IIIIIIiiiiiiice!

Fellow friends and visitors of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, you know what "IIIIIIiiiiiiice!" means.

Today, it makes a nice title for my post, as the photos below are what I woke up to this morning. Yep, here in Western PA, we had a nice little doozy of rain and sleet beginning around midnight, and today we're covered with a slippery sheet of shiny, slick, ice.

My corner of the world is a Popsicle today. What does yours look like?

The view from my back porch. We have a pergola roof, and the snow and ice seeped down between each of the boards and then froze there, leaving millions of tiny icicles! The icicles decorated our birdhouses, too.

Pergola closeup--just because it looks so friggin' cool!

Indiecrafters Web Site

Greetings, readers. I hope your Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it) was wonderful. I'm still so full even my ears feel bloated! Last night we got our first "real" snow here in Western PA--meaning, it actually stuck to the ground. My birds are upset because the perches on their feeders are snow covered; however, they're willing to forgive me because I bought a heater for my birdbath, which is working wonderfully.

So, let's talk shop stuff. I'm now listed on the Jewelry page of the Indiecrafters web site. This site is sponsored by the lovely Cristine of Marie Cristine Jewelry. Cristine does metal work as well as wire work (two of my faves!), and her handmade jewelry is made with sterling silver, fine silver, or gold filled metals. She also designs and creates handmade chains, chainmaille, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, pendants, and rings. Finally, she cuts many of her own cabochons from local stones that she collects as well as from raw material that she purchases.

So, hats off to Marie Cristine Jewelry, and thanks to Cristine once again for putting my creations on her site. Want more? Give her a visit at Etsy (link provided below). You might also want to check out her Trunkt Portfolio.