SnowBun!

For the first time in two years, a medium-sized snowstorm hit our town yesterday, and today as Jeff and I wolfed down our lunch, I mentioned that I wanted to make a snowman. Surprisingly, Jeff was into the idea--"Let's do it now!" Of course, we couldn't do the same old played-out normal snowman. We made a snowBun.

It took us a little while to get on the same page as to how this snowBun would come together, but soon enough we established the Garfield-ish main form and began fine tuning it.

I messed around with the photo settings on this one to make the profile more visible.

We took turns making the face--I roughed in the main shape and eye sockets while Jeff refined the ears and added the features. He was charmingly businesslike while I emerged as the project's cheerleader.

It's my belief that if Bun had existed during Biblical times, people would have created golden idols in her image. So it was all too appropriate for Jeff and me to make a snow sculpture of a creature that we basically worship every day.

That face cracks me up.

This is the view of our snowBun from the house. She's not long for this world--this weekend we'll have highs in the fifties with a good chance of rain.

But this was so much fun, and for about an hour we felt like a couple of kids. We came inside soggy and gleeful. Bun groggily hopped downstairs, glanced at her giant likeness out in the yard, and demanded some wet food.

Comments

[Angie M.]

That's the best snowkitty I've ever seen. I'm of the mind that you should have made it in your front yard (since it looks like it's in your side yard?) to be admired (i.e. worshiped) by all.

[Kelly]

Thanks Angie! We thought about that, but we didn't want to deal with the gravel out front. Also, our front yard isn't as visible to us when we're inside. We're greedy!

[MaryAnn Sepke]

This is better than any snowman ever made!!!!!! Only snowkitties on our lawn from now on! ;]

[Kelly]

Right on, MaryAnn!

[Teiva]

This is a strange question for this post..but I noticed that you have awesome curly hair. I was wondering what products you use on it. I have wavy/curly hair too and am having hair issues. Yours always looks great!

[Kelly]

Thanks Teiva, but no it doesn't!

But here's what I do: wash with whatever is around, condition with Pantene conditioner for curly hair. On combed, barely towel-dried hair (I squeeze it gently to get most of the water out--takes about 5 seconds), I work in some Pantene gel for curly hair along with some Moroccan oil. I just mix the two together with my hands, bend over so my hair's upside down, and work it through from ends to almost-roots.

I do this every other day at around 6 pm. I let it air dry until bedtime. It's usually still kind of damp, but I'll put it in a high ponytail and sleep that way until morning. Then I take the ponytail down and let it finish air drying. Something about this calms down the curls and makes my hair seem wavy rather than curly.

Then I don't do anything to it. I don't even comb it until after I wash it again. If I'm frizzy, I put in some anti-frizz product like John Frieda's Secret Weapon. That's it! Hope this helps!

[Teiva]

Thanks Kelly! That does help. I think that I need to revisit using a gel!