Natural Magic

  Happy new week everyone.  I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and didn't get as much snow as we did. 

Yesterday we had our first big snow. We were in the 12-18 inches range (around 31-46 cm), and there is probably a good 10+ inches of snow sitting on top of several inches of ice/snow mix. We lost power last night just before 10 PM/22 hours, and it is still off. Since it was 10 when everything but my mantel battery-powered candles went dead, we just went to bed.  Luckily though the hubby got up this morning and started the woodstove and got the generator running. We only really have lights and water (which we lose as we are on a well), but at least now the internet works, the house is warm, I can take a shower...so no complaints.  And I got to sleep in while he got everything running. That's even better.

The funniest part of it all was at 4 AM one of our battery operated smoke detector started occasionally chirping, telling us it was time for a new battery (oops-I forgot to change them when we changed the clocks), and of course it was the one at the top of the cellar stairs. I can't reach it without a step stool and I sure as well was not going to do that with no light. I could just see me falling down the stairs into the dark basement abyss. So I put on headphones and listened to some holiday music until I fell back asleep. And the hubby took care of that too before I got up.

For those of you who haven't had a big snow yet or just like snow, here's a few photos.

The poor birds. I had to bring the feeders in to thaw out in front of the woodstove as they were iced and snowed over. All they could get to was the suet. They should be ready to bring back outside once I finish this post.

Here's the two who love the snow the most!

I also wanted to share this page I made back in October in my Magic, Mayhem and Mystery altered book journal. 

I thought it would work great for Tracey's The Meaning Of challenge at Art Journal Journey.

This page could have a slight holiday feel with the green and the red berries. I really think berries and bare stems are very artistic and tell many secrets about the plants.  I also think the magic quote works year round. Of course at Christmas, there is for many a sense of holiday magic, needed more than ever this year. 

Green is a color I really love. I was once out paint shopping with a friend and when I picked up some green samples she looked at me and asked if I would paint every room green? Not every room, but many of them-smile.

And of course when the world has become white with snow, I want green even more.

I am also going to link up to this month's Anything Goes challenge at Creative Mixed Media. Thanks Jo for the reminder.

And thanks to Valerie's blog reminder, I am also going to link up to More Mixed Media challenge. This month is is anything goes with optional white, and I see some white in my page. 

Have a great end of your weekend, start to your new week and thanks for being patient enough to work through the snow photos before the art.