I love watching how the fullness of Summer yields to bountiful Autumn, and it always inspires me to celebrate. In my Thanksgiving mixed media artist book 2nd edition, fanciful paper-cut pumpkins bear Celtic spiral-like designs from the early La Tene period which to me are a metaphor for the ever repeating cycles of growing life-sustaining food. Each stage of the process is an opportunity to introduce different colors and textures that express positive, grateful emotion. I design or edit my own stencils from original drawings or clip art then hand cut each pumpkin and Celtic design from a variety of patterned papers. They are arranged on ink-decorated vintage botany textbook pages which have been decoratively trimmed and punched, and then embellished with buttons and free-motion stitching of an affirmation on a scrap of organza. The piece is finally backed by vibrantly colored frayed-edge polyester fabric.