Photos from a very snowy day (eagles!)

Last night, my husband and I went out to visit with my friend Sam to play Plutocracy. Every time we do this, the weather gets crazy. The first time, there were bad ice conditions, the second, it was well sub-zero and just freezing (photos from that outing here). This time, it was a snow storm with low visibility.

It was a very slow drive. Every time a drive pulled ahead of us and hit the snow on the road, things went white.
But on the list of things you see more often in Alaska than you do in other places...

Dog sleds on a truck outfitted for carrying dogs.

When we got out to Eagle River, we saw an eagle flying fairly low over the road, then off to one side, we saw this. All photos after this are uploaded at full size, so click to see the detail!

Yes. That's a tree full of bald eagles. 

This one made me smile, the branches look almost like it's make up, pretending to be The Crow!

Then a half block down, there was another tree that had both eagles and ravens in it!

Juvenile bald eagle and a raven.

We had fun playing our game for a few hours, then drove back into town. 

Currently, I'm trying to figure out what I can sell on Etsy to help make a bit of extra money to get a swatch collection printed at Spoonflower. My husband quit his job at the beginning of the month, and while he's looking for a new one, we are budgeting carefully. I'm thinking maybe an e-book of knotwork designs to color, or possibly post a bunch more blank templates for sale. 

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Printable eagle box

This box is a bit out of the ordinary for my usual posts. Most of my designs are made and tested at 100 ppi which makes a nice small file for the web and still works fairly well for most of my designs. Every once in a while, I do one at 300 ppi. This template is one I didn't even have in 300 ppi until today.

I was trying for a faux leather effect, and that's the other difference between this and my more usual fare. It's very ink intensive. I do like how it turned out though, and my test model was made from the PDF so I could see exactly how the PDF would print out.

You can get the PDF here. This is the biggest file I've ever posted here, and will take a few minutes to download.  The reason I made it such high quality is that eagle was a long way away, I didn't want to resize the image to fit the box. 

I hope you like it. The pdf also includes one of the photos I took of that eagle if you want to use the image for anything else.

More photos and a shawl pin project

The rose was taken today, the eagle a couple days ago. If you click on the images, you'll get the full sized version. You have my permission to use the image for scrapbooking and other non-commercial uses.

I posted a new shawl pin project at Beadwork at BellaOnline. This is what it looks like.