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today i am very excited to share with
you guys
how i plan and kind of strategize
for my seasonal decor and today we're
going to be talking about
all things fall so i'm so excited
but the reason being that i'm sharing
this today and i know that it's
mid-july but i'm someone
that likes to decorate and prepare early
for the seasons
fall is one of my favorite times of the
year so i really like to plan
in mid to late july and then because of
youtube
i'll be decorating mid to late august to
give you guys inspiration
for september and october so if you ever
see a youtuber
post decor content a little bit earlier
than the norm
that's why we're just trying to give you
inspiration early
so i thought how fun would it be to sit
down today
and kind of walk you through some of the
processes
that i use to kind of plan strategize
budget a little bit for fall decor now
i did do a little shopping already not
gonna lie
and so if you're interested in seeing
what i purchased at
hobby lobby for fall make sure you stick
around to
the end of this video so when it comes
to planning for my seasonal decor
the first thing of course that i'm going
to do is take
inventory of what i already have the
best thing you can do is shop your home
and shop pieces that are a
non-seasonal so those staple pieces of
greenery
or something that you can use in year
round look at those
first and then go into your basement or
your attic or wherever you keep your
seasonal decor
open up a few of those boxes and really
take inventory of what you have
i cannot tell you how many times i think
oh my goodness i have so much decor that
i want to buy or i need to buy
and before i go shopping i go and i look
in those bins
and i'm like oh wow i already have some
of that or
i have a lot more than i thought i did
that stops you
from buying too much and buying clutter
and just buying what you don't need
so take inventory first and then what i
recommend doing once you kind of have a
mental picture of what you have and some
of your favorite pieces
go ahead walk around your home in
daydream
this is one of my favorite things to do
before i decorate a space
i walk around different areas in my home
and kind of visualize how i want to
decorate this space and then i can take
those mental notes and say okay
i have pumpkins to fill this space but
if i want pumpkins over here on the
mantel i'm going to need to get more
or that kind of thing and when i walk
through my home and kind of take that
actual inventory i will have my phone
out and i'll have google keep or notes
or something like that up
and i will write out a shopping list of
what i
want now this doesn't mean i just say oh
i want this i want this i want this and
i buy it
of course not but this is kind of my
again i'm daydreaming
and this is like my dream shopping list
okay and then
when i actually go shopping i shop deals
and i get
the most i can with my budget but i do
recommend to do this because
it really gives you inspiration moving
ahead and picking
what colors and what you really want to
go with so then
i like to go on pinterest shocker i know
and i will search the first thing i'll
do is i'll do a very broad
search meaning i'll put in fall 2020
decor
or fall 2020 color schemes or something
like that
and i see what pops up what are what is
popular this year
and what's everyone up to and what are
going to be the popular color trends
because i can guarantee you that's what
you're going to see in the stores
so i'll kind of look through there and
what i did is i
was really drawn to traditional
fall colors with some neutral modern
touches
meaning rustic reds and burnt orange and
yellow and things like that but i'm
going to incorporate more neutral
pumpkins i'm not going to go with
orange pumpkins per se i might do whites
or creams or really light greens
and that kind of thing so that's the
first thing i'll do and then what i'll
do
is i will that's kind of the 10 000 foot
view of my fall decor steam
color scheme then i'll kind of take it
down to the 5 000 foot view
and i'll look around and i'll say what
are the main areas i want to decorate
that i know i can do within my budget
so that might be my mantel or
my entryway table or my bench area in my
sitting room
areas that i know i really really want
to decorate and that way they can be the
top of my priority
list when it comes to actually going to
the stores and doing
the shopping that was a 5000 foot view
then i take it down to the actual areas
and so let's say i know i want to
decorate my bench area for fall
i will then go on to pinterest again and
i'll type in
fall bench decor ideas or something like
that
and i'll also look at different blog
posts and on instagram
i might search a hashtag fall bench area
or something
and that's when i really start to
brainstorm and come together with a
tangible shopping list once i have that
list
it's time to shop which this is the fun
part
and the first thing i'll do early july
ish mid july
ish give or take as soon as possible i
will always
look on etsy for pieces first i
love shopping seasonally on etsy but it
does take a week or two
sometimes more to get items shipped so
you want to do that with plenty of time
to spare
but then once i kind of have shopped a
few pieces on etsy
this year i think i only bought maybe
two items i showed you one
in a previous decor hall it was the
annie green people sign
then i will actually hit the stores and
so far the only place i've actually gone
is
hobby lobby which i'll show you a little
decor haul in just a minute
um but i'll go to places like my
favorites are probably hobby lobby
for seasonal decor i love kirkland's
home goods
tj maxx marshalls those kinds of stores
so when it comes to budgeting for
seasonal decor every season looks
different every life stage looks
different
and i want to encourage you first before
i even go into this
if you're in a place right now um
especially with everything going on and
you're like i don't even think i'm gonna
decorate for the seasons this year
that is totally okay and you are one
thousand percent justified in that
decorating your house for fall does it
make you a better mom it doesn't make
you a better wife or homemaker
i just do this simply because it's fun
and i hope that it brings y'all
enjoyment too
i don't want to make it seem like
anything else so i just wanted to
put a disclaimer on that but if you are
decorating and you want to get the most
for your money
the first thing i encourage you to do is
go around your home and
find what you can sell you would be
amazed i'm somebody that's a little bit
of a decor
hoarder i love decor it's like the one
thing i actually buy for myself
i'm not really much of a clothing
shopper i'm not really into baby clothes
i don't really have like a thing that i
buy other than decor so i do have a
tendency
to splurge on my decor but
on the same hand when i realized a piece
isn't really bringing me joy anymore
or it's not bringing me value or i'm not
using it and it's sitting in my basement
i'll throw it up on facebook marketplace
or on instagram and share with my
friends and see
who wants to buy it and you'd be amazed
at how quickly
some of those items can sell and then
all of a sudden you have a budget
for fall decor so that's kind of the
method i do
beyond that i don't have some specific
number i'm not going to break down math
and everybody's budget is going to look
different
but that's just one creative way i want
to encourage you guys with
if you're looking at to get a few extra
dollars for
buying some fall decor if you don't have
any extra decor lying around and it's
sparse at your home because maybe you
just moved or
you're still trying to build up your
decor i want to say it took me
years to build up the decor that i have
when i first got married or had my first
apartment or my first house
i hardly had anything so i'm not saying
we all have tons of decor lying around
last year i sold candles i made my own
soy candles and i sold them to friends
and family i have a video on it i'll
link it up here
and that was a fun way to make a little
extra money to buy some ball decor that
i wanted
so there's always creative ways to go
about buying some things if you don't
really have the actual budget for it
i hope that process of how i kind of
plan
for my decor on pinterest to make sense
and i'll pop up a few of my favorite
pins so far for 2020
and that way you got to get a little
sneak peek of what i'm eyeing and what
i'm really drawn towards
i'm really into that cozy cottagey
farmhouse feel for fall i love all the
rustic touches
i think they're so beautiful i apologize
if you can hear my kiddos in the
background
mom life it is what it is but i hope you
enjoyed
the first part of this video and that i
gave you ideas for planning and
budgeting and getting ready for fall
but let's go ahead and talk about some
decor that i've already picked up this
year
i'm zoomed in a little bit so you can
see some of my decor better but
the first area that i'm going to talk
about are fall florals
i made a b-line for the floral section
at hobby lobby
because their florals can get sparse
quick
and i wasn't sure how many trucks they
were getting and that kind of thing this
year
so i made a beeline and i was so
pleasantly surprised with what i found
now these are technically picks not
florals in the wreath
section i found in the fall area but
they are
i don't know what they're called but
they are little kind of brownish yellow
golden
floral stems and i got four of them i'm
not totally sure yet
um where the where they'll end up but
very least
they'll look really cute in like a
little mason jar
or a small base the next floral stamps i
picked up
are kind of almost like a wheat look
or feel but they have little palms palms
on them like you call those little
pom-pom kind of things they look like
this
and they're quite tall and i got
three of them i believe but again i just
thought these would be really pretty
filler and a pitcher
and a vase around my home another thing
i picked up
was some dried wheat
i thought it was really pretty and this
not only could it obviously go in the
vase or something but you could also
just kind of lay it in a basket
or um lay it on your hutch or lay it on
top of
you know layer it with things and that
kind of thing and this is a huge bunch
so i'll definitely be able to break it
up and use it in various
areas and rooms now these were
my favorite floral finds these are the
prettiest burnt orange color
and i'm not sure if they're supposed to
bend out or not they're supposed to look
like this
i'll have to play around with it but i
got three of them i just was in love
with the color and thought these would
be
gorgeous um in like a picture
on the floor even i have like a tall
galvanized picture i could put them in
or in a base or something if you can't
tell
when i decorate for the seasons i really
florals and greenery are like the number
one thing i like to change out
they add so much color and contrast to
the space
they bring life to the space and so i
always like to start there
so if you've ever been to hobby lobby to
shop for fall decor then you know
that they have just a regular pumpkin
section where they have all different
kinds of ceramic pumpkins
and standalone pumpkins but what i
decided to do i did get a couple of
those you'll see in a second but a bulk
of the pumpkins that i bought this year
were actually in the floral pick section
where i got these
first florals at it's the area where you
can make wreaths and things
and i got a bunch of these
white pumpkins they have gorgeous
greenery on them already
so that's a plus i won't have to buy
that much more they have cute little hay
on them or straw i should say not hey
and i'm thinking that these will be
gorgeous filler
all over on a mantel or
on your hutch or in a basket or
something
it's like creamish white color and i
like that these are rustic pumpkins
they're not perfectly shaped
i got them in that cream color but then
i also found pics
in this pretty i would say this was a
green kind of sage green color
oh it's one of my favorites for fall one
thing i did pick up
was just another bag of these decorative
filler pumpkins
these are just like a stark white and
you honestly
can't have enough of these i think i
bought one of two of these last year and
i wish i had bought more
so i bought another one um but these are
you know you can fill them anywhere you
can put them in a bowl or a vase
i put these on my cake stand last year
in my kitchen
and they were adorable i'll probably do
that again this year
um but again filler pieces you can't go
wrong
the next thing i picked up were these
gorgeous wicker
and wood are almost wicker and twig
there's different twig there lining the
pumpkin
um these stackable pumpkins i love these
they're nice and flat so they stack on
top of each other really cute
and these will be adorable on a shelf or
on my entryway table or it's kind of the
plan i have right now
they are also cute just sitting side by
side
i love these because they were again
very neutral but have some rustic
textures they'll go with any color
scheme so hopefully i can hang on to
these for a long time
i did get just some standalone pumpkins
that don't have stems on them they don't
have any greenery or anything
um i got just they're almost like a
yellowish green they're just like very
neutral
i got several of them i also picked up
this galvanized trough it was in
the fall section and i think what i'm
going to end up doing with this
is probably not these pumpkins but fill
it with some of my smaller pumpkins that
i have and some greenery
and i might put it on my kitchen table
or maybe even my dining room table i
don't know if it's big enough for the
dining table but
something like that i think will be a
very pretty centerpiece
so i have seen this bucket for probably
two or three years of hobby lobby and
i've never bought it
and this year i don't know what came
over me but i'm like you know what i
would
really like to have that and i would
like to fill it with pumpkins and
different fillers
it is a galvanized bucket and it just
says hand-picked farm fresh pumpkins
50 cents a pound and it's got the nice
little like
rusted edges it looks like more
authentic that way
you can see you in here it's got like
lots of rusting on it
and it looks really really cute i'm
excited to put this somewhere in the
house
last year when i was filming my clean
and decorate for fall
which i cannot believe it's been a year
on youtube already
um i went to decorate for ball and i
quickly realized i had about
i had one or two fall wreaths and i
needed about
four and so i kind of just had to wing
it last year and use some wreaths that
weren't full
but this year i'm like you know what
let's get one or two more and that way
when it does come time to decorate some
of the window panes and things
i feel prepared and i really really love
this space so the first wreath i picked
up
is this very neutral it has gold and
yellows
and greens and it's just really simple
and i liked it because of that um it
didn't have too much going on
i figured this would be like a great
transitional wreath if i wanted to put
it out
you know in august or september it's not
like screaming halloween or anything
and on that same note i also picked up
this tri colored wreath i
love this was like when i saw this i was
like oh this is perfect
because these are like the three colors
that i'm really really trying to
go with and work with this season and so
i thought it would match everything
really well i can't wait to hang this up
i think it's so so pretty
that was everything i picked up at hobby
lobby i did want to quickly
mention this as well because i picked it
up the other day i was shopping with my
mom
i was out of town and i went to this
cute little local boutique
and i picked up this like mini pedestal
and i thought
this would be perfect for holding a
candle and this is not this is one of
those items it's not the fall decor
but i immediately thought of fall when i
saw it and
i was so excited they actually had these
little mini candle wreaths
and it's green but it has like specks of
gold and yellow
in there so it definitely screams fall
and then cherry on top of the sundae
they had all of these
homemade candles and i bought two and
it's called
warm cinnamon buns and you have to smell
it right
oh it just smells so good i already have
one burning behind me even though it's
not full yet
it is so cozy and warm but it's just
gonna sit just like this
and i thought this would be really
pretty during the fall months any links
or anything for you with these
but i figured this might give you
inspiration i know that these sell on
etsy
as well as these probably i'll try to
find links if i can
i wanted to share with you guys because
it was something i recently picked up
you guys now that i'm surrounded with
all this fall decor
i hope you enjoyed this video and then i
gave you tons of fall decorating ideas
and
inspiration i hope that you found it
helpful
versus just a regular haul that i was
able to kind of explain to you guys how
i plan
and budget and shop for my seasonal
decor and that i just gave you
some encouragement and maybe a few ideas
how you can go about buying
seasonal decor this year if you did like
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say hi in the comments let me know what
was your favorite decor
piece or when you plan on decorating for
fall this year
i know it is still summer we're still
going to the pool every day
i'm still enjoying this heat um but it
is fun to think ahead and it's fun to
just think about something
that feels normal and it makes us all
happy so that a lot of you feel the same
way
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