Some Very Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen on a (Nearly) Wordless Wednesday

Snowpersons for all right here.

Winter Morning

by Ogden Nash



Winter is the king of showmen,
Turning tree stumps into snow men
 


And houses into birthday cakes
And spreading sugar over lakes.
 


Smooth and clean and frosty white,
The world looks good enough to bite.
 


That's the season to be young,
Catching snowflakes on your tongue.
 


Snow is snowy when it's snowing,
I'm sorry it's slushy when it's going.

Guaranteed not-to-melt snowpersons here.

Attack of the Zombie Snowmen!

If you are unlucky enough to find yourself at ground zero on Snowman Z-Day, the following survival tips may increase your chances of staying alive.

Always Aim For The Head

A sure fire way to put down a Zombie snowman permanently is to destroy the brain.



When choosing a weapon, fight the urge to get a gun only designed to impress your friends or one that's too heavy.  A blow-dryer is good. 

A cordless blow-dryer is even better.

Stay Away From Windows

So you have found some shelter and your fellow survivors are discussing what to do next. Don't stand next to the idiot standing with his back to the unsecured window.

Run!

If you can't run, consider using a toboggan...


And keep in mind... zombie snowmen aren't very fast, due to their lack of legs.

Hit The Road

Fact: Zombie snowmen like the city.  There's more to see there and more people to eat.



As soon as you think something strange might be happening,  pack up and move to the countryside. Find a nice field.  Avoid forests.  Zombie snowmen love to sneak up on victims in the forest.  Now... become a farmer and wait for it all to blow over.

Never say 'I'll be right back'

The first person to say 'I'll be right back' always gets eaten. Keep your wits about you, stay with other people and if you find yourself alone – find someone! Remember the saying safety in numbers? Just check they aren't already zombies.

Act like a Zombie Snowman

A very cunning way to avoid being eaten by a Zombie snowman is to act like one yourself! The vacant stare, drooling an incoherent mumbling will make you fit in with any real zombie snowmen that break into your home.

Decapitate

Decapitation is another sure fire way to kill a Zombie snowman.

Get Creative

So you ran out of battery power on your blow dryer?  It's time to get creative. Anything that generates heat is effective.

Don't Be A Hero

A good way to survive zombie snowman attacks is to give them something else to chase down and eat – your friends. If you're in a crowd of people, stand in the middle. Just remember it's better to come up with the ideas and lead the group than to just be a follower. It's the person at the back of the group during chase scenes that gets eaten first.

If You Get Bitten Keep It A Secret

So while fighting off that last wave of the undead snowmen with your bare hands, you took one for the team. Luckily for you it was somewhere easy to conceal. It's only a flesh wound.

Wait Until The Whole Thing Blows Over

Lock the doors, build a fire in the hearth, and wait for it to all blow over.



Thanks to blurtit.com  for the zombie tips.

And mosey over here for your very own zombie snowman bracelet or earrings.

Musings from Land of the Lost

I lost a lot of stuff last week.  I lost my gold Swarovski crystals.  I lost my bag of things I was going to ship.  I lost the bag of pieces I was going to blog about.  It all got lost in a great big Christmahannukwanzadan chaos.

Finally I found the gold Swarovski crystals.  They were in my box of angel parts.  (Bet you didn't know angels had parts.)  And then I found the BLOG bag, which was tucked in with the various earrings bags, right behind the CHRISTMAS bag, and in front of the WINTER BAG.  And finally I found the SOLD bag.  I had tucked it into the box of bracelets.  But when I started going through the bracelets, I realized that a lot of their listings were gone.

Vanished!  POOF!  Gone!  Not on ebay.  Not on etsy.  Not anywhere.  So I went through my box of bracelets (which, I guess, is my inventory of bracelets, but I'm trying not to get too technical here).  And I made a BIG pile of bracelets that were no longer listed and were, therefore, lost.

Happily I could find photos of most of them.  So I relisted all of them (except the ones I need to re-photograph) and here they are, so you can see how lost I really was.  All of them are now in my eBay store.  At least, they'd better be, or I'll know that even more mysterious forces are at work.



A Springlike Bracelet...





A Hanukkah bracelet done in blue gemstones and sterling charms:





A fertility bracelet.  (Alas, it didn't breed in the box and make new fertility bracelets.)





TWO bracelets of Buddha' Blessings.  Does that mean two people went un-blessed?









A bracelet about the Ghosts of the California Gold Rush, in pyrite and hematite.





A St. Patrick's Day bracelet:





And the snowman bracelet that was in last week's blog post.  It was lost, I found it and re-photographed and re-listed it, did the post, and promply lost it again. 





My mother used to tell me I'd lose my head if it weren't attached to my body.

Turns out she was right.

Headlessly yours,

Cornerstoregoddess

Attack of the Snowpersons

 
























































 






















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