Vintage Fabric

This is a vintage piece of fabric that I'm holding on to, waiting for the right project to come along.

It's a beautiful, sturdy cotton canvas in the most outrageous autumn colours and dates from the 1970s.

It's a vivid combination of brown, orange, black, burnt orange, brick red, muted light green and some white.

It sure is eye-catching!

And I love the close-ups.

October Seas

This is what October looks like so far.

It is still sunny and beautiful but it's decidedly cool. 

It's pretty great as far as autumn goes.

Let's Go Exploring

ErinBphoto

Etsy Favourites - Fall Reds

ElleMoss

EyePoetryPhotography

Bree Maden

KeriBevan

Carl Christensen

TreetopPhotoShop

More Falling-Leaves Yellow

Fairytale Flower - Extra Large Golden Organza Flower Corsage

Fairytale Flower etsy

Golden Yellow Organza Hair Clip - Fairytale Flower

Autumn Gold Organza Flower Hair Accessory - Fairytale Flower

Golden Yellow Wedding Set Organza Flowers - FairytaleFlower

Fairytale Flower - Autumn Golden Yellow  Organza Hair Accessories

Etsy Favourites - Autumn Sonnet

Autumn Nature Photography - ShannonPix

Gold Leather Hobo Bag - Patkas

Butterfly Photo - SweetDreamsAndHoney

1940s Linen Hat - Sanchia845

Morning Pears - KatieLloydPhoto

Monday Moodboard - Spicy Mustard

1.  Edangra

2. TupperRugs

3. TeaWithAView

4. Eljuks

For those of you who would like a  quick history of mustard, complete with fascinating facts, click  Wikipedia - Mustard .

Monday Mooodboard is a game played by the members of the European Etsy Team every Monday. The moodboard is a selection of items from the team that reflect your mood on that particular day. Anyone in the team can join in. Just link your very own moodboard to the host of the game StarOfTheEast.

Monday Moodboard - Morning Mist

1. DueAlberi

2. Matilou

3. ByMarianneS

4. FarizaSedek

Monday Mooodboard is a game played by the members of the European Etsy Team every Monday. The moodboard is a selection of items from the team that reflect your mood on that particular day. Anyone in the team can join in. Just link your very own moodboard to the host of the game StarOfTheEast.

Monday Moodboard - Falling Leaves

1. LannarFelt

2. FluidColours

3. WoodAndHoney

4. Patricija

Monday Mooodboard is a game played by the members of the European Etsy Team every Monday. The moodboard is a selection of items from the team that reflect your mood on that particular day. Anyone in the team can join in. Just link your very own moodboard to the host of the game StarOfTheEast.

Top 10 Autumn Forest Walks

   Autumn is finally here. You can smell it in the air. You can feel it in the welcome drop of temperature. You can see it in the changing colour of the leaves.
  It's time to take a walk through the fall forest and enjoy the splendor of the season.

Bomobob

 

Raceytay   

   

  

MysticBluePhotos

ShatteredGlass23

ShadeTreePhotography

StrongylosPhoto

HerfstDesign

MaximonStertje

WildWildernessPhoto

NicholasBellPhoto

CarlChristensen

  
 If you'd rather go for a cool summer walk, click here for our summer ramble through the shady trees.

Favourite Autumn Reds And Browns

This is a headband-sash I made for a friend lately.

I was itching to make something in a riot of fall reds and russets and caramels 

and this was the outcome.

I was pretty happy with it

and it was well received -accompanied by a rusted orange lavender loveheart brooch, in a girly cotton pouch.

Linked to:

My Creative Space, Eat Make Grow, Aloha Friday Blog Hop,Create Craft Love, Annemarie's Crochet Blog

Pastel Pink Organza Flower with Metalic Pink Leaves

This is my newest organza flower hair clip / brooch.

I love working with pastel pink organza and this time I mixed it up with all sorts of other lovely organzas as well as tulle -the garden variety white tulle as well as tulle with lace .

I think you can see all the diferent layers in the close-up below.

However, my latest addiction is the pink metalic leaves.

I came across this fabric a while ago and it's been sitting around patiently waiting for its turn to be picked up.

Now I can't wait to make all sorts of flowers with these shiny pastel leaves.

Linked to:

Homework, Today's Creative Blog, I Heart Naptime, My Creative Space on Village Voices, And Sew We Craft Together, Eat Make Grow Thursday, Annemarie's Crochet Blog, ByHand Giveaways

My Creative Space - Red Leather

My creative space is full of red leather leaves today.

I've had this wonderful piece of red leather for a while now, waiting for the right project to come along....

I started these last night, thinking to add them to a flower. 

But the leather is quite thick and heavy and I found the leaves way too pretty to be half hidden under the petals of the flower.

I settled on these colours for the veins, yellow, caramel and a deep, rich chestnut.

Maybe I'm -subconciously- getting ready for fall......

Linked to:

My Creative Space, Petite Hermine, I Heart Naptime