Autumn Lady

Hi you all!

I have not been feeling good this week, but have tried to do a bit of crafting here and there.

At AJJ there is a new challenge, 'She Art'. This canvas is one I started in August 2012, and which I have managed to finish....The collaged lady has been cut from a pattern I got from LaBlanche, using different papers, mostly from Seven Gypsies. The background has been painted with acrylics, and partly heat dried to make the paint bubble and give some texture. I am also linking to PPF, hosted, as always, by  Eva and Kristin.

It reminded me of this quote from Sarah Addison Allen:

“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”

This photo was taken this morning, an hour before sunrise. I didn't have a chance to adjust the camera, so it's rather blurry, but I thought it was so pretty with the sliver of moon at the top and the colours of the sky.

And just for fun, another poem from Robert Frost:

“GATHERING LEAVES
Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.
I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?
Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.
Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?”

Have a good day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!