From the Cottage: How to Cottage Like a Pro This Fall

Cozy autumn days call for candlelight, good books, and all the cottagecore vibes 🍂✨ Bring fall home with handmade decor from www.therusticcowcrafts.com 🐄🕯️ #CottageLiving

🍂 How to Cottage Like a Pro This Fall: A Cozy Guide to Living Your Best Rustic Life

If you're reading this, you're probably already halfway into a chunky knit blanket with a mug of something cinnamon-adjacent. Welcome, friend. You've entered the fall cottagecore era — crisp air, crackling candles, and soup that tastes like a hug. Here’s your ultimate how-to guide for turning your home (and your soul) into a cozy little fall cottage wonderland.

🪵 Step 1: Layer Everything Like You’re Bracing for a Fairy Tale Quest

Cottage living in fall is about texture. Layered blankets. Layered outfits. Layered emotional states while watching “Practical Magic” for the 12th time.

• Drape knit throws on literally every surface.

• Stack your bed with quilts, flannels, and a suspicious number of pillows.

• Add a vintage scarf to your coat rack for vibes (even if you don’t wear it).

You’re not cold, you’re atmospheric.

🕯️ Step 2: Create a Candle Situation

Fall without candles? Arrestable offense.

Go for scents like:

• Pumpkin chai

• Warm vanilla woods

• "Freshly baked something"

Line them on your windowsill, mantle, and bathroom sink. Light them at 4pm and pretend you live in a cottage where Wi-Fi doesn’t exist and dinner is cooked in a Dutch oven you inherited from someone named Mabel.

Bonus: Get a handmade soy candle from The Rustic Cow Crafts for peak cozy energy and nontoxic burn.

🌾 Step 3: Bring the Outdoors In (But Not Like… Bugs)

Gather branches, acorns, and dried leaves from your latest woodland wander or farmer’s market haul. Pop them in thrifted jars, old pitchers, or literally anything that could be considered a “vessel.”

• Make a centerpiece with pinecones and mini pumpkins.

• Tuck eucalyptus into bookshelves or around your mirror.

• Stick some wheat stalks in a vase and pretend you're prepping for a harvest festival no one was invited to but you.

🍞 Step 4: Romanticize the Most Basic Fall Foods

Yes, it’s soup season. Yes, we’re unhinged about it.

• Bake bread at least once (bonus if it’s pumpkin, apple cider, or sourdough).

• Make a simmer pot (cinnamon sticks, orange peels, cloves) and live your best aromatherapy fantasy.

• Put everything in a vintage bowl and call it “rustic stew” even if it’s just boxed mac and cheese.

And always — ALWAYS — sip cider like it’s potion and you’re the village witch.

📚 Step 5: Curate a Cozy Corner

Create a nook where you can read, journal, cry, or scroll Pinterest in peace.

Include:

• One (1) comfy chair

• A small table for tea/candles/books/your emotional support bread

• A vintage lamp or twinkle lights

• Optional: A cat

This is your sacred space for fall nesting and existential pondering. Guard it accordingly.

🎃 Step 6: Decorate with Intention (and Maybe a Few Ghosts)

A true cottagecore fall moment includes a mix of antique vibes, thrifted treasures, and a little spooky whimsy.

Try:

• Knit pumpkins, paper flowers, and dried garlands

• Old book stacks tied with twine

• A wooden sign that says “It’s Decorative Gourd Season”

• Maybe one tasteful sheet ghost for chaos

Bonus if it looks like a Victorian librarian decorated the space with a Pinterest board labeled “harvest witch chic.”

Final Thoughts: Cottagecore Fall Is a Lifestyle, Not a Phase

Living in a cottage (or just pretending you do) during the fall isn’t about perfection. It’s about intention. It’s slowing down, lighting candles for no reason, baking things you don’t need, and filling your space with things that make you feel something — even if that something is “I could totally homestead if society collapsed.”

So whether you’re in a literal cottage, a city apartment, or a suburban corner of cozy chaos — you’ve got this.

Now go fluff a pillow, light a candle, and eat something spiced. Your inner woodland witch demands it. 🧙‍♀️🍂

Need fall-inspired decor, knit pumpkins, or candles that smell like your personality?We’ve got you covered at The Rustic Cow Crafts — handmade magic for your cozy little world. 🐄✨