In the past couple of years, I have made and sold quite a few of my origami earrings online. This has been a fairly easy job for me, since I could make the earrings I wanted and put them up for sale when I wanted to. There was no pressure and it helped me make more and more complex earrings. This year, for the first time, I got a couple of opportunities to be a part of [Continued..]
If you are wondering if I have abandoned the blog, well, that isn’t happening any time soon! But I haven’t been making a lot of origami per se. More of origami jewelry and experimenting with paper – what paper to use for what, size – what size is good for adults/children, design – what design is easy to work on and so on and on. And the result of those experiments are the earrings and [Continued..]
The Kawasaki origami rose is something every origamist tries. I too did. But my first attempt, about 3 – 4 years back, was not much of a success and that put me off roses. But recently, there was a post in one of the Facebook groups I belong to, with pictures of their origami roses. So I decided to give it another go. I started with a 6 inch square and ended up with a [Continued..]
The Rose Brooch designed by Sy Chen, is a modification of Toshie Takahama’s Rose Brooch. It looks best when folded in a dual coloured paper, one side green and the other, possibly red. I used wrapper paper rather than the usual origami paper. This one was red paper with little white hearts in it. The rose isn’t very difficult to fold as there are clear instructions available for download, both from Sy Chen’s website and [Continued..]
I had first tried out J C Nolan’s braided paper when I had initially started doing origami. Turns out it is not for a newbie! I recently found the diagram for his Andrea’s Rose on origami.com and tried it out. The difficulty level is intermediate but still, it can be tried out by a beginner but requires some practise. The braided paper is still on the cards though. Maybe in a few months time.. The [Continued..]