As a tribute to one of my favourite times of year, a sort of fairwell to this years' autumn season, I have put together a collage of pictures of items I made. Inspired by the wonderful rich colours of the season, the warmth and earthiness of nature, its always been a great time for me to create.
Its been a dry dry winter here, everything is brown. I so look forward to our first spring rain. My crafting days seem to have dried up like our garden, perhpas the spring rain will bring more than just wet relief. A couple of months ago during our autumn season,a season that always inspires me to craft, I made quite a few pumpkins and such.
Here is a group of some of those items.
A tall pumpkin, a small sack of potatoes, bunch of corn and carrots, fabric painted sculptures.
I have just finished my second bowl of acorn emeries, the first bowl went to friends.
I loved making these especially as I had collected the acorn tops while on a very enjoyable weekend away with these friends, well it was our club's 10th anniversary reunion.
I used old tapetry fabric for the bottoms and it blended in so well with its rich texture. These will form part my range of items I'm making for my Awesome Autumn Open House event on 12th April.
I love this season, love everything about it. I think its mostly the promise of cooler weather, the relief from that exhausting humidity that comes with our summer and the memories it brings back to mind.
I love the rich colours nature uses to paint her way, the madness of the March winds, the falling leaves. I remember as a child running though the newly gathered piles of leaves, that crunching sound under ones feet, the earthy scents, as leaves went flying. I remember toasting marshmellows on the end of long sticks and watching as the flames from burning leaves melted the sticky sweetness.
Its a season that really inspires me in my crafting, I could do "autumn" all year long!
