..Ere the winter storms begin....

It really is autumn now isn't it.  No escaping the fact.  The heating will need to be turned on and fires stoked. I love that we have seasons and that there are changes to look forward to (and to dread)!

I am fond of 'seasonal' displays - sad I know.  So there are certain things that are dragged out of various cupboards for certain times of the year - this tin being one of them.

The gingham is an old apron - seasonal aprons.....

The Victorian scrap I have had for decades and always loved the colours.

I chose this tablecloth because it has embroidered ears of corn on it - but not a very good photograph.

Autumnal bunting with blackberries..

Leafy china is suitable for this season!  Here is last years autumn post which shows some of our leafy china - not all......

Ending with a photograph of an illustration from a wonderful book I bought from a charity shop five or so  years ago. This is from 'The Children's Book of Gardening' published in 1913. A very unassuming cover but the glories inside make up for that.  As the cover was grubby (so I made a little slip cover from vintage embroidery....that was also damaged!) I don't think that anyone possibly had looked inside the book so it cost only one or two pounds. The text is a real delight to read - witty and clever - Bronte was particularly fond of my reading of it when she was little.

Just ending by saying it was lovely meeting up with real life bloggers at the 'Vintage and Very Nice Fair' last Saturday.  I laughed and laughed most of the day (dipped a bit by late afternoon).  How wonderful to chat and how wonderful that people were coming up to me and said that they read my bloggity blog.  At one point I felt quite a celebrity...oh dear that is not a great aspiration is it....I feel some surgical enhancements coming on........