Proper Paper Snowflakes

Fact. Taping proper paper snowflakes on windows helps promote a good snow year.

If you didn't have parents that spent time teaching you the proper way to make snowflakes, my deepest sympathies friend, it's cry'n shame. This sort of stuff breaks my heart, but here's your chance to finally learn. And after this quick post you will be able to teach your own children the right way and hopefully the cycle of rectangle snowflakes and snowflakes with 3 points, or 8, can finally end.

I believe that if you are from a part of the world where it snows, and especially if you love to snowboard, then being able to quickly cut out a 6 pointed snowflake is a skill you must own.

Here's how to fold a proper snowflake with the proper 6 points:

Links for the PDF download: black and white | color

After you get the pattern down, then you can start to get tricky...

Sharing Time: More Letter Press and Snowflakes

I have also stumbled onto this wonderful blog, poppytalk. I absolutely love this letterpress of this girl catching snowflakes. Awesome stationary. Poppy talk just has lots of beautiful simple things, plenty to celebrate our love for winter (like this snowflake wall art below, I'd be okay looking at it even in summer). See their snowflake stuff HERE. I love snowflakes

Zapada

zapada = snow in Romanian

I had a companion on my mission who was from Texas. I was with her when she saw her first actual snowflake. I loved it.

Snowflakes have always, and will forever, completely astound me. They are my most favorite shape. I marvel at their perfection. They are lacey and beautiful and elegant, but at the same time so cute and happy. I probably have spent hours upon hours watching them and being surprised by them.

I love drawing them, cutting them out of paper, staring at them, catching them, eating them, and praying for them.

This week my car got stuck in a snow patch infront of the house, and I couldn't get it out in time for my math class. I hate scraping ice off my windows to drive. I had to stand out in the cold to manually survey some land for an hour in the morning and thought I was going to freeze to death, and wanted to. My pants get wet and muddy on the bottom from walking through parking lots. All week long, no matter where I am, school, work, driving, at home, at Mark's... I just can't get warm enough.

And despite all the negative things that come with this winter season, I am so happy it's here. I love dressing in layers and wearing coats. I love putting on my snow pants and snowshoeing in the quite landscape. And I love how clean and white everything looks. Every time it snows I'm excited.

I'm really happy about my snowshoes I got for chirstmas, and think I would like to make my own home-made pair.