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Hot Glue Snowflake Ornament. Supplies: Glue Sticks Hot Glue Gun Wax Paper Dish Detergent Ornament Template Glitter (My FAVORITE supply!) Mod Podge Small Paint Brush String or Wire Step One: Google an image you would like to use for your ornament. An image with simple lines that all connect works best. I googled snowflake images and found a nice one to use. Print your image the size you want your ornament to be. (Make sure you don’t print a tiny image because you will end up with a blob of hot glue that will look nothing like an ornament.) Get your glue gun, glue sticks, and wax paper ready. Step Two: Place a sheet of wax paper over your ornament template. Cover the wax paper with dish detergent. Mix a little water with the detergent to make it spread easily. Then simply trace your image with hot glue. I have found that using a continuous stream of glue with even pressure for each line works best. This is what it will ...

    In  Finland,  Christmas is celebrated from 24th to 26th of December. Preparations for the festival begin from approximately a month ago with many Finnish people buying  the Christmas tree ,  decorative items  and gifts and goodies for the season. Houses are cleaned and special treats like gingerbread cookies and  prune  tarts prepared for the oncoming festive season. In Finland, Santa might also be known as  Joulupukki!     The first Sunday in December (also called the First Advent) starts the Finnish Christmas season.  Christmas lights  begin to appear in the  stores  along with gifts, goods and goodies for the festival. Children count the days to the festival making their own Christmas  calendar  with some great  pictures  related to the Christmas theme or even some chocolate caramel.     In Finland the Christmas tree is set u...

    The childhood magic of anticipation comes rushing back with one of these treasures packs of promise!     Christmas crackers  or  bon-bons  are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).    Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tu...