the dollar store, you say...

It's true!  Everything I used for this project is from the dollar store!  You'd be shocked at the amazing stuff you can get for a dollar or two at Dollarama. 
I got the inspiration for this craft from Pinterest (where a lot of my inspiration comes from lately...and I know I'm not the only one!).

These are the supplies you'll need for this simple Christmas craft (craft paint, paint brush, wax paper, popcicle sticks):

You'll also need a hot glue gun and glue sticks (I even got those at the dollar store a couple years ago).  A quick word of advice...you're going to be painting the popcicle sticks so try to get just bare wood ones or else you'll have to pile on the paint.  Mine took a few coats of paint because they were coloured (the store didn't have non-coloured). 

The first step is painting the popcicle sticks.  I chose to paint mine a barn red/maroon.  You need to paint 35 of them (only one side).  This is what mine looked like, painted:

 

And here's the next step...the first part of the snowflake (I used a hot glue gun to assemble them):

 

And the next step (I put them together in this order so I could start off with something relatively symetrical):

And the next step:

And the last step:

 

And here it is hung on our basement door!  I just glued some ribbon to the back and thumb-tacked it to the top of the door.  Voila!

 

So there you have it!  Simple and cheap!  This cost me about $5 and took me about 2 hours to make.  Not too bad for something that I can hang again next year and the year after that! 

And now...the moment you've all been waiting for!  Ok, not all of you...only three of you because that's how many people entered the knitted dish cloth giveaway!  Three people!?  Come on now!  I know it's hard to comment on this blog...I'll try to make the next giveaway easier to enter :). 
Anyhow, drum roll please!  The winner is STEPHANIE H.! 

 

Send your mailing address to twillandtwine@gmail.com and I'll ship it out to you :).  Make sure you wash and dry it before you use it!  Enjoy!