Hello all...well, how was your summer and let's get going right into Fall!!! My favorite time of the year, just love fall, the colors of the leaves...oranges, reds, yellows and greens, the bright orange pumpkins, bumpy gourds and glorious mums, fall foods like stews, soups and sumptuous homemade breads, apple fritters, sugar donuts and cider and to top it all off... pumpkin pies. And for someone like me with hot flashes, the cooler temperatures outside are a welcome relief.
Moving right along here are some other top reasons why I like fall...I love the colors it brings to me. If one were to browse my closet you would find many many fall colors all through my wardrobe, my complexion and fall colors go fantastic together...let me explain: oranges: yes I can wear the bright orange, the melon orange and the burnt orange; yellows: I love to wear the mellow yellow, lemon yellow and mustard yellow; greens: you will find me in moss green, loden green and khaki green and those are just my top three main colors. Don't advise me to wear baby pink, wedgewood blue, gray or platinum, it's never gonna happen!!!
So I take it one step further with the fall colors because my home is decorated with all fall colors, and that should be no surprise to anyone. I have coppery orange in my kitchen, light mustard yellow in my den with rust carpeting and the rest of the walls are a nice mellow green except for our master bathroom which is a paprika red...lesson learned is this gal loves color!
But do I stop there...seriously... of course not! Onto the coats which, yes, many of them are fall colors. I can be found wearing rusts, deep greens, caramel browns and luscious mixtures of all. And here comes another facet to me, I love southwestern wear, so in my coat closet, a suede brown blazer with fringe (love it!) and a great long blanket coat with "cowgirl appeal" are happily hanging waiting to be worn.
And now I have to share with all my bargains from my fav...JCPenney. They have by far the best bargains ever...hands down!!! On the clearance rack over the summer, I see this great little polyester jacket, beautiful deep turquoise trimmed in brown with a paisley and flower cheerful design, just busting with color. After talking to a salesperson, I find out that it is an African designer by the name of Duro Olowu and apparently no one liked him but me, the jacket was marked down to $6.99...sold!!! And how about this...a great 100% cotton cardigan and matching sweater, beautiful lime green and melon colors for $3.74 EACH!!! Thank you JCPenney!!! And the last thing to brag about will be a Nicole Miller sleeveless summer pleated top, short in front and longer in the back for $5.99. You just can't go wrong on their clearance racks!!!
Here's to hoping I have enlightened you to a few of my "favorite things". I'm all about color and color is all about me. I don't live amongst white walls, color gets me up in the morning, on my way with a smile on my face. After my great repertoire about fall, the buzzkill is this...after fall comes winter and that leaves me nothin' to say but I HATE WINTER!!!...nuf said!!!
