Paper Snowflakes 101

Thanks to my girl Janette for sharing this fabulous link to Vintage Junky's easy snowflake tutorials, I've been a snowflake-making fiend! Michelle of Vintage Junky shares tutorials for 3 different snowflakes...which include how to fold the paper (very important!), then how to cut it to get absolutely lovely snowflakes. I really liked how she shows how to turn a rectangle piece of paper, into a square, then fold and cut into the triangle that unfolds into a hexagon (6 sides) for the perfect snowflake base-shape.

Above and below are 3 more tutorials that I created (just the cutting, go to her site here for the easy paper folding instructions) from looking at the photo of her snowflake display on her site. Just click on the photos below to enlarge and see better detail.

And I thought I'd share a few tips I came to learn:

-- You can't mess up. Some some of your snowflakes may be similar, but there's nothing exact about them and that's what makes them beautiful! Just like the real thing :)

-- Un-crease as you unfold. After cutting, you'll unfold to open and reveal your snowflake, be sure to un-crease each fold as much as possible so that it's flat.

-- "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." Okay, that's not exactly something I learned from cutting these snowflakes, but I did learn that from Buddy the Elf. And he's a snowflake cutting pro ;)

So far I've hung them from our chandelier in our dining room. I love the festive winter feel it brings into the room! And I'm excited to string them in the windows of our kitchen, and hang some on our Christmas tree. You can never have too many paper snowflakes.

And I'm sharing this over at Whipperberry and Under The Table and Dreaming.

Go see what others are sharing! :)

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Spiritual Health:

Read Alma 51-55

The below verses are of the 2,060 stripling warriors...love their example! Hope to teach my son to be the same.

"And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was not all—they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted. Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him." --Alma 53:20-21

Physical Health:

Yoga at home. Mmmmm yes :)