Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Snowman V Snowman, Battle Royal of Blizzard 2010...

After being snowed in for many days, it appears that some creative person found a way to stave off killing those he/she was couped up with by tapping into their creative and very comical side. Please, come on an adventure with me and see what Beanie and I discovered this afternoon on our unsuspecting Poo Walk. You won't regret it, I promise. While making our way down the freshly shoveled sidewalks there appeared to be something Red in the snow. What could it be? Perhaps a dropped pair of gloves, a scarf, a hat? What?
Oh my, what cute snowmen! But wait, something's wrong. There seemed to be a scuffle underway.

Oh My!!! I was a Full Scale BATTLE!!! WAR WAR WAR! BLOOD EVERY WHERE!!!!!!!!!!!

Swords were crashing. The fresh white snow was running red with Snowman Blood!


It appeared that it was the Blue swords Vs. the Orange swords. It appears that the Orange swords were taking more casualties.

Battle Axes were dropped by the wayside as the mortally wounded took their last gasps of freedom.

Helmets were blood spattered as the victors raised their arms in Victory!

So dear readers. Let this be a lesson to us all. Days and days and inches of snow later, even Snowmen have their breaking point.
(No matter what the situation, apparently, there is ALWAYS time for art)

Monday, February 08, 2010

Bean Reporting Live from Blizzard 2010...

Gee, does this sound like Deja Vu or what? Barely 2 months ago I was reporting live from Blizzard 09. Well that one was about 17 inches of snow. This time we got 20 inches and in our old town on Frederick MD our friend Leah reports 30 inches, and that's just 45 mins away from here. This is crazy considering that 2 weeks ago it was hitting 70 degrees and I was wearing a Sun Dress around the house. The Weather Channel reported that the snow would begin to fall on Friday at 10am and Lo and Behold we spotted the first snow flakes at 10:17am and they just kept a comin. Now "Princess" Beanie will only do her, ahem, "business" if you take her for a walk. Now after that much snow the only thing to do is to suit up and take her out front of the building to find a tire track to walk in. It seems to have done the trick! The snow was so deep she could barely see out of the tire track over the snow.
Here's the front of our building in the trench that I personally shoveled just to be able to get out of the door. Beanie was not happy with me for taking what she thought was a very long and unnecessary time to take a stupid picture!

Here's what my car looked like after my FIRST attempt at snow removal. Just this amount took hours till I finally gave up. I did finally manage to free it today after many more hours of work. Why, where was Brian you ask? Well we won't get into that, we'll just say that I was up and out working at this early and we met in the hall way when I was finished and he finally got curious! He made up for it though by VERY thoroughly cleaning my kitchen. I mean what a great job! He scrubbed and took the gas stove top apart and got every little last bit of grease and baked on goodness off. He's truly the hero of the hour. I'd rather shovel snow any day than tackle that job! I love you my Bear!

Last blizzard we went out and took pictures to share with you. Well this time around we thought, "You've seen one you've seen them ALL"! So this time we stayed in so I don't have any great photo spread to share with you but I do have some nice "Complimentary Color" Night Photos from my porch to share with you.

So Breathtaking. There is nothing more lovely or romantic than to sit on the porch with the love of your life, in the dark, quiet calm after math of a Blizzard.

I wish my neighborhood was this magical all the time.

This brings us to our "Lessons fo Being Snowed In with a Loved One" section. Luckily The Bear and I are very well versed in spending long periods of uninterupted time together so it hasn't been as painful as I imagine it has been for some of you. But there do come times of uncontrolled laughter over absolutely NOTHING that funny, and food creations that end up so gosh darn yummy, your tummy SCREAMS Uncle like it's Thanksgiving. You let The Bear loose in the kitchen and you know it's not gonna be good for the waist line. Like these Cheesy Bacon and Scallion Fries served with Ranch Dressing, for dipping of course.

Or this first ever Homemade Thai Bubble Tea! Ya, that's right. Oh man was that good. I made from scratch Chicken and Rice Soup to keep us going and we ended up running our of crackers. Well Bear to the rescue. He got so bored today that he went online, found a recipe and make crackers from scratch! Yes FROM SCRATCH! That's what a Blizzard will do to a person.
What did the Blizzard make you do?

Friday, February 05, 2010

Mail Art and the Month of Love...

During the very grey and depressing month of January I tend to look for lots of Colorful Inspiration. Artful Blogging Magazine, Mail Art Books and Creative Blogs, to fill my brain with colorful happiness and get me through till Spring FINALLY arrives. Many of you know that we have been House Hunting, that is proving to be a very exhausting adventure. Well I recently discovered that some time ago, like 2yrs ago, I picked up some paint samples in order to help inspire my creativity. After flipping through one of my favorite books "Good Mail Day" I thought, "Hey, why not send out these fabulous color samples out as Inspirational Post Cards"! What a joy it was to sit with all these wonderful and fabulous colors! I got out all my stickers and markers and just went to town. I had so much fun that I almost couldn't stop making them.
This is the one that I sent my Oh So Fabulous Mother back in Ohio. I tried to match people up with paint samples that had names of colors that related to them somehow. My mother us a HUGE Nature Lover and raised me to appreciate the wonders of the out doors so I picked a sample that had names that related to our love of Nature.

These PostCards, I hope made some wonderful people in my life really smile. Even in the depth of depressing winter you can make your own Spring! There truly is inspiration every where, you just have to be open to it.
If you didn't recieve on and wish to send me a messege and one will be on it's way!
What do you have around that is begging to become Mail Art?
Happy Feb Every One!!!!!