Welcome to the very first edition of The Simply Beautiful Life. This new weekly series will be a place to gather inspiration for home, style, food, and the simple rituals that make life beautiful every day. My hope is that this becomes a cozy Sunday read — like catching up with a friend over coffee — and that you’ll leave encouraged to bring a little extra beauty into your own week.
🌿 A Simple Shift
As summer slowly gives way to fall, I’ve been making small swaps around our home. I’m starting to fold away the lighter blankets and replace them with more fall feeling options on places like the sofa. It’s not full-on fall decorating yet, but these little touches hint at the season to come. Sometimes it’s these quiet shifts that set the mood best.
Need more inspiration for transitioning your home to fall?
- How to Transition Your Home from Summer to Fall (Without Rushing It)
- 5 Simple Ways to Bring Fall Into Your Home
- How to Transition Your Home Decor from Summer to Fall: Easy Tips
✨ Words to Carry With You
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I enjoy Spring and Summer and the time we spend outside after such long, cold winters but I come alive in the fall. Here in PA, fall is often a mix of cool mornings and evenings with warmer days and it’s absolute perfection in my book. Not to mention the changing leaves that turn a rainbow of beautiful warm colors, the signs and sounds of kids walking to and from school, football the food, sweaters and boots, it’s my time to come alive!
🏡 From My Home
Our living room has become the heart of the season’s transition. I’ve pulled out a few of my favorite decor books to stack on the coffee table, mixed in some fresh flowers cut from the yard, and lit a candle in the evenings. It’s amazing how a few small changes can make a space feel new again.
I’m also starting to think about some projects I want to tackle as the weather cools down a bit. I’m finally going to wallpaper the laundry and mudroom and paint. I continue to think about what I want to do in the dining room (this may be a “ask the reader” type project because I cannot figure it out. I’m hoping that we’ll make some more progress on the side porch and we’ve been talking about some changes in our back yard to incorporate a simple outdoor kitchen. Oh, and we’re getting a new roof put on the house before winter.
🍎 Savor the Season
Even though the temperatures are still warm, I’ve been craving cozier flavors. This week I made a simple apple crisp for dessert, and it was just the thing to bridge the seasons.
I also posted a recipe for a super simple Fresh Peach and Blue Berry Puff Pastry Tart. It’s the perfect end-of-summer treat.
If you’re looking for an easy way to bring fall into your kitchen, I’ll be sharing more cozy September recipes next week.
💛 Things I’m Loving
- The limelight hydrangea we planted this spring has not disappointed! She bloomed beautifully and I can’t wait to see her grow year after year!
- A good book on my nightstand: Book 2 of the Crescent City Series by Sarah J. Maas. I started reading fantasy books a little over a year ago and have been loving them. they are my great escape from all the stress of this world. I read ACOTAR and Throne of Glass last year and earlier this year, respectively, but kept putting off Crescent City becasue of the size of the books. I’m not sure what I waited this long, I’m absolutely loving it!
- The scent of cinnamon candles flickering in the evening. Ok, I honestly buy a lot more tarts to melt in a warmer these days and the apple and cinnamon scents have been what I’ve been gravitating toward but I do enjoy the warmth adn glow of a real candle, especially in the evenings.
- Football season starting — the perfect excuse for cozy Sunday nights in. Or Saturdays or Sunday afternoons, it does’t matter. I’m a PA girl so Penn State and Philadelphia Eagles all the way. No hate to the Pittsburgh side of the state but Eagles green is part of my blood and after B and I lived in the city for several years, there’s no changing me now.
- Shopping: I’m not planning to buy a lot of new clothes this fall but I do have a couple of items on my wish list that I’ve been looking for. At the top of my list is a pair of chunky loafers. Nothing too wild or juvenile for me but something chunkier than a traditional loafer. I’m really loving the dark burgundy TOMS here.
🌅 Looking Ahead
This week on the blog you’ll find:
- Tuesday: Simple Ways to Transition Your Home from Summer to Fall
- Thursday: Small Weeknight Traditions That Make Everyday Feel Special
- Sunday: the very first Simply Beautiful Life (that’s today!).
I’m so excited to bring you along for this new weekly series. Here’s to savoring the season and making everyday life simply beautiful.
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