Karin's Adventures

New Year's Eve is a holiday laden with traditions. The ones I try to live are a mixture of what my family used to do, or what people do in Germany, or stuff that I just picked up from somewhere I don't even remember. 

I need to eat herring salad, drink prosecco, watch "Dinner for One" just before midnight, then light some fire-crackers at midnight, and then melt lead first thing in the new year.

My piece of random lead art for 2013 looks like an eagle to me.

What do you think? 

Indiana Tech's annual Holiday Dinner took us out to a part of town where we usually don't go. So, since we were already in the area, we decided to take a detour on the way home and drive by one very elaborate Christmas decoration that this family set up for everybody to watch and listen. The entire house lights up to the rhythm of "All I want for Christmas is You". If you watch closely, you can see Santa Claus working inside, behind one of the windows.