Bright & Floral

Liz (michael's wife), Autumn and I went to JoAnn's today.A feast for the eyes. Fleece was 1/2 off. Am gathering materials for Christmas gifts for the grands. Bought a kit that was marked down. A few buttons and some thread. Actually , Autumn was supposed to be holding the thread , but must have dropped it in her excitement over some wonderful, marvelous fabric, button, whatever.Later she was savoring two big, red, hat buttons. She informed me that she would like to get them. I, of course, asked her what she was going to do with two big ,red, hat buttons... She just kinda looked at me with those big eyes. A lady standing next to us asked her what she would do with the buttons.she immediately put them up to the side of her head. She would wear them as barrettes.No, we did not purchase red hat buttons. At one point I had a bundle of lucious looking , vintage looking, wonderfully colored fabrics in my hand. You know, the pretty stacks tied up with ribbon? And yes, I was exclaiming over them to Liz. Autumn's tiny hand had that bundle tossed in the back of the cart very, very, very quickly.I just looked at her in amazement. .... She just looked at me with her cool lady gaze. So, to make a long story (stories) short, I could have easily walked out of that store with $500 worth of merchandise.