August 31st is celebrated as Blog Day. This is a day dedicated to finding other bloggers from other areas of interest/country/language. Why was August 31st chosen? Because when it is written as 3108, it resembles the word “Blog”. And on Blog Day, bloggers should introduce 5 new blogs to the visitors, so here are my 5 1. Zondervan Blog – Zondervan is a Christian publishing company and the publishers of Philip Yancey’s works, one of my favourite Christian [Continued..]
I know it is a bit early for an origami Santa Claus, but recently I have been trying out a few of David Petty’s origami models from his book “Origami 1-2-3“. An interesting book.. The origami gradually moves from simple to intermediate to complex models. The Santa Page Marker comes under the intermediate skill level. There is a common Page Marker Base that is described initially and the Santa is an extension of the base. [Continued..]
A few of my friends informed me that they had some trouble understanding my tutorial on making a bookmark. I guess this would be in step 9. If you have successfully completed till step 8, then fold those 2 triangles you see in step 8 backwards in half. Unfold it. If you check behind these triangles, you will a small pocket is formed there. Now, fold back these triangles into those pockets and you would [Continued..]
I had seen this origami quite some time back and had thought it was actually made by cutting and pasting. It does look like that, doesn’t it? So I was pleasantly surprised when I found the instructions on Marc Vigo’s website and realised that it is actually folded (no cuts, no glue). The pencil pot works best when using thick paper. The first time I tried it, step 5 to 6 was quite frustrating and I [Continued..]
The Hydrangea, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, is a tessellation design and a very pretty one at that! A tessellation is a collection of plane figures that fills a plane without any overlaps. A honeycomb is an excellent example of a tessellation. Origami tessellations are made from a single piece of paper and are a combination of valley and mountain folds and can be very complex and intricate. They are believed to be started by Shuzo [Continued..]