Freezing cold weather is serious. Read up on how to prepare and protect during Arctic blasts.
ready.gov is a good resource.
Have a Safe, Warm & Cozy Weekend
The weather forecast is 95% chance of snow. It is a good idea to stock up to prepare for a significant amount of snow of 7 inches or more.
In Vermont, we know snow. However, travel on Monday doesn’t feel safe to me. Rescheduling an important appointment also doesn’t feel good. Better safe than sorry, I believe, is the right idea. I may get to where I need to be, but I also might get stuck there with no way safely home.
How much snow is the answer we all want to know. The last snowfall, (nice powder), in my area was more than I expected. The snow starting this weekend will be different. Is there a chance the inches will be less? I don’t know. I also don’t know how I felt the first time I saw snow.
Speculating here, it doesn’t matter. The forecast is reliable enough to prepare well.
Stay Safe
Short Stack is my second favorite font, clear and easy to read.
Handlee, this is the font I like for photograph captions.
Macondo Swash Caps is a font I like to use for special headings.
Sophia is a favorite get fancy script font.
This font, Playwrite GB J, is my favorite. It has the homiest vibe. As you can see, The curvier fonts are thin and small. That is why Playwrite and Short Stack are front runners for me.
Changing fonts as you type hasn’t always been do difficult. I add photos into the text, for example, because when Images are added first, the font is only either default or Verdana.
On my list of things to do in 2026, is to find a personal font, one I like to use all the time. It is sort of like giving my writing hand a face.
Browsing fonts online is fun, gorgeous stuff out there. But, after awhile, I start to want to create my own font. I’ll find s fee that if they were blended, that would be my go to font.
Note, I love lettering. A dream of mine is to own a small vintage hand press.
What are your favorite fonts?
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The first fad I remember as a kid is lost in memory. Most fads that cost money were not within our low income budget. I do recall having a Hula Hoop. Most everything else was second hand (or more).
Pulling that realization over the last forty years is like dragging mud out of a puddle. By the time the mud is out of the water, what was in the hand has washed away. Fads are like that, high fade value.
In the electronic era of buying the latest, there are more fads that I have not owned than there were when I was a kid. I’ve never owned a Walkman, a Blackberry or any game video player thing. The computer is not a fad nor is a smartphone.
So, we are sort of in the tech fad era, that appears to have no end other than AI replacing humans.
As for myself, I’ve entered the era of not opening the blinds can make it feel like morning at noon because I’ve been on the Internet too long to notice time as it flies.
What era do you feel you’re in?
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The watercolor (photo below) is the one I’ve chosen to finish. It is from a photograph taken circa 2010.
No print out of the photo is attached. It would take me hours if not days to find the photograph. I believe the tree is gone as well.
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| Old watercolor in progress |
He has become the representative of a joyous season. (The pumpkin wall sculpture is a foot or so off frame to the right.)
This year, the cat on the sill is still wearing her holiday jewelry. I’m thinking of making her a winter scarf to replace her bling.
Do you have holiday stragglers?
Update 19 January 2026:
Sitting here reading comments, guess what I see. (The vase has been moved back.)
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Early in my blogging days 2008, I saw that posts that teach, posts tutorials and such receive a higher number of visitors.
Statistic watching in those days was the norm. Over the years, blogs that are not business based, don’t appear to be hungry for high numbers. Many blogs have moved into their niche and do well there, as I see it.
Most of the business based blogs I followed, aren’t around and/or, I don’t follow them anymore. One reason for that, other than my blog reading slow down, is that they moved up into either Wordpress or their own website through a website host.
In my 17 years of blog following, I recall only one blocking me after I disagreed with her political views. My experiences reading blogs has been 98% positive. Bloggers are a wonderful community.
This blog will change in 2026, probably after January. So far, I have posted every day in 2026. I want to keep that going.
I’m not sure what will change here. I suspect more art and crafts, less rambling thoughts, and maybe health focused issues.
Thank you all for visiting
I greatly appreciate it.
Lousy winter weather yesterday of rain to snow as in ice, made me not want to even look outside. I do not drive in wintery mix weather. Sadly, I expect this season will have too many fickle days like that.
There is nothing major going on art wise in my life at the moment. Clearing out the easel area and desk isn’t finished yet. Same old, same old. On that note. My life is sounding like a broken record.
During my continued decluttering and moving things around, I have decided on some simple changes:
Have a Simple Change Weekend!
* There’s a recipe in the Dec 2025-Jan 2026 edition of “Country Living”
