Autumn Splendor

I spent the Labor Day weekend digging out the fall decorations and cleaning for fall. Fall cleaning - you know all the things that you put off till another day? Like baseboards, drapes, shutters, cleaning the china and the crystal in the hutch and then I would get side tracked by finding things that really needed to be gone through and thrown out or given to good will. No wonder it takes me so long to do the housework. Out of 11 separate rooms to do (this includes bathrooms and laundry room) I have 2 done. I remember when I could do the whole house in a long weekend. Okay not going to tell you how many years ago that was. Aside from the years, the back surgeries may have something to do with slowing down also. I did get the main living areas done or mostly anyway. Then I was ready to dig into fall decorations. I decided that it was too early for Halloween, for me personally, Halloween could be year round but I am not the only vote here. I had more than I thought. Seems that I make things because I love them and my mind tells me I really don’t have “a thing to use for fall decorating”. It doesn’t take long before you have enough things to decorate the neighborhood. Today I am happily applying fall to every surface in my home. There are quilts on the beds, and dining room table (I haven’t used tablecloths in years), 4 couches, and the chairs. Then there are the table runners, used for the Kitchen Island, coffee tables, end tables, night stands, and dressers. While I continue to decorate and distribute all of my fall trappings, I will be thinking of all of you and wondering how you are decorating for fall. I am sharing this picture from my house that I had the best time playing with in Photoshop. The pumpkin in the picture I made. I hope to make a few more in different sizes. Share your thoughts, traditions, and projects with us won’t you? It only takes a minute. Tell us what your favorite decoration is, or what special event or trip you take every fall. How many of my fellow Bay Area peeps will be attending the Bay Area Quilt Craft and Sewing Festival next weekend?

Until next time…

Robin

Fall Memories

It occurred to me while I was writing out the grocery list for this weekend’s festivities that this is the unofficial end to summer. Schools are in session again and I am beginning to see the leaves turn although you would think that due more to the oppressive heat and humidity we’ve had here lately. But it’s really the turning of the seasons. I have been tempted to drag out all the fall decorations and of course the HALLOWEEN stuff. But I keep reminding myself that it’s a bit early, okay, okay, the temp is still 96 degrees and holding. Not like when I was a kid and September rolled around. We needed a jacket to get to school because it was in the low 50’s but by 3:30pm when school let out…we had to tie our jacket or tie our sweaters around our waists or stuff them in our school bags. But by dinner time we needed a jacket again to play outside before being called in for the evening. Of course that wasn’t in California, it was in Northern Wyoming. We had huge cottonwood trees in our yard. LOTS of trees. The leaves would fall and it was our job to keep them raked up. That was a task, even for 4 of us kids. We lived on a place that has an acre yard. So, as I am celebrating this weekend with my DH and friends and we are eating more food that is considered socially acceptable, my mind will be running from fall decorating and finishing up projects that are left in the studio and remembering raking the leaves as a child just so we could run and jump into pile, scattering them so we would have to rake them all over again. Maybe you could leave me a comment and tell about your favorite fall memories as a child. Where did you live and what exclusively fall thing did you do? Have a safe and happy Labor Day. Oh and...Harvest Beauty table runner is now available on my website.


Happy Fall

Robin






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