Autumn Love

 Autumn is such a cozy time of year. I enjoy sitting outside in the late afternoon with my creamy cup of chai tea. It's watching the slow turning of the leaves to brilliant shades of multi colors, hearing the anxious honking of the geese flying past (and they are noisy buggers, lol) and an occasional hoot of a hunting owl, that for some unknown reason, I find very comforting. Thoughts of the coming winter chill and all the complications that winter brings are on the back burner for now. Right now, today, I'm reveling in the gorgeousness of the clear blue sky and the crisply cool air.

This is the time of year that I start to work on my dolls and and other fabric projects. The Bone Sisters were able to make their appearance a little earlier this year, they showed up in August.

 

AnnaBella is heading to Georgia for trick or treats.

 

Wensdae is happily sharing a shelf of honor in NY with two other of these mischievous pixies.

 

Aranea and her spider buddy are still waiting to travel.

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Others have made their way to lovely homes, I have so much fun fun creating these little Halloween pixies. This coming week I will be working on new designs, the Harvest Moon will be featured.....

 

Thank you for visiting.   

Beautiful Autumn Days.

This first week of Autumn has been a busy one!

We love taking out grandson out on nature walks, he could live outside all the time.

 

 

This timid visitor stopped by in the afternoon one day.

 

 

 

 

Apple picking here in the Hudson Valley is a must and this variety of

apple that we picked is called a SnapDragon and is absolutely the best 

tasting one IMHO, lol!

 

 

 

 

 Friday was prepping for a demo on collage that I was doing for 

Arts Mid-Hudson at Bethel Woods on Saturday morning. There is a festival there this weekend

called Mkng Festival and there are many workshops to attend, music to listen

to, foods to eat, and vendors to purchase from.

 

 

 

 

 There is nothing prettier than a sunny morning, in autumn, in the Hudson Valley!

You can't really get the full scope of the top two pictures,

but that is the field where the Woodstock Music Festival was held.

 

Soon the leaves in our area will be in full glorious color, time for hot toddys,

apple pies, and warm fires.

 

 

Autumn

Layers, sweaters, boots!

Reds, golds, oranges and browns!

Apples, ciders, doughnuts, figs!

A favorite time of year for me and many other people also, 

even my dog Rocky seems to be a little more excited to be outside.

The leaves are just starting to drop,

 when we went to the zoo this week we spotted a few gold and orange leaves.

Very shortly, this scene from the train will be much more colorful, but I

love the greens and golds and greys together.

 

The asters seem to be extra vibrant this year, aren't these gorgeous?

Frida Bones is especially happy to be traveling in cooler weather.

She is joining her sisters in upstate NY where the colors will be really popping 

by the time she gets there.

Hopefully by Wednesday this week, I will have these girls ready

 to be listed in my Etsy and Ebay  Shops.

Enjoy your week!

Out and About.....

I found this growing in my son's front yard under the pine trees. From a distance I thought that is was a pumpkin growing, it's hard to tell from this picture but it stands about 8" high and it was about 5" in diameter. Anyone know what kind of mushroom it is?

Pop and the little man had a great time on this swing, such a sweet idea!

My sister and her husband have two goats, two pigs and two dogs so far...they are really filling up their little farm. She wants to learn how to make soap, I can't wait to test it out!

It's been awhile.....

since my last posting here. 

The summer flew by and it was a busy one!

Lots of family time...

 

 

 

and jumping in muddy puddles!

 

 

 

Now that it's autumn and back to a regular schedule (of sorts, lol)

I am busy listing and creating and getting my show schedule firmed up.

 

The Bone Sisters are currently keeping me very occupied.

 

They adore posing for photos...

 

 

and traveling......

 

 

and a day out!

 

 

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Enjoy your day!

 

On my drawing table: Author Portraits

I have wanted to do a series of author portraits.
Since I have a 'thing' for crows, blackbirds and ravens, the first portrait just had to be Poe!

The idea is to make them look sort of vintage, but with a playful, whimsical touch.

Shakespere was next, but he needs more work and I have a better idea now of what to do,
instead of the comedy/tradgedy masks.

And considering the time of year and following a customer suggestion, Washington Irving is being worked on right now.....

The finished product, printed on a vintage dictionary page. I will be listing on etsy sometime this week.

Sunday Drive

We went for a sunday drive today, on a mission to get my husband work boots.

It was a perfect sunny autumn day....

we drove past many small farms....

and my favorite one with the sheep!!

I love this rolling hill full of healthy sheep and their horse.

After a while a police car drove by with sirens going and frighted the sheep and it is hard to tell from the picture but they started to run... almost a sheep stampede, I have never seen that!

But this beauty came running toward us,

I wish that I had brought a bag of apples!



I Love Halloween!

The Living Room Fireplace

Part of the Mantle

Hutch in the Kitchen



Rat in the Kitchen!!



I love the autumn holidays, Halloween with it's fun dress-up and Thanksgiving with it's food!

Where we live, we don't get many Trick or Treaters if at all, so the past few years I have been having a Halloween Party and sleepover with my nieces. It gives me a good excuse to get out all my decorations.

We play games and dunk for apples and then stay up late and watch scary movies and eat popcorn.

I love to scatter little decorations throughout the house and I placed a faux rat on top of my microwave. When I was cooking today I needed to get into the cabinet above and so I moved the rat to the open shelves next to it. As I was busy cooking I forgot that I moved it

and scared myself when I went to reach for the EVOO!