September 22 - September 28, 2013

Hooray! Autumn has arrived - my favourite season. It's early days yet but the leaves do have tinges of red and yellow. And although I heartily dislike having to shed my sandals for socks and shoes, I must say I have a goodly array of colourful, striped, and patterned socks to help brighten up the shorter days.
Here's the week's brooches.

This is the last of my London Underground pins that I bought on my honeymoon way waaaaay back in 1983. What a wonderful name for a subway stop - Elephant & Castle.

My work boss gave me this brooch - it had been her grandmother's - Marguerite. I wonder if she wore this as an X or a cross. Since I find it hard to place a brooch straight, I wore it on a rakish angle, since I couldn't achieve either.

Even though I wore brooches off and on as a kid (and this being one of those brooches), there isn't a single photo with me wearing one. Granted, I was number 4 in the conga line, and by then, no doubt, the charm of photographing the wee me wasn't as appealing. 

This was Aunt Molly's brooch, a work bud's Auntie, who was a teacher and travelled quite a bit from her native Newfoundland. It was chosen for me because it was made in France - the land of my Eiffel Tower.

A friend is a talented fibre artist and just for fun made a few of these flower brooches. I was the happy recipient of one of them.

Do you know the difference between a three-leaf clover and a shamrock? I don't, but since I have some Irish blood flowing through my veins, it's a shamrock to me - a pretty twinkly one.

Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat - that's the only piece of the theme song I remember (did you sing along)? Felix - a childhood favourite cartoon, but the brooch, though now battered, I bought in my twenties. The brooch looks like it's been in a few bar room tussles, but I couldn't say.