make your own crystal snowflake

By ckilgore

crystal snowflake How do y'all feel about the big momma of craft ladies, Martha Stewart? I know, for some reason, I shouldn't like hr, but dammit, some of the stuff she (or her staff) come up with is so cute. And it really made me sad that they quit publishing Martha Stewart Kids, because that was the best mag in the whole line of publications. All the activities, the graphics ... it was just yummy.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah ... crystal snowflakes. I saw this post on how to make your own using borax and pipe cleaners over at marthastewart.com and it seems simple enough. I love me some twinkliness around the holidays and I can imagine a bunch of these in the windows.

SNOWFLAKE HOW-TO
Twist three 5-inch pieces of pipe cleaner together to form a snowflake, then add a 1 1/2-inch piece to each point. Tie the flake with string to a pencil. Find a big enough jar so the suspended flake won't touch the sides. Fill with 3 tablespoons borax and 1 drop blue food coloring per 1 cup of boiling water. Hang the snowflake in the jar. Let sit overnight; remove.

Tagged:
snowflake crystal diy borax Martha Stewart kids pretty holiday christmas

Did you like this article?

November 30, 2006

4 comments

Viewed 2261 times

ckilgore's blog (7 posts)

Subscribe to this blog
Member since: 11/16/06
About: I am a tight-wad modernist. I like things that are cheap, but don't look cheap...

More by ckilgore

Prev: mod furniture DIY plans

Comments

» All comments

megrockstar

May 12, 2007

as much as i do not want to think back to snow, this is a cool idea

GAILE GUEVARA

April 21, 2007

neat idea, thanks for sharing ...

lagomorph

December 02, 2006

I love this and need to try it out. I have a love/hate relationship with Martha...I subscribe to her magazine and collect old kids issues but damn is it hard to see everything so perfect all the time.

DIY Maven

November 30, 2006

Very cool idea. Ya know, that Martha, love her or hate her, what she does to inspire people to make their lives and living spaces more beautiful cannot go unrecognized.