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As any trace of summer begins to slowly retract from the day, the world begins a metamorphosis. The winds of change howl through the creaking branches, rustling the bright young shoots from spring and the stoic, year-long evergreens - a calling, a warning.
The trees, like the people, stretch up and shake off their summer garb, settling into tones more appropriate for the season; caramels, crimsons, ochre and pink.
The world seems so bursting with life during the irony of it's spiral into the cold harsh winters of old, and as the people skip merrily across the cobblestones, a bewitching kind of darkness begins to follow.
And on that final day of harvest, the last tenterhooks of summer clinging on before they finally release for the year, when the inevitably of winter is now entirely unavoidable, it seems the line between life and death becomes blurred, indistinguishable for just one night.
The breathless children hurry inside to light their little candles, carved orange lanterns to ward off what the dark beings forth. The shadows come alive and wreak havoc of their own while the air hums with a mixture of thrill and fear.
And as the living gather together in celebration of being alive, the dead come forth to follow suit, only their own celebrations a little more macabre, before they sink back into the shadows from whence they came, to return again, the next All Hallows' Eve.
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As part of their new Halloween collections, H&M let me loose in their spook department!
They have a whole new range of super stylish witch-wear and gory garms so that you can officially turn the whole of Autumn into Halloween without being in fancy dress everyday (which I'm totally on board with.)
You can find out all about my brand ambassadorship with H&M on their site here, and see my other pieces alongside my fave bloggers.
