A Cute Little Cottagecore Autumn Halloween

On September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Uncategorized10 Comments

Finally, it is September and fall is basically here – close enough for me anyway! Fall is my favorite season of all, and I like to go all in, whether it is cozy or spooky and reading all the fall books and drinking the..no. I draw the line at pumpkin spice lattes. I am not a pumpkin spice fan – I am in the camp of apple flavor is better in the fall. However, my kid is a total pumpkin spice fan and I end up buying him pumpkin spice cereal and cookies and whatever I spot that I think he will like.

Anyway this post is more about the cottagecore cuteness that has edged its way into aesthetics, and I love it. I love all of these new aesthetics – dark academia, greencore, naturecore – but cottagecore is just adorable and whimsical and happy, and I love incorporating it into Halloween and fall, a season normally known for scary things.

Hot beverages are important this time of year – whether it is pumpkin or apple flavored, or a tea or coffee, a mug is essential. I like one I can wrap my hands around and cradle, and just absorb its warmth as I sip. I also have a ton of mugs in my cabinet, but I find myself reaching for favorites first, and they are generally the cutest ones. I may need to add a few more for fall though! I added quite a few to my list – and these are just my favorites from that list. There were many more!

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Chat Noir Avec Citrouille || Ghost Reader Mug || Baroque Ghost || Snail Mug

Boo! I was super into ghosts this year I think.

Felt Ghost Garland || Ghost Embroidery Kit || Tiny Ghost Vases

We are seasonal garland people. I can’t help it. I love changing up different strings of garland around the house and I love these little happy face ghosts. And those vases! How cute are those!! Finally, the embroidery kit. I am just beginning my embroidery journey and it is painful and not super awesome, but I will get better – I hope. I do want to add this ghost kit to my stash though!

A few more…

Ghost Holding a Candle || Adopt-a-Ghost Penelope || Ghost Hanging Laundry Print

I don’t usually change around the art in my home for the seasons, but I think about doing it every year. This might be the year! These two ghost are tempting, especially the laundry one because it makes me smile to look at it. I also love Penelope, the little artist ghost, which would look adorable in our art cabinet.

Ok moving on from the ghosts to more autumnal looks, not just halloween!

Embroidery Felt Bookmarks || Ceramic Mushroom Spoons || Mouse in Hole Wall Decal

I like to think those bookmarks would not only keep my page for me but keep that page warm. Plus they are so sweet and would inspire me to read more in fall gardens or under trees whose leaves are red and orange and yellow. And honestly, I have no idea what I would do with that mushroom spoon but it is super cute – just like that little mouse! I have been asking Billy to cut a little hole in our wall and create a tiny little world there, like in The Borrowers, but it hasn’t happened yet so, this decal would work for a bit. I think it would look adorable in my bedroom..

And finally- this is the end I promise..

A fall journal for all your ruminations – 200 pages with a cute little evergreen on every page to just make things more whimsical. And it is one I designed! I am pretty in love with it. Mine actually arrives today and I can’t wait. The pajama pants – can I just say I practically live in these? They are the Fall into Bed pajama pants from Lazy Ones and I LOVE them. I need to add more of them to my pajama wardrobe. (is that a thing?) They have these cute huckleberry ones that I have my eye on because they also have them in kids sizes too. Matching pajamas for fall! They actually have tons of different designs and they are all super cute. My sister-in-law and I each got a pair while we were on vacation and it was hard to choose. She ended up getting some with chickens on them which were super adorable.

I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed putting it together! Happy fall everyone, and keep it cozy!

Our 2022 TV Night Favorites

On December 29, 2022 By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn television13 Comments

I hope you are all ready for a steady week of favorites lists from me! Or a few days, rather. I actually had a lot of fun revisiting what we have watched and read; we apparently also watch more tv series than movies, which I guess makes sense? This list is a combination of new and old shows, some series where we watched multiple seasons in a binge, some where we were just keeping up with a show we have been watching for years. It also includes special little limited series and mini series as well. I also had to laugh – there are two shows on here that I actually didn’t really like at first but then ended up loving.

So, let’s begin, and in no particular order today.

Around the World in 80 Days. I actually was not sure if I liked this at all when we first started watching it – then I fell in love with it. Billy read there are going to be more episodes and I am looking forward to them.

This newest season of Stranger Things was by far the very best. I laughed, I sobbed. I sang along with Kate Bush who was running up that hill. It was awesome!

I’ve said it once and I will say it again – if Bill Nighy is in it, I am watching it. Billy and I loved this series. It kept us guessing and had so many twists and secrets!

I wait very impatiently for new seasons of this show. They just don’t make them fast enough for me I guess! I love the music, the mysteries are always well thought out, the detectives are quirky but just enough quirk without being kooky. It all takes place in the town of Brokenwood, and it is one of those shows where the villagers are recurring characters that pop up in other episodes, which I love. By far one of my very “favoritest” shows we watch!

Henry Cavill. That is all. Well, not really all. There is a lot of kerfuffle about The Witcher right now actually, with Cavill stating that he is not returning to the series for a fourth season. Nooooooooo!!! He 100% makes this show for me. I also want to add that Season 2 Episode 1 was the best episode ever of it and they need more like that one.

This series is one of the best on television, hands down. I loved the books growing up, I watched the old show in syndication as an adult, and now, this new version of the show embodies everything there is to love about James Herriot and the Yorkshire Dales.

This show. I couldn’t stand it at first. Then it grew on me, and I ended up loving it. We watched all million seasons and now we are all caught up and waiting. It is campy, cheesy at times, but as the seasons go on, it gets a little better, and I honestly love all of the characters. This show is a little more lighthearted, and Billy and I also feel we have learned a lot about Canadian history. This show loves to have famous characters from history show up, and we love it. (The HP Lovecraft episode is perfection) Now, if only I could get to Canada before February, so I can see the Murdoch Mysteries exhibition at The Museum.

I can’t think of one thing that I don’t like about this series, except that there are not enough episodes! I could watch this every night. It’s tops of my list to read the Louise Penny books this year.

Unpopular opinion: I love American Ghosts more than the British original. Weird for me, but it is the truth. Partially because Thor and Flower are my favorite characters, and partly because I love Rose McIver. She is so funny, and does some near perfect impressions of people. I mean, half the time her role in iZombie was acting like a different person and she was spot on.

Hello, Grantchester! And Sidney Chambers.. you beautiful angsty broody vicar. This has been our go-to show for the past few weeks and I am going to be super bummed when I run out of these episodes!

What about you all?

A Cute Little Cottagecore Autumn Halloween

On October 13, 2022August 29, 2023 By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn artist review, autumn15 Comments

I love all of these new aesthetics -cottagecore, dark academia, green academia – to name a few of my favorites. I have to admit I feel like I was into the dark academia vibe before it was a thing, all the way back in the early 90s. All those books that fit that genre are books I loved as a youth. But, this is a cottagecore post – an aesthetic I really associate more with spring and summer – its all rural and pastoral and quaint and cute. However, it lends itself to Halloween and fall better than you might expect! I was browsing Etsy, as I am known to do, especially while Wyatt is in therapy and I am just sitting in the waiting room, well, waiting for him, and I found the cutest things! It is just so fun and happy to look at!

(links do contain Etsy affiliate links) UPDATED: Some of these links are no longer valid a year later. I am planning on a whole new post like this for this year, but it won’t be up for another week or two. Are you all as excited for fall as I am? I did start a collection on Etsy though if you want to get a sneak peek! You can find it here!

L-R: Orange Ghost and Flowers || Ghost and Roses || Collage of Cute Halloween Things That Make me Think of Doodling in my Notebooks

These mugs are so adorable! Those sweet little ghosts! I couldn’t pick a favorite if I tried. Well, ok maybe. That middle one is calling my name. And we all know a good mug is absolutely essential to a proper fall for drinking all the tea and cocoa.

L-R : Fox Beret || Ghost sweatshirt || Black Cat Knitted Tea Cozy

I mentioned the other day I was considering a beret. I don’t think I could wear this everyday but maybe on Halloween, taking Wyatt trick or treating I could! Or if I chicken out, that sweatshirt is cute and appropriate for the season – and me! And that tea cozy is perfect for a Halloween poetry tea time, which I do with Wyatt every year.

L-R: Pumpkin Stickers || Glow in the Dark Mushrooms || Gloomy Bookshop Print

I think these pumpkin stickers are practically perfect in every way. We always get more pumpkins then we want to actually carve and these would be great to use instead of carving but still making them festive. And these glow in the dark ghost mushrooms!! Why oh why must they be so cute? I am also in love with the gloomy bookshop print – it would be so cute in an office or library or really anywhere.

But this – this is the big daddy of cute.