Snowflakes

Jan 08, 2012 09:26

In 1986, as a member of the Izod Christmas Party decorating committee, I took a hundred sheets of typing paper, a bottle of Elmer's glue and a couple jars of gold and silver glitter and turned them into sparkling paper snowflakes to hang from the party hall's darkened ceiling, which had been strung with hundreds of white mini-lights. The decorating scheme had been my suggestion, an idea I had adapted from my mother's advent tradition of hanging a blue tissue paper sky behind our nativity set, and allowing each of us kids to paste one star every day if we could name one good deed we had done. Of course, I had a lot of help with the cutting out and glittering from my youngest 2 siblings, auntiemeesh and J, who were still in high school/jr high and apparently bored.

The snowflakes were a huge hit at the party, but I was horrified afterwards to see one of the cleanup committee (I was on both committees) tossing them into the trash! More than half of them were already gone, but I salvaged about 30, and they have been part of my holiday decorating ever since. It's been a few years, and a few moves since the last time I got the snowflakes out, and I was sorry to see that in the interim another bunch had got torn beyond saving, so I only had 6 of the originals left.




They fit perfectly on the inside of the storm door, but they have been disintegrating where they hang ever since I taped them up. I don't think I'll have more than three left when I take them down in a month or so. I came across a box of art supplies when I was clearing out my closet, and there is still a jar of glitter among the odds and ends, so I think I will make a fresh set of snowflakes for next year and retire my old ones.
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