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This past week I’ve made dozens little crochet snowflakes, as well as handmade Christmas cards. I’m including one snowflake in each card as a little surprise!

As a crafter I like the touch of handmade cards. Often I would buy them from other crafters, but in this rural town I can’t find any to buy. So I made my own. I found blank , folded cards with envelopes and decided to spruce them up and include a crochet snowflake as an extra little surprise.

When it came to the sprucing up, I drew a blank. I must have looked at hundreds of cards online for inspiration. I didn’t have all kinds of fancy materials or gadgets to my disposal. As a last resort I decided to look in a few old Christmas craft books I had picked up for free from a closing library over a year ago. One of them had lots of cross stitch patterns and when I looked at the colorful charts, a lightbulb went off somewhere in my mind. Why not use the charts! After all, they’re colorful, fun, patterned little pixels printed on high quality glossy paper.

With scissors and an x-acto knife I cut out a few designs. From bigger designs I cut out shapes, like hearts, stars, and circles for ball ornaments. Some of these I gave a pixelated look by cutting the edge along the little squares.

Then I simply glued them onto the cards. They were pretty as they were, no additional decor was needed. What do you think?

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Here’s one of my crochet snowflakes. I’ll post the pattern later.

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As I packed Christmas presents, I also made ruffled paper tube gifts. They’re a Christmas staple in our family. Often they contain candy or chocolate, but sometimes there’s something really special. It’s a great way to make a present of a paper confirming a magazine subscription or a trip. Just roll it up, tie a pretty ribbon around and insert it in a tube from paper towels and decorate it.

I wrote a tutorial for this in 2011, but we had to remove it because after a series of unfortunate events we lost all photos on this site. I now have new photos and will repost that tutorial soon.

This update is short. Charlotte and I had a fun, and exhausting, day shopping with Lars in Minneapolis. We’re staying at a hotel overnight, and early in the morning I’ll take a flight to Florida to stay with Maria for a few weeks.

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My cute kitty “assistant” Snow wasn’t happy to see me leave. She wanted to come along for some more adventures … Just look at that face and those eyes! I’ll miss her!

Reporting from Florida next week! =D

~ Marina

 


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