Everyone loooves Fall.

Except me.
Don't get me wrong, I love me a cozy sweater, (paired with flip flops of course), and a rainy day as much as the next girl.  But there is never a time safer for me to enter a Pottery Barn than right now.  Fall decor.  It holds absolutely no power over me.  However, come Summer, I need to avoid that entire wing of the mall completely.  It's bad.  Budget busting bad. I could get in some major trouble if I let myself even so much as look.
Fall?  Meh.  Dave Ramsey loves my envelope skillz in Fall.

 Eleven months out of the year, my mantle pretends that it is part of a beach house.  A beach house that just happens to have been built fifteen minutes in the wrong direction.
 I'll add things here and there.  At the flea market this weekend I picked up some gorgeous old aqua bottles and after a few minutes with a glue stick, had my own simple and way less expensive version of these.
 The rest of the accessories, the lucky bamboo that somehow I haven't killed in the eight years of taking really poor care of it, starfish dyed in a bowl of leftover teal Rit,
 special shells and sand from special places, stay there.  Making me feel for a minute what it would be like to live in Kauai.
Then I light the candles (or flick the switch, love the fakey fake versions) and try to figure out how everyone doesn't want Summer to invade their house all year.

But...
I do love a few perks of fall, such as pumpkin scones from Starbucks, and The Larson Lingo's Pumpkin Bread.  My Kitchenaid gets quite the workout as long as I can find canned pumpkin.  I dare you to throw in mini chocolate chips and not get weak in the knees.
I also can't begin October without lighting a Leaves candle from Bath & Body Works.  Oh.  My.  Word.  Is all I can say about how delightful it smells.

Then, just when I think my boycott of Fall decor is safe and complete, I see these TURQUOISE pumpkins at Tater Tots & Jello and these fun creative pillows from Randomly me...

Slowly Fall is warming up this Summer girls heart.

{and I bought a pair of BOOTS!!!!! Gasp!!! Who am I?}