This Christmas has been a very busy time for me. I had participated in a couple of Christmas sales and have been busy making paper jewelry! And paper jewelry is time-consuming work! So I didn’t get a lot of time to make anything special for Christmas 2014. One thing that I did try was this modular star. The star is actually made from Bascetta Star modules. The star requires a total of 24 modules. The [Continued..]
After completing the hearts for Valentine’s Day, I decided to make heart bookmarks for everyone at home (and myself too!). I love bookmarks and tend to collect a whole lot of them. But making bookmarks is even more interesting. I quite enjoyed making these beautiful heart bookmarks. I am sure they will make very pretty handmade gifts for book lovers The bookmarks are pretty easy to make, thanks to the tutorial by Jo Nakashima, who [Continued..]
Valentine’s Day – a very nice time to make origami hearts! So I found these easy hearts, which take about 5 minutes to complete I had intended to make these hearts as covers for a couple of boxes that I had, so I made them from big, 6-inch paper. I love polka dots, so I had this lovely red, polka dot wrapper paper which I was able to use now. This paper is a little [Continued..]
With Christmas just round the corner, there is no better time to fold Santas, is there? I tried this Santa because of how natural he looks. I think all that this Santa is missing, is his big sack of toys! The model has been adapted by Steve and Megumi Biddle, from the original one created by Steve Casey, and can be found in the book ’Essential Origami‘. This book is a good place to start for beginners [Continued..]
This Easter, let us not forget that it is not about fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs, but about what Jesus did for us. Happy Easter, dear readers Well, I have been wondering what to fold this Easter and decided to redo Jared Needle’s origami cross. It is a beautiful origami to fold and the more I have folded this cross, the more I enjoy it! There are quite a few sinks, both open and closed [Continued..]