We here at “Cityscape” know—making the perfect paper snowflake can yield some serious headaches. No, really, we do. For a recent holiday party, we were each in charge of making paper snowflakes. Amid cries of exasperation like ‘Crud! I cut the wrong edge!’ and ‘It doesn’t look like anything,’ we thought to call for help. Enter: Marion Nichols. You may know her as the ‘Snowflakey Lady’ at City Museum. On Friday’s “Cityscape,” she joined us to share how she makes perfectly patterned snowflakes—all while telling a good story or two for those who ask for her help. She started working as a volunteer at the City Museum in 1998, a year after it opened, until Bob Cassilly found she could “do stuff” and hired her full-time. Click through the gallery above to see some of the snowflake creations, as executed by third grade students in Oakville. "I can turn anything into a snowflake; I could turn you into a snowflake," Nichols told host Steve Potter on Friday. Recently, Nichols published a book
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