I’m sorry we haven’t been updating the site much recently.  We haven’t done very much that’s post worthy since Halloween.

It is the time of year where we start preparing for Christmas, though.  Since we started doing an annual video, preparation for Christmas starts around the first of October, when I drag out the music and start searching for the right song to accompany the video.  So far, I’ve found a few songs that might be OK, but nothing that has knocked my socks off yet.

Cece and I had a kirigami (cut paper patterns like snowflakes) fest over the weekend that worked out pretty well.  I bought a book from Barnes & Noble with some simple patterns to cut and since Cece and I were home all alone on Saturday afternoon, we decided to try it.

We made some interesting stuff.  Airplane snowflakes, Elephants, Celtic crosses and so forth.  Cece had a little trouble at first cutting the patterns, but once she got started (and I started drawing the patterns on the paper for her), it was hard to get her to stop.

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(All of these were made by Cece except the blue cross and the red and white snowflake, which I made.)

The most interesting thing we made was a simple 3D snowflake made from 6 pieces of 6″x6″ origami paper.  The result was so impressive that Sadie and Carissa had to make their own on Sunday and Sandi wants to string some across the kitchen as a decoration this year.  I was going to post some pictures, but the girls took them to give to their teachers this morning.  I’ll put some up after we make the next batch.

By the way, I found this interesting site while researching kirigami on the web.

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