Snow Day Musings ~

Good Morning ~ Friends & Folk!

  well our storm arrived this morning, around 8:00 am-ish...

I was laying in bed under the weight of our heavy quilts,

 listening to the sound of the tea kettle on the wood stove chirping-away ~

when I looked out the window {sans eyeglasses} and saw the fluttering of the first few flakes falling.

Snow

always makes me smile ~ 

being raised in Connecticut, snow days off from school were plentiful.

We would dress in our layers of wool & down, pull on numerous layers of socks, then put bread-bags on our feet {to keep them dry} before putting our boots on and heading outdoors for the day.

yes, the day...

I would stay outside for hours & hours in the snow.

there was much to be done!

there were snow-angels to be made {whole families of them, side by side and 'holding' hands}

...there were igloos to be built, footprints & tracks in the freshly fallen snow that needed to be identified and bird feeders to be filled.

I wouldn't come back inside until I was frozen ~ red-nosed & shivering

but I knew as soon as I got back in the house, something wonderful was waiting for me!

our old house had radiators, 

and I would pull off those layers of winter clothes, right down to my undershirt

 and lay next to the radiator resting my feet on it.

ahhhhh.

them Mom would make me hot tea ~ hot with cream & sugar.

that felt like liquid sunshine going down my throat, warming up every last bit of me!

These days, now that I'm...more mature {hehe}

and living in Virginia

the snow is still a welcome respite from the everyday for me.

~ it gives me a different perspective on life.

I can choose to think of it as a nuisance ~ or I can usher it in with open arms.

I'm sure you can guess which I'll choose 

:)

Yesterday I showed you some of my drawings being readied for new fabric designs...

a few of you asked what the 'masking' is ~

this is what my drawings look like when masked, before painting:

see the yellowish color?

that is the latex masking that will be removed after the background paint has been applied...

then I'll work on the details...

~ it's all in the details!!

Rabbits & Hares are {again} finding their was into my work...

in sketches, wool...needle & thread.

here are a few 'friends' that live with us here year-round in this old farmhouse ~

this one wears a necklace of buttons & wire I made for him

he lives on our mantle

this mother & babes dwell amongst my early tea set

...as do this German candy container & teeny bunny ~

....and this little brown hare ~

 while digging in the yard one day

{what? you don't dig in your yard?}

I found this sweet but broken bunny....seems to me it needed to be found by me!

wish he was intact....

I love vintage ephemera with rabbits, bunnies & hares on it too ~

I have a collection of postcards for Easter...

this is one of my favorites:

:)

 and I am forever on the lookout 

for the base to this milk glass rabbit below:

for now, 

she lives happily on my hutch 

with other assorted farm-friends like this rooster ~

one day I'll find the base ~ rather, it will find me!

Use the weather today my friends, to your advantage ~ 

drag out those old decorating magazines you have...make some soup or stew.

create something with your hands & heart 

and enjoy the company of those who are fortunate to be snowbound with you!

or new seed catalogs

~ Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori