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Seize the moment ~ OT
For those of us that are dealing with bitter winter weather. Here's a fun thing to try. I have ice candles all over the deck. (It's the ONLY bright spot I can hang onto, in this weather)
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Finnish ice candles
?Fill buckets with water and place outside overnight away from the house for maximum exposure.
?Bring buckets into the house when frozen. (The top and sides will freeze first, but you want some water sloshing around under the ice in the very center of the bucket.)
?Gently tip the bucket over a large sink. After a few minutes the candle will loosen from the sides, and you can ease it out. You can also run a little warm water over the bottom of the bucket to loosen the ice.
?The bottom ice will be soft. Use a knife to chip it away and form an opening. Carefully tip candle over, pouring the water from the opening. This is where the votive or tea light will go.
?Return the candle to the outdoors - front steps, along a walkway, or the back patio. Place a votive or tea light in the center and light.
For fun you can add food coloring, leaves, feathers or other materials to the water before freezing. Or try experimenting with freezing water at different temperatures to form bubbles in the ice.
"You have to find some way to be joyful when it's miserable outside. "Making ice candles turns the bitter cold on its head." Ice candles are all about seizing the moment.
The faster the water freezes, the clearer the ice. But some like the way that bubbles and other imperfections formed at varying temperatures can refract the candle's flame.
Use beet juice as an environmentally friendly way to color the ice. Other experiments involve different containers ? even soup cans ? though 5-gallon buckets work best.
"It's simple, but like anything else there are fine points. For example, hot water actually will freeze more quickly than cold.
"You have to have lasting cold, but the candles will last for several days, even at above-freezing temperatures, once they are made. "They don't disappear right away."
And when they do? "They leave no trace," she says. "There's no storage, no cleanup, no expense, just water and winter working together."
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Finnish ice candles
?Fill buckets with water and place outside overnight away from the house for maximum exposure.
?Bring buckets into the house when frozen. (The top and sides will freeze first, but you want some water sloshing around under the ice in the very center of the bucket.)
?Gently tip the bucket over a large sink. After a few minutes the candle will loosen from the sides, and you can ease it out. You can also run a little warm water over the bottom of the bucket to loosen the ice.
?The bottom ice will be soft. Use a knife to chip it away and form an opening. Carefully tip candle over, pouring the water from the opening. This is where the votive or tea light will go.
?Return the candle to the outdoors - front steps, along a walkway, or the back patio. Place a votive or tea light in the center and light.
For fun you can add food coloring, leaves, feathers or other materials to the water before freezing. Or try experimenting with freezing water at different temperatures to form bubbles in the ice.
"You have to find some way to be joyful when it's miserable outside. "Making ice candles turns the bitter cold on its head." Ice candles are all about seizing the moment.
The faster the water freezes, the clearer the ice. But some like the way that bubbles and other imperfections formed at varying temperatures can refract the candle's flame.
Use beet juice as an environmentally friendly way to color the ice. Other experiments involve different containers ? even soup cans ? though 5-gallon buckets work best.
"It's simple, but like anything else there are fine points. For example, hot water actually will freeze more quickly than cold.
"You have to have lasting cold, but the candles will last for several days, even at above-freezing temperatures, once they are made. "They don't disappear right away."
And when they do? "They leave no trace," she says. "There's no storage, no cleanup, no expense, just water and winter working together."
Getting fat….!
First my clothes were way too big and soon they are going to be too small!!!
A: I can't afford to buy an entire wardrobe one size up!
B: I'm a girl ... I don't want to put on any weight!
I'm eating things I haven't eaten since my twenties, like chocolate! I don't have a sweet tooth and suddenly I can't go a day without.
I've got to do something before I have nothing left to wear but I'm scared I'll freak if I lose the only fun thing left - food!!
What did you guys do? Or are you all skinny?
A: I can't afford to buy an entire wardrobe one size up!
B: I'm a girl ... I don't want to put on any weight!
I'm eating things I haven't eaten since my twenties, like chocolate! I don't have a sweet tooth and suddenly I can't go a day without.
I've got to do something before I have nothing left to wear but I'm scared I'll freak if I lose the only fun thing left - food!!
What did you guys do? Or are you all skinny?
old and sad…
Today I'm just sad. It's stupid, but my ego is a little bruised.
I've had one fun thing I do, ballroom dancing. Today I saw my dance partner. Times being what they are, his job has changed, his income has changed, and he won't be making time for our dancing anymore. I'm just a little bummed that it was more fun for me (I was willing to continue to make the effort) than it was for him.
I have gone to ballroom dances alone, and spent the evening looking perky and gracious and enthusiastic. But not dancing.
Since he takes the summer off, and I had a suspicion this may happen one day, I had been looking around for another man to dance with, on bulletin boards and Craig's List. But there are tons of other women looking for partners, and no men.
My husband is drunk almost every night, and doesn't want to do anything different.
And now I'm having hot flashes and I feel old. Honest, I'm usually more fun than this...
I've had one fun thing I do, ballroom dancing. Today I saw my dance partner. Times being what they are, his job has changed, his income has changed, and he won't be making time for our dancing anymore. I'm just a little bummed that it was more fun for me (I was willing to continue to make the effort) than it was for him.
I have gone to ballroom dances alone, and spent the evening looking perky and gracious and enthusiastic. But not dancing.
Since he takes the summer off, and I had a suspicion this may happen one day, I had been looking around for another man to dance with, on bulletin boards and Craig's List. But there are tons of other women looking for partners, and no men.
My husband is drunk almost every night, and doesn't want to do anything different.
And now I'm having hot flashes and I feel old. Honest, I'm usually more fun than this...
