For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the first day of fall (or autumn, if you prefer)! This is the season that takes us right up to the doorstep of Christmas.
Today’s Countdown to Christmas Challenge will not involve your Christm
as planner. Go down into your basement or up into your attic and rustle up your fall decor – anything pumpkin, harvest, or apple-themed is fair game – to be festively placed around your home.
If it seems your seasonal decor is all mixed together, today would be a great day to locate some large boxes or tubs and label them with Fall labels. Simply print out the labels and then use tape on the boxes, or print the labels onto adhesive-backed paper for great convenience.
Check out what List Mama says. . .about preparing your home for fall.
This week’s Giveaway is for one of my favorite fall things: a Harvest candle by Yankee Candle! In my opinion, fall has not truly begun until I have smelled this candle burning in my home. You have several ways to enter to win this Harvest scent from Yankee Candle:
1) leave a comment on this post,
2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas on Facebook or Twitter(so easy to do when you use the Share This button at the bottom of this post) and leave a comment here linking to your profile,
3) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email and leave a comment here,
4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas then leave a comment here linking to your post.
5) become a member of the 100 Days to Christmas community
One of each of these per day please. You have until Sunday, September 26 at 6 pm EST to enter.
So far, so good. Staying caught up with the planning. Hope it continues this way!
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Mmm…I love fall!
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Love this idea!
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Already done! I had my house decorated for fall at the beginning of September!
By the way…I subscribe via email.
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Fall is my favorite season! And Oh, how I love candles!! This is a very exciting day for me! @juliebavi
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Whoohooey – for once I am AHEAD of the game. I decorate for Fall beginning Labor Day weekend. At that time the back to school items are out for the week. Then fall. On 1 October I will convert to Halloween decor. Back to fall and adding Thanksgiving specific on 1 November. I LOVE that I can decorate with all of the things I love about this season for such a long period. Definitely my FAVORITE time of year!
Love this time of year! Thank you for your 100 Days Countdown…great! I love those candles too!
I just discovered your blog – what a great idea! Before you know it the big season will be upon us and your blog is going to help us all get through it.
Heading up to the attic to get out some fall decor this morning – autumn is my favorite time of year – would love to add the candle to the vignette on the hall table.
hi! I’m a new subscriber via RSS. I discovered your blog a couple of days ago and I can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store for us!
I love Fall! This was just what I needed to get me in gear to pull out my Fall decorations. I’ve added it to my to-do list for this afternoon!
Great ideas! I love fall candles!
I just love fall! We are hopefully going apple picking today! To me, it’s just not the start of fall until we do that! I’ll be in the attic this morning looking for fall leaves and pumpkins! Great suggestion! And that candle would be a nice addition!
Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love everything about fall.
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Love these candles. Love fall more!
I get more cleaning done in the fall than the spring. I light a candle that smells the house of apple pie or pumpkin and that turns on my cleaning mojo. Unfortunately it also makes me want to redecorate the house….LOL.
I’m so proud of myself for keeping up thus far. Woohoo!! And I’m thrilled about today’s activity. I’ve been ready to do this for weeks and have been holding off.
I love how this Christmas prep includes Fall holidays!
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This is one of my favorite times of year! Love the smells of Fall!
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I am so happy to have been directed to this blog! It seems like something even I can accomplish! just wish I wasnt 6 days behind already
I love Yankee candles!
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I tweeted, facebooked and myspaced. I will be blogging soon but will wait until I take some pics of the decorations that I am putting out.
Love this planning! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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I have never decorated for fall. Just Halloween or Thanksgiving but what a great idea!
I am loving the 100 days activities!
Love fall! I subscribed using Google Reader! Can’t wait to read the countdown to Christmas!
Here’s my post…
http://talesofamommymonster.blogspot.com/2009/09/fall-stuff.html
Thanks for the reminder about fall being here. I live in the southern part of Texas and sometimes I forget about the changing of the seasons. I will be decorating tomorrow.
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I left a tweet on my twitter page and subscribed.
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Harvest (and Home for the Holidays) are my two favorite candles ever. I actually had Harvest burning today (it was left over from last year). What a great prize to win. Oh, and my Fall decor is already up too
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Hi- I’m a member!
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I’ve also subscribed.
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We have spring arriving. I am so looking forward to summer. No autumn decorations for us as a result.
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I actually got my fall decorations up! Normally this is something I think about the day before Halloween, and by then what’s the point?
For once I’m ahead of the game! I got it all done the first week in Sept!!! Yea me!!!
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Fall is my favorite season. The temperatures, the smells, the colors… I love it all. I already have some fall decor out. Little pumpkins, fall leaves, apples, little scarecrows and acorns. I am even thinking about painting my kitchen fall inspired colors because I like the season so much. It’s such a warm and inviting season.
We looooooove candles!
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