Autumn botanicals

 Autumn is well and truly upon us and I'm celebrating this special time of year with these rather fabulous autumn botanical prints, available in my Spoonflower shop.

I love the deep teal background of this leaf print and the mix of coral, mustard and turquoise leaves. This print would look great as a wallpaper print and can be found on on a variety of leaf print wallpapers in my Spoonflower shop.

This print also looks great on a cream background which brings out the colours of the leaves.

It comes on variety of products in my Spoonflower shop, including leaf scatter cushions in various sizes. It would make a great Thanksgiving gift.

May favourite colourway is this one on a deep brown background. It's a lovely rich colour and really brings out the vibrant colour of the leaves.

It makes a great addition to a Thanksgiving table and can be found on leaf placemats, leaf tablecloths and leaf napkins.

Autumn leaves

I love this time of year! The foliage is starting to change colour, the days are getting crisper and it's my birthday month! The natural colour of the changing leaves is very uplifting and inspired me to make another clutch bag using this wonderful vintage Japanese obi fabric. The obi is the 'belt' that goes round the kimono. 

Its design consists of an array of orange and green Japanese maple leaves sprinkled across a cream ground and I can only imagine how stunning it would have looked as an obi teamed with a rust silk kimono. This time I decided to echo the green of the leaves and give the clutch a vibrant green lining. You can find it in my store here.

A lot of Japanese artwork depicts the maple leaf and these are just two of a selection I have. In both cases the images are simple and graphic and have been screen printed onto thick handmade paper. The image on the left is a beautiful calendar I brought back from Tokyo with me last year. I'm pretty sure the large round object is a sake ball. The sake ball is made of tightly packed cedar twigs and hangs over the door of sake breweries to let customers know that the season's sake is ready to purchase and drink.

When we lived in Japan, the autumn leaves were always stunning. One of my favourites were the Japanese maple leaves that look so delicate. They create a lace effect when seen from below.