The Ideea
You might already know this about me, but I love Christmas, with all it's decorations, all the lights, and of course the snow.
And yes, I like to create my own decorations each year, so last year I finally finished my window paper Christmas decorations.
The idea for this was simple, it started in 2023, and the idea for one window that has 3 panels was to have 2 Rafaelita kusudamas made of 60 modules, 1 Rafaelita kusudama made from 90 modules, 21 Christmas trees, 24 big snowflakes and 18 small snowflakes.
And I have two windows each with those 3 panels.
The progress for my very own paper Christmas decorations
I started in 2023 and made all or almost all of the models for one window.
And of course I had to take lots off photos of them, as they looked so pretty.
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Model: Rafaelita
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Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
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Units: 30, 60 and 90 units
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Model: Snowflake
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Designer: Dennis Walker
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Units: 1 unit
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Model: Christmas tree
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Designer: traditional model
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Units: 1 unit
After working on the paper Christmas decorations in 2024 I finally finished them in 2025. I only work on them during the holiday season, witch for me is starting in November.
My process is like this: have an idea, make a sketch about the elements and how I want them to be arrange as the window decoration, and then start folding.
I like to work in batches, so I cut all the paper, or select all the paper I need, work the same fold for multiple modules, ex: make the first fold for a lot of the snowflakes. And so on. I do get bored sometimes, so I move from snowflakes to the modules of the kusudamas, or the Christmas trees.
Take a look at this cute gallery of my progess
The final steps
The final steps, after folding all the elements, and using a string and some beads to hang all the details, it's time for the paper Christmas decorations to go up on the windows.
So here they are.
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