How I'm Decorating For FALL! ⧸⧸ vlog #6
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Summary
In today's vlog, we are outside in nature and I am using a new lens which is super exciting! I also talk about the holidays and how I ve been feeling the past few weeks. And I talk a little bit about my plans for fall and what we re doing to get into the spirit of the season.
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the big thing that we're doing today is we're going to go through my fall decor and we're
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going to put it out i don't know you guys it might be over it help me decide in the comments
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hello friends and welcome to today's vlog we are outside today and i am using a new lens which is
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super exciting i bought a lens that was a 16 millimeter i didn't necessarily totally
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understand what that meant and it meant that i had to sit right in front of the frame uh which
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distorts you so then i got this this one which i kind of have to sit a little bit further back from
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but i like the look of it and it doesn't distort my face so much which is great the sound you're
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going to hear some nature sounds you might hear some cars you might hear some planes but that's
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what we deal with when we film outside so i kind of like it i find it relaxing you might get a
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little bit of wind hopefully it doesn't drown me out so before we get into today's vlog i wanted to
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quickly briefly mention my nails uh i'm seeing if this will focus i'm trying to cover my face because
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then it usually does i did my nails using my gel nail kit and i just i love the way it turned out
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i love the color it's very natural but it has like a fall feel because it's slightly more orange
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it's like an orange nude which i really like and i do my gel nails at home which is so much cheaper
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i really prefer it uh the only time i get my nails done is when i'm like really spoiling myself normally
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i just do it myself at home but this week i had to take some time just to take care of myself because
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after hosting all those guys and then i had some girls over for a girls night we watched harry potter
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to get us into the fall season since october is just around the corner uh we it was so much fun
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i made butterbeer it was delicious oh my gosh everyone loved it but after hosting twice in a week
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for a while i had so much laundry to do it was crazy we also just finished the holidays
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i just needed a day to kind of take care of myself pamper a little bit at home just for my mental
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health because as i start to not take care of myself physically then i start to feel not great
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mentally so i definitely took some time to shower and take care of my hair i'm trying to embrace my
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natural texture today so i put some products in i put some oil in i you know shaved i did my nails
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i am trying to take care of my skin and actually one of the things i'm trying to do right now is
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try to have less milk so not so much less dairy because i'm still having yogurt and i'm still having
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butter but i'm not having like straight milk and i think that's going to help my skin i'm crossing my
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fingers because my skin doesn't tend to react super well when i have a lot of dairy and the last couple
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of weeks i've noticed that i've had more dairy and my skin has gotten worse so with that in mind i'm
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trying to avoid so much milk in my diet and even in the last couple days i've seen an improvement
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that's really good news this top it's really like a sweater dress i thrifted and this was the one from
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ann taylor that had the tags on still which was awesome but this is just all catching up before we get
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into today's videos so we have some people here cleaning our carpets today because our lease tells us
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we rent that we have to do that once a year so somebody's here cleaning the carpets which is actually
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why i'm filming outside because it's very loud inside while they do that so they're cleaning the carpets
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but what that means is that i had to really make sure that the house was in order so that they could
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clean the floors and the kitchen and the sunroom both are not carpeted so i could take my time with
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that as far as cleaning i actually needed to because there were other things i needed to take care of
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like tidying up the rest of the house so you guys can come along with me while i clean the kitchen later
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but the big thing that we're doing today is we're going to go through my fall decor and we're going to
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put it out and i'm going to take out my fall clothes that have been in storage and we can take a look at
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those too so you guys can help me set up for fall which i'm really excited about i wanted to do this
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like over a month ago but i got lazy and didn't want to go into the garage to get it out but yesterday
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was the first day i was like it is almost october we have to do this today so i went in the garage
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and i got everything out and we're going to take a look at it and then we're going to set it up around
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the house and then i'm also planning on doing just a little bit of shopping today because i need to
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pick up some stuff at nordstrom's i need to replace some things and then also i need to go to
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barnes noble to pick up a new planner because we're about to head into a new year and as you
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guys know i absolutely depend on my paper planner i cannot live without it so i need to go pick one
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up the one that i have now i love because it has like a reflection after every month where it asks
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you you know what did you learn what was your favorite day this month what did you do and i really
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loved that and i didn't even think about it when i purchased it but i i felt like i wanted to fill it
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out every month and it always gave me an opportunity to think about the good things and the bad things
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that went over the course of the month and it makes me want to keep this planner for the future so i can
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look back at my year so i'm hoping i can find something similar at the barnes noble here we'll
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see because i got this one in omaha so i don't know if this barnes noble will carry it but i i really
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liked it and i i always have fun choosing my planner so i'm going to try and do that today
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and then i have to prep some dinner tonight so that's going to be most of the day uh but yeah
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so I am making myself some eggs it's late in the day so maybe a bit late for breakfast foods but
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I sort of eat breakfast foods throughout the day like I'll have some steel cut oats I'll have
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fruit I'll have yogurt and right now I'm frying up some easy over eggs as you can see our fresh
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baked bread is right there I was just drying my hands with that towel you can see what music I'm
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listening to and then I'm toasting up my fresh baked bread to eat my eggs on so yeah that's
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just kind of like a peek into my my meals because I normally am trying to get a good amount of
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protein so the carpet guys are gone I finished cleaning the kitchen I prepared dinner I prepared
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it in advance so I just cut up the chicken and you guys saw I chopped up some onions I also put some
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garlic in there and I threw some other things that I'm just trying I don't want to say what the recipe
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is because I don't know if it'll be good but um in case you were curious about that little tool I was
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using to cut the onions Jacob actually bought that for me I thought oh this is going to make things
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slow and it does slow things down a bit but you get really little pieces of onion which is awesome
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and you don't really have to worry about cutting your fingers which is also awesome so I can link
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it in the description box below in case anybody's interested I would have welcomed you to the floor
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for this portion of today's video but I can't because the floor is still a little bit damp from
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them doing the carpet cleaning it wasn't as bad as I thought and the guy said to me it was going to be
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so loud and it wasn't as loud so I probably could have recorded a little bit but I didn't know where he was
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going to be and he was kind of all over the house so whatever today ended up being a little bit more
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complicated than I expected but that's okay and I have all of my fall decor right here all of my fall
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clothes right here that I want to show you and I want to share with you so let's get into that because
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that is the real thing we're going to do in today's video first off let's start off with this adorable
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pillow I got this two years ago maybe I did a video on my channel a long time ago about fall
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decor and so I just went on like a little shopping spree then I haven't really got a lot of stuff
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since then and if I do get anything I just get it from the Dollar Tree because the Dollar Tree
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actually has really awesome options the first year I went and got home decor I went to like home goods
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and TJ Maxx and the stuff there is not expensive but even if you get two or three items it's like
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it can really add up so I figured that I would just keep what I have I don't need to like keep
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adding every year I'm happy with what I have and if we ever have a bigger house maybe but at this
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point I'm I'm all set you know I'm actually in a smaller house now than we were when we were in
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Nebraska so if I were to get more stuff it would just clutter it even what I have now I'm still
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trying to figure out exactly where I'm going to put it but in any case this pillow says gather
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together it's beaded I think it's really cute and it's just small and I can add it to our already
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existing pillow displays pillow displays to our already existing pillows that are on the couch
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next up we have this pillow which says give thanks I love the pumpkin print it's a really soft pillow
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too so it's cozy and comfy and this is going to look great alongside our other pillows I think I got
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this at the Dollar Tree it's just a ribbon but it has really pretty leaves on it like a little leaf
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picture thing on it and it's gold and I usually just put this on a mantelpiece and kind of like
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crumple it up so that is my plan with this but I just think it's so pretty and I really love the way
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that it looks it's very seasonal and festive next up we have this blanket and I first of all I love
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blankets that are this fabric they're so cozy and comfy and they're all I want to use when I'm chilly
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I know there are other blankets that are knitted and we have a few of those from when Jacob was
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before me single and he brought them into our marriage and they look probably nicer but I really
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love the feel of these they're just so soft but the pictures on here are so cute there are little
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bears and dogs and they're all wearing sweaters here's a little squirrel standing in the rain and
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here's a moose in a vest oh oh my gosh the cutest thing I'm I'm so obsessed I love this blanket I
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have one for winter that has them in like earmuffs and I need to put that one away so that this one
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can come out and I'm so glad I have this one it's adorable so I bought this last year I think and it
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says hello pumpkin and I don't really use it to like as a dish towel I use it just as a display dish towel
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so it just sits on our stove and it looks really really cute or rather on our oven and looks really
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cute and I really love the pattern guys I think orange orange isn't my favorite color year round
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but in fall orange is my favorite color do you agree like is that does that have to be how things
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are that you just like love the the warm browns of fall like this sweater is not orange but it's
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like a warm brown and I just love it it just makes me feel so cozy and warm next up we have
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this pillow this pillow I got for our green couch because these other pillows kind of clash with the
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color but this one is it's it almost reminds me of Cinderella's pumpkins because it's like a little bit
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more on the magical side and I would not say that this color is a really fall color but the picture is
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so I really like this one I think it's really adorable and it's small again so it doesn't
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really get in the way next up I got this from the Dollar Tree it says happy harvest and you guys these
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signs from the Dollar Tree are such good quality I'm always surprised that these are such good quality
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now I don't hang this on our door I have a fall wreath and a pumpkin outside so that's already set up
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but this is something I just keep around the house because if I put this on our front door we get a lot
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of sun and it just gets bleached but in the house it stays and I can keep it forever and it was a
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dollar next up I have these cups I think I got both of these from the Dollar Tree and they're very cute
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this is a hot cup it says pick of the patch which is so adorable and then this is a cold cup which I
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use for iced coffee on hotter fall days and I think that they're both very festive and seasonal and again
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only a dollar I got these little leaves that you can put in vases again I think I got them from
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the Dollar Tree and they're just cheap and cute I can always throw them out and I wouldn't feel bad
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because they were so cheap but they're just like pretty and festive and the color is great I always get
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comments on this mug every year it says happy fall y'all I got it at Target and it was $5 and I love it
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I need to put this in the dishwasher because it has been in my garage but I just think it's the cutest cup
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so nice to drink out of and I love the shape of it too it's a little bit like broader and wider than
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your average mug so I really like it I have these little pumpkins that I can just kind of put around
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the house for more decor these were a dollar and they're ceramic and they're great quality incredible
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I'm so impressed by these I have three of them and then these I got at HomeGoods and they were much
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more expensive and they're gold and they shed I mean the gold gets on your fingers and they're candles
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but I'm not gonna like them so I use them as decor but these were much more expensive I recommend
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these much much cheaper and ceramic last but not least I got wheat I have wheat from last year two
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years ago maybe and I just the look of wheat wheat is not so cheap it was actually kind of expensive
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but the look of wheat is so harvesty so I'm gonna put this into a vase and put it around the house
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I really love the look of wheat okay so before we get into putting this stuff out I want to show you
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my fall clothing that I've had in storage I might end up giving some of it away because I've had some
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of it for a while and I don't necessarily wear it and I recognize that because I unpack it and then
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pack it and realize I never even put it on but we'll check it out we'll see what I have it's a not
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small box I mean the thing is it's boots and it's sweaters which are both very bulky so it makes sense
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that they would be in this big in this big box it's not like it's that much stuff it's just that
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it's a lot of bulky stuff so let's crack into it first off I have this sweater from Target I love the
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neckline it's like an interesting mock neck and the print and the dolman sleeves I mean it's just an
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interesting sweater and I really like it and my mom bought it for me last year I thrifted this
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this is a sweater I thrifted and I do love the color and I do love the fit but when I washed it
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once I think it like ran and so there's all these little stains on it let me see I don't know if it'll
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pick it up in on here but it looks like the color is like in the creases so you know I can't feel too
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bad about that because I thrifted it so it's not like it was expensive but yeah I just don't feel
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comfortable wearing it because the color is running on the fabric and it just makes it look
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cheap next up we have this sweater which first of all I really love the color but second of all
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this is the neck and it like folds over and it can either be a shawl or it can come over and be I
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don't know what you would call that like a almost looks like a crop top over the top of your sweater I
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don't know how to describe it it has like a flap that comes over your chest which is actually very
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flattering for me so this is a great sweater and I think it would be cute and I'm gonna keep it my
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issue with this sweater is I always want to wear it because I think it's a cute look but I don't wear
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it as much as I should so I'm gonna keep it for one more year and see if I wear it more than once
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and if I do then I'll keep it and if I don't then I'll give it away this is a turtleneck I love
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turtlenecks turtlenecks I feel like they make everyone look so classy so beautiful oh the sleeve is tucked in
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here and they look so good with a pearl necklace this is like a heather gray so you probably can't
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see it might look black but it's a it's a great little sweater I think I got it from target maybe
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let me let me see right now I got this one from H&M so again really affordable really cute this is
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the same sweater but in like an oatmeal color this sweater I got at Kohl's and I really like that it has
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all these different colors it's like an interesting stripe and I like the waffle knit too and it's just a
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little bit more oversized so that makes it very comfy and cozy in the in the fall another thrift
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find I love this sweater it's a big turtleneck it's got like a big neck and it I have to decide
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I think I want to cut this off can you guys tell me what you think can you see there's like this
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sheer thing that makes it look like there's a shirt underneath it and I guess that's cool but I kind of
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want to just cut it off and wear it just like as a little bit more of a cropped sweater I really like
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the ombre effect on here too so let me know what you guys think because I can't decide this is a
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navy sweater I got from Banana Republic no Ann Taylor I got this at Ann Taylor it has a big bow
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and it's very cute with the right outfit but you know again it's one of those sweaters that I don't
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feel so confident in so you know what I'm going to say is I'm going to try it and if again I don't wear
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it more than once this season I'm going to give it away okay I have had this dress for years years
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and I love it because it's so like Christmassy and festive and it's got long sleeves and it's long
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enough and it's very good very fitted so I'm going to keep this next up we have this sweater dress
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from Charlotte Roos my husband loves when I wear this so I'm going to keep it but I just I really
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like the mock neck I like the length of the sleeves I like the color palette it's a good dress
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the camera of course died but I was sitting here for a while so it makes sense so let's continue
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this dress I got with my mom a couple of years ago and it's like weirdly itchy it doesn't look like it
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would be but for some reason something in it itches me um so I think I'm gonna get this one away next up
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we have this white sweater which I love it's I don't know why some of the sleeves are not like
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pulled out uh this one is very cozy and like the best fabric and you can put it over things which
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is really cute so I'm definitely keeping this I have this gray sweater from Target that I really like
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um and it's just easy it's nice to have you know a lot of neutral colors for sweaters I've had this
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sweater for years and I can't decide whether I'm over it yet it has like a loop around the neck
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and then a very slight v-neck in the front I like the color I like the length of it
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this thing makes me sweat like crazy like I'm not even hot I'm not even warm I'm just sweaty
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I don't know you guys it might be over it help me decide in the comments
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let's talk boots so I packed these away these are my favorite boots I got them at Target I can't
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believe I got them at Target they're so nice looking and they've held up so well they're so
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comfy I wear them all the time I wear them with everything they go with everything so I pack these
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away but these are like my favorite boots ever I'm actually surprised that so many of my boots from
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Target have held up or rather that I had so many boots from Target these are maybe seven years old
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which is kind of crazy to think about because they're like a suede fake suede and I still wear
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them they still look fantastic I love these boots and they're so comfortable even though they have a
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high heel so can't wait to wear these guys I love boots let's let's just be clear I have a rider's
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boot these are just kind of like a flat rider's boot that are very comfortable and warm and good for
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fall and then I have a heeled rider boot because I wanted to look like Kate Middleton and I still don't
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regret that so I have both to switch off these are like less practical but still really cool I got
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them for a birthday gift so that is all of my fall stuff that is the fall decor those are the fall
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clothes so I am going to go set up my fall decor
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