bittersweet september

Sweet friends,

how is September treating you?. I imagine the colors are rapidly changing and the air is cooler. Not too cold perhaps to enjoy fire camp outside at nights, grilling S'mores and marshmallow on fire and stargazing under warm blankets. Only, I'm on the other side of the world enjoying hot & humid weather all year :). And I must create a spread to celebrate Fall and all it's glory. 

These pages are inspired from a stroll with Dawn in her beautiful pumpkin patch and garden!. You can come visit too, HERE. 

Yup, pumpkin pages!. And gold glitters. Comforting orange & black colors.

I used shredded orange tissue papers as background. Glued them down, layer by layer to give that pumpkin ridges look. Then sketched a pumpkin silhouette on a paper and secured down to the page. Dabbed black gesso over alphabet stencil & pumpkin mask. Finger-smudged a wee bit of green acrylic paint on the ridges while spritzing some water.

I dressed the pumpkin pages with gold glitters, some doodling (with blue sharpie), linen cloth, gold leaves and a few strings of fibers. And lastly, wrote a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge along the perimeter of the pages. It says;

" The one red leaf, the last of the clan,

that dances as often as dance it can,

hanging so light and hanging so high,

on top most twig,

that looks up at the sky "

So that's it. My reminiscence of beautiful Fall days. I feel comforted just thinking about the season :). 
Hugs.