Snow Day... For Real

Well, it has certainly been an eventful 24 hours. Eventful enough to finally inspire my first post of the new year. I got a little bogged down in Christmas madness, and it took me way longer than it should have to recover. :) But now I'm back.

It is a snowy, snowy day here in Maryland. The snow started falling at about 4:30 yesterday and in a matter of a couple hours completely dumped on us. My husband left work at 4:50 pm. He works about 6 miles away from home, and it took him FIVE HOURS to get home. Five hours. Can you believe that?!

While I was waiting for him to get home, some terrifying things happened. First the power went off. There were transformers popping left and right, lighting up the sky in blue flashes. I didn't even know this happened, but apparently in our neighborhood, it's not uncommon. There was also terrifying thunder and lightening. I've never heard of lightening and thunder in a snow storm... very odd.

After the first set of transformers blew, one of the houses on our block burst into flames. One of the neighbors dragged the older woman out of the house (thank God), and other neighbors tried to call 9-11, to no avail. It just rang busy indefinitely. And then when they finally did get through, it took the fire department a full 30 minutes to get to the house because of the crazy traffic situation. All the neighbors were in the street just watching in horror as the house went down in flames. As we stood there, we could hear the sirens trying to get through the traffic unsuccessfully. We saw (and heard) the windows blow out from the force of the fire. It's the craziest thing I've ever witnessed. So sad. This morning, the house is just a top-less brick facade with nothing inside it. You can see through one window straight through to the back of the house.

We are without power (now for about 14 hours). Needless to say, it is very cold in our house. Thank God for Starbucks and for our fireplace (and for having a sound home to live in). I need to pick up some more wood today on the way home. Who knows how long it will be out. There are downed power lines lying across the road on our street as well as on most of the streets in the neighborhood. A huge tree also fell in our backyard, narrowly missing our house.

So, on a happier note, I thought I'd get back to blogging as a way to lift my spirits. I'm not even sure if anyone reads this thing any more, but in case any of you are still out there...

I don't have my camera with me to share some of my recent stuff, so I thought I'd share something that I made during my stint with the MFT design team last winter. It's completely appropriate for today. :)




I picked up the snowflake on clearance last winter at our local craft store and popped on this cute Pure Innocence girl (that I colored with copics). I added the words that I made from the Bling 'Bet set and added some glitter and a cute buttony bow.

Okay, I'll be back soon (I promise this time -- I have a LOT to share from Christmas time).

...Wondering if we have power yet.

Stay warm. :)