Fall Leaves

My parents have a mountain cabin not far from my hometown. I don't get to visit often, but every time I do, I remember why we all fell in love with the location - especially in Autumn.

Last week I managed to spend a couple of hours there on a Sunday afternoon.  My dad took me for a drive a patiently stopped the car every time I wanted to take a photo - many, many times.

It was a strange day - sunny but with dark ominous clouds - which made for some fun contrasts in some of the photos.  

Do you have a favorite place to see the Autumn leaves?  Or do you live in one of those areas where you just get to enjoy green year round?

In other news:

• We are building a playlist of cover songs at Inspiration Studio, why don't you pop over and share your favorite with us. 
• My master bedroom is finally finished, and was featured on one of my favorite design blogs, 6th Street Design School.  Kirsten helped me with the planning for the bedroom and gave me the courage to take it in a new (but scary to me) direction.  

Steve Azar's Startin' Today woke me up this morning - and the melody has been in my head ever since, and with lyrics like these, it's been a positive message all day long:

Startin' today I'm gonna turn this boat around

Catch that rainbow I've been chasin' down

It's all right, I'll be OK

Startin' today

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Guest Posting

I'm guest posting today at Kim Klassen's Inspiration Stay-cation - you should have seen my happy dance when I received her email asking me to contribute - I was beyond honored. She asked me to write about music and how it inspires, one of my favorite topics. I also shared a bucket load of music, so if you are looking for something new to listen to this week, hop on over and check out my recommendations.

Here's a sneak peek - a song I posted here a while back as a quick aside because I liked it and it fit the theme of my post. Since then I've fallen completely in love with the song and think it deserves more attention.  How can you listen to this song and not fall a bit in love.

If you are visiting from Kim's site - a very warm welcome.  I hope you stay a while and find even more music to inspire you.

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The Great Saree Adventure pt 3

Welcome to today's installment of the Great Saree Adventure, and thank you for the comments on previous posts, knowing you are following along has made this twice as much fun.

Tonight I found myself again at Mrs. J's house, this time along with my friend S.  Master Ji the tailor arrived with the beginning of my shirt (he wanted to check the fitting before he finished.)  As is typical for me here, the chest was a bit tight, but other than that it looked great.  He even agreed to make a petticoat for me to go underneath and to tuck the saree into - so all my clothing needs will be taken care of by Friday evening.

Which means I was able to move on to the really fun stuff - jewelry.  While I was in the saree shop, the attendants recommended antique gold jewelry, which fortunately for me I've been dying for an excuse to buy.  I stopped into my favorite jewelry shop, but couldn't get past the sticker shock on the first visit so I walked away.

Days later I was still dreaming of the pieces I'd seen, so I caved in and decided to treat myself, but only after a bit of haggling to get the price down.  I walked back into the store, they instantly recognized me, and before I was to the back where the good stuff is, they had the pieces I'd fallen in love with set out just waiting for me - I decided it was karma.

So with a shot of my sparkly, sunny new jewelry, here's a little Steve Azar"

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