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Cardboard Snowflakes and Paper Garland

December 15, 2015 by Barb 5 Comments

Cardboard snowflakes and paper garland … a look back …

Today for Part II of my favourite Christmas decorations series, I present my cardboard snowflakes which have been gracing our tree since 2011 … Cardboard Snowflakes, Christmas Past, Keeping With the Times, Barb BrookbankI had a huge stack of hard cardboard that came packaged with photos from Costco (to prevent bending.) One morning I gathered it all up and headed to a local scrapbooking store where I used the die-cut machine to cut them out. As I had a membership there, the extra cost to me was $0.00. Gotta love that.

Then there’s my paper garland made from an old dictionary … I truly have a soft spot for this garland. It’s delicate, yet surprisingly resilient. I store it carefully in a large garbage bag at the top of my storage room, again since 2011! Cardboard Snowflakes, Christmas Past, Keeping With the Times, Barb BrookbankOn Instagram when I posted the following image of the nuts (with the cardboard snowflakes in the background) I was amazed at how it touched people! The conversation around unshelled nuts was wonderful and so much fun … micro blogging to be sure!

Nuts and “bowls” growing up, my Mom always had unshelled nuts at Christmas … now I do the same and although no one eats them I love having them around. Celebrating memories… remember to tag your images to #sunday_sundries @keepingwiththetimes to share your celebratory moments! I’ll feature 4 tomorrow…

A photo posted by Barb Brookbank (@keepingwiththetimes) on Dec 12, 2015 at 2:48pm PST


See Dictionary Paper Trees for Part I of this series.

And don’t forget to enter the draw for the copy of the beautiful Bella Grace magazine! Draw to be made tomorrow!

Filed Under: DIY AND CRAFTS Tagged With: garland, snowflakes

Comments

  1. TexWisGirl says

    December 15, 2015 at 11:01 am

    love the snowflakes. :) yup, we always had the bowl of mixed nuts and several hand crackers around. :)

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  2. KellyKardos says

    December 15, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    I’m LOVING that paper garland.

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  3. Kathy says

    December 17, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Wow…what a fantastic idea with the old dictionary pages! Mentally filing that away :)

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  4. Ann Davis says

    December 18, 2015 at 8:52 am

    Beautiful image, and the garland is something I remember making years ago.

    Ann

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  5. Jen @ The Light Laughed says

    December 18, 2015 at 9:01 am

    I could see why it touched the hearts of your viewers Barb, there is a beautiful simplicity to your photo that rings in our hearts. We always had a large bowl of nuts, and the sound of them being cracked open brings back childhood memories of sitting on the couch waiting for my Dad to share them with us.

    Your work always resonates….

    Merry Christmas
    Jen

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