After this frigid week, I was thankful we didn’t have any precipitation. It reminded me of 2007, when we endured what I call the Ice Storm of the Century. I started with the template p6 because it had the most masks and I wanted to get as many pictures in there as possible. After clipping all my photos to the masks, I remembered the current Anna Lift, and decided to make it fit that by replacing most of the masks with postage stamp frames and frames from different palettes. But first I ‘cleaned out my sock drawer’. LOL! That’s an old private joke we used to make about a friend who was always late, getting distracted by doing something important like that. So first I made a PREVIEW folder of all the frames from all the Palettes. It really didn’t take that long. But I digress. After substituting frames for the template masks, I placed Glacial Solid Paper1 for the foundation, followed by blending Solid Paper 5 (Color Burn). It really didn’t make much difference except for allowing the textures to show through. Then I selected all the frame layers and transformed them to allow a border space and some breathing room. I placed Artsy Transfer 2 layers between the papers and masks/frames, rearranged and some layers removed. Embellished with word art and just the two elements because I thought it was already busy. I didn’t have a ‘WHEE’ moment like Diane , but I’m OK with it. Maybe next time. Finished with date and journaling.

January 2007. The Ice Storm of the Century, and we were not prepared. We did have time to fill up the bathtub for toilet flushing. But we didn’t have the whole home generator yet and the power was off 7 days. And that means No Pump & NO WATER! We had a small gasoline generator Ron rigged up with a cord into the house that we ran long enough to keep the fridge cold, and a few hours to watch TV at night. We had to set a timer every 30 min to add gas. We did stay warm with the wood stove though. After 3 days of freezing rain, the sun came out and we were finally able to start cleaning up. It was a mess! Every tree in our yard was damaged and many in the pasture and woods were lost.