I love the cheesy Christmas movies.
I love the Christmas carols (okay ... this part needs to be in moderation)
I love twinkling Christmas lights and the decorations at the Shopping Mall
And I love decorating my Christmas Tree.
This year, I am totally on a DIY / Crafty Christmas high. Not only am I handmaking my Christmas presents, I also made some of my own decorations.
My moment of pride is my Snowflake Door.
I have the ugliest back door that you have ever seen. I can't even tell you how much I hate it. It is awful. But because we are renting, there is not much we can do about it.
For Christmas, I decided to jazz it up a bit with some snowflakes and here is the finished product (please excuse the low quality pics - it is actually quite difficult to take a picture of a glass door and I am certainly no professional)
My door is so pretty now
This craft actually cost me nothing to do. I used some white tissue paper which I had in the house (I usually keep the tissue paper that comes inside handbags, etc). I spent a couple hours each night for a week cutting snow flakes while watching TV. When I had accumulated a whole lot, I stuck them onto the door using normal kiddies craft glue, which should be easy enough to clean off.
Just a note: Tissue Paper is super fragile when it gets wet and the most frustrating part was sticking the snowflakes to the door. The glue dried really fast, and if I needed to reposition the snowflake, it was quite difficult and resulted in a few rips (which I managed to fix, but still ... frustrating and stressful).
I eventually found a method that worked. Step 1: "Glue" the snowflakes on with water and reposition as necessary. Step 2: Before the water dries, brush over the snowflake with glue. This worked out really well.
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