Earlier this fall, I wrote a post about trying to make my own pumpkin puree out of a pumpkin I purchased in store. I wanted to use the puree to make pumpkin pies out of. I was worried I purchased the wrong type of pumpkin for pies. Sadly, I was right. So, in late October, I went searching for a new pumpkin that would be good for pies. I found not one, but two pumpkins. They are small but I was very happy to find them!
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Fall is a wonderful time of the year in the state of Arizona. The temperatures are cooling off, the days are getting shorter, and outdoor weather events are in full swing! Even though there are so many activities and events, there are still specific events and activities that are related to the seasons. If you want to still celebrate fall, yet want to do it with an Arizona flair, I compiled a list of eight fall activities that can be done in the state of Arizona. Some of them are typical fall activities while others may be a little bit different and unique. I hope you are inspired to travel the state of Arizona and enjoy some fall activities!
Yes, the title of the post says it all. I purchased a pumpkin for the fall! It wasn’t very expensive, but it is still important. This pumpkin is the first pumpkin I ever purchased to create pumpkin pie with!
Before I talk about why I decided to not use canned pumpkin to make pumpkin pie with, I wanted to show off what it looks like…
Yes, I know it is really excessive to give a pumpkin I purchased at the grocery store its own photoshoot, but I was really excited to own it! Growing up, I used to make Jack-o-Lanterns out of real pumpkins. They were fun to create, but they never lasted very long. As an adult, I decided to used fake pumpkins to make Jack-o-Lanterns instead. Since then, I never bought a pumpkin.
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For many, fall is a great time to go on a road trip. The temperatures are cooling off. In honor of the changing season, there are so many special events and thing happening. Fall road trips are especially important in the state of Arizona because of the changing temperatures. Even though I like the idea of visiting places all over the state, here are certain places in Arizona that are more fun to visit in the fall. I personally like certain towns and cities in the state of Arizona. Some of them have changing fall leaves, which makes them very beautiful. Others have a spooky sort of mystique around them. For this post, I decided to pick seven of my favorite town and city road trip destinations to visit during the fall in Arizona.
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It’s officially fall! I’m always really happy to see this season come, but this year, I feel like I need to make this year’s fall special. I want to celebrate the fall arrival and enjoy the fact there are so many things to see and do!
Sadly, I don’t think I will be able to do everything I want to do in order to celebrate fall. Instead, I want to write a dream bucket list of all the places I want to go to and want to do this season. I probably won’t be able to do everything on this list, but these are the things I ideally would like to do in order to celebrate fall this year.
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For the past few years, I’ve been watching aesthetic themed YouTube videos. To be honest, I really wanted to watch these YouTube videos in order to offset the crazy, not-so-cozy life I live. The escapism these videos have provided for me has been a great relief during some of the hardest and most stressful times of my adult life.
In these videos, they talk about a fall aesthetic book suggestions. When I was a child in the 1990’s, prior to the rise of the internet aesthetic, friends of mine would talk about fall being the perfect time to read certain books. I didn’t think about celebrating a season by reading specific books (Except for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian holidays), but it did peak my interest. So, I started to read the books they did. Now, I can’t see the fall and Halloween season without them.
Unlike many people I found online that make fall aesthetic book suggestions, my books are not exactly the same. Many of the books I read are fantasy novels. Not horror books. Fantasy novels. Some of the novels my friends suggested to me were the Lord of the Rings series and The Chronicles of Narnia. Other books were The Chronicles of Prydain, The Last Unicorn, and, if I could find it, the novelizations of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal as well as the novelization of the movie Dragonheart.
Continue reading “The Annual Fall Reread of Fantasy Novels (And How This Became a Tradition for Me)”
Fall is everywhere right now, but for me, it hasn’t felt like fall at all. I love fall, but this year it has been hard to celebrate fall early. It’s been hot (Over 100 degrees Fahrenheit) in Arizona, which means all my favorite fall activities are put on hold until after the cooler weather comes. With this, and other things that are happening in my life, I just don’t feel like celebrating fall at all.
Since I feel down, I decided to cheer myself up by decorating my house for fall. Right now, parts of the house are currently in states of disarray due to my cleaning frenzy. Still, I wanted to decorate my house in order to cheer myself up.
So far, my house looks really good. It doesn’t look the way I ideally wanted to, but I am happy with the result. Also, I like the time period I put the decorations up: August 22, a month before the official start of fall.
Doing this made me think about when I would ideally like to decorate. For many on social media, decorating for fall starts in August. I even saw fall themed decor posts in early July, right after the 4th of July! Even though I like fall, and fully understand that some of these posts are actually advertisements, I still feel the pressure to put away my summer decor and put up the fall decor early.
Even though I love fall, I love the time period between July to October, when the temperatures in Arizona gradually gets cooler. I love the feeling that comes from the cooler temperatures after a summer full of hot temperatures. Out of all the time periods in the year, the July to October period is my favorite. Since it is the time period from summer to fall, I like to celebrate it differently than anyone living in different areas or climates would. For me, this means keeping summer decor up until September or close to September 1st. Some years I change this and decorate for fall earlier, but this is the ideal time table for me.
This year, things are different. There has been a lot of things changing in my life that I don’t talk about online. Also, a potential career goal hasn’t panned out like I hoped. After these setbacks and changes, I feel pretty down about how life is. My frustrations and sadness has also spread into my decorating for seasons.
As Arizona inches closer to fall, I feel like the change in season is coinciding with the changes in my life. I can’t stop the seasons from changing. I also cannot stop the changes in my life. I am worried about the changes, but I am also looking forward to them. I feel ready for a change in my life. I don’t know where my life is going, but I’m excited.
Even though what is going on in my life is more important than decorating, seeing fall decor around my house instead of summer decor makes me happy. It lifted my mood more than I thought it would. I’m a pretty pragmatic person, so seasonal decor doesn’t ultimately matter to me as much as it does for others. Still, seeing the pretty decor sitting above the chaos of my decluttering has lifted my spirits more than I realized it would.
Well, that’s all for now! Thank you for reading!
I went back and forth about writing a post about Hempz’s Fall 2022 skincare. It’s not because of controversy around the Hemp Seed oil in the Hemp products, it’s because I’m allergic to Hemp Seed oil! I prefer to talk about products that I am not allergic to, so I didn’t know if writing about Hempz on my blog would be a wise idea. Despite this, Hempz is a well loved product in the area where I live. Once I saw Hempz’s Fall 2022 skincare line for sale at Ulta Beauty, I thought it would be a great time to write a post about it. Continue reading “Hempz Fall 2022 Skin Care at Ulta Beauty”
While looking at The Body Shop’s Fall products, I found a brand that looking interesting. It is Dionis and it sells skincare made with goat milk. I used goat milk products before, but I didn’t know the Ulta Beauty closest to me had products like this for sale. I don’t know if the reason is because they didn’t sell as well as other products in the store or because I didn’t pay enough attention while browsing the skincare aisles.
There were a few products available for sale that day in a limited edition fall scent, so I decided to see what they had to offer. Continue reading “Dionis Fall 2022 Skin Care Line at Ulta Beauty”
While searching for new Fall scented and themed products, I found a product from The Body Shop with a fall themed scent. It was located near other fall themed and scented beauty products. I am not very familiar with The Body Shop and their products, but I was excited to find more Fall themed beauty products. So, I began to search for more Fall themed products from The Body Shop. Continue reading “The Body Shop Fall 2022 Skin Care at Ulta Beauty”