I love snow.
This is, no doubt, partially due to the fact that I live in Austin, where everyone freaks out because no one knows how to drive in snow and/or ice, and the entire city pretty much shuts down. I’m working from home today, and I’ll tell you what: I needed to build a tiny snowman. Because we had a decent snow last year, and all I could do was lamely look at it and curse my recent knee surgery.
Anyway. To commemorate the fact that half the country is under a soft, frozen blanket today, I made this snowman on the back of my car. I would have gone to a prettier location, but this way I only had to go about five feet from my front door in my PJs and slippers. Venture out more than that? Are you crazy? It’s 23º.
You may be wondering… Is that paper? And yes, yes it is. I’m the only person you know (probably) who thinks to incorporate quilling (i.e., paper) with snow (i.e., frozen water). His eyes are tiny tight coils. His carrot-nose is a tight coil with a toothpick glued inside (genius, I must say). His scarf is thick paper with fringed ends. He also had pretty buttons coils, but I packed him too tightly and kept destroying his mid-section trying to get them to stick. This led to rapid freezing of my bare fingers and poor little snowman having a tiny tiny waist. Oh well. He’s still pretty cute.
I love him because he's imperfect. Right?
Two pictures is all you get, folks. I couldn’t feel my fingers by the time I got the camera out. I think it’s time for me to find something hot to drink… and then back to work!
