How I Romanticize Autumn // a how-to guide 🍂 

I feel so depressed in summer for some reason, Autumn and Winter makes me feel so happy and alive🍂🎃

You can definitely tell autumn is Desi’s favourite season. And honestly, this year Autumn is just hitting different for me too! I think its the Taylor Swift, the Gilmore girls and the Desi that is really making this autumn special for me ❤️

Romanticize is the perfect word, because you are like a storybook character and your videos are like a comfort movie 💚

table of contents: 0:36 - wear patterned & autumnal cozy sweaters 1:48 - fall themed ASMR & ambience videos 2:23 - watch gilmore girls or scooby-doo while eating breakfast 3:12 - listen to a fall playlist while going for a walk through fall foliage 4:26 - light fall scented candles 5:33 - make a paper countdown chain for every day in october 8:16 - try a new autumnal tea or warm beverage 8:38 - write your to-do list with a quill ink pen 8:58 - get a fall themed drink & pick up a new spooky book at the bookstore 9:52 - visit a local apple orchad 10:28 - end your night with watching a new spooky movie 11:16 - open the windows to feel the crisp air in the morning 11:39 - try some of the new fall items at trader joe's + trying new food so you don't have to 19:00 - add cinnamon to one of your favorite foods 19:24 - bundle up and go on a walk through a cemetery during sunset 20:44 - wear cozy socks 21:01 - have nostalgic movies/tv on while you clean or study 21:27 - fill your home with some pumpkins 21:49 - paint your nails an autumnal color 22:04 - read autumnal books 22:53 - change the wallpaper on your phone

A poem I made! You wake up to rain dripping down your windowsill. You hear the wind gushing with excitement. You get out of bed and change from your silky pajamas to your burnt brown sweater and long waisted leggings. You comb your once messy hair. You walk outside and feel the rain starting to trickle down your forehead. Your hair and clothing is now wet, but you don’t care. You are filled with so much delight from the rain, you don’t even notice the now soaking wet clothes. You run back inside and grab your favorite book and start to read it near the oven where your mother is baking her delicious pumpkin cookies. Today you truly feel like autumn has come. And the truth is, it only comes when your mind decides it comes. And that is the beauty to the season.

Autumn is So DREAMY def the best season 🙌🏻✨

As a former employee at Trader Joe's (TJs), I can confirm that going to TJs for fall products is a must. One of the best things is how the place smells (bear with me). They have various candles for the season, there was food sampling so you can smell the food while working, and most prominent of all were those cinnamon brooms they market at the front of the store, so when you enter the place you get a good whiff of the usual Autumn aromas.

I'm from Spain and it is just so sad we don't have that many pumpkin flavored sweets and products for fall since it's not a very popular flavour here :(

I’ve suffered with crippling anxiety and panic attacks my whole life. Romanticizing the little things really has helped me out the past few years. Autumn is my favorite season and I love a good spooky book or film. Desi, your videos bring me so much joy and a calm spirit. And it just so happens I am going to a graveyard to drink a coffee this weekend with my friend who I have not seen in person since the pandemic began

Sewing and knitting in Autumnal colours always puts in me in a cozy fall mood. I just finished making a burnt orange dress 😍

i've been following your account for almost a year now .. BEST DECISION EVERRRR . Thanks for all these beautiful videos . ❤️

It's been abnormally warm here in PA these past few weeks (I'm taking consistently in the seventies and eighties), but it finally cooled down a bit today. I went to the zoo with my roommate, and they were having "boo at the zoo." All of the kids were dressed up in costumes, there was a cool breeze, and it finally started to smell like Autumn. Just a perfect day 🍂🐻

I really like that autumn is so worshipped now. My birthday is in October and I always liked that month, the first storms, that it got colder finally, the colours... etc. but for a long time when I was a kid it was considered a nasty month. I like how that has changed. 😉 October 20th! Think of me. 🥰

as someone who lives in a tropical country her whole life, i wish i could experience autumn, it must've been a wonderful season.

Since my yard, gardens, countertops, pantry, refrigerator, and food dryer are all currently filled with apples, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, herbs, crabapples, nuts, mushrooms, pears etc., and the leaves are changing color and the wind is swirling everything around in preparation for some rain later, it's hard to get away from fall here. I'm definitely not complaining. I'm living my best life. I'm reading all the gothic and spooky books. Making soups. Drinking teas with rich earthy flavors. Using all my autumnal dishware. We didn't decorate as much as we usually do as we have two very curious young floofs that try to knock over or eat anything new in the house. Maybe next year. We did put up all the outside decorations.

I really needed this today! I always want to romanticise this season more as it is my favourite but I always end up so busy and then it's deep into the month and I'm like NOOOOOOO!

The biggest thing I’m doing to romanticize autumn this year is throwing a fall harvest themed dinner party under the stars ❤️ All the food and decor is inspired by the season. Plus we’re having a fire and watching a Halloween movie outside 🎃

We moved from the Midwest to Houston three years ago. We don’t get autumn weather until December and I miss it so much! I wish for Autumn weather year round with a few warm weekends a year to enjoy the beach! 🍁 *sigh* 🍁

God your videos have inspired me to really get into the seasons and enjoy the little things. Especially as an introvert as well it makes me alone time so much more enjoyable as I am in my apartment surrounded by my fall and Halloween decorations with my fall scented candles and pumpkin cookies and pumpkin spice hot chocolate while I am reading a spooky book. This is my best life.

Fall activity idea (especially if you are an introvert and don't want to leave your home): grab an old blanket, your favourite book and some items that make you feel cozy. Then go on your balcony (or in the living room if you don't have one!) and do a reading- picnic! You could also make yourself a hot cup of tea and eat snacks while you read🍂🦔

I really love your videos, i think its really important to romanticize every season because just waiting for the one season is boring, there is beauty in all of lifes seasons. some of my favorite fall activities are: -cooking autumnal meals (Butternut/acorn squash soup, mini thanksgiving dinners, homemade bread, etc) -baking cozy desserts like pumpkin and apple and harry potter themed foods -having a harry potter movie marathon with THEMED FOOD, the best -going for cozy car rides, (solo, with family, or with friends) with the heat on in the car, autumn jazz playlist, and going down the abandoned roads need my house to see creepy old houses, cemeteries, and fall leaves -read witch/ monster/ vampire/ mystery/ goosebumps/ Nancy drew/ or any autumn books somewhere with a view, such as a river, hillside, pond, indoors, outdoors, or even at a cozy coffee shop or bookshop near you -amsr or ambience playlist on youtube have my heart (harry potter and halloweentown ones too!) -candles, pumpkins, hot tea or coffe or hot cocoa -scary movies, or even thrillers, or my personal favorite childrens halloween movies like hocus pocus -dressing up for halloween the entire week of halloween or wearing things that make you feel seasonal (boots, cozy jeans, fuzzy sweaters, big sweatshirts) -tim burton movies as background -having tarot card readings or candle light conversations with friends or siblings -pumpkin picking with family friends, or even pets, apple orchards have my heart -bring a home cooked meal to a relative - anything you look forward to this time of year

I love Vermont. Vermont is HEAVEN on Earth. You don't have to "do" anything here but just "Be" and witness the magic evolve around you. Oh, how I wish everyone could experience our Autumn. 🍁💖💕🙏🤗

Something that feels like autumn to me is making a cup of tea before bed and curling up to read one of my comfort books. Absolutely love this season!🍁

I feel this SO MUCH! I live in Texas, so I make it feel like autumn (some days this is more difficult then others). I always watch “You’ve Got Mail” for my birthday in October. I drink copious amounts of herbal teas. I definitely binge watch Gilmore Girls, & at at work I spread the autumn joy with my preschool class. I’ve purchased a ridiculous amount fake fall leaves and we roll, throw, and jump in the leaves together. The kids absolutely love it, & I look forward to it every year too! Someday I’ll enjoy the real thing, but until then, I’m making it work here in the Lone Star State. 🇨🇱

I’m so happy that she talked about the fall ambiance videos! They put me in such an autumnal mood! 🎃🍂✨

I think it’s really cool how self help and self enlightenment type mindsets are becoming so commonplace now. I remember when thought processes like these were sneered at and look down on. Finding ways to make life as warm and fuzzy for yourself is how I keep suicidal ideation at bay. It’s essential to bring out things that make you feel safe or just bring a smile to your face. I’m a summer girl myself, but in fall a playlist of jazz or folk music, or fluffy blankets, a book, and some baked goods candles are really comforting.

The video photography alone in this video is worthy of an award, I love all the moments you captured. I also adore your home and the places you choose to visit and how you romanticize your life. I have ADHD and anxiety and I think this is super helpful for those of us who struggle with living in the future and not in the present. Thank you so much for making it possible to romanticize even the littlest pieces and parts of autumn

Autumn is hands down my favorite season. It's so calm and vibrant and yes, you are right, I think it's very well worth being romanticized!! This video is beautiful!

You are an autumn goddess!!! I've bought so many autumny books you recommended (sucha s the Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, which is PERFECT!) And I even started listening to the Dracula audiobook! You opened new reading worlds for me!

There really is no words to describe the beauty of Autumn. The pumpkins, the yellowing cornstalks, the apple and pumpkin spice, the crisp air, the warm and neutral colors, the spooky vibes at the end of October, the thrift-y feel, the warm drinks (hot cocoa is my personal fave), the PUMPKIN PIE, the leatherbound books, the scented candles, the huge amounts of compatible aesthetics (dark academia, dark cottagecore, etc), the thick sweaters, the cozy blankets, the crackling fireside, the scenery (autumn must be Nature's favorite season), the thick, warm socks, the fun movies, the decor...the list goes on forever. I love it so much. I can't wait for Autumn to come around again. Thanks, Desi, for the extra fall vibes!

I LOVE how inclusive this video is to different climates and how much you actually thought about it. Every winter / fall / spring I want to get in the mood but it's so so hard because I live in Hong Kong. I've been searching through videos and pins for an hour writing down ideas and was prepared to not be able to follow 3/4 of the stuff in this video but it is so refreshing that you actually talked about alternatives for warm climates! I love it so much thank you you have no idea

Needed this! Been focusing too much on schoolwork lately and needed a reminder to look around me and appreciate this beautiful season ❤️🍂

i get really depressed in summer and spring but in autumn and winter, i come back to life. i just never know how to make the best of it, thank you for this vid desi!!🤍

You are my favorite Seasonal RU-vidr! You bring out the good vibes for the Season. I can't wait for the Christmas content. 🎄

In the Fall, I always wake up my spinning wheels and we get to work. It’s such a good feeling to spin soft wool on a 180 year old great wheel, with folk music playing and candles and fireplace burning. Bonus: it’s my birthday month. 🐑 🥰 🍁 🐑 🍂 🎃 🐑

This video hits every thing I do in the fall (and most season)! Not only do I redecorate my apartment, I make all my fave fall recipes, listen to fall lofi mixes and watch fireplace crackle videos on RU-vid, paint new mini canvases with autumn designs to hang up in my apartment, light fall candles, buy fall scented toiletries and cleaning products, read spooky books and watch spooky shows/movies, drink all the fall drinks, go do all the fun fall activities, and change my entire iPhone Home Screen theme to fall (including lock screen, background, photo album widgets and app shortcut icons - it takes forever!!) Some might call it extra but I enjoy being extra 😌🍁🍂

YES desi you posting just made my day!!! ❤️🍂

I so appreciate that you included tips for consistently warm climates! As an autumn-lover, the loss of warm sweaters was one I mourned when moving to a warmer climate. I really enjoyed this video! 🍂🍂

She's great and makes me want to be myself. Instead of being this strong rugged man that I appear to be. Under all this muscle and exterior, there is an aesthetic being

Honestly autumn and especially October tends to be rather hard for me as it tends to be a reminder of harder times and that winter is coming (along with seasonal depression), but thanks to your channel and your love of autumn, I think I'm warming up more and more to this season. You're definitely helping me remember some of the things that make autumn a beautiful season. Thank you always for your wonderful videos. 🧡

Your videos are always so relaxing and cozy, thank you so much for all the effort you put into them!

Yay I’ve been waiting for this notification! I love autumn and the weather is really starting to feel like autumn these days! I have also been working my way through my list of autumnal books and watching Gilmore girls for the first time this year! Thank you so much for all this joy Desi! 🥰🍂🍁

I love your videos. They are always so beautiful and cozy. Very aesthetic. ❤️ For me I think the most romantic thing in the autumn is to see the flickering candle-lights on the evening of the All Souls day. I live in the North Eastern part of Europe and we don't have Halloween traditions, but we celebrate the All Souls day. We light candles on the graves of our deceased loved ones, we leave some flowers. Although it may seem for some people a sad day, but for me it is not so. For me it is a celebration of love, because love never leaves us though the ones we love someday will. It is a celebration of love for those who are waiting for us in the fields of Heaven and for those who are with us today. And the sight of a graveyard full of flickering candle-lights in the evening when it gets dark is something worth seeing. I always get shivers down my spine. It is so cozy, beautiful, and a bit spooky, but in a good way.😊

Love this video so much! Def feeling the fall vibess And ur hair is so beautiful

This video feels like FALL magic✨🍂🍁 I can tell you worked extremely hard on it! This will be a staple for every fall season for SURE!

I am so enchanted by the autumnal forest you walk through in your videos. You're so lucky to live nearby a landscape like that! Makes me want to visit Utah again.

I am so excited for autumn to come, I already have my Halloween decorations in my room. Who cares if my parents judge me 😭😭

I cannot get over how much of a vibe this woman is ❤

SO EXCITED

Autumn is the best season of all! One of my traditions is to re-watch the old black-and-white classic Monster movies!!! Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, The Mummy!!! Just puts me in the right frame of mind in general. :) Drink chai tea is a must--and I switch up the autumn decor and tailor it to the mood of the season. I usually start a new knitting project (my cats have a ridiculous amount of knitted afghans to curl up in) and I start stealing my husband's bathrobe--it's huge, it's soft and it gives me all the happy thoughts!

I also love the add pumpkins inside my house, light fall candles, read fall books, get fall drinks, and change the wallpaper on my phone!

Omg i`ve had such a bad week thank god you posted a new video they make me feel so relaxed

Desi!! I’ve watched two minutes of this video and I am already in love!! I have an irrational fear of throwing up and whenever I am feeling anxious wnd stressed, I turn on your videos wnd they help me so much!!! Thank you for being the light in the darkness!!

I love your channel so much! I am a very holiday-loving person, so the start of autumn is always charged with that special kind of excitement where I want read themed books and watch themed movies and really immerse myself in the coziness of the season. Your videos have such great advice on that! Thank you too for your recommendation of Likewise; I love it! Warmest wishes! :)

Your videos make me soooo happy 🥺

Love love love this!

Great ideas Desi! I was so excited for Autumn but I’ve lost that magical feeling lately - can always rely on you to bring it back! I change my phone wallpaper every month to reflect the season and any holidays, it’s such a small thing but it always lifts my mood and makes me grateful for the season I’m in.

You're such a wonderful person Desi, it's such a treat whenever you upload

That was really cool seeing you live streaming tonight.

you give me anne with an E vibes, and also taylor vibes, you're so pretty !! i want it to be halloween or autumn already . i'll start decorating for it when september starts ! 🍂🎃

I’ve been waiting for your new video!! It’s almost 3am here but let’s gooo 😄

I’m so happy to get to watch another video from you. Thanks for posting this! You never disappoint! 😊

This video waqs so stunning!!! It was so perfect for autumn and I need more of these!!

Everything about this video was cozy vibes, I loved it! I grew up in Florida and until 5 years ago when I moved, never experienced Fall so it's now my favorite season. Also, I love how everyone in the book community loves Gilmore Girls. But I'm a freak and have it on literally almost everyday, not just in Fall, its a year round thing for me lol

Love you Desi! Your videos give me much peace and happiness 🥰🥰

Omgggg I really needed another vid from u I cant wait to watch it later ❤❤❤

love! 🙌🏽🍁 your videos bring me joy 🧡

Your videos bring so much comfort, thank you so so much for creating them!!

your videos are always so calming, I was crocheting while watching this one 😌🧡🍂

I just have to comment again before I’ve even watched it all because it’s so good already only a few minutes in. Yay! 😍 It’s magical how your videos such as this one actually affect all my senses. How is that even possible? Because you’re so skilled at sharing anything that you recommend, whether it has to do with visual items, scents, good foods, sounds/music, and textures. Thanks Desi!

I love how intentional you are with your videos! They’re beautiful! 🍂

Your videos are pure magic, so relaxing and inspiring

it’s finally cold where I live and this feels like the perfect introduction to my favorite season!! thank you so much for all of your beautiful content and your genuine positivity for the world around you

I came here so fast Desi. i missed you. ♥️♥️♥️

Such a beautifully shot cozy video! Also I enjoyed the TJ autumn haul☺️👏🍁🍂

I was wondering when your next video was! So happy now!

Hi Desi! I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of this video I’m so glad this is finally up! I’m really trying to involve myself more in the seasons and I always come to you for guidance! You’re so inspirational and I love your videos more than anything in the world. I haven’t watched the video yet but I just know it’ll be brilliant. I’ve decorated my room a bit and whenever I look at it some how reminds me of you and that makes me happy. I love you Desi!

I watch ur videos every morning when I'm getting ready for the school and it honestly makes my day!!

Beautiful video, Desi! 🧡🧡🧡

Enjoyed all the ideas to try and pass along. Have a wonderful fall Desi. Much love to you.

Lovely as always! 🧡 Love all of you ideas, definitely hitting up Trader Joe’s this week! 😊 I love doing autumnal/spooky photoshoots with people or just items around my house 🎃🍂🍁 it totally helps me feel immersed in the season, being about to create a little fall world!

I love all your videos so much. You are by far my favorite youtuber and your videos never fail to make my day 100 times better. Your positivity has influenced me so much in my daily life. Thank you Desi, you seem like you'd make the sweetest and most supportive friend! 💜

Was so looking forward to this video! I absolutely love the wallpaper idea on your phone, I do this too! I also love series like gilmore girls, virgin river etc. for those cozy vibes. Thank you for your recommendation of Practical Magic- it's now my new favourite autumn movie! Lots of love xx

Such a great video! I honestly think you nailed every thing I have been doing and more

Ah perfectly on time for evening unwinding with a nice cup of tea! ❤ Thank you so much! Your videos always work wonders when I need some calm!

I’m so happy I found your account! It’s so nice to meet someone who has the same aesthetic as yours! Your videos give me such a happy warm feeling

I'm so ready for autumn! 🍁🍂🍃

Adorable as always! 😍😍😍🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Thank you desi 💛

Thank you for sharing your magic! I have been having a tough time and am so happy to watch your video, happy October! 🎃

🍁 I love the idea of making a paper chain with autumnal activities written on them! 🍂 As someone who lives in Alaska where there is, tragically, no Trader Joe’s, your taste test mad me long for the days when I was within walking distance of one! 🤣🧡

I'm so happy!! Love your video, it's always so beautiful and aesthetic, Automn is my favorite season!

Excited for autumn sooo happy

My autumnal heart just LOVES this girl!!! 🤩✨🍁🍂

Have you ever done a premiere for your videos? That would be really fun! Also that pumpkin waffle maker is so cute 🥰

This is honestly one of my favorite videos you've ever done - the ideas were super creative and thoughtful, the editing was beautiful, the music was stunning.

I love the taste testing part the best but thank you for giving me fall vibes throughout the whole video

I am so glad to be one of the first!! You always are able to upload right when I need it most lol! And your videos have this beautiful cinematography! Also I absolutely love the Burrow sweater 😍💕

So happy this video is finally here! It really helps my anxious mind feel better! Autumn is my most favourite time of the year!

I love the chained bucket list!!! Your videos are the best!!! Always inspiring, beautiful, and great tips in increasing the quality of life💗

So jealous of your scenery! Here in Illinois this weekend was the first day it wasn’t like 80! So it definitely hasn’t felt like autumn yet and the trees are still green. Finally the days are cooling off and I’m so happy 🍁