Happy Halloween! Are you having a spooky kind of day? I wanted to jump on and share some photos from our favourite place on our recent trip to New England - Marblehead. {I find that you're either a lover of other people's travel photos or you'll get bored after the first couple... so click below only if you'd like to see}

If I was starting this in chronological order I should really be telling you all about our five days in New York that came before this trip to Princeton, New Jersey. But I have about six hundred photos that I've narrowed New York down to so far and so starting with these lower key couple of days first seemed preferable. {A NYC full city guide will be coming soon though}. We planned this trip last October when my husband & I had airmiles to use up and New York is one of the places that they are easiest to book seats with, there being multiple flights per day there. Which was lucky for me as it's one of my favourite cities in the world. So we decided to fly in & out of there {more on that in the NYC post} but as we'd visited a few times before, wanted to add something different on to it this time. More small town America {in particular for all things Fall and Halloween!} so our first stop was Princeton, an ivy league university town just an easy train ride out of the city where we could then pick up a car for heading North. Technically New Jersey, south of NYC, probably doesn't count as New England as much as say Vermont or Maine would do further North? But to us it felt just like it and we really hit the jackpot on planning this 2 night stop, it was probably our very favourite part of the trip. Small town America really is magical, especially after we'd spent five days gallivanting and walking our socks off around the hectic city that never sleeps! So; a travelogue of our stay below if you'd like to see. Including the most amazing pumpkin farm! 

This is a little bit of a different blog post from me today. I mean, similar kind in thing in terms of I'm talking about interiors and how to update your house for the changing seasons {this time cosying up your bedroom for the winter months ahead} but if you're wondering why my hair is curled and I'm wearing more make up than normal, and my bedroom is lit all weirdly it's because I was filming for an exciting M&S campaign a few weeks back! You might have seen some of the behind the scenes stuff on my Instagram? It was a really fun day and such an insight into the world of production. You can see the final video in the link at the end of this blog. I'd love to share some tips with you on creating a bedroom that feels like a sanctuary as the darker evenings roll in.

Is there anything that screams October and Halloween more than pumpkins do? And is there anything more instagrammable for those autumnal few weeks of the year more than the mini white variety? If you know anything at all about me it's probably that I'm pretty mad on this time of year {one of the reasons we're flying to New York tomorrow is for their fall celebrations and pumpkin farms} and in particular growing pumpkins ourself at our allotment. I've been posting photos of our harvest recently and been getting so many messages asking if I'll write a blog post about how to grow them. So here are my tips, talking every stage of the growing process along with all of our favourite types, which incidentally have super cute names, from Baby Boo to Jack be Little to Crown Prince.