I decorated some thumbtacks for my cork board the other day. I just removed the loops from the back pieces for some covered button forms, made up the buttons and glued on some tacks. They look pretty cute on my board.

Yesterday was a beautiful fall day (today was not - we got both rain and snow). Rob said there was lots of frost on the car when we were getting ready for work so I grabbed my camera on my way out the door; I love the look of frost in the sunshine. These pictures are from spots along my walk to work.


Monday had been quite moist and the frost was especially thick. In some places the ice crystals were very long and visible. All the puddles were frozen over too. It was a lovely time to be outside; the air was so crisp and there was almost no wind so the lake was very still and mirror like. It stayed that way all day.


All the birch trees around here have turned gold. We took a drive a little way along the highway before dinner. The landscape nearly glowed in the evening sun. I didn't take any pictures from the car but I do have one I liked from my walk back along the path to meet Rob after work.


Happy Autumn everyone.

So, I want to paint my studio blue but I can't make up my mind which blue I want it to be. I really feel comfortable surrounded by the colour blue; it's cool and soothing.  I want a blue with a little green in it though to give it some warmth and energy (especially in the winter when it's cold and grey outside).

I've been picking up paint chips whenever we're at Canadian Tire and sticking them up on the wall to see what I like. They look so different at home than they do in the racks at the store. I was thinking as I put up today's collection of chips that I liked the one I already had in the bottom right the best so far and then discovered I'd picked it up a second time. This might be the colour I'm looking for.

I'm planning white accents to go with the blue walls. All the trim in the room is white already and my clock is made up of a bunch of little white picture frames (you can just see it in the top of the picture). I'm going to paint the legs of my sewing table white and leave the top plain wood (hides scratches better) and change the frame on my cork board (or maybe cover the whole thing with white fabric, not sure yet).