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Kelly Ramsdell Blog:

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Featured posts:

Featured
Sep 27, 2024
Shelling Peas: 7 Ways of Looking (a Poetry Sisters post)
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
Aug 24, 2023
Poetry Sisters write a poem together.
Aug 24, 2023
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Nov 25, 2022
Poetry Sisters Write Recipe Poems
Nov 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
Poetry Sisters write definiti (definitos?)
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May 26, 2022
Poetry Sisters write about string, thread, rope, or chains.
May 26, 2022
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Feb 24, 2022
This month: a poetry Friday post
Feb 24, 2022
Feb 24, 2022
Dec 31, 2021
Bells are ringing — a Poetry Friday post
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021
Oct 28, 2021
Clock is a tick-tock word—a Poetry Friday post
Oct 28, 2021
Oct 28, 2021
Sep 25, 2021
Cocooned—an original tanka
Sep 25, 2021
Sep 25, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
All about the tanka
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
©Kelly Ramsdell 2017 Original piece is in a private collection in Richmond, VA

©Kelly Ramsdell 2017 Original piece is in a private collection in Richmond, VA

So glad I live in a world where there are Octobers

October 02, 2018 in art, sale

October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.

Anne reveled in the world of color about her.

“Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.”

Doesn’t that above excerpt from Chapter 16 of Anne of Green Gables make your heart sing, at least a little? That Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery sure knew how to write about the seasons.

The image at the top of the post is of a piece of art I created in 2017, which sold straightaway to a collector in Virginia, but I do have greeting cards featuring the image available in my online shop. And I did another original art piece featuring this quote, since I love it so much, the original of which is available online as well. Here’s what it looks like:

©2017 Kelly Ramsdell Original currently available at 20% off.

©2017 Kelly Ramsdell Original currently available at 20% off.

Of course, it’s only natural that autumn leaves drift by your window, right? So I also have a print featuring a rather wry statement by Elinor Dashwood, one of the two heroines (some would say THE heroine) of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility. After listening to her younger sister, Marianne, rhapsodizing about how beautiful their now-distant home must be in the autumn, Elinor responds, “It is not every one who has your passion for dead leaves.”

©2017 Kelly Ramsdell Currently available at 20% off.

©2017 Kelly Ramsdell Currently available at 20% off.

To celebrate the scarier part of the season, I created a piece entitled “Nevermore”, which features some Poe-like imagery, including a collaged raven perched upon a skull, rather than on the “bust of Pallas”. The original piece of artwork is in a private collection in Massachusetts, but greeting cards featuring the image are available in my online shop for the Poe lovers in your life (or just to send for Halloween).

©2017 Kelly Ramsdell Original sold. Greeting cards available.

©2017 Kelly Ramsdell Original sold. Greeting cards available.

And for this month, all four of these items (two original pieces of art, and as many of each of the greeting cards as I have) are discounted 20%. So these two greeting cards are offered at $4, rather than the usual $5. And each of the original artworks are 20% off as well.

Finally, I have two additional Halloween-related pieces available in my online shop. They are each $65 unframed, or matted and framed at $90. The first is listed as BOO!, and the second as Things That Go Bump in the Night. No further discounts will be taken on these two original art pieces for Halloween.

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Tags: holiday sale, halloween, holidays, home decorating, greeting cards, literary collages
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