I have been trying out more of the star earrings.. Those are the easiest earrings to make I think and I love making these tiny little stars!
When we were kids, we used to make these bracelets and use them as Friendship bracelets. Unfortunately we didn’t have access to colourful paper, so we used to make do with paper torn out of our notebooks (very naughty I know!), or paper from comic digests or magazines that we managed to get hold of. So anyway, after many, many years, now my daughter wanted me to make something for her friends. There are 3 [Continued..]
Did you know that a group of frogs is called an army? And a group of toads is called a knot In the ten plagues of Egypt, only for the plague of frogs, Pharoah was allowed to choose a time when the plague ended Little titbits that I have picked up on the net recently. A traditional origami tried out by many is the frog. It is made from, surprise, surprise, the frog base! And [Continued..]
An origami hyperbolic parabola, called be various other names such as saddle and hypar, is made by pleating a square of paper along the diagonals. Plenty of pleats will give a parabola looks really intricate and delicate. It is also possible to form modular units from the parabola. This is done by gluing individual units to form various shapes. Such modular, closed models are called Hyparhedra. I had attempted making a star by gluing 5 [Continued..]
Tomoko Fuse’s Home Decorating with Origami was my choice of book for the day. I tried out the Hana. As described in the book, this is an abstract flower made from a square of paper. The pleating is similar to the Balalaika and the thinner the pleats, the better it looks. She suggests that you start with a 6*6 inch square and that is what I did. She also suggests that it is possible to [Continued..]