Star Trek - Skiing and sledding

[dieastra]

I have a friend on Twitter who is always decorating the shop window of her local pharmacy. Easter, carnivale, Christmas... and last week she did a winter theme with skiing. Check out the pictures here:

https://twitter.com/binneNichtHier/status/1347557902475792385

A long long time ago a friend had made little skis for me, from coffee stirrers but I never have done anything with them as I did not like the skiing poles which were just straws.

So I got inspired and I went to look whether I could find something better in my stash. The metal rods are from file folders I believe. I also tried out spaghetti as they were lighter for Chakotay to hold up in the air.

















The hill, made from styrofoam, without the "snow":




The snow I use is a sheet that sometimes new technology things come wrapped in:




The little slalom posts I made with tooth pricks and paper for the flags:

Comments

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

There's no much snow in my area, maybe I should make it myself too :D The skis and the poles look surpsiringly professional, considering the fact that they're made of spagetti and coffee stirrers! It's amazing what you can do with ordinary things.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Last weekend I woke up on Sunday to it snowing, and wanted to wait until it finished to do some pictures, and quickly did but by the time it already was thawing again as the temperature was above Zero. It never stays long in Dresden. I haven't posted those yet. But I hear next weekend will bring new snow and colder temperatures.

Earlier this evening we had a snowstorm combined with thunderstorm. Did you have that too? Apparently it was everywhere!

I have no idea how she managed to pull up one end of the coffee stirrers! I'll have to ask.

The poles in the first picture with Janeway and Chakotay are the metal rods from the last picture. Only the yellow ones in the slalom picture are spaghetti, as the others were too heavy for him to hold up in the air.

Someone said I should not tell all my secrets, it would take the magic of the pictures away. But I love sharing and showing others how easy it is, and hopefully inspiring some. One of my new Star Trek friends on Twitter has now also bought figures and accessories and what I already saw of her is promising, she's good in posing them. She also put them into a TARDIS box, saying "Wheeee!" LOL

I already had put all this stuff away to clear my table, when I thought of a situation I hadn't done yet. So I had to put it all up again but I think it was worth it ;) And now everone: Awwww!

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[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

Awwww!

I love hearing about how you make all this. It's like those behind the scenes videos: they don't take the magic of the movie away and often tell you how hard something that looks easy to achieve actually was. Or how many hours were spend to do something you can see or hear only for a second. Then you can appreciate someone's work even more.

There's a lot of snow in my area at the moment (the first proper snow this year) but there were no thunderstorms. It's below zero, so the snow is supposed to last at least a week.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Awwww!

;)

Yes, finally the first proper snow this winter! It looks like a Winter Wonderland outside and I love it. Several centimeters high. Children are happy to race down the hills on sleds. Also there are snowmen popping up everywhere.

The pictures with the duck swimrings I took on Thursday morning and when I came home in the evening it already was less snow on the balcony, you could see the ground, but on Friday it started snowing properly and still is and I just took some more proper pictures of them rolling around in the snow, snoggling and having a snow ball fight ;)

I hope it will stay for a while too, it looks so pretty.