I’ve always loved natural light and am so grateful that my room has wonderful big windows to let the bright Ithaca sun in.  I was excited when Rose House hosted the fall leaf sun-catcher crafting session because Ithaca has made autumn my favorite season and I was ready to get into the autumn spirit. I’ve always been a crafty person but I had never made a sun-catcher before and though the use of tissue paper and contact paper was very interesting and innovative. I was surprised at how difficult creating a sun-catcher was for me! I wanted to go for a  natural-looking leaf to keep on my window all year as a reminder of the fall throughout the year (especially when all the trees die off in the winter). While I made my sun-catcher I was stressed because I was not cutting clean pieces of tissues into uniform shapes like most people were. I chose to rip up random sizes and colors and at the end I was very satisfied with the finished product. I absolutely love my sun-catcher and I like the way it looks when the sunlight passes through it.  I hope to keep this as a memory for every dorm room I stay in from now in because I think it really makes my window unique.