Little Red Riding Hood

I started sketching this girl in the woods yesterday afternoon.  It didn't take long before she started looking like Little Red Riding Hood.  I'm not sure what season she went to her grandmother's house in the story, but doesn't Autumn seem to fit?  

I love the wind blowing her hood and cape, 

and the leaves twirling down around her.

 

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

 

 
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

 Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day

 

Nothing gold can stay.

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Useful Again

 

I've had this dark green, rooster-painted box with drawers for about a year now.  My mother-in-law gave it to me in the hopes that I'd figure out a way to give it a facelift.  Upon looking it over again today, I realized I just wasn't in the mood for sanding and painting...

For now, all I wanted to do was create an easy autumn display.  So I cleaned the box off, removed the drawers, and placed two glass canning jars inside. 

Then I picked a few pretty stems of marigolds and mums to form my bouquets.  The gourd came out of my daughter's garden.  I moved this from the table to a corner so you can't see the rooster who's still perched on top, upside down.  I'll save the complete redo for another day... still have the drawers too.  For now, it's just nice to make this little wooden box useful again. 

Hope you have a great day...

and find something to make useful again 

in your own home as well!