I have mentioned several times that I'm not a crafter in the sense of what we call "Basteln" in German. You know, the kind of crafting you learn as a kid. I was the kid who didn't learn it.
One reason was of course - sorry for repeating myself - my strained relationship with glue. Another one was that I had no patience whatsoever for glueing halves of wooden clothespins together to make coasters or struggling with straw to create a crooked star.
I wasn't proud of most of the abominations I was forced to produce at birthday parties or in school - except the owl picture I made by glueing (!) on beans and seeds from a kit my godmother gave me to keep me entertained while I spent a few days with her once. That wasn't all bad and my mother indulged me by hanging it up in a corner next to our wall phone, so you could stare at it while talking.
I still wonder myself where I was hiding my patience (for some crafts) which suddenly seemed to come out in full force when I was already over 40. Okay, there had been a few years of intensive knitting before, too.
My snowflakes or stars cut from paper also weren't heirlooms worth keeping. Usually I went overboard and a last fatal cut destroyed everything. Not that it traumatized me, but I had friends who were practically pros at that kind of stuff and somehow expected me to join in the fun ... that they had.
I can have my own fun with snowflakes, though - virtual ones. Some of mine have been out there for years and I even recognize one or the other.
Do you know the website SnowDays - "It's Always Snowing Here"? Since 2003, millions of virtual snowflakes have been created on this site, about 20 of them are by me, the oldest one from 2010. You can search for them by the name you used and you can save your flakes as image, transparent or as a GIF.
I keep forgetting about this page, then I come back, make one or two flakes, forget about it again, then Flash went away and the site was down for a while, but came back - and so did I!
This is the flake I made today, #15,074,414.
Will you try it, maybe with your children?
This is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAnd fun as you can do nothing wrong!
DeleteIt's beautiful! Like you, I'm not very handy when it comes to arts and crafts. But this is great!
ReplyDeleteOh, I can do some things, but others really not at all 😂
DeleteVirtual snowflakes are much more fun for me than messing up paper ones!
Very cool! I might try it. 😄
ReplyDeleteIt's really fun!
DeleteI had forgotten about that site! My boys and I used it when we were studying snowflakes one winter.
ReplyDeleteI don't even know why I had kept the old link after the site had been down, but it was fun to make another one.
DeleteI had never heard of virtual snowflakes. My boys and I enjoy making paper snowflakes every so often. Maybe we should sit down one evening and make some!
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Worth a try!
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