chilly days

Fall is coming...well here on the coast it has already arrived. It has been positively, wool sweater wearing, freezing the last few days. My apologies to those of you suffering through heat waves.
Above: Cinnamon & Chocolate Lipstick 
Vintage Woven Basket Purse with Oxblood Leather and
Mulling Spices for Tea or Cider

is summer really over already?

 I am a pessimist, and as I kid I was thoroughly depressed about summer ending by mid July. Around this time I would have resigned myself to the horror of ever present back to school paraphernalia lining store shelves and plastering the covers of magazines and catalogs (catalogs are the worst- they like to remind you summer is ending as soon as it has begun)! Hopefully I will never have to go back to school again except in my nightmares, so the preemptive fall makes me a little less bummed out each year, the older I get. And who doesn't love fall, with it's leaves and warm fuzzy things?
Above: 133 2 Cats signed and numbered giclee print, Reclaimed Wine Vat Oak and Glass Beads Necklace, and Cedar Coat