September Days🍁🕯- crisp early mornings, cozy book shopping, & my autumn children's book collection

Happy Friday, lovely friends! Oh what a wonderful September it has been so far 🍂 I love how the mornings are getting cooler and cooler, the tips of the trees are beginning to change and the wind shares it magic by sprinkling the leaves all around the forest floor. In this video, I continue to celebrate the arrival of autumn by doing so many of the things I love: painting, reading, and even making some taper candles! Near the end of this video I also share a small (I tried to keep it small) collection of some of the autumn themed or atmospheric picture books I have collected over the years as well as some new ones I pick up from Powell's Books! I hope you enjoy this longer vlog and seep in the coziness & comfort September has brought me so far ✨ As always, thank you so very much for being here 🧡

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In this video:
The candle making kit: https://www.woodlarkshop.com/collecti... (the bag is sold separately)

The pumpkin caramel sauce recipe from @hannaoliviaway :
• 1 c sugar
• 4 tbsp butter, sliced up
• 1/4-1/2 c heavy cream (depending on how thick you want it)
• couple big spoonfuls pumpkin purée
• heavy sprinkle pumpkin pie spice
• dollop of vanilla bean paste (or extract or powder)
• sprinkle of salt

first — put the sugar in a saucepan - alone. i know it seems weird but go with it. start it on medium heat, stirring pretty consistently. it will start to form lil clumps — keep stirring. then it will start to melt, turning kinda liquidy — keep stirring. you want to keep going til it’s all liquid and the lil sugar crystal clumps are dissolved.

then add the butta. stir stir stir. once combined, slowly add cream. keep stirring. once that is combined, remove from heat and add in the pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, salt.

store in a jar, keep in fridge. should last a week-ish!

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