How To: Six Point Paper Snowflake

Below is a how to slide show for making pretty little 6 point paper snowflakes. If you have any trouble at all understanding what's going on, just click on a photo and it should take you to my flickr set where I've added detailed descriptive text to help clear up any confusion. Hope you enjoy!

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Glow in the dark planet mobile for Fiona

Well, we've been busy around here preparing for our little one to arrive. Yesterday as I was about to go crazy with anticipation (it being 2 days past her due date) my dad offered to come over and help me put together a mobile to display the glow in the dark planets that my mother-in-law gave to us. Having a visitor and a little creative project was the perfect thing to get my mind off thinking about IF and WHEN she will ever show up.


We sketched up a couple of ideas and ended up choosing a nice simple design that we could put together with wire and fishing line. I liked the idea of a slight curve to the cross bars as opposed to straight to give it a little extra style.


To do that we just cut some 18 gauge aluminum wire to the length we wanted and holding one end with pinched fingers, straightened the wire by running a cloth repeatedly from the pinched hand to the end of the wire, molding and curving it little by little. We then bent the ends under with pliers to create a loop for the fishing line. The rest just involved tying fishing line to the planets and balancing the mobile.

It was a nice quick little project that was very simple to put together. We sure hope Fiona likes it!

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New Lights and Some Color

Here is my new and improved light box photo. I found that my little desk lights weren't quite bright enough to show off my subject matter, so I got some clip lights and put in a daylight bulb so that all the colors were as true as could be. I also made sure to white balance my camera before shooting my subject and I added a nice patterned fabric beneath to make it pop.

The angle wasn't quite right when I clipped my lights to the sides of the box, but I didn't have any special light stands to fasten my lights to. To serve as stands, I tried clipping the lights to a couple bookends and it worked perfectly. They were easy to maneuver to get the lighting just right.

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