Okay, I’ve postponed it for long enough. Christmas is officially around the corner. Advent calendar down to one more door to open and we have to fulfil Lo’s request from the very start of this project, to make snowflakes.

I’m not in a very good mood at the moment and finding this process slightly frustrating. I ended-up folding the paper and cutting out the shapes (because the folded paper was a bit too dense for little hands to manage effective cutting), while Lo diligently folded paper into a miniature hat and coloured it in and Rohan took turns with me to use the scissors. He cut straight lines out of another piece of paper and then stuck tape onto it.

I suggested that we paint the patterns onto black paper using the snowflakes as templates. With my weary eyes and aching ribs we resorted to just gluing the shapes onto the paper. Logaan said “I just want to do it the quick way.” Fully agreed!

Rohan was my star at gluing and sticking the patterns on. He loves to sing while he works. Glue finished now. Lo arranged them in the order to be hung. Not such a bad day after all.