Housebound and Makin' Stuff

Since it's snowing like, every other day almost, I've been making lots of stuff.  Been wanting to make necklaces for those pendants for awhile.  The Chinese Horoscope characters are Dragon and Tiger.  And also a bracelet from some of those awesome Czech beads that Joe brought back from Prague.

Bigger pic of the necklaces.  The blue morpho wing pendant (far left) just didn't look good with anything other than liquid silver.  And I also didn't want any beads distracting from the pendant cause it's soooo pretty.

Couple bracelets for Kris; the one on the right has the Notre Dame colours.

This ice crystal was really shining on some snow outside so I boosted the contrast on the pic on the computer and that brought out a bunch of rainbows in the snow.

A fresh coating of snow is always really pretty as long as it's just a couple inches.  I put this on the hood of my car and then got the brain storm to spray coloured water all over it.  

This was just before the Superbowl so I did the Hawks' colours and 12th man on the back of the car.  

Mary was in from Idaho so I made this for her.

Hanging thing...I guess for a window or whatever.

Window crystals.  

Craft kit of the month project: painting techniques.  I had to use my own paint cause the stuff that came in the kit was dry, and a really yucky shade of midnight blue.  Dots are time consuming and can be really hard to make the right size.

Melted some of those plastic three sided beads.  I used to call them tri-beads when I was a kid.  It took a long to time arrange them around the bottom of the pie pan and I must've bumped the pan when I put it in the oven because that one side came out all wonky.

Suncatcher with green, light blue, dark blue and purple Makit Bakit crystals.

This was shot looking through the above, at my light.

The day of the Superbowl, I had potato skins with cheese, turkey bacon & scallions and a Jones cream soda.  When I got the potato, the bin sign said, 'Idaho'.  Jones Soda is bottled in Seattle but is a product of BC, so I had a Pacific Northwest themed snack.  

And then I had to do this to the bottle afterwards with Hawks' colour glitter & rhinestones.

Finally, I started this cross stitch during the game and took about a week, off and on, to finish. 

Photo Experiment

I don't know if this is a real photograph or created by someone but I just love it.  It was going around in December labeled as 'Winter Solstice'.  I wondered if a person could actually get a shot like this in real life.

I was doing the dishes late one afternoon and looked out the kitchen window and saw the sun setting.  This was the day of the snowstorm.  Still a little too bright though.

This was the next day....the snow had melted off the trees but it was a little darker out.  I'd still like to work on getting this shot but I will only be able to get it in January and have to hope that there's snow!

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A Walk to Town on a Snowy Day

Suffering from cabin fever, I walked into town 2 days after 1/21 blizzard.  It was damn cold as I started out but at least the wind wasn't blowing for a change.  

The bridge has been literally down for maintenance so no ship traffic was able to use the Canal.  Nor were the trains able to use it.  So alas, a pic of the bridge down but once again, no train.  I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy!

I probably should have waited till the snow was clear because only a few businesses bothered doing their sidewalks, so I had to walk in the street.

Snow on a reflector.

A fresh canvas for some high school-esque graffiti....

Then when I got home, I couldn't resist a couple snaps of the fuzzbutts.

Second Blizzard in Less Than a Month

I'm still not adjusting well to this climate at all.  I know it's supposed to be cold and snow in winter, and I certainly experienced it when I was growing up, but it seems worse now that I'm older.  We had a second snowstorm/blizzard that dumped a ton of snow on the coast.  Another 2 feet, but again, it was nice and fluffy so no power outage issues.

These things were pretty cool hanging off the roof.  I left them this time.

It snowed for just about 24 hours straight.

The day cleared out by sunset and it was beautiful out.  Ice cold and still.

This was right after sunset at blue hour.  After it got dark it was crystal clear and the stars looked like diamonds against the black sky.

This is the next day.  I was calling them snow waves for lack of a better description.

I wanted to see how big this one would get.  This was 2 days after the snowstorm.

It started to melt fairly quickly for a couple of days.

This is the last pic I took before a big chunk broke off in the warmer weather.  

And we've had more snow since these pictures were taken.