Autumn Colour Week, Thursday :: Brown

I take these color weeks a bit literally and go out and shoot the day's color on that day. Yet each day, I've had a goal of posting by 9 a.m. Hmm. Yet another example of unrealistic expectations for myself! So I'm publishing after 5 p.m. today, by far the latest this week, but there was stick collecting to be done and that takes time when done properly.

I love this simple fence that looks so different from other fences.

Spied on the walk home this morning while jamming to Lifehouse.

A precious gift from precious friends on a precious day (our wedding).

Found inside the above box where I keep all manner of special things,

including Italian coins from my two trips now 10+ years ago.

Brown is one of my favorite colors and you can get lost in more of its beauty over in Poppytalk's collection of the day. I am especially into these twig pencils they featured.

You can also find me over at the Green Phone Booth today, talking about something edible and golden brown.

Autumn Colour Week, Wednesday :: Orange

I toodled around town this morning on the lookout for orange. I found some orange stripey gourds at the market and even an orange front door. But it turns out I found more orange at home than in my neighborhood!

Why are tiny gourds so cute?

Orange mornings include Carla Bruni & coffee

A vintage cookbook and a soap box from England

A tower of letters held up by an orange A

Check out this amazing orange sunset in Australia!

Autumn Colour Week, Tuesday :: Green

I had every intention of posting earlier today but Half Moon Bay is a little difficult to leave on time, what with the blustery winds, the crisp ocean air and adorable shops. Not to mention a retro library where I found myself sitting for an hour reading about bread after hearing about Green Bean talk about her bread.

But today is not about HMB or Posh Moon, an adorable French-themed boutique. Today is about Autumn Colour Week and green, lots of green.

There are so many wonderful shades of green in our world: green in the home, green in the garden, green in the kitchen. Check out the Poppytalk Pool for evermore green and each day this week, I'll save an image just for my fans.

Poppytalk Autumn Colour Week, Monday :: Yellow

I was very happy to wake up this morning and discover Poppytalk is hosting an Autumn Color Week.  It was divine to be out with my camera on our first blustery day in a long while. It finally felt like fall and it brought me into a calm, contented state of mind.

This swing was really talking to me while I was visiting. It said, "Do you know what time school gets out around here? Because I really miss the kids."

You can check out the Autumn Color Week pool all week long. I know that's what I'll be doing.

Poppytalk & Squarespace Giveaways

There are some amazing giveaways going on that I feel obligated to tell my sweet readers about just in case they aren't already in the know. 

There is a *massive* letterpress giveaway over at Poppytalk and you can enter until the end of the day on Thursday. Click here to see all the pretty choices! 

Here are the prints I hope I win: Twirl by Elise Joy and Poppy by Delphine Press.

Squarespace is an awesome website platform that I have recently signed up with as I am planning lots of new features for Sweet Eventide and feel too limited here on Blogger. Lo & behold but they are hosting an awesome iPhone giveaway for the entire month of June! 

Twitter is very fun and manageable so don't be scared. Sign up and send a little tweet to enter! Just add "#squarespace" into your tweet to have a chance. I sure did!

Best of luck to all of us!

I'm late for the chiropractor now -- oops!