Nuts for Autumn!
Hooray! And not just for the pumpkin pie (remember Over The River and Through The Woods - last verse?)
Is Autumn your favorite season? Or are you already over the mentions of pumpkin spice and everything nice? With all of the social media posts, I feel for you if crunchy leaves and snuggly sweaters and apple cider donuts don't agree with you; it's going to be a long couple of months.
Sometime during late September, the wind changes and I can smell the sycamore leaves and bark. Their autumn coloring is a brilliant yellow; the leaves grow to six and seven inches broad. It is a massive tree that provides cool summer shade and then shakes off its yellow canopy and sheds its bark. What a magnificent tree.
It's then that I am ready to bring out the Hall Autumn Leaf dishes to herald in the season. It's a ritual, a family (mine) tradition. I am ready to think about chowder and soups, casseroles, apple butter and maple cream cookies.
a bit of my Autumn Leaf collection
It's time to hit the road in search of flea markets and antique shows, hunting for treasure (perhaps another piece of Autumn Leaf). It's time for the leaf-peepers on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
It's time for me to re-organize my stamp collection. I will pack away most of the spring and summer stamp sets and accessories, or at least clear them off the work tables. Out come the new fall and winter product featuring cute ghosts, playful penguins, prancing deer, scattered leaves, forests of pines, woodland cabins, and spools of elegant ribbons and trim. And I am re-invigorated.
I have developed new classes to share and I am offering a new 12 Weeks of Christmas holiday email program, just for my email subscribers, like you!
Beginning next week you will receive weekly emails with holiday projects and instructions, so keep an eye out. These exclusive emails will be sent only to you. If you have friends that might enjoy them, please ask them to sign up for my newsletter ~ it's right here on my blog.
To all you Autumn Souls out there, Hooray! Shuffle through the leaves, bring out the plaid scarves, steep a pot of spiced tea, enjoy a pumpkin scone, celebrate the season.
Top card was created with Stampin' Up!'s Nuts About Squirrels, p. 49 in the Mini July - December 2021 Catalog.
Images from Stampin' Up!
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