I grew up in the Midwest. When fall weather arrived, it was a little bittersweet. Summers just aren’t that long in Wisconsin! But I loved sweater weather. I loved hot cider, scarves, boots, snuggling up with a blanket… ahhh… fall.

Now let’s talk fall in Texas. The temperatures dropped into the 70s the last week of September, and it felt almost like fall. I was so excited!! But I didn’t feel the urge to snuggle up and be lazy. Oh no… I finally had the energy to get stuff done! I feel like the heat of summer sucked up every drop of motivation in me. As soon as that hit-me-like-I-opened-the-oven feeling outside was gone, I was ready to do all the things. I wanted to clean, decorate, blog, crochet, organize… I just had such a burst of energy and oomph to be productive! I feel like fall in the South is like spring in the North… you have that glimmer of better things to come, be it cooler weather after a brutal summer or warmer weather after a frigid winter, and you feel human again.

Obviously, you can see that I’ve been blogging again. Ah, I really had missed it. I had so many ideas for blog posts to write, and I just never made time to sit down and type them up! Part of it was not wanting to finish drafts that had been collecting cobwebs for months. So I deleted the ones I wasn’t interested in and moved on. I don’t know why I don’t do that more often. Purging and starting fresh does wonders for me in almost every aspect of my life that feels cluttered.

I’ve been thinking of ways to pare down on holiday decor as well. I think when we moved to North Carolina after being overseas for a few years, I had this need to go decoration crazy any time I went to a craft store! I definitely accumulated more”stuff” in my holiday decor bins, and it was honestly driving me a little crazy. So after I changed out my summer mantel for my fall one, I decided to just get rid of everything I didn’t use. And again… the sigh of relief. It’s like spring cleaning… in fall!

I’ve also decided to only use one wreath for our front door year round. I think it will be a work in progress, but I’m planning to just use a plain grapevine wreath and rotate things to attach to it. My fall wreath above is just a fall garland that I tied to the wreath with bits of yarn. It’s a little tedious, I suppose, to have to re-make a wreath every holiday/season, but it will save space! I mean, if I had unlimited space and resources, I’d have a wreath for Christmas, winter, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, spring, summer, 4th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving/fall. That’s 10 wreaths!! So over the next year, I’m going to experiment with my rotating wreath idea. If you have done anything similar, please share your tips!