Winter Window Snowflakes

So I think its official, here in Chicago I make large decorations for the dining/living room windows. This year I made the paper bag snowflakes that I started seeing on Instagram last year. I ordered white bags and found that 8 bags per snowflake was just right. Some people suggest 12 but I think that many would have a tendency to bunch even more at the bottom. And I can’t imagine how they cut through 12 bags at once. I found cutting through 8 difficult enough and made templates so I could cut each one separately and then glue them together.

I don’t really have a kitchen window anymore but I put a garland above the sink and imagine I do. I decorated the garland with snowflakes that were featured in the Sweet Paul magazine last winter. The directions were kind of minimal but I decided to use card stock and figured out how to stitch, with the embroidery thread and baker’s twine, so that they were neat on the back as well as the front. It was fun to come up with so many variations of the designs shown in the magazine.

The snowflakes like the rest of my decorations (except the tree which makes a much shorter appearance) were installed at the beginning of December and will stay up until the end of January.