Hello everyone. Nice bread, Crowbar. Happy Bday, CinnamonGrammy. Prayers for difficult ex and grandkids, MamaCando. Hope you all are safe in whatever weather challenges you’re having.
Brrrr….it’s COLD in the high Rockies now. I think we have to be resigned to the fact of ‘winter’. 🙁 Remember when winter used to be fun?? It meant ‘snow days’ off from school. Wood sleds with metal runners, aluminum saucers, toboggans [the sled kind – not ‘winter hats’ for you southerners], and home made skis. Never had ice skates; no pond. Sliding and skidding was the game!
Hmph! [LOL at Muffy!] NOW sliding and skidding means ya might break some bone or look ridiculous squawking and flapping like a chicken. Snow means shoveling it outta the way of your vehicle. Or across the porch and steps. Anyone build a snow man/lady/critter lately if the Grandkids weren’t with you? Maybe we should…just for old times sake. Take the sting outta that dreaded WINTER.
Cool Winter Craft project: Don’t think I shared this one. ?? Get a container about the size of a 3-wick candle; wide and fairly tall. Plastic or Tupperware. A soup pot. A #10 can will do but smooth sides make it easier. Fill it with colored water (food coloring) an inch or 2…depending on the size. Put outside to freeze. [sorry @corsaire….this one won’t work for you unless you have freezer space.] The dimensions are variable.
Get another slim container to set in the middle of frozen bottom layer of ice. Weight that one down with rocks or whatnot. Then fill the outer container the rest of the way up. The inner second container will ‘hold space’. When the ice is totally frozen, run under warm water until you can get both containers free of the ice.
You’ll be left with a ice shape for a different type of luminary. Put a tea light inside …or a votive if your ice holder is big enough inside. Hint…you want to make the empty ‘chimney’ part tall enough that your flame isn’t blown out by wind. Wide enough that it has air. Note: if your design has a flaw…try again with different shaped containers. Ice is cheap…thaw and refreeze.
And you need a way to light the candle way down that ice chimney …..or pull it up to light and set down again. Uncooked spaghetti strand will light, btw, but not real well.
Set these …yes multiples are good especially for a grandkids project…all lit up along the deck railing outside or somewhere you can enjoy them from inside. …..cuz it’s too stinkin’ COLD for us old folks to be out there! LOL
OldMtWoman 🙂