Snow Days

A couple of weekends ago we had a fairly heavy snowfall for our area. It was made all the more exciting by the fact we haven't had a snowfall this deep for a couple of years now with such mild winters, and that it was Finley's first snow!! He was not at all impressed with it and couldn't understand why I kept leaping in and out of the house into all of this giant white rain. 

The flakes were enormous! In the above photo we had only been outside for about three minutes and were already pretty covered - it came down really fast on the Sunday afternoon and caught a lot of people out. Luckily for us (as it turned out) we had noticed a nail in one of our car tyres the day before so were already stuck at home with the puncture waiting for a tyre fixer to come to us the following day to replace it, otherwise we had planned to be out that afternoon too. 

We knew when we moved here that this town gets snow much worse than where we were living but it is much more exciting when you know you aren't going anywhere anyway. It was a good four or five inches deep on our balcony railing, which is partially shielded from the building, and much deeper in more open areas. Our carpark isn't gritted so for the following week any visitors had to battle through the snow to park, and I ended up in a snowdrift helping to push my sister's car out after she came to visit us. (In crocs too so my feet got wet!)

That's our black car hiding under the snowy blanket in the above photo!

We have the most amazing view over Ashdown Forest from our balcony and after the snow it was beautiful to look at. Every day offers a different scene anyway, sometimes mist lies in ribbons over the lower ground which makes it look like a giant lake with a couple of islands poking out the top, or at low light times it just becomes layers of grey shadow in different shades. The colour has changed a lot since we moved here already, especially as the sunsets have changed - whereas the sun used to go down past that tree on the right hand side, now it doesn't even reach anywhere near the trees on the left, our kitchen doesn't get any sun at all!

As we couldn't go anywhere it was a good few days to finish off my December and January ATCs so I am ahead again which is good because I have a lot of jobs to do in the run up to the new year, and also I'd like to catch up on stitching all of our badges to our camp blankets. Finley got given his own camp blanket (with badges already stitched on!) for Christmas so we can start collecting memories for him right from the off! So far he has a badge from when we visited Longleat together when he was only a few month's old, and some commemorative badges from the Queen's death as that was a major thing to happen during his lifetime.

The January, Frosted Dew Drops, card is a simple concept and design and I hope it isn't too different from my usual style. I have tried to create spiderwebs with little splashes of frozen dew hanging onto thin strands using a metallic thread and clear sequins. There's a lot of sparkle behind the web with metallic printed fabric and a shiny ribbon so I hope I haven't overpowered the web itself. 

These cards are backed and finished now anyway so I can photograph and show you them in more detail in their own post!