Icy weather

With temperatures dropping to -40 last week we were admiring winter outside ...

cozily from the inside

Each of our non efficient windows had a different crystal formation, creating the most beautiful patterns to capture

and then alter with my new favourite app "be funky fx"

Hope everyone is keeping toasty

Finding beauty in winter

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.  ~George Santayana

 For most of my life I have seen winter as something to endure, a season to survive through and get out the other side in one piece. 
During blizards I'd spend my nights searching out exotic places,coming up with wild schemes to get us out of here to somewhere warm preferably with a beautiful ocean.

So much for being thankful for what I have, content,
living in the moment...

But after 18 years I believe I finally found the trick to not only survive through this cold and white season. What I discovered is actually helping me enjoy it, marvel at it and dare I say - fall in love with it just a little


The trick is this...

 When the sun shines, drop all things, put on your long johns and get outside

 Look closely, really closely
Between all the white and what might seem as dead bushes and plants

There is beauty and colour and texture.
There is a daily dose of inspiration
right there in my own backyard.

Snow Play

Baking supplies + Food colouring 

         = hours of fun in the snow

Glow in the dark party - stripes in the sky

With the sun down at 5pm and bedtime still hours away, what else could we do?

A glow in the dark dance party of course!

The green one is Etian, the pink is Semay and blue is me. And the pop of orange is a glow in the dark stick stuck in a balloon

Now that was fun!

And just in case you are wondering what we are dancing to in this house, brace yourself for this hit ;) Lots of wisdom in the lyrics haha

...which pink decisions decisions

...when in doubt glitter it out everytime