New Year and new projects

Happy New Year to my followers and to the many people that pass through my blog. I hope you all had a good Christmas, ours here was a very quiet affair as always, the big day itself included a trip up into the mountains, a little tradition my daughter and myself have. This year the scenery was even more spectacular than usual with the heavy snow we'd had, so I make no apologises for all the photo's on this post. The first 4 photo's were taken just before Christmas in and around Anglesey after a night which dropped 10" of snow on us, which was very unusual for here.

After two weeks of having all my art and craft stuff tidied away, I always find it hard to get back into creative mode, so the time has been spent turning out cupboards and drawers and tidying them up, something that was well over due lol. One job I really enjoyed doing was the large cupboard in my front room which stores most of my arty crafty stuff. This was a job I'd been dying to do for ages, but I needed to have the sliding doors off it, so as my son was floating around I got him to get them off ....which trust me isn't an easy job !!! Now everything is all sorted labelled and tidied up and for someone that's natural untidy I'm getting a lot of pleasure of being able to see exactly whats what and where for a change lol.

My latest project is going to be a painting for my bathroom which is going to get decorated at long last. This is the only room that hasn't been decorated since we moved in just over 12 months ago. The delay was caused by us not being able to decide what colour to do it and not having the money to do it either. But the arrival of a bill I was dreading ( gas and electric )has come and gone, and I was really pleased that I had managed to save enough to pay it !! So the extra cash I'd put to one side incase this bill was even higher than I thought, can now be used to decorate the bathroom. The colour is going to be a bright lime green which will contrast nicely with the black tiles in there. I'm going to do an abstract painting in there, but I'll also be using copper wire, glass tiles and goodness knows what else on it, as I want it to have the wow factor.

Anyway enough waffle from me, here's the photo's I mentioned earlier.

Cable Bay



Hermon



Two photo's of a mass of icicles in Cable Bay





Snowdonia





These icicles were huge at least 6or7ft and very thick.



A stream that produced some very unusual ice formations.

Ooops what a surprise

Yesterday I added some things to my interest list on here. One of them was alternative lifestyles, in my head this meant hippys, travellers and the like. How wrong was I, when I clicked on it later lol !! Much to my amusement alternative lifestyles is erotica in it's various forms. Did I click the back key .... course not, the body might be falling apart but my heads still as open minded as it's always been. So I spent a happy hour ..ok ok two, exploring the various blogs reminding myself of happier times gone by ;o)Now don't all be going to look at what alternative lifestyles brings up, because I've changed it to alternative living now haha.

This morning started off at 4.30am, after a nice cuppa, my breakfast and a long soak in the bath I started cutting up more pieces of coloured glass for the boots. It's been pretty slow progress though as my fingers are sore from cutting glass yesterday. Only the green glass to cut now and I can carry on. Whether that'll get done today is yet to be seen, as Im very close to getting a blister on one the fingers that squashes the glass pliers that break the score in the glass.

The wind is pretty strong here today and I can't help but think of the waves that would be crashing over the Breakwater. A great photo opportunity missed because I can't there :o( I do love extreme weather, whether it be snow storms, gale force winds, or torrential rain I just love it. I like the sun too, but it's not exactly very exciting.