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What a winter of shower water looks like
What a winter of shower water looks like
This came to me last year as winter set in, I needed something to take me through the season....and due to the length of the 2010/11 winter in AB last year it so helped. I started saving shower water and freezing it in whatever containers I could find. Adding food coloring to the water made the ice become a winter garden.
I added lights and other elements along the way, tree branches, leaves, doilies what ever I could freeze...some things worked better than other. The mosaic ground was the start....once I found I could stick the ice together things progressed to a point you can build anything the imagination can see.
As things built up in the yard and people started noticing, there was now a connection with community. A bridge to chat up what I was doing with anyone interested. This was cool cause it did for people what it was doing for me...I was enjoying the winter like a kid. Playing outside til your so cold you can't feel you fingers, but you still don't want to go in.
Then we'd get a chinook (a warm spell) the ice would melt and start to drain of color, change shape and morph into something new.
2011/12 winter is about to begin and I am looking forward to the new season of ice with many new ideas! I am attending an Ice festival and will put this to use as a group building process with a group of kids in January 2012.
I added lights and other elements along the way, tree branches, leaves, doilies what ever I could freeze...some things worked better than other. The mosaic ground was the start....once I found I could stick the ice together things progressed to a point you can build anything the imagination can see.
As things built up in the yard and people started noticing, there was now a connection with community. A bridge to chat up what I was doing with anyone interested. This was cool cause it did for people what it was doing for me...I was enjoying the winter like a kid. Playing outside til your so cold you can't feel you fingers, but you still don't want to go in.
Then we'd get a chinook (a warm spell) the ice would melt and start to drain of color, change shape and morph into something new.
2011/12 winter is about to begin and I am looking forward to the new season of ice with many new ideas! I am attending an Ice festival and will put this to use as a group building process with a group of kids in January 2012.
Ice 2012 build ice and adding in natural materials...
Then it all melted...started again, 2 done and they lasted the last little chinook!
Ice 2010....2011 was a bust to warm
Ice Castle 2013 light up
