Round and round.

Man do I hate trying to do inflatable origami. Not sure if it's the diagram or what it is, but sheesh.
Everytime I seem to come back to doing this, I seem to have a problem with a specific fold. I used to loathe the squash. Now, amazingly, it seems much easier.
The level of difficulty is something I've come to distrust more and more.. at least with this book. I was able to do a 4 diamond (out of 5 being the most difficult pieces) with ease, but struggled with some 2 diamond ones. Perhaps part of it is the paper... as this isn't the standard origami paper that I would normally use- it's more like magazine paper.

Well, off to fold some more.

bombarded with work...

whew.. and I haven't even yet begun to really customize this yet- geez.
I bought the domain, and now I am finally going to post my portfolio online through there. Andre and I went to the bookstore today so that I could get some help. I haven't touched the book yet, but I have 2 pages complete so far.

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I got some origami books and am actually pretty excited about some of the projects in there... I bought "The Joy of Origami" by Margaret Van Sicklen and a bargain book about papercraft that I found over at Borders. I've missed books so much. I really was looking at some other really good books by Dover- one of Sea Animals, and one of Mythological creatures and the Chinese Zodiak. I honestly almost picked up the myth. creatures one just for the chinese dragons and such.. but they are bit more difficult of folds. The sea animals one was equally impressive- and it had an octopus, seahorse and squid that were just calling my name. Again though.. too difficult of folds for the time being. I'll check the local library first... perhaps I will get lucky and one of them will have it- so I can borrow it indefinately as I try to create them. hehe

They have some really nice paper in the back of this book- The Joy of Origami one. I was trying to find just the paper without the book- but a)they didn't have any at the bookstore, b)I'd forgotten to pick some up the day before when we'd gone to the Asian market /doh, and c)it's actually somewhat of a deal to get it with a decent book apparently.

The paper has some nice designs and patterns on it though.. which will only help to add to the flavor of the pieces.. so I've decided to scan them just for personal use. I'm really not looking forward to doing 200+ scans for when we get the color lazer printer... oye my brain hurts.. it's time to get some sleep finally.

a new direction

This blog will be branching out into my new domain shortly- as I explore more about origami and washi as a visual artform beyond just doing the crafts themselves. I will explain in further at a later time... my apologies for not having this as up to date as I would have liked in the past. The kids have been tying me down- and the paper disappears just as fast as the time.
Ah the joy of children.
Thankfully, it is a mixed blessing that my son is getting to that wonderful age where I need even more patience. That, and I will be having my first daughter next month. I need as much patience as I can get. So I'm back in the saddle again. Let's see if I can stick with it a bit more since it will also be applied towards my major in a way.

Any tips and things for discussion will be more than welcome- when the site is up and running, I will make a discussion board for papercraft. I am looking forward to hearing some great information from all of you.

Kindest Regards,
Cherry Na

homemade paper instructions

I read in a book today a way to make some homemade origami paper- here is the little bit of instructions on it:

need:
tissue paper
glue/adhesive
aluminum/tin foil
ruler or other flat straight edge


Take the tissue paper and coat it with adhesive on both sides. It could be spray adhesive or what not. Sandwich it in between two pieces of tin foil and flatten to stick. Allow time to dry and viola.

I also read that having a set of tweezers is a good thing to have around when you are doing origami for negotiating folds. As well as a popsicle stick for flattening and such.