of bears and pumpkins

on Inspiration Monday. 

When the ladies of Two Birds Boutique choose an outfit to inspire a personal look.

Here's my version of the outfit.
To see how others used the inspiration look here.

Today's outfit inspiration is:

 actress Ashley Madekwe
 from TV show Revenge.

Ashley also has a fashion blog called
Ring My Bell.

It snows in autumn, in the Rocky Mountains,
where we used to live. 
Sometimes we'd get early snow near Halloween.

 It snowed there, just last week.
A teacher told me the power went off at her school.
For an hour they did their schoolwork, by flashlight.
 

My boots and skirt are thrifted.

  

My art Journal page from October 19, 2012 inspired by
Fall In Love from Classes Kara Made

When I was in high school, I finished the book
 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.
 I was crying from the end of the story.
  It was on Thanksgiving day.
 I remember, I looked at/out the window,
and my world was covered in white.

So after that, I associated Thanksgiving with snow.

This year, I wanted a teddy bear pumpkin, and this is what my husband made. I think it's cute,
 but it's NOT a teddy bear.
Why?

It doesn't have ears.

He insists it's still a teddy bear.

I say, "Name a teddy bear that doesn't have ears.
 I can't think of one. Can you?"

He says, "You and your ears."

I say me and my bears, yes I love them both.  :)