Tag Archives: winter

We Can Build A Snowman by Erica Plank

I feel so validated as I share this post.

We are in the midst of a snowstorm.

Therefore, I feel pretty good about sharing that my hand stitchery project is all about the snowman.

No Easter bunnies here.

You know that I can never seem to do anything ‘in season’.

We Can Build A Snowman by Erica Plank

The first block is stitched. I am considering adding beads, but I have time to think about that. I have four more blocks to go.

The pattern is designed by Erica Plank from Unseen Hands.

I have had the pattern for many years, but when I was ready to settle down and make these blocks…well…I couldn’t find my pattern.

I am normally very good at filing my patterns.

While working through Karen Brown’s Declutter Challenge this year, I found the pattern. Right where it should be.

How did that happen?

Does that happen to you, too?

We Can Build A Snowman by Erica Plank

I am not sure that I will make the quilt, yet. I just really wanted to stitch the snowmen.

At my pace, there is all the time in the world to decide that later.

Daffodil

Have fun and carry on!

A Stroll in the Garden

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime – he paints in nature and describes in rime. -Thomas Hood

Winter December 2022

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Winter December 2022

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. -John Burroughs

Winter December 2022

“Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.

Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.

Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor.

In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .

But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Winter December 2022

“Willows bordered the path, like women bent in mourning, their branches shod in ice and brushing the soft white ground like strands of hair. Flowers and shrubs of every variety overflowed their beds, all of them white with frost, a world made of snow and glass, a garden of ghosts.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

Winter December 2022

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity. -Charles Spurgeon

Winter December 2022

“I run on a thousand chandeliers, as each blade sparkles with frost; a river of glass underfoot. It is as though the elements are reversed: sky is ground and ground is sky, and I am running on the pinheads of constellations, leaping from star to frosted star.” ― Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling

Winter December 2022

“The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn’t it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath–pouf! I’m so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren’t you?” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Winter December 2022

“At the darkest time of year, Lord Yule laid down his beard of snow and cloak of frost and ice to illuminate the gloom.” ― Stewart Stafford

Winter December 2022

It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and distant objects assumed a mysterious importance. Slight sounds, too, suggested infinite activities to the mind.

(“A Tribute Of Souls”) ― Robert S. Hichens

Winter December 2022

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

“What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” — John Steinbeck

Winter November2022

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Winter November2022

“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” — George R.R. Martin

Winter November2022

“Thank goodness for the first snow. It was a reminder — no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” — Candace Bushnell

Winter November2022

“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.” — Ilka Chase

Winter November2022

“With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.” – Percy Miller

Winter November2022

“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” — Joan Didion

Winter November2022

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” — Vesta M. Kelly

Winter November2022

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” – Novala Takemoto

Winter November2022

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch

Winter November2022

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, nor time unmake what poets know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winter November2022

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!