Fall Season, Oh, Yeah!

I love fall very much...The temperatures cool down, the crisp mornings motivate me to take walks often, and I look forward to snowy days. Unfortunately, we have traded awful winters with cold, snow, sleet and ice for life in "paradise" with palm trees, dolphins, manatees and amazing birds. I wish I could still be up north to see the leaves, but that's not where life has led me. I've had a really hard time this summer, because we have had record heat and humidity. But, it's starting to get a little better...Temperatures are in the high eighties, and that might seem very warm to most people, but to us, it's an amazing difference in temperature. The humidity is coming down, too. I love it when football season rolls around, not because I like to watch football, but because it's a symbol for fall and cooler weather. Even if cooler weather is not here, psychologically, I feel better, knowing it's coming for other people!

So-o-o-o-o-o...I'm into my fall crafting mode full swing, in-between substitute teaching, making things to put in my Etsy shop, JeanBeanGifts....Here's what I've been making....A fall/Halloween table runner....

A pumpkin orange wrap leather bracelet that has macrame stitches interspersed along stretches with beads....This was really fun to make and patterns for this style bracelet can be found on Beadshop.com.

A folk art wool table topper, totally hand embroidered down to the little French knots on the sheep, stem stitch, lazy daisy stitching and hand embroidered blanket stitching all the way around each motif and the topper's edge....This was a "Saltbox" table runner pattern I've had in my stash for YEARS and decided to use the wool kit and the pattern to make it up. It's for sale in my Etsy shop, JeanBeanGifts along with all these other things I've been making.

Here's what it looks like from above....

Starting to make mini sweater ornaments for the holiday season, they will be in my shop soon on Etsy. Right now I am concentrating on fall things and getting a bunch of inventory made for a craft show November 1st. Decided to make some kid things...a little monkey coin purse...

A little doggie coin purse....

And have decided to drag out my punch needle supplies and do some holiday and fall Halloween ornaments. I used to do quite a bit of that when I had a more traditional "up north" decor in my house. Punch needle patterns are usually shown in a primitive, more country style palette of color. Now that I'm in Florida, it just isn't quite the look to place here in my house unless I decide to do some lighter color punch needle stitching. I'll be back with photos and how it's done in a couple of weeks!

See you later....