January 26th (on the 27th) Weekly Post

 Hey there, Friends. Hope everyone is starting off a good week.

Yes, it snowed for us and exceeded our wildest expectations.

We got 5.5 inches, more here than I've ever seen.

I also got to see it snowing in the daytime for the first time ever.

And it lasted longer. Snow in the parts of our back yard that get only morning sun did not thaw until Thursday morning! That really surprised me.

Took this first shot looking out from my front porch to my left on Tuesday as soon as it quit snowing, around noon. I took several photos but just chose a couple to share for brevity's sake.

My town led the Houston-area snowfall, probably because we are on the east side. As the storm moved east, Beaumont got a half-inch more than us, New Orleans 2 inches more, and so forth. 

This was taken Wednesday morning, once I could safely walk out to the street.

The power and internet never went out.

I pulled the night shift like I do during hurricanes, dripped the faucets and washed a load of clothes every night it was below freezing.

So it was quite an experience for us.

And then, I came down with a horrendous fibromyalgia flare which is still with me.

Hard to focus, think, remember right now, and that's why I'm late posting this.

Just getting this written is so difficult, so please bear with me being late to visiting blogs and commenting, I will catch up soon.

Now, onto the art.

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The theme at Sunday Postcard Art this week is Snakes, hosted by Anne C.

Since I have a phobia about them this is not my favorite subject. So I went with this Whimsy digital stamp set, printed out in black and white on a light blue background and colored with colored pencils and glitter gel pen.

This took me forever to color so I'm very proud of it...now!

LOL, it got hissed at a time or two.

Here's a close-up of the glittered sentiment and bell.

I will put him on a 5x7 card base for a Christmas card.

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A birthday card for Honey's mom who turned 95 years young on Thanksgiving Day. (I have quite a backlog of stuff to share since going to weekly posts.) I had this poppy stamp and die set that I colored with Promarkers, arranged on a Spellbinders oval die with a Crafters Companion die cut sentiment. The designer paper is Colorbok and I added some gold foil trim around the perimeter of the card front. I also dotted the poppy stamens with a gold marker.

The Splitcoaststamper sketch I used.

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A card for a girlfriend made with my Craft Consortium Sandy Paws 3D Decoupage kit, Basic Grey designer papers Doodlebug flower trim and a HunkyDory die cut sentiment. The focal image is 3D decoupaged.

 

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch that I used.

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I made it through! Yay!

Well, I'd better end this now and go lay down.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a lovely week.

XOXO