you knew this day would come

it's adornment and decoration time! brought to you by the flights-of-fancy department in montreal.
it's been snooooowing all day today TOO. i think it stopped now, but the sky is pinkish, guess what that means.
it's so much harder to walk in the snow than without snow! i think my thigh bones are going to give up at some point.
and when it snows, the landscape changes completely. i can pass my house and only realize it 2 minutes after, unless i look at the numbers, cause all the relevant details are covered up.
plus, if i wear my hoodie, i have to turn my head 90 degrees to look to the left or right. fun times.
now that i'm done with complaining, here's some street photos and some indoors.

i took this one around what i know call"second snow", or "before the big snow".  it looks like the little globes are wearing hats!

and this is downtown, gaaah, like 10 days ago. of course they started with the lights early enough. notably, this picture was taken at 4:10 p.m. did i mention that the snow makes the days seem longer? i guess so.

 around the mcgill stop.

and back in the plateau, ah, the nostalgia! this little tree belongs to the shop below (a fromagerie, i seem to remember. good place!)

and back in the neighbourhood!

this is the most outrageous of the decorated houses i'm passing by on my way. such a contrast with the buildings surrounding it. the photo looks kind of tame, cause it was snowing, but really it's a circus. 

house made of snow! i saw a mother building this for her child (i was hurrying somewhere), making "bricks" in a plastic box and piling them up around the kid. then when i returned they'd abandoned it. never seen anything like this before, though it makes so much sense. (well i guess i must have seen it in the "ice city" or something, but not in front of someone's house.

so, now i get to show off my "tree"!
ok, it's a bouquet of branches.
ok, i took them off the street. there was a kiosk selling trees and arrangements, but then some branches on one particular day had been cut off and left there. i looked around and returned later and looked around again and nobody was there. alright.
i didn't take many, yeah? they just fit inside a medium-sized thermos-type of thing.
(i have a longer explanation for how i set the whole thing up, if ever someone needs to look beyond the glamour:)).

but so, just my branches, my various small objects, treelights from melanie from 2 years ago, card from my parents, with stickers. 

presenting some of my favourite bits: this big globe is a real diva. too heavy to hang off any branch, given the precarious balance of the whole operation, so i just placed it there like an egg.

disco ball! and a green star which i realized too late made no sense to include, cause it's practically the color of the tree. maybe i'll find a secondary use for it these coming days. 

the best buy i made at the church bazar

so apparently i like stuff that's hollowed out with a tiny figurine inside. also, beeswax candles: mandatory.

huh, and then tonight i went and made these snowflakes. took me quite a while, since i'm not really crafty by nature. but it was too splendid not to try: snowflake patterns based on the sigils of the main Houses in westeros/"game of thrones".
giving credit where credit is due: http://www.kryshiggins.com/free-game-of-thrones-inspired-snowflake-patterns/

hear me roar!

questions? comments?
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