Popsicle Snowflake

 I got a flake thing. I love popsicle snowflakes. At my old house, I had them in the large front windows. I love how graphic they are.  

However, the snowflakes did not make the move.  I had them since at least 2012.  Each year I ended up regluing some of them.  This time for the new house, I wanted to make a slightly bulkier sturdier snowflake so hopefully it would hold up better.  

I used giant, mini, and jumbo popsicle sticks with a wood round. All supplies were from Walmart.  You can get the regular popsicle sticks from Dollar Tree. I struggled a bit. I destroyed my first two versions. I finally had my husband get the hub just right. It was all about the math. Uggh! After that I was able to build the rest. 

I painted it white with craft paint. I was going to spray paint but it was really windy at the time.

Popsicle Snowflake Wreath

House to Home - Unleash the Snowflake

So, we moved across country and my husband really really boxed up our junk snowflake. For something, so large and heavy it is also has fragile parts. 

He built a crate with straps. He is quite the MacGyver. The snowflake survived intact. We hung it up over the piano.

Details about the junk snowflake

Wood Salvage Snowflake aka the junk snowflake

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Back in 2019! I came up with this idea and we made this JUNK Snowflake. I never got it hung that year and one of the spokes broke. Well I decided this past weekend to get it fixed and hung. I really love it but it is quite large.

I like unique and I like snowflakes at Christmas time. I also like salvaged wood.  I came up with an idea for a snowflake using salvaged spindles. Luckily I have an extremely talented Husband who helped me see my vision through.

The big chunky spindles we think were off of a piece of furniture maybe a coffee table. We found them at the ReStore Bellingham. This led to buying ever wood bead or cap I saw at Goodwill.  In the end I didn't have enough of those so I bought bags of wood beads at Hobby Lobby and a red wood garland. We also bought 50 wood cabinet knobs at Skagit Building Salvage. We drilled a hole through the entire knob.

The hub my husband created by using a hole saw on a piece of salvaged wood. The center is double board thick. The beads are threaded on dowels and inserted into the spindles.