LiLi Gets a New Coat

My title sounds a little like a children's book, or an episode of "Little House on the Prairie". But I think we can all agree that fall is coming. Which has led me to look for a coat for my little bug. I didn't really find any that I liked. My ambition kicks in at the weirdest times, I blame it on my mother. Because if I wasn't her daughter I wouldn't have had the hairbrained idea of making one. As it is, the coat turned out pretty cute. And just because I thought it would be cute, I added a baret. Adelei is now ready for fall in style. Especially since it is my firm belief that every little girl should have a red coat. She looks like my little Parisan.

Are you kidding me??

I have something to complain about. I went to two different stores the other day and both had their Christmas decorations out...it's early September, you ugly-little-money-grabbing-commercialized-store-mongers!!! (Try and say that five times fast. I dare you.) You ought to be horsewhipped. I know the economy sucks, but honestly...stop rushing the season. There are still at least two major holidays to go!
Which leads me to a question...why doesn't anyone celebrate fall anymore? Not Halloween. I'm talking fall, people. You know...bountiful harvest? I think that it was one of the most celebrated times through most of mankind's history and now it's not even noticed. Too lowly and unimportant to be noticed. So sad.
I'd get on my soap box and go off on how the human race is no longer close to the earth and how it's made us loose touch with our humanity, but it would sound a little too tree hugging/hippy child for my taste. Which I'm not. But really, it just might add a little bit of balance to our fast paced consumer society if we all slowed down, and took a deep breath of the approaching autumn air.



















*photo courtesy of wikimedia.org, and yes, there will be more posts of Adelei. Just had to vent, I feel so much better.