so pleasant an effect

There is no better season than this. Chilly nights, sunny days, every branch aflame. The dogs run races though the leaves that carpet the ground, and the bluejay grows fatter by the day, chasing the other birds away from the feeders.

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on,

 and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October. 

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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home in old October

I love this c. 1778 farmhouse featured in Country Living. It's the home of ceramic artist Laura Zindel, and her family. That's her work in the hutch below, and in the last two images. I love the restrained palette, and the "cabinet-of-curiosities sensibilities" combined with genuine respect for the home's history - the wallpaper in the master bedroom was chosen by the previous owner's mother. I love everything about the last room.

I don't think I'd want to do full-on bats and spiders year-round, but in October it's damn near perfect.

Laura Zindel Studio

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. ~ Thomas Wolfe



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far from it

Like the tent in Harry Potter, this little cabin is bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside...

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. 

It was not an expensive piece of wood.

 Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, 

one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter 

to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Carlo Collodi 

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your child's favorite

Monsters and squirrels and brooms, oh my!


If I had a little kid, these are the kinds of toys I'd want him or her to have. Handmade, fun. Funny. Beautiful. Sweet.


Parents are under a lot of pressure to provide kids with the toys all their friends have.


Grandparents, on the other hand...

AlyshellsCraftShack 

applenamos

sleepyking

BilberryWood

sandymastroni

deelind

BROOMCHICK

bumblebird

fuish

IsabellasArt

Fairyfolk

MamaWestWind

Neafus

harlequinlove

NiklynDesigns

WereRabbit2006

(all via etsy) 

You will always be your child's favorite toy. 

~ Vicki Lansky 

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wild with leaves

Hello, October. 

Hello chilly nights, frosty mornings, blazing foliage. Hello sweaters, and boots, and hot chocolate. Hello goldenrod. Hello plaid. Hello goodbye geese. 

There's nothing I can say about you that hasn't been said a thousand thousand times. 

So I'll stop here, and just look.

  

Listen! The wind is rising, 

the air is wild with leaves, 

We have had our summer evenings, 

now for October eves! 

~ Humbert Wolfe

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