I can't cut up 'old pieces of sheet music' either. I do think sheet music is incredibly decorative and I have made things that could loosely be described as paper art (paper hearts stuck to the dining-room window) using it, but I found the music on a free sheet music website and printed it out myself. Yes, not very green but not the horror of cutting into actual music. Actual sheet music presumably being sheet music not printed by me. I know, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense.
Newspapers don't count of course. I'll use newspaper for anything. I mostly use newspaper to dispose of the grosser findings in the cat litter tray. Though in fact, I rarely buy newspapers - the local paper occasionally for a quick glance through, knowing full well I'm going to be scooping cat poo onto it in five minutes. Sometimes it improves it.
Another thing I see a lot on Pinterest and elsewhere at this time of year is people using newspaper to wrap Christmas presents. I'm not sure if anybody actually does this or if it's just a things people do for magazine articles. They look to be suspiciously freshly ironed newspapers. And presumably ones without any bad news or shrieking headlines in them. Not sure I've ever seen a newspaper like that, meself. They do look lovely though.
I'm not a complete paper Grinch. Today I sat on the floor making paper snowflakes with Miss M. We added glitter and everything (glitter everywhere, though mostly on me). My thing with paper snowflakes though is that they must be six-pointed*, anything else gives me that sense of not-quite-right that I also get from misplaced apostrophes (not the occasional typo, I mean catastrophically misplaced apostrophes, you know the ones). One of those stars was made at school by one of the kids last year and is based on a circle folded into four. It's only maternal love holding it up there. And a bit of blutak.
Since then the Christmas tree has gone up and I've thrown every bauble I can find at it. I know there are more baubles somewhere, my favourite ones in fact, but I've already sent My Beloved back up into the loft once for the lights and Christmas stockings. I don't do ladders very well since a falling-off-the-loft-ladder incident in my teens so our loft is terra incognita for me. There could be anything up there for all I know.
*For me. I'm not enforcing it or anything.
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I agree with the six pointed snowflake thing. I even had a little lesson on it for the kids at school. I hope they'll remember!
Christmas is still to start here. Perhaps next w/e once uni's finished...
I think this is the earliest we've ever put the tree up. I wasn't ready for it really but this weekend is a fairly quiet one and next weekend will not be, so it seemed sensible to do it today. Got to admit I feel a smidge more festive now it's up - I'm so easily swayed :-D
I TOTALLY get the cutting up paper thing ... everything you said about it. I can't, simply can't, cut up a book. Or sheet music. It seems like murder, or a desecration. And as you say, why buy something you don't like just to cut it up? I can't even do it with books that are falling apart - I leave them on my bookshelves, propped up by their neighbours.
We have some sheet-music paper stars, but I photocopied the music (carols from an old hymnal) onto the paper. :)
Yes to the six-pointed snowflakes too ... though every year I forget all over again how to properly and easily fold a paper into sixths (or is it twelfths?). There's a way to fold paper for cutting 5-pointed stars, too - forgot that also. :)
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