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Old School Octobers
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items Delightful old-fashioned ways to enjoy fall, from treats to camping to vintage Halloween art.
The New Yorker had such beautiful autumn covers. This one is “Street Vendor Selling Books” by Charles E. Martin from 1976
Street Vendor Selling Books 1976 by Charles E. Martin
I used to go to the county fair every October just for the food! They had elephant ears, cotton candy, and caramel corn. It’s actually not difficult to make at home. I usually melt a few candies into the caramel sauce. All that buttery sweet saltines...
Classic Caramel Corn
I love to change my wall art with the seasons, which means keeping beautiful autumn pieces around.
'End of Autumn' Photographic Print - Ursula Abresch | Art.com
Remember metal lunchboxes? This is the Halloween bucket version. Flea market vibes with silhouettes of pumpkins, bats, etc.
Happy Halloween Metal Bucket Set of 3
I always feel like I’m in the thick of fall the first time I have a slice of my mother‘s homemade pumpkin pie with a cup of black coffee after dinner. It’s a recipe that doesn’t have to be fancy to be really, really good.
The Great Pumpkin Pie Recipe - Sally's Baking
Vintage Halloween newspaper illustration - Digital Download
Very RARE! Halloween Newspaper Illustration! Vintage HALLOWEEN Digital Download. Halloween Digital Print. From ORIGINAL!
Love, it’s warm all around, so if I want to see fall foliage, I have to buy it. This is “Autumn Splendor,” a fine art photograph by Don Schwartz.
Autumn Splendor by Don Schwartz
This Tumblr veers away from visual noise into atmospheric, simple, and calm autumn images— it turns off the noise in my brain in a beautiful way.
@rusticmeetsvintage on Tumblr
These things just make me want to stay home with a book when it’s raining.
BATTILO HOME Orange Buffalo Plaid Throw Blanket
Apple-laden tree bathed in soft, fading light, like a sepia-toned postcard from a simpler time. I can almost smell crisp orchard air and feel an afternoon wind verging on the edge of coldness.
Fall Apple Orchard by Krista Mosakowski
You can make “pumpkins with a patina” mostly with ingredients from the dollar tree.
Rusty Vintage Moody Pumpkin DIY
A cozy little time capsule of autumn — whimsical jazz, falling leaves, tin pails of candy, and that soft, slightly scratchy animation that feels like an old storybook come to life. It’s all wrapped in so much 1960s charm you can practically smell in ...
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown | Prime Video
I still feel nostalgic for Halloween illustrations that look like they came from a 1970s elementary school bulletin board 😍🎃
Vintage Halloween Photo Book: More Than 30 Illustrations
For those of us who still love to color 🧡❤️💛
Vintage Autumn Coloring Book: Cute Retro Scenes
Fall is a fantastic season for good old-fashioned camping. Bugs go away, but hot, stuffy air is gone, and the leaves put on their yearly show. You can bundle up in a hoodie, light a fire, cook something delicious that is absolutely terrible for you, ...
25 Essential Fall Camping Tips that I Use on Every Trip
I would prefer getting lost in one of these with my friends to doomscrolling on my phone any day.
North America’s 10 Best Corn Mazes to Visit this Fall | KOA Camping Blog
So many vintage autumn outfits work today. I guarantee most of this is in a local thrift store.
vintage inspired fall look 🎞️🍂 #1950sfashion #50sstyle #autumnaesthetic #falloutfits #vintagevibes #vintageaesthetic #classicstyle #oldmoneyaesthetic #greenscreen
Whatever blogger came up with the idea of using tree twigs instead of popsicle sticks for caramel apples deserves a medal in autumn magic—suddenly it’s romanticized, like it wandered straight out of an old storybook orchard.
Homemade Caramel Apples
This autumn jazz playlist is like an amber-hued memory: smoky trumpet sighs and hushed piano keys. It blends vintage standards like ‘Autumn Leaves’ and ‘Autumn in New York’ and is great to have on in the background as leaves fade from green to yello...
The Perfect Autumn Jazz Playlist
My parents had a copy of this, with poems and stories written from 1927 to 1949. And they totally hold up over time! Still spooky, dark, and thrilling. Plus, the prettier the cover, the better!
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe