Well, my munchkins started school yesterday… all 3 of them! A lot of emotional firsts for us in the Fig household… first kindergarden day for Ella, first day back in 3rd grade with the same beloved teacher as last year for Zack and the first day of a brand new school in the 6th grade for my oldest, Ben. It looks like they all weathered it much better than I did and are quite excited to go back again tomorrow…  …a few moments on the front porch before walking to school. Oldest had to leave…

just a few of my favorite early autumn images… I know that August is probably a bit early for most of you to be thinking of autumn but around here its just exactly the right time to start pulling out all of my favorite fall decorations and to start thinking of early autumn decorating for me…  You might assume that this is because I am arranging harvest type props for quilt & fabric shoots, and I guess that would be partly right. But mostly I have to confess that if I don’t get my fall decorations out…

I have been taking a little, well perhaps a little more than just a little, sojourn in France today. Well not exactly… but I certainly feel like I have been miles away somewhere in a magical place of my own making…. DAYDREAMING TODAY I completely lost myself in a wonderful blog that I discovered completely by chance, Le Trip: Jill's Blog. I learned some French. I immersed myself in Aix en Provence. I travelled back in time. I drank in the sights & the sounds and I longed to go. It wasn’t necessarily the most beautifully created…