Snowy Day

View from the living room window.



The bird feeder Bryant and I made this summer is covered in snow!

 While it's snowing like crazy outside, I wanted to try my hand at making 3D paper snowflakes.  I've seen them made of paper and felt.  The felt ones looked a little too sturdy for my taste, but the paper ones are light and fluffy and perfect.  I am still working my way through the Simplicity catalog, so I grabbed six more pages, cut them down into six inch squares and after a bit of folding, cutting, taping and stapling....



Paper snowflake

I know it looks a little complicated, but these are seriously simple to make.  And mine is huge - I used six inch squares, so my total width is about 12 inches.  Next time I'm going to try using three inch squares of paper.

Backlit

There's a back lit view, just because I liked it.  : )   I think the silhouette gives you a little better sense of the folds, too.

If you're interested in making your own, here is a link to the tutorial I used.  I'd love to see pictures if you do make some!

Completely unrelated, while I was taking the pictures of the snow, this guy showed up and let me snap a few photos.