What Do You Do When You’re Snowed In?

~ humoringthegoddess

The Midwest is buried beneath inches of snow, singing the freezing songs of their ancestors, while most of us shovel and grumble and fall down in snowbanks.

Welcome March.

For those of you who contribute to the World of Art in whatever form you choose, do you use crummy weather to try new things? New forms of art? Do you work on your current projects or  plan for future art fairs and Christmas gifts?

I’d love to know if you use spare time to play or to work.

I have a large enough stock of purse charms and suncatchers to meet my first craft fair in August, so my creative mind looked elsewhere. I did some painting — I created four 18 x 24″ pop art paintings, complete with clock hands and/or 3D embellishments. I also painted four 5″ x 7″ similar canvases. It was fun, but, alas, I have no room to make/keep any more paintings, so on to other things.

Lately I’ve been adding beads to newly acquired sundresses in preparation for a trip to Disneyworld in April. But, again, there are only so many sundresses.

I think I’ve exhausted my creative stash.

It’s not like I don’t have things to do every day. Life is like that. No rest from cleaning and babysitting and cooking and all other tasks that make us what we are.

Maybe it’s my ADHD, but I can’t sit around forever doing nothing with my idle time. I love looking out the window and going for walks and working with my plants, but with a foot of snow out my window my art projects stay inside.

What do you do when kept inside by snow or thunderstorms or melting heat? I’d love to hear your ideas.  

You all inspire me!

 

 

 

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I am a writer of fantasy fiction that often surrounds middle-aged women. I am a married mother of two and granny to three, a BoHo Chic kinda gal. I am recently retired and busier than when I worked 9-5. But writing and blogging is my main game.

14 thoughts on “What Do You Do When You’re Snowed In?”

      1. My latest obsession is painting animals, based on Bill’s photographs. Yesterday I painted a squirrel monkey that we saw in Costa Rica. I use quilting cotton or broadcloth and fabric paint. There are often some appliqued parts on the image.

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  4. I, too, create! Bracelets are my favorite jewelry to make. I create collages on old business cards (now, to order a laminator of my very own). organizing the thousands of poems I have yet to turn into books! All while crock pots of curry simmer in the next room!

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      1. So, my idea of curry is thus.. I cut up carrots, cabbage, celery and cauliflower and layer them in a huge crock pot, After each veggie, I add a tablespoon of a spice. Doesn’t matter the order of spice. Carrots in first, yellow curry powder. Then cauliflower with turmeric. Cabbage topped with smoked paprika, ending with celery and here is where I wimp out, and I only use a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Then if I want to stay vegan, I use 2 drained and rinsed cans of garbanzo beans and pour coconut milk over the whole mess. Turn the machine on high and let it cook for 3 hours. If I don’t want to be vegan, I crumble a pound of 85/5 ground beef on top and then add the coconut milk. I am a bit of a snob and everything IS organic, and the milk is Native Forest SIMPLE organic coconut milk (not guar gum or anything I wouldn’t want to eat). This makes many pints I use mason jars to store it in. And I am someone who will a pint of this every day until it is gone. But I imagine it would freeze well too. Oh, the veggies still have some crunch in them and when it is stirred up, it is supper yummy. Also, I have cooked up a box of quinoa/brown rice pasta (1 lb.) and at the 2-hour mark on the crock pot, I have transferred the pasta to the pot and let it cook the last hour, then stirred it all up!

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  5. I don’t consider it lucky, but I caught grandson’s stomach bug. I’m feeling better but the cold and wind make it easier to be inside. Low energy so reading and maybe a movie are I’m up for.

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