Up and down the stairs each season

 Well, it's transition time again.  I'm slowly taking my fall decor down and putting it away for another year.  

It makes me a little sad this year because I love fall and always look forward to it and it's rich colors.  

I put the fall things out much earlier than I usually do this year and then I interspersed Halloween with them when it was time.

But now, the cooler weather and gray days are telling me to make the change to winter.  So, each time I have to go downstairs for some reason I take pumpkins or crows, or fall leaf items down with me to put away.  Only a few Christmas things have surfaced - like a Cardinal snow globe and one of my Christmas colored wall hangings.  

We aren't celebrating Thanksgiving at my house this year so no one will notice the difference.

I'm making slow progress on my denim jacket.  I've decided to call it a denim jacket instead of a "Boro" jacket because of some things Katherine of K3N Cloth Works said on one of her lastest youtube videos. 

 She made me think that to honor the people that had nothing else to wear except these much mended old pieces of clothing (Boro means rags) perhaps I should  just mention that I was doing Boro-type mending embellishments to a homemade denim jacket.  I'm also using Sashiko embroidery and applique.

I found these Japanese Rabbit squares when we went to Santa Fe (of all places) and I could buy them by the square or buy the whole piece.  I bought the whole piece but I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with them  I just know they are lovely. 

Right half

They look yellowish but are deep indigo and bright white.

Left half

They are adorable.  I wondered what the writing was because I wouldn't want to use it on something and have it say something negative.  I found someone who spoke Japanese and they are the symbols for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.  

It looks better in real life.

I think this little guy will look great appliqued to the left front I finished piecing and embellishing yesterday.  This sure isn't coming together very fast.  There are so many decisions to be made not the least of which is the actual construction of the jacket.

I kind of lost a week in thought because the left front wasn't turning out like I had envisioned.

I've decided to sew the pieces I want together to make the parts and then actually construct the jacket. Then I will work on the embellishment as a ongoing project.  

Yesterday was my youngest son's 35th birthday.  I remember when I thought 35 was old.

Robin 

Joy and gladness shall be found therein,

thanksgiving

and the voice of melody.