Cool pic hot off the press from College Station. Good luck Lucy on exams and get home safe tomorrow! Kyle and I had a big-time with the Hopke men out at Austin Golf Club yesterday. We shook Ben Crenshaw's hand at lunch!
Emily working a Chapter Goods pop-up. Mom 're-stiffening' MeMa's snowflakes! Sally and T seem good and busy as well. Chaps in semis and we are looking to tailgate in Waco on Saturday before 2:30PM kickoff.
If you decide to re-stiffen your snowflakes prepare for a job that takes many hours. Mine were getting limp and a little yellowed. (the girls favorite holiday treat was to suck them before hanging them on the tree.) I did research the sugar, starch and glue method. The sugar can cause ants that eventually destroy the snowflake and starch will cause it to yellow, so I decided on the glue method. No method is easy and the glue is super messy. To wash the snowflakes wash in warm water with gentle detergent and oxiclean. Make a glue mixture of 2/3 Elmers glue and 1/3 water. Stir well with a fork. One by one put snowflakes into glue-saturate well and lay on a box covered with Saran Wrap. Have lots of straight pins nearby- straighten snowflake and pin center first. Then pull edges tight. Continue with each snow flake. You can see that some need more pins than others. I used 1 1/2 bottles of Elmers for this project. It took 3 hours.
