This and That

Altered Ancestors at Inspiration Avenue

Credit for the original photo

Family photos ~ what a lot they can tell us.

We were a happy family for many years.

But CATherine was never the same after Father took in that owlish boy. 

I knew he was trouble from the beginning.

One day, they both disappeared and not only that, 
we never saw our beautiful pea green boat again. 

Mother's heart was broken, since she and Cat were inseparable. 

Tommy went off to look for them and we don't know how he fared ~
he hasn't returned.

That left Sadie and me after Father, blaming himself,
went off to the Sanitarium for his “fragile health”. 

Sadie and I spend our days knitting and doing crewelwork
and talking about happier days.
We can't bear to leave the house in case there is some news
about our missing sister and the owl-boy. 

If you have any news to impart, would you please let us know?

They talked about becoming famous someday, so who knows?

Perhaps someone has heard of them . . .

Altered Ancestors at Inspiration Avenue this week! 
Hop over there and check them out!


 
. . . In other news . . .
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Feels like . . .  - 29° ??? 

I don't even know what that feels like, and don't want to find out.

Last night ice started to form on the INSIDE of the windows.

and by morning the sidelight windows looked like this:

Yes, the ice is inside the house.

Ninety years ago, when our house was built, 

I guess they hadn't heard of double-paned glass.

I can't even imagine the expense and trouble 

it would be to replace these windows.

Besides, I like the old wavy glass (when it's visible :-).

I took some cool icy photos to use as digital backgrounds.

All without leaving the [relative] warmth of my house!

If anyone would like to use these, let me know and 

I'll send you the hi-resolution versions.

It's a perfect day to stay inside and make art.

I joined a facebook art journaling workshop

Journal52

The workshop just started this week...

I'm hoping I'll be inspired weekly to do more art.

Check it out, it's FREE and is filled with enthusiasm!

The first prompt is Up, Up, and Away.

Began my background yesterday which was meant to be SKY

and now looks like an UNDERWATER scene, oh well.

I hope wherever you are, you are keeping warm!