A Snowy Thanksgiving Eve!

Hello all!  Yesterday was my playing hookie from work day as we were snowed in.  Yes...that's right...snowed in.  Sunday afternoon the flakes started falling but it wasn't enough to stick.  When everyone got to work Monday, it started coming down hard...and it continued throughout the day.  Now...for those of my readers that live in the midwest, let me just explain.  It rains a lot here in the Pacific Northwest, but as soon as it snows, the whole city loses it.  Hardly any of us own chains or snow tires and since our streets are hilly, drivers just go nuts! 

Our major freeway, Interstate 5, was backed up for HOURS!  Two of my friends, who lived less than 15 miles away from work, both took 6 hours to get home.  I heard on the news, some took as long as 9 hours!  It was just crazy.  And guess how many inches we got?  THREE!!!  That's right...just a few inches and our city goes into arctic shock.  It wasn't the amount of snow, but when it started Monday morning, it came down hard.  Then in the middle of the day, it warmed up, melting some of the snow.  And by the time it got dark, there was cold front that moved in that freezed everything.  And for a city with lots of steep hills, not enough of snow plows, people all rushing to get home, mixed in with some crazy drivers, it was bad!

Here are some pics of the snow day we had:

So...onto something new and fun.  My hubby, recently just started his blog here.  He used to blog about cars a lot back in high school, but recently started up again and wanted this blog to be about art.  My husband works for a consulting firm, and the client he's working for right now just happens to be Microsoft.  One of the managers there saw our wedding guest book that he made and asked him to paint a mural in his office in a "not too street, but not too corporate" way.  And this is what he came up with:

BEFORE

AFTER

AFTER

Chris drew up some templates on the computer and out of all the mock ups, the Manager chose this design.  Microsoft just opened up their new retail store here in the Seattle area, so the colors used here is part of their new store logo.  Let me just add that this was not your regular roller painting.  This was all done by paint spray cans for the "graffiti" look.  The Microsoft letters were cut as stencils, same as the white outline surrounding the black letters.   It took 9 hours on a Saturday to get this done, but the Manager was so satisfied!  It really turned out better than we all imagined it would.

For those new readers, here is a picture of our wedding guest book.  It's now hanging in our family room all signed by our guests, but this was also all done with spray can.  The graffiti on the right was stenciled and airsprayed.  If you tilt your head to the right, it reads "Cindi" and if you tilt your head to the left, it reads "Chris".  Our bodies were stenciled in by blowing up an engagement picture of ours below:

Anyhoo, thanks for those of you that's already entered my giveaway.  For those of you that haven't already, here's the link to my very first giveaway!  There's still time to enter!!

It's Thanksgiving eve and I hope everyone a great Turkey Day!  I'm sure there will be lots of laughs and food in your near future as you all spend some much needed family time.  I'm going to do the same!  Be happy and be safe!