I still have my ornament wreath on my door--now that is January 12th I thought it time to take it down. For the last few days I have been mulling different ideas around. There have been several tutorial around the blog-o-sphere about borax crystals. After some trial and error I came up with this wreath.
First I wrapped the straw wreath with some leftover white sheet from this project.
Then I made the snowflakes to sit in a borax bath overnight.
Then I made the snowflakes to sit in a borax bath overnight.
To make a snowflake...
2. Stack three together like this...
3. Wrap one around the other two like this...
4. Cut left over halves in half again.
5. Take one 1/4 of the pipe cleaner and wrap once around end of each leg.
6. Some instructions say to put the snowflake in a mason jar. My snowflakes are too big, so I used a 9x13 glass pan. Pour the borax mixture until it covers the snowflakes. I used a 1:3 Borax to water ratio to make my mix. There was a little too much borax because the crystals formed in less than an hour.
4 comments:
This is very pretty! I've never seen the borax crystal things before :) Very cool!
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I've seen the epsom and not borax...
Bookmarking this for next winter...
{I do snowflakes for all my Xmas decor}...
Would this work on wood?
Thanks for linking to Creative Juice Thursday!
cute and simple! LOVE it!
Can we make this when I come to your house?
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