3F in El Paso,Texas!!!

Broke a record set in 1956. 2 nites of 4F before that,record broke from 1962. Was in Ft Stockton,west Tx in 7th grade. Don't remember that,just the blowing sand in our faces @ lunch time.
Our houses aren't build for this kind of cold. Wind caused a lot of chill factors. My craft rm temp. got down to 47F Wed. when the storm came in.The wind just blew thru the glass. The walls were cold to touch. House built in early 50's,no insulation.
Luckily our pipes are all on the inside of the house. So we had no frozen pipes. @ of our chapels had frozen pipes.
Hondo Pass was supposed to have a Stake broadcast Sun. am. It had major flooding so moved back to the Stake center. Our had some minor flooding.Albertsons was closed Fri. nit from part of it's roof collapsed from a frozen pipe in the ceiling broke.

water restrictions

Now it's our water supply that's having problems related to the cold. It now has been extended to Mon. No school for the 4th day. they had to reduce power usage from the 3 days of blackouts. Reservoirs are too low No showers,laundry,etc.We're to boil water.
Do have water to drink,water by toilets, outside H2o may be frozen. Will use paper plates etc.Baby wipes for hands & face. No shower for me today.
So far so good. Mac Simpson from coon Relief society of the LDS church taught us to be prepared.Need to update my 72 hr kit meds& put GF food in it.

Laura's wierd card set

These are ATC's I got in a swap. I made them into a card set for my DD's late C-mas gift. I used my new watercolor crayons on them for my b/ground. I luv how easy they color onto the media c/stock. Then I put a small amount of water on them w/ a small paint brush to blend the colors. I luv the vibrant colors I got. a little goes a long ways. I took care to paint from the inside out so I didn't get a muddy look. I had a scrap of paper on the edges to brush off on when doing the border.
I cut open a bottle of Stickles to get dwon to the last of it & put it on the black witch card for a sparkly effect.

Altered box

I took a candy box & used beach paper & a SU set of stickers of kids @ beach playing. I Modge Podged it on so the box would wear w/ use. The sides have blue wavelike paer on it.
It holds a set of flat seashells in it.
A pic. of her @ the beach playing w/ a sand castle inspired this project.

Emma's shell gift

I Modge Podge mulberry paper that had leaves & coconut fiber in it on the can.My friend Russ gave me these scraps & it sure fit my beach theme. It really gave the can a textured feel.the can holds small seashell collection.

2 corner tables

I remembered these were stuck in the corner in the storage room. I had DH unplug the dehumidifier & push it under my card table. He took a big box out of the room. Now I can open the drawer up & store less used items in this big drawer.W/ the tables I have access to them underneath to store my paper scraps,12x12 box of paper,my 8x10 card stock. The 1 table next to me is my project table. It gives me extra room to put items on while I'm working on my card table.
I've 2 portfolio's w/ filed card stock scraps by colors under the 1st table. 2nd table has card stock & my 12x12 box of patterned paper under it

1st set of drawers

I had to clean up the 1st of drawers since I did the other set. I moved my Distress inks to a separate drawer. My 1st drawer of inks was to crowed to close the drawer. I also pulled out a tin of foam stamps. They are now on my shelf since I don't use them that often. I have my acrylic blocks & Tack & Peel in that drawer.I pulled out some 1/2 empty pen plastic boxes that were jamming my drawers.I now have my watercolor crayons in that drawer also. I just found my lost new woodless color pencils in there now.I moved some of my C-mas items out of the drawer into a C-mas portfolio pocket.I now have a big misc. drawer.

Tipped Drawers

This set was tipping to the side. DH took the wheels off the bottom set & put it on the top. Put the wheels on the top one & then it was the bottom. That messed up my order of the drawers. I had them as I use the most on the top & the least on the bottom. It meant I rearrange every drawer. It meant my big drawers were in the middle now.So I sorted thru e/thing. It made clean up my drawers. I put labels on them so I knew exactly what was in them. Now I can't just throw stuff in the drawer.I also pulled some stuff out of drawers & stored in an other area so it would get used more.

Magazine holders

DH gave me 6 of these for me for C-mas.My friend Russ from NYC sent me 2 Priority boxes of card making mag's to me. some of them will go to Relief Society activities to be used for classes. I have a full holder of Rubber Stamper he gave me.I really luv this mag's & I finally getting up to speed on their advanced tech's.
Since I have gone thru a lot of our family photo books for s/booking for the kids I have room on top of my file cabinet now.
When Jan comes she will be taking baby photo's of them as twins. That will get down 2 albums+ she'll take the vacation photo albums

pictures of my craft room

Shelf DH put up T-giving w/end as a surprise for me. He wanted my piles of boxes etc. off the floor.Now I have 2 boxes off the shelf that had PP & c/stock scraps in it to sort thru. It took 6 days to do that.