Snow Day!!!!

What a grand way to start the week..... a snow day. It had been snowing a bit yesterday and then when we got up this morning we were moaning that we'd have to find our way out in the weather . Sue had checked the Department of Education website at 6am and there was no notification or change to the day. Having prepared my breakfast I sat down to eat it in front of the news and then just as they were going "to the break" the said the New York City schools would be closed! We cheered- a day at home- so we won't get paid but it was a great chance to kick back and relax and get on with other things we hadn't had the chance to do over the weekend.
The snow continues to fall although pavements and streets are a lot clearer than they were early this morning. I decided to take photos of the buildings around as the look so different from those on days when the sun is shining and reflecting in their windows.
I have started a new class at Debbie Hodge's Get it Scrapped! - this time it's Art Journal 102. I really loved the class last year and found it was a really great way to express things that were hard to either scrapbook about or needed more expression than simply writing down.
The first week of classes has focused on "Amping up your images". I found the last process Dina Wakley (the teacher) used creating pages with collage a little difficult as I didn't have the images, although I have begun a collection. I also wanted to use my own images - those mountains of photos i have stored on the computer.
The current class has used a number of images in a range of ways. The gel medium process and the "altered" photos have been fun to work with and have managed to fill my day.
A bonus was that I was able to use the image from the newspaper that Margie had given me of the man with the cat on his head and so was able to use my poem from May on the page with the image.