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I thought I'd give you an update on my shut-in-ness. This was the view outside my back door this morning:
Just gorgeous! By mid-day, the sun had melted the snow off the tree branches and they were upright once again. We did lose some trees in the neighborhood, or at least some large branches off several of them.
The snow crew arrived mid-day to rescue me. This was my front door 'before':
Yeah, I know, the sun is glaring, but look at the bottom of the door. THAT is the problem. The snow drifted up the door and blocked me in. There is a step down when I go out, and the center of that drift measured 16" on the inside. I was trapped, but good.
Once they cleared the front door, I slipped out for some photo action. Here's my front steps, or at least the half they cleared:
And here is my dug-out car:
Phew! Now I can get out of here tomorrow. My neighbor, who was away this weekend, said the expressway is cleared in spots, but she would suddenly hit a stretch with 3" of snow. This does not bode well for tomorrow's commute.
On the other side of my car is my other car, the Miata:
What? You can't see it? See the mirror? So sad. She won't see the sunlight until March, I suspect. I told the guys they could put the snow behind the Miata since I was pretty sure I was not going to shovel it out any time soon.
Speaking of my neighbor, to the left of my Miata is her parking spot. Yep - all snow. I took advantage of that to measure:
It's official: 20" deep. It seems like more, but we did have a lot of drifting. When my neighbor drove up, she looked at her spot, shook her head, parked somewhere else and walked back. She just looked at her spot, then looked at her front walk, which was strangely similar in depth. She was miserable and her little doggy was cold.
Then we did this:
That's a path across the grass from my walk to her front door. I started it, but then I held her dog while she worked on the top foot or so. Her dog wanted in so badly, the little thing leaped between my neighbor's footprints and went inside.
I dug out the central mailbox so the mail lady can get to it tomorrow. I salted (okay, it's not real salt ... it's the no-salt pet-safe melt stuff) my walk and around my car so I won't kill myself tomorrow by slipping on ice. THAT would be a real shame, especially with my SABLE stash and all. No, the no-salt is good stuff.
That is all I have - no stampy stuff to share. I hope to remedy that tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!
I still have my Hero Arts Woodland Creatures stamp set out on the Captain's Table, so yesterday, being a shut-in and all (trapped in my own home by mounds of drifted snow), I dug the set out of the heap and set to work. I'd spied this card in my travels, and I knew instantly what needed to be done. C-A-S-E! Ohmygosh, she even used MY SET!
Naturally, I needed to make it my own, so I did change up a few things. Check 'em out:
First, Mr. Raccoon. One of my Tweeps, who lives in Germany, thinks our North American raccoons are cute. Well, maybe they are, but they are still varmints! But this one looks pretty nice, doesn't he?
I changed a few things from the original: ribbon, button color, card base color, sentiment set (same words, though), and I also rounded the card corners and added an orange layer of DSP behind the white.
I also made three more with the other critters in the set:
Mr Squirrel ... and ...
Mr. Skunk ... and ...
Mr. Porcupine. All cuties. I had originally thought I'd make a critter set - multiple cards, each with a different critter. But then I was stumped for sentiments, especially since I wasn't sure to whom critter cards like these might be sent? A young lad? A lover of the specific critter type? So I went safe and made them all Birthday cards, and I'll sell them individually.
Today I'll put that set away and work on something else from the stash on the table. Slowly I'll clear out partially-completed efforts, and in the process, build up an inventory for my March show, which is amazingly only 4 weeks away! Yikes!
In other news, the snow actually stopped falling from the sky around 4:30 or 5:00 pm yesterday. Now we begin the Great Digging Out. Hopefully those kids who I called and then they called back to confirm actually show up and get to me. They said other people from my neighborhood had also called, so hopefully they can get to all of us today. That's a lotta shoveling. I'll report back on how that goes. If it ends up I need to make a dent on my own, I think I'll need to take out the screen panel in my door to get out. Right now I cannot open the door even an inch. Oh, well.
I guess I'll have to stamp in between loads of laundry today. Oh, the suffering I do for my craft ... ;-) If anything blog-worthy happens, I'll be sure to show it off.
Thanks for stopping by!
Snow, snow and more snow. The news people (who have been on since 5 am, I might add, so they are a bit punchy), just said this is something like the 5th-worst snow on record. As the snow slows down, it is gorgeous outside, but treacherous. The heavy snow is collapsing roofs (rooves) and breaking tree limbs, which in turn take out power lines. Fortunately I have power, though I am running the emergency heat since my heat pump is under about 2 feet of drifted snow.
Here is the view from my couch earlier this afternoon:
Note the drifted snow on the left. That's up against my sliding screen door. I have a deeper drift at my front door, holding the screen door shut, so I am literally a shut-in. I anxiously await the arrival of the shovel-my-snow crew I called earlier who will get here when they can get here later today or tomorrow.
For some perspective, check out my full-size metal trash can (it holds bird seed) on the right:
Uh-huh. I'm not going anywhere.
HOWEVER, I did have time to stamp! YAY! This card:
... is a total case of the last card in this post. I used red hearts instead of silver, but still. When you are desperate for your fourth project for next weekend's Stamp Camps, desperate measures are sometimes necessary.
ETA: Oh, drat, I hit Enter and published this post before I finished typing. Ugh. But that's okay, as I am out of words, so you are free to go now.
Thanks for stopping by!
We got a little snow - and it's still coming down. We're up to over a foot, maybe 16" so far, and it should approach 20'' by 10 pm. Here is my back yard about 7:30 am:
Those are NOT comfy chairs. They're wooden Adirondack chairs.
Dulles airport has 19" of snow, and a town North of here has 30" already. Fortunately for me, some very enterprising people came door-to-door IN THE SNOW last night handing out pieces of paper with their phone number. They said just to call on Saturday and they'd be coming around to dig us out. I AM SAVED!
Now, the good part: WE HAVE A WINNER for my Spot The Mistake contest. First, I've gotta tell you, though, I LOVE YOU GUYS! I LOVE THIS CRAFT! I mean, c'mon, where else would people nominate another commenter for the prize?!
So without further ado, I bow to your wishes and award the prize to KellyRae for her fabulous suggestion to make my own Flower Soft I can use in my SU Stamp Camps. Yay! Woo-hoo! (The crowd goes wild!)
And here's what you've won:
I ended up with two of these, so now one of them is yours! Please email me your mailing address (DO NOT post it here) and I'll get this out to you as soon as I dig out of here.
Thanks for playing, everyone!
It's that time of year. You know, when it has been so cold for so long, that when the temperature rises above 32 F people start exclaiming about the Heat Wave? Yeah, that. Three of my tweeps mentioned Heat Wave today, so I pulled this card from my archives so I had a photo for you.
I made this card one Hazy, Hot & Humid July or August day, after I'd sat satten been sitting at the market covered in frozen towels, guzzling beverages and generally trying not to pass out from heat prostration. But you know what? It works for 32 F, too. It's all relative.
At this moment, the DC area is being ever-so-gently buried in snow. So far it's been coming down for about 7 or 8 hours, and we have over 24 hours left before they predict it will stop. We're supposed to get 16-24" of the white stuff, and it's wet and heavy, which means slush and ice and me not shoveling for fear of hurting myself. I'm kinda hoping it stays wet, though, so the 16-24" might be only 10-12. Actually, I kinda wish it would stop right now. And we're supposed to get more next week. WHAT have we done to deserve all this wet? I think I need to have a little talk the rain and snow gods.
In other news, I plan to do some much-belated paperwork this weekend, followed by some serious STAMPIN'! Oh, yeah. I have much in the pipeline, plus my Stamp Camps next weekend, so I'd best get to it!
Oh, I still owe you the announcement for the winner of the Spot The Mistake contest. Since I said "Friday", and that goes until midnight, and I won't still be vertical at midnight, I'll announce the winner tomorrow. I might even select a prize by then. ;-) I am sure I have something, somewhere around here.
That's it for now. Wherever you are, stay warm, stay dry, don't hurt yourself, and thanks for stopping by!
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