Monday, January 27, 2014

In Deep Freeze


So November passed by and here winter is showing the character. Christmas and New Year did come with excitement and troubles. First we got frozen rain and for some people very unfortunately a few days before the Christmas day. Our area was lucky - full functioning electrical system, just a day off from TV and internet, not big deal. My friend got hers electricity back on Christmas eve, some people weren't so lucky, it took more than a week, but for some even New Year's eve was dark and cold.
But doggie people don't have excuses for the bad weather. We with Archie marched into our ruined and broken park right on that bad icy morning. It was like after the hurricane, all big trees broken or half broken. It's incredible what water and freezing temperature can do. The sign was amazing - like crystal tree park.






But then for the Mother Nature it wasn't enough and we got "a bit" of snow. You would think that nature wants to hide all her bad deeds. I think these days were field trip days for the nature photographers, one problem though - pretty hazardous walk in the park.


Meanwhile...
... the New Year's tree was brought into our house and Archie was very excited. He couldn't remember from the last year, and wanted to understand why we brought the tree into the house :o) and why all these "toys" were hanged on the tree. Of course I couldn't pass the fun dressing him for the holiday spirit :o)

....the holiday season and cold dictates the dressing too, so felting was in full swing. Many realise that felted slippers are the best and as a gift and as the item to keep feet warm


and felted soap gives that cozy feeling in the hot shower :o)
 

...  finished a few on standby mode tutorials...


...  and of course metal clay kiln with all it's heat was very welcome detail, so I used it:o)