Bye-Bye Summer.....Helloooooo Fall......

It's coming......... sooner than you think..............
It's here!
The Autumnal Equinox occured today, Monday, September 22, 2008 at 11:44:16 EDT. Bye-bye summer and hello fall! I love fall..... the colors, the smell of leaves, wearing sweaters, pumpkins and apples!

Here is my ATC for today entitled "Bye Bye Summer"!

After school I stopped at one my favorite stores for decorative paper and picked up these wonderful papers. I can't wait to use it. I went in looking for orange decorative paper and found a bunch of it!

This is from the Basic Grey line........ isn't it eye candy?!?! It's simply lucious!

The paper inspired me to seek out orange in my flower garden. I'm not sure of the real name of this flower but my mom and I call it "Arnetta" because my aunt's sister-in-law, named Arnetta gave some seeds or plants to my mom and aunt one time and so the flower has taken on her name. It really spreads and comes in orange and yellow. Would anybody happen to know the name of it?

Taking pictures in the garden brought to mind one of my favorite poems about Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.....

The Autumn

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them -
The summer flowers depart -
Sit still - as all transform'd to stone,
Except your musing heart.

Nothing Rhymes With Orange!

Who out there owns an orange outfit?

I'm still on my color journey, becoming inspired by everyday objects of great color around me. Today's inspiration comes from my new Crocs! A deep blazing orange that makes you smile when you look at them. I never really thought about orange as one of my favorite colors but as of late, I'm makin' friends with the orange! Did you know that there are no words in the English language that rhyme with orange.....go ahead try it.....impossible!....just like it's impossible to lick your elbow! (how many of you just tried to lick your elbow?....go ahead admit it, you know you tried it!) Anywho, getting back to the color orange, my challenge to you is to create something orange this week and please show me! Come on! You know you want to create something orange, just like you want to try to lick your elbow now!

The Inspirational Crocs

Orange can be liberating...........it makes me feel like a kid again.....these are my prirate shoes!


Don't you just love the orange spats he's wearing?!?!?!