Project Blizzard

When life sends you a blizzard, throw snowballs.

Project Smile, a blog meme founded last year, appears to have died and gone the way of all projects classified under too much to do and not enough time to do it.

I tossed about the idea of trying to do a link party here on my own blog to keep Project Smile going, but I wasn’t the originator, plus, the name belongs to a very popular charity dental program I actually support. "Making Lemonade" and any remote form of the phrase is spoken for. Dang! Every good name is taken! Maybe I should just go with something brash like Grit Your Teeth and Pretend to Smile???

My blog seems to have a snowflake life of its own, so a blizzard analogy fits best. However, my own time constraints make me very wary of trying to take on more than I already try to accomplish. So I'll go it alone this month as far as a winter joy blog project.

I am trying to focus on unexpected happy surprises and things that go right during winter to prevent daylight shortages from ruining my mood and even my entire winter. After all, true snowflakes are created mostly in winter, right? Days are beginning to grow longer now, thank heavens, and I anticipate doing my own little version of Project Smile, henceforth and forever known as Project Blizzard, just one more time until next winter. (Although February might pop up, too, if for no other reason than a specific day that month provides treasured reasons to smile.) (You thought I was referring to Valentine's Day, didn't you?!?!) (Well, that day is pretty darned awesome, too.)

This winter, so far, has been the easiest for me to bear for as long as I can remember, which leads me to believe focusing on positive instead of fretting about negative improves my ability to cope with SADD. Friendship and companionship have added immensely to my cheer this winter, and faith, hope and charity probably are the biggest contributors to successfully chasing off most of my depression in late 2011. Add a good dose of creativity and imagination, plus two tiny sparkling drops of spare time, and I think I’ve got the prescription just about perfect.

So, on with December’s reasons to smile:


My collection of Christmas cacti went crazy all month, and a few plants are still partying wildly.






The most recent addition to my pin quilt, received after donating my 16th pint of blood, is forcing me to think about making a new pin quilt. I’m almost full! One or two more pins, and I’ve filled my first pin quilt!


Autumn dug in its heels, even though winter’s stranglehold was and is formidable.


Took 26 months to reach a million page views. Two and a half months later, the counter hit 1.5 million.


This month’s full moon didn’t hide beneath clouds, which enabled this ...




Three days off at home during Christmas enabled me to finally make my own homemade glue.


The homemade cornstarch glue works! And does NOT smell like garlic.


Christmas lights always make me happy.


All these boxes are filled with photos, negatives and CDs. Another tower of boxes wouldn't fit in this picture. I needed one specific photo for next Monday's snowflake post.


The Shelf Road photo was in the first box I opened!!! I'd even labeled the CD! I just KNEW that Shelf Road had left quite the impression on me!




Fresh peppers, indoors, of course, in December!!!

Brazilian sunshine from Ane shows off her exquisite needlework and perfectly compliments Colorado's early morning skies. Sunrises always make me smile.

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