Windows around the world

[vilakins]

Take a picture of what is outside of your window right now and post it.

Two from upstairs, taken around 11:30am


This is from a bedroom window upstairs. You can see the city in the distance, including the Sky Tower.


This is out another bedroom window. The hill between two trees to the left is One Tree Hill (now None Tree Hill, sadly) with its cenotaph on top. The many hills like that around Auckland are extinct volcanoes. The stripes in the sky are reflections of Venetian blinds, not some strange weather phenomenon. :-)

And while I'm at it, here's my summer tree, inside two windows. :-) I found some very cheap summer-related decorations on-line that are unbreakable, so I put up a tree that celebrates summer, sand, and sea. The kittens have batted the lower ones round a bit, but they can't hurt them, or be hurt by them.

Summer tree


It's a bit bare, but there are starfish, shells, fish, and a seahorse. :-) I also put some real shells under it. Behind are the new blinds; I'll be able to use the spaceships and planets in that corner next year as there won't be any direct sun to focus through the glass balls. :-)

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I live on a hill, but I don't think it's the right shape (too long) to be an old volcano. Pity, because the old ones are capped and safe from new ones coming up; the field isn't extinct. :-P

Next year I'll put the summer decorations and wooden apples I also have down low, but the older cats were never even that interested.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

You can *see* a volcano from your window. Hellholeah is totally flat, absolutely the most boring landscape in the world. Even the waterways are dull, narrow canals.

One year I made a whole bunch of stuffed tiny felt and sequins animals as decorations. They were cute, and the cats couldn't hurt them. I gave away most of them, but I think I still have a camel and a cat.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What a lovely idea! These ones are foam covered with some sort of material and sequins.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It was fun. I just drew a side view of an animal on felt, laid that on top of another piece and cut out, then laid one of the cut-outs over 2 more layers of felt and drew around the lower portion to make the inner gussets for the legs and belly. Blanket stitch it together partway, shove in a bit of stuffing (I used up the cotton from pill bottles), finish stitching and then sew on sequins with a tiny bead on top of each whereever I wanted to further decorate the animal. I think the cat just got a sequinned collar, but the camel got a blanket with decorations. Some animals got embroidery floss manes & tails, too.