online. Before you sign that contract with any vacation rental company, ask your host if it’s possible to get a Skype tour. In addition to looking inside the home, check out outdoor accommodations such as the hot tub and parking.

2.      Personal concierge: People’s smartphones have turned into a one-stop-shop for all things travel, from directions, restaurant recommendations, mobile boarding passes and more. Additionally, mobile digital personal assistants such as Cortana Trip Planner helps take the stress out of traveling so you can kick back and relax. Should you book a last minute get-away to New England, Cortana will let you know when online checking opens up, the latest weather at your destination, and keep an eye on traffic for your voyage to the airport.

Cortana has quickly become one of my favorite tools to use when planning a trip.

3.      Plan ahead: Tools like Skype allow you to easily plan a group trip with group video calls and chats to share destination ideas, and even share photos from your trip. Keep the planning details together by storing things like reservations, flight confirmations and itineraries in OneNote.

4.      Back up your memories: Most mobile phones have impeccable cameras these days. If you’re using it to take pictures of your travels, make sure you back up your photos to OneDrive before you leave, creating space for all the new ones.

5.      Ditch the international mobile plan: Traveling internationally can be expensive, but there are many free and low-cost resources to save you money. Traveling to Paris for the Spring fashion shows? (Held in October — you’re taking me with you, right?) With Skype To Go, you can call home and check in with family for a low calling rate. No data plan required! Or, you can even send texts directly from Skype. Left your phone at home? No problem, you can also connect for free using Skype for Web. Most hotels have a business center so it’s super easy to connect. Just go to web.skype.com and you’ll be instant messaging in no time.

Travel in autumn is a sensory filled experience that is made better with a little planning and using great tools, like Skype, to help plan your adventures.

Disclosure: This was not a sponsored post.

Summer Lovin’

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Summer is slowly winding down, and before we know it, fall will be here. The signs are there if you’re looking close enough — leaves are falling off the trees, some of the leaves are changing early, and squirrels are starting to fatten up. Kids head off to school with new backpacks and sharpened pencils. My yearly summer lovin’ is almost over.


While autumn is my favorite season, I’m going to miss summer. Picnics with my family, drives during cool evenings with the windows down and the breeze blowing through my hair. I’ll miss the rays of the sun beating down, warming me to my bones. Losing the ability to swim outside and at the beach when it gets too cool is the most difficult. The water balances me and I’m most at home when surrounded in the blazing sun, diving and exerting my body lap after lap.


Yet, it won’t be too long, fall and winter will be gone spring will be here, and summer will be right around the corner.

What’s your favorite summer moment?

A Daily Pincherest

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I love Pinterest. You love Pinterest. We all love Pinterest. So much, I’ve decided it’s time to start featuring my “Pin of the day” if that’s what you want to call it. I call it “A Daily Pincherest.” It’s a quick look at the content I’m curating, and my followers are loving.

Today’s pin is a salute to autumn. Fall is my favorite season. I’m ready for crisp mornings, the smell of burning leaves, apple picking, and everything pumpkin flavored.

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