thankful

Thankful trees:
- Katrina's Thankful Tree
- Mary's Thanksgiving calendar

different but still autumnal:
- leaves ornament
- fiber leaves wreath

extreme altered books

I so totally want to do this.

other books (not mine)

so it finally occurred to me that craftster would probably have things about altered books - which of course they do - and one of the first (and prettiest) completed projects I found was this

in an unrelated note, the Scrap Exchange's annual fabric sale is next Saturday! must . . . not . . go . .

serendipitous

I was trying to find out if the picture at the bottom of this post was by the same artist that's popped up in several blogs lately (the answer, btw, is yes: apparently the PC online world is in a summer state of mind these days) when I came across this instead. Don't ask me how the search for one led to the other, but I'm so glad it did. I love iconography anyway, and this is so wonderfully expressive and just lovely. I could stare at these offerings for a long time, and probably will (until my baby wakes up again, anyway).

oh. my. goodness.

Look at these fantastic teapots by Wanda of Wanda's Designs! The intricate details are mind-boggling. Wow.

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