Making snowflakes, and some thoughts about embracing the seasons

Christmas is over, the New Year has been rung in — it is January. It’s slowly getting lighter, but it’s still freezing cold and we’re hoping for snow. Perhaps this is what the first months of the year are all about — bundling up and going outside to play in the cold, and then retreating back inside into the cosiness of our homes.

I’m trying to figure out what my resolutions are, which changes I would like to make this year. I’m organising my days better (I started a bullet journal! More on that later…), I’m hoping to have more time to cook, sew and craft this year — the first and the second goal go hand in hand, I suppose.

I’m also trying, this year, not to bring spring into our house too early. Spring flowers like tulips and bowls of bulbs are already fully available in all of Amsterdam’s flower stands and I must admit that I am very much tempted to buy a bunch, but I’m not falling for them just yet. When I’m getting ready for spring too early, it will will only seem to make January and February last so much longer to me. So I will try to look for the positive parts of these months, and I will celebrate them for what they are worth — not merely ignoring them in the favour of spring. This year, I’m going to embrace the seasons and wait until nature starts telling us it’s time to celebrate spring. Ha, hear me! I hope I have found the solution to the January and February blues ;).

Instead, I will look out for wintery ways to decorate our house. Pretty branches decorated with pompoms, cute snowmen drawings. Our seasonal table showcases snowmen. Ava and I made these pretty snow garlands over the weekend, and we started cutting out snowflakes to decorate the windows with. It’s an ongoing project that will keep us busy in the coming weeks, but I already like the look of our wintery windows. And if the sun peeps through, the snowflakes leave such pretty shadows on the walls.

Snowflake garlands are very simply made from cotton balls threaded on thin white yarn — some of them you can pull in pieces to make the flakes uneven. Emilie shows you how to make pretty paper snowflakes here.

xxx Esther

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