With fall comes my craving for staying inside, hot chocolate and wool socks. Colder and shorter days are perfect for these things. However the mood needs to be set right – with candles and fall colors. These modern pumpkin lanterns I made for Universal are therefore perfect!

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The best thing about them: you can’t cut yourself because you don’t need to carve the pumpkin (Hands up whoever did that! 🙋🏻) and it doesn’t take hours (because you cut it the wrong way and bleed on it as well).

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You can find the tutorial in german (and with lots of pictures) here.

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Those are my favorite pumpkin lanterns so far. Also opt for the LED tea lights because it won’t burn the inside and still flicker and have a great light. I also left them burning over night the first night and nothing happened. There. I said it: I’m clumsy and forgetful.

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Have you decorated for fall already? What’s your favorite home decor?

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Now. Carry on!