random things

Some random things I don't know how to combine in
a post, so...

1. I'm always amazed by tessellation origami (even
more amazed by the patience of the maker ;)), so I
wanted to try my hands on it. Well, I ended up with
a strange creature. But I think, I've learned some
facts about creasing.. so, maybe next time I will have
a tessellation origami ;)



2. Last year I thought I wouldn't need to go to the
hairdresser again for at least three years. But my
hair had split ends, that I finally let it cut yesterday.



3. Remember the butterfly, which found it's way to my
kitchen? I let it go after the photo shot. I'm not sure,
how this one came to the stairway. It has been there for
at least two weeks now. I didn't want to let it go outside,
cause it was wet, cold and windy (now I could if I would,
since it's warm again, but I'm not sure for how long..).



Sometimes it was sitting on the curtain, sometimes on
the window sill and the last days it was on the floor.
But I wasn't sure either, how long it would survive in
here, since it doesn't get any food (does anybody know
about how long a peacock butterfly usually can live?).

So, yesterday I decided to provide it with food. I bought
some oranges for us (my boy is having a cold) and put
a slice on a plastic cover for the butterfly (they always
serve orange and banana in the butterfly house). Using
a thin twig I managed to lift it from the floor to the
orange slice. I watched it for a little while. I couldn't see
it's proboscis, so I'm not sure, either it can eat or not
(and if it can't because it has lost it's proboscis e.g., am
I torturing it by serving the slice of orange?). I realize,
I know nearly nothing(!!) about butterflies...
Later in the evening it sat on the window frame. And
it still is this morning.

peace dove

A friend has given me a link about origami lately, which
has of course brought me back to crease paper :) Thank
you, Akiyo!

So, when I got some sales, which meant to be Christmas
presents, I wanted to put something in the box to make
it Christmas-y without looking too Christmas-y (does it
make sense? LOL). Anyway, I thought of a peace dove.
I've made a stamp, but I wasn't really satisfied. So I
googled a bit to find an origami dove and I found this
instruction.

I've modified it a bit and voilà..

Yes, yes, with the shadow frame.. ^_^

a new week

Eew.. what a start. I woke up, sat on my bed and I saw,
that the sun was shining on the frames with my son's
and Heather's artwork (Jetty's photograph was still in
the shadow). So I hurried stood up to take the frames
away from the table. Remember, how my bedroom
looks like? The frames stayed the same, only the plants
are changing.

I grabbed Heather's with my left hand and Jetty's with
my right one. The next moment I found myself lying on
the floor. I must be unconscious for a few second.
Heather's work was lying next to me. I stood up. Jetty's
work felt over the glass with a plant and pussy willow.
Luckily not much water in it, as it was of course spilled.
No glass of the frames was broken and I didn't hit
anything except the floor. Aubrey was also save and dry.
Only Gretchen's pillow got a bit wet (is now drying).
Phew... I was lucky, things didn't turn out worse (I've
been fainting a few times in my life and each time I got
a new mark for the rest of my life ;)).

Oh, look what I've successfully done last night (err.. this
morning at 3 am). Wooohooooo! :D




Origami is amazing. Look at Andrea Russo's work - I'm
stunned!!

OK, now I'm literally cooled down ;) I'll take a hot shower
and go to work. It'll be a long day today. 6 hours in the
shop and directly to the choir session afterwards - uff!!

I'm wishing you all a great start of the new week :)

a ball or not a ball

There's no ball yet, but soon (I hope & think ;)).

The sun is shining outside, so I've taken some photos to
show you my attempts so far. After the first mistakes,
I tried to make bigger ones, just to understand the pattern.



Once I understood, it's easy to do it (not with big fingers though
*lol*). This should be big enough to make a ball. Will have to cut
it smaller, I think.



OK, time to go to catch the bus and go to work. I'll show my
green day tonight :) Have a lovely Saturday!

green week day 3

Boy oh boy! My forehead is as wrinkled as the paper I'm
using for the origami and yet I still didn't manage to fold
it. The one I started last night was wrong. I didn't follow
the instruction step by step, so I had it wrong in my
memory *bad, bad,..* Now (I think) I get it, but it feels
like my fingers are to thick LOL Oh well, time to relax
a bit and try it from scratch again. I'm not giving up :)
My jacket is another story..



The jacket I've started to knit a while ago, isn't finished
yet. Remember I've opened up the old pattern? I've redone
the back part. The left front side is almost finished - I kept
miscounting, so it took me ages already *sigh* And now I
can't continue at the moment because of my toes.



Huch?? What do my toes have to do with the jacket you ask?
It's the wool. I can't have warm at the moment at any part
of my body or my toes will start to itch. So, I'm always a bit
freezing at the moment (luckily not getting cold though).
Can't wear my beloved woolen clothes or socks anymore :(

origami

I just can't stop to think of the origami I've seen in the
magazine this morning (more to see on the links I've
posted earlier today). So I browsed a bit. I've found
a TED talk with Robert Lang.



I also found many origami videos. I was especially amazed
by the magic ball, so I simply have to try it. This woman
from the Netherlands has made great origami tutorials.

I'm still busy folding the paper. Quite frustrating, as it often
won't do the way I want it to do (and of course I have to start
with DIN A4 paper :P) *lol* Let's see, either I can show you
a magic ball or rumpled paper ball ;)



BTW I'm a bit disappointed about the link of the institute
from my last post. I need infos online, but they only provided
links to some books and DVDs to buy. I'm such a web junkie ;)