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.

Snow bound Anglesey

After a couple of days of being snowbound, we were able to get out yesterday and take some photo's, so I was a happy bunny. It's very unusual for us to get so much snow I have to say, so we were quite excited. As I'm a member of a weather forum, I knew this snow was coming and made sure we were stocked up with enough food to last a week or two. My daughter went to check our elderly neighbour was ok, as her usual stream of visitors were noticeable by their absence, but she's fine and has been told to bang the wall if she needs anything. She also went and cleared another disabled neighbours snow off his car for him after noticing he'd been trying to use his car heaters to melt it with no success lol. The temperature was -8 this morning, which is the lowest I've ever seen it, so we might well be icebound now, as our street front and back hasn't been treated at all, so the snow is very compacted now.

All my commissions are now done and have been sent off. However 4 of them might not reach their new owner as quickly as she'd hoped. As she is still stuck in Cyprus after spending the last two days at the airport waiting to get a flight home to the UK to see her family. She was hoping to get a flight at 6am this morning, but after seeing the news today I think it's doubtful her flight will get to Heathrow as she'd hoped.

As all my commissions were done, it was time to clear the decks of all my usual crafty clutter ....my front room looks very bare. I'm also starting to get bored with nothing to do, so some clutter might have to sneak it's way back in again, which I'm sure will cause raised eyebrows from my daughter lol !!!

On our travels yesterday, we spotted some wild ponies in a field so stopped to take some photo's. They were obviously not used to visitors as they headed our way very quickly, wow they were scary looking with really wild looking eyes !! As the light faded and the temperature dropped we got to see mists rising above the road, which looked very odd, it was good to have a break from the house though.

Enough of my waffling here's a few photo's we took yesterday.