Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

| lip: The Beauty Crop GRLPWR Liquid Lipstick in Imma Bawse | sweater: J.Crew (from Art! ) | skirt: LOFT | socks: Target | boots: Danner | 

Happy Spooky Szn, y'all!! October, the best month of the year, is absolutely flying by. This Fall feels especially short because the weather JUST turned gorgeous in Nashville, and we are leaving for Japan on Saturday! So we are squeezing in every possibly second of spoopy fun - exclusively watching scaries on TV, baking pumpkin and bourbon desserts, listening to Kim Petras... and we finally went to get pumpkins and mums yesterday!

I debated if this was even worth it since we'll be out of the country until the 30th anyway (and hopefully our mums don't die!) but honestly getting my porch all set up last night made me so ridiculously happy, so, I'd say it was worth it. I'll share photos on Twitter! I mean, can you tell how happy I am based on how I'm grinning like a maniac in all these photos?

OH - I have never introduced this blog to Bailey! Bailey is Art's dog he rescued 10+ years ago, she's also known (by me) as "the dog who made me believe in dogs" as she is literally the only dog I have ever deeply loved and even been elsewhere thinking, "I wonder what Bailey is up to right now..?" I know everyone says their dog is the best but she is really something special. We've had a long-standing dream of getting her some pumpkin portraits and this was the year! That photo of her in the ghost cut-out absolutely kills me.

I've had so much fun this week rolling out all my cold weather clothes, it's like getting a brand new wardrobe! Planning to live in a sweater - skirt - booties combo all season long (adding tights when it gets colder.) Art has the best collection of flannels, sweaters, and even a heavier corduroy button-up I can't wait to steal, so the whole shopping ban thing a'int so bad in the Fall! All I want to wear is slightly oversized sweaters anyway. So, don't tell him! To be fair he did *give* this sweater to me, or maybe he was getting rid of it and I swooped in, either way, fair game.

Ok is it so obvious by this manic post that I've just had coffee today? I am off to pack for Japan - we leave Saturday morning to be in LA for two days with my bb nephew (ok and his parents) and then Monday morning we leave for Japan! We'll be in Okinawa for a few days (where my brother is currently deployed) and then Tokyo for a long weekend, and hopefully back in Nashville in time to carve a pumpkin on Halloween night. We are super excited to be in Japan with some sibs! Please comment/tweet/whatever me with any recs you might have, and follow along on Twitter/Insta if you feel inclined!

Well, this looks like my blog update for the month (!) of October. Hope you all are enjoying everything about this season! <3