Make Your Own Snowflakes

      All of our snow melted and it looks like we live in Beverly Hills L.A. Once again we’re dreaming of a White Christmas and waiting for the next storm to blow through – in the meantime, we’re making our own flakes.
   “Run out some more of those snowflakes,” Claire said.  What snowflakes is she talking about? The ones from Dave’s Snowflake Page at http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dstredulinsky/home.html . They’re the most delicate and intricately designed snowflakes I’ve ever seen – except for the real thing (visit Nancy Baetz’s blog for an up close picture of a snowflake). And they couldn’t be easier to make. For a modest fee of $12.00 you can access over 300 designs from 1999 - 2006. There are several different levels to choose from (easy to difficult), and all you have to do is print them, fold them, and cut them out with a pair of sharp scissors. Dave has dedicated his website to his mother, Kathleen Stredulinsky, who he says “explored and perfected the art of snowflake making and encouraged our whole family to gather round the tree each Christmas Eve and create new snowflakes.” Every time one of our family members finishes a snowflake we ooh and ah over it. You can tape these to the living room window, hang them from the ceiling or even use them to decorate Christmas presents. The possibilities are endless. Visit Dave’s site and try out a sample snowflake and you too can make snow “no matter what the weather outside.”  

5:55 PM - Dec. 18, 2006 - post comment

Snowflakes

Well Sister................we are in the same boat. We are not just dreaming of a White Christmas........we are praying for one. As we watched the weather early this morning and all 3 Television Stations concurred that we would not have a White Christmas, I emphatically refused to accept their less than optimistic assessment of what their high tech machines are predicting. For those of you who do not live up here in our neck of the woods, (Maine), we awoke to a much unpredicted snowfall just weeks ago. All 3 stations were completely taken a back as not one of them had predicted this event. So with God's Word and my deep love for the white fluffy stuff.......I pronounced to my husband....." I do not accept their weather forecast for Christmas"............."Faith is the substance of things hoped for(I hope for a White Christmas)..........the evidence of things not seen........(and I certainly do not see any snow for Christmas, as predicted by modern science)." Even my 26 year old daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, pronounced last night that she was praying for snow. So with hope in our hearts, we pray and ask that all of you as well, pray for the most beautiful fluffy snowfall ever, for all of us snow lovers...........in Maine and in Illinois, but until then.................those absolutely beautiful faux snow flakes will have to suffice.

Edited by JillNovak on Dec. 20, 2006 at 6:55 AM

June-Jill's Sister in Maine - 4:00 AM - Dec. 19, 2006

Just Beautiful, Jill

Aren't Dave's Snowflakes truly stunning? We've been cutting them out for the last 4 years or so... and we never tire of it!

Keep spreading the word... and the Word...
Thankful for you, Jill!

All is gift,
Ann Voskamp

Anonymous - 5:17 AM - Dec. 19, 2006

Thank you!

Wow, you wouldn't believe all the referrals that came over to my blog, just by checking my sitemeter! I have had a zillion people come by to look at the snowflake. Here is the link for THIS years photo:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ByHisGraceInColorado/255360/A+new+snowflake+photo.html
So, even though you haven't had many comments, you had a whole lot of people read this one!
I LOVE your paper snowflakes! We better get busy here and do some too!
Love you,
Nancy

Anonymous - 5:54 PM - Dec. 19, 2006

Wow!

Those ARE pretty snowflakes! Thanks for sharing the photo and the link.

Blessings, Beckie :o)

LittleEblingsAcademy - 10:39 AM - Dec. 21, 2006

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Wishing you and yours lots of Christmas blessings!!

In Him, Beckie

LittleEblingsAcademy - 7:53 AM - Dec. 25, 2006

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We love snowflakes! They drift down from the sky like tiny pieces of frozen lace... and we are enthralled by their beauty. Here in our part of NC we have not had any snow in the last winter and a half and we are suffering from "snow flake deprivation!" Your lovely snowflakes offer some relief... now if we could only make enough to sled on!

larkspur - 4:58 PM - Dec. 30, 2006

snowflakes

Remember the first time we saw that snowflake fallin from the sky on my1 b-day.We kept it in the freezer till the 4th of July and showed all our neighbors and friends.We are both 14 and b-day we still have it in the freezer next to a new snowman we made on my 3rd . love Hannah Golar

ANNAS LIL SIS - 6:46 PM - Feb. 28, 2007

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