Up to the Minute Report

As it's happening folks, right now, in my back yard.  Two years ago I drove nearly 700 miles to find some of this!  Gonna get a flashlight and build me a snowman before this stuff melts...y'all go on back to sleep.

Snow Day Sewing

Yessirree Bob, just a few hundred more seams like these and I'll have all 72 blocks made!  Fortunately, today is a snow day too :)

Oh the Weather Outside is Pleasant...

...ok, the song lyrics just can't be modified to fit a Texas winter. I miss snow in the winter (until I actually find myself in it!) So when I ran across this idea I grabbed it with both hands.

Bugs and Fishes's lovely snowflake curtain has been passed around the blogosphere alot this week.  I couldn't resist making one of my own.  I only used one size of basic snowflake though.  Looks to me like mine could be much improved by adding a smattering of smaller flakes.  That's going to have to wait until my hand recovers from all that cutting.  Other family members did help with some of these of course.  It's tough to walk past a table with 30 uncut but folded snowflakes when someone is busy snipping away.  Especially if a few pairs of scissors are glimmering in an expectant and friendly way.

I highly recommend this as a conversation starter for holiday parties.  Set a BUNCH of prefolded flakes in a wide mouth vase and scatter a few pair of competent scissors.  Maybe leave one cut out snowflake on the table too.  By the end of the party you'll have dozens of finished flakes and of course tons of little scraps of paper to sweep up off the floor!

Now, Don't Laugh...

...but it's wintertime here. This is it.


Super-severe, close the schools for the day, wintertime. It sleeted last night and froze to the streets and tree branches. I stepped out into the yard to take a few glittery ice pictures. We'll probably get another day of winter like this one sometime in February and then it will be over for the year.


Oh yah, a picture from my garden, too. Frozen spinach anyone?

Getting My Winter Fix

I had to get my winter fix last week. There's only just so long a northern girl can go without seeing snow. I drove 500 miles before seeing any snow at all and another several hundred before I found any snow falling. Lots of runny nose, frozen fingers and muddy floorboards later, I came home with a camerafull. The dazzling array of greys, blues, and whites that can only be found during a snow flurry poke at the creative center in my brain the way few other things can.