Slow & cozy days on the cusp of autumn | between summer and fall | blackberry picking | DIY candles

[@PQ_497]

Thank you for not pretending it's Autumn like a few other creators I've seen. Every season is magical, even winter which is my least favourite.

[@Nia_meow_]

What's wrong with pretending 🍁

[@PQ_497]

@@Nia_meow_ it is ignoring the beauty of what each season has to offer and then makes Autumn - or any other event - less special. For example, if you celebrate your birthday a month earlier than it is your real birthday would seem less meaningful.

[@ricardodemattos8490]

Videos like yours are short poetic pauses in the bitterness of life. Thanks. 🌹

[@IamDaria]

Hi friends, hope you're having a wonderful week! Does it feel like autumn where you are, or are you still in the middle of summer? We're having a warm spell here right now, but it still feels like autumn. The atmosphere, the birds, the ripened fruit - everything reminds me of the coming colder days.

[@pattycake8272]

The mornings have become chillier whereas the afternoons hot. evenings it turns chili again. I see some birds gathering to discuss as a group when they're going to head south. The farmers are rolling up hay bails and farmers markets come and go. I have failed myself so far and have not gone to any of them. But I will I promise myself.

[@Escudera_de_Roble]

🌄 After some lovely rainy days, we are having a too warm spell (aka heatwave) in the North of Spain. 😅 So I'm sitting in front of a fan, missing our usually rainy weather and longing for Autumn. I always feel miserable during heatwaves, but thankfully this one will be short. 🙏Your video is of great help, Daria! 😉

[@WritingArcadia]

Thank you for the healing ability of your videos.

[@IamDaria]

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[@mags1958uk]

Thank you for another beautiful video. I love making candles too. After hearing how you press flowers in between book pages I’m going to do the same. What joy to open those pages in the future to find a flower.

[@shannonsalter6407]

Thank you for your honesty and your vulnerability. You have such a beautiful soul, and I feel so calm when I watch your videos. I especially love the autumn ones. Keep being you 💕

[@literary1]

Nostalgic is a perfect word to describe this time of year, as we head into my favorite months! You will never know how much I needed to hear your words today about not letting one bad thing or remark ruin all the good. Thank you, Daria, for making such lovely and timely videos. Blessings from Lisa in the U.S.

[@jennydunlop5572]

Your videos are absolutely beautiful! They calm my soul and make my heart sing. Please don’t let the negativity get you down… you are courageous for making the art that you do. I am envious of your home in the English countryside so your videos mean I can enjoy the scenery even if I can’t be there! Thank you. Keep up the beautiful work 😊

[@bluetoadflax2486]

candles and tea- oh autumn! But August's end is still such a beautiful intersection between the two seasons, themes of goldening green and wistfulness, which you capture so well. Thank you for such peaceful sincere videos!!

[@IamDaria]

Aah you described it so poetically! ✨🥰

[@Lucia-pd6fi]

My coping mechanism is also staying at home, and I live in beautiful South England, 7 min walking from a beautiful sandy beach and 15 min driving from a nature reserve, and yet, being at home is so cosy. I do get out in nature all the time, but I get the sentiment you are expressing perfectly ❤

[@IamDaria]

Aah where you live is so perfect! 🥰 It’s lovely to have both though, isn’t it!

[@Lucia-pd6fi]

@@IamDaria check the area southbourne beach and the New Forest. You might like it, it's spectacular here.

[@Rocdag]

Thank you for your gentle thoughts and wisdom. You are so wise to have learned this truth while being so young. Blessings be heaped upon your head.

[@XeniaSketchbookPages]

I have my tiny garden, which brings me a lot of joy. I have a small space for plants, so I use extra boxes and pots for my gardening experiments 😊

[@dianeknott3655]

Daria, thank you for another beautifully slow walk through the gentle English countryside. It helps me to slow down and ponder the little things so often overlooked and to just sit and pick up a small needlework project instead of feeling as though I NEED to be working or house cleaning. I am self-employed, so it is often difficult to not feel "obligated" to always be productive professionally, and to just do something simple, quiet and peaceful for myself alone - along with a cup of tea, of course! Which I plan to do after commenting. I hope the remainder of your summer is as beautiful as today's video.

[@IamDaria]

Aah I feel you! It’s so difficult keeping that balance and finding time (and sometimes even justification) for simple, peaceful activities which don’t bring anything else but pleasure. I hope you found a minute to slow down!

[@karziflora]

your videos of autumn in the midst of endless summer days brings me so much comfort and hope...I've been so over fed with summer that it's simply exhausting and unberable. I love your crefting ideas and lovely garden, thank you for inspiring.

[@debby891]

Exactly how I feel🍁🍁🍁

[@IamDaria]

Aah I’m so glad! 🥰 Autumn is coming soon and it will get cooler ☔️

[@debby891]

I can’t wait for autumn in upstate New York where I live! How I long for pumpkins, gourds, gorgeous maple trees, apple picking, cool, crisp days, cozy candles (my favorite is coffee scent too), reading and baking and just how it touches my soul. It is still very hot and humid and so ready for it to go..This was just what I needed and think I may just start some fall decorating this weekend and “will” fall to come🍁🌻🎃🍁🌻🎃. Is it hard to make candles? Your choices are exactly the scents I love too!

[@Phantom_093]

Lovely! Beautiful melancholic time at the end of August..

[@IamDaria]

It feels so fresh 🍂✨🌿

[@melindaferreira9879]

You made woodwick candles!! My favorite!! I used to make candles all the time.. I just buy them now but you are reminding me of the immense satisfaction of making my own. I think I will make some w my daughter. Thank you for another magnificent video.

[@emanuelad3534]

Beautiful

[@mtnshelby7059]

Beautiful video.

[@cathylynnpietranton]

Lovely video. Candle making seems very relaxing. I've never made candles. Thank you ❤

[@kaida29]

while watching this video ive realized that drinking a tea made by yourself and lighting a candle, again made by yourself its probably peak fufillment and now i wanna try it. i love your monologs, they sound exactly like the ideas in my brain.

[@henriettanovember4733]

Thank you for yet another beautiful video! Watching it while it softly rains here outside our cottage in the forest and faraway, out at sea, I can hear thunder now and then. (This is an island in the Baltic Sea, and by the way, one can grow a lot in containers while one waits for that place with a bigger garden. And vertically too. I have some land but all my veg. and berries grow in containers as I find it easier to maintain, and I have abundant harvests most years)

[@elc-rossalexanderrockyr.3801]

Your videos are like giving a visual presentation of some songs of Vashti bunyan. Its simple, innocent but beautiful.

[@IamDaria]

Thank you! 😊

[@sticklebacksummer]

Totally agree

[@johndayan7126]

Beautiful. Peace be with you friend. 💖

[@rachelbrough8160]

Loved this Daria, I adore candles especially scented ones and have on occasion made my own, you've inspired me to make some more. I'm feeling really autumnal as well and I'm looking forward to feeling her presence even more in the coming weeks. Take care ❤🧡

[@IamDaria]

Oh that’s amazing! Candles are especially perfect for the coming season! 🥰

[@Escudera_de_Roble]

😊 You described this liminal time of the year so well!👌When I see Queen Bumblebee busy finishing her pollen harvest, I feel the same need to prepare my nest for the colder months! September will bring the fireworks of the last Summer festivals, but also the sweet scent of new pencils, the soothing sound of rain, the glow of candles, the baking, the crafting and the cosiness.😍 Candle making is a skill I would like to learn! Maybe this year...😉🕯️Thank you for this beautiful video, Daria! 🤗🙏👍👏👏👏😘

[@martindurkin8837]

Hello Daria I like the idea of actually making your own special candles and I will have to try. I must admit I am envious of so much nature around you but I do enjoy watching nonetheless. Thank for the gentle retreat. Martin.

[@ellebi2]

Wow, so beautiful.

[@sunflowersseeds_]

😍 lovely quote and the end!

[@DikiNianto]

Just like my village in central of Java

[@IamDaria]

Is it? It’s beautiful, isn’t it! 😊

[@athanasiapipiki8182]

My loveliest Daria, your videos are always so wonderfully made 🩷💗💓 Thank you for all the beauty of nature🌿🍃 and your kind words 🥰🥰 This time of season is also my favourite and you truly presented it like a fairy tale✨✨ Here in Greece we still have a very hot sun 🔅🔆 up to 37 degrees and still go for swimming 🥽 but hope for the breeze 🌬️ soon to come and welcome September autumn days😻😻Wishing you have a lovely week sending you more ☀️🌞

[@veilofdawn_art]

I binged your videos the last days. They are so calming and beautiful to watch😍

[@angiebreathe7]

Thank you for the video poem❤🥰😍🦊🦋🐌

[@elkahmae1283]

Oh, your kitty is so pretty and has such beautiful eyes! I have a cat too and she’s so sweet and keeps me feeling loved. I really enjoy watching your vlogs , they are so relaxing and each time I watch, I feel likes it’s been a wonderful journey.🙂

[@purrsephone2904]

Beautiful video, very well done.🪶

[@vlad-mundi]

Haha! I see it's rather useful to wear a dress when foraging! 😆 Lovely video and ideas shared as well as that quote at the end! It is important to remember that, we are the ones who build our own lives and reality. Well done ⭐

[@IamDaria]

Haha dresses are perfect for that! 😄 Thank you! 🥰

[@NadeenOmer-f8o]

Some people put tea bags as bookmarks to remind them of the moment they read.

[@sticklebacksummer]

As one of your other subscribers said you bring to mind the songs of vashti bunyan . A under appreciated singer.

[@andreiadetavora8471]

Beautiful

[@farinaca]

I love your your videos so much, the scenery is so lush and green it looks like an enchanted fairyland. I really relate to your words, and what a wonderful quote at the end. Thank you for producing such beauty. 🦋

[@IamDaria]

Thank you so much! 🥰 We had rain almost every day this summer, so nature stayed very lush for longer! A big contrast to burnt landscapes last year!

[@TheEmpressgoth]

❤❤❤Happy upcoming Autumn 🍂 😊

[@SunshineDawn7]

Lovely 🥰Thank you 🙏🙏🧡🧡

[@rafidahshabrina2573]

I love your video!!

[@davidprice1356]

It is blackberry time and I'm going to make a pie. Those luscious, seedy, multi-orb berries, full of sweet, juicy flavor, are nature's gift this time of year. Because of the rainy winter and warm weather we are having, the wild crop is outrageous. Maybe two pies are in order and I'll freeze one. Happy eating!

[@jurijssalijevs77]

❤❤❤

[@miekeherregodts9874]

I was finding confort in your videos because tomorrow I have to go to work again and away are days of drawing and silence. Enter commuting and numbers and screens all day long... I will watch your channel anytime I need it to come true this coming time of working and not having any days of (except for the weekend but that doesn't seem to do the job). Can you share where you get your candle making stuff? Thank you, and please keep making these things of beauty. They mean a lot for people like you and me needing slowness always...

[@Srorsprimitive]

Look at beauty picture I do my good feel.

[@gurkmeja2021]

Very beautiful video 💚💛🪻💛💚 /Ditte 🤓 🇸🇪

[@olyadowning2825]

Absolutely lovely, relaxing and inspiring! Regarding coffee-scented candles: there's a youtube creator who also makes videos about slow living (she also lives in S. England, loves nature, coffee, and candles) and she and her husband own a candle making business. Her name is Adriana Tudorache and so is the name of her channel. I'm sure she has information about her website and shop on her channel and no doubt she has at least one variety of coffee scented candles in her collection in case you want to check it out.

[@iamdrubo]

Hii Daria! I'm your biggest fan.. I'm Indian 🇮🇳 and watch your all videos... I love your Videos.. please can u make Halloween 🎃 Special videos.. 🙏🙏

[@Nemochills]

Coool yaaar❤

[@IamDaria]

Thank you!

[@kathif8598]

Please let us know if you were able to make a coffee-scented candle! 💓

[@keithlomas6107]

Is that a shot taken from below of an alder tree with its small cones? 🍃Mother Nature rules 💚✌

[@ElectricalMonk3558]

❤️❤️❤️

[@IamDaria]

🥰

[@kallistoindrani5689]

💕💕🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@petersmith5055]

Hi lass.

[@IamDaria]

Hello! 😊

[@meenalbagaddeo6066]

Super! Where do you live , I want to visit your town❤, Love from India❤❤

[@IamDaria]

Oxfordshire 😊

[@funnybunny81]

Did your candle smell like coffee?

[@IamDaria]

It did, but more like a sweet vanilla type of coffee. I’d like to find a more true coffee scent instead, without too much sweetness!

[@MatildaTheBookDragon]

I Would love a hardwick candle but can only find scented ones🥲, maybe I could make my own 😍 scented things are usually to strong for me!