Snowflakes

Instructions available here

Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand
Lovely and chaste like smooth white sand.
A veil of wonder laced in light
Falling Gently on a winter's night.

Graceful beauty raining down
Giving magic to the lifeless ground.
Each snowflake, a falling star
Smiling beauty that is spun afar.

Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand
Lovely and chaste like smooth white sand.
Till earth is dressed in a robe of white
Unspoken poem the hush of night.

November 19, 1969
By Linda A. Copp ©

Rat

The Year of the Rat begins today and I hope to do and post more origami designs in the future. Here is a simple rat I did yesterday.

rat: folding instructions


Source: Origami Resource Center

Kusudama 5: Dice

This is made with 6 square sheets. It was much easier to do than the other Kusudama designs.

Source: Kusudama Ball Origami; Yamaguchi, Makoto;
Shufunotomo/Japan Publications

Kusudama 4: Luminous

This is made with 6 square sheets. This is actually the second kusudama ball I made back in Dec/Jan. It is made from left over Christmas wrapping paper. I like the gold shimmering paper. Have a look at the Poinsettia made from the same paper.
(Poinsettia Instructions)

Source: Kusudama Ball Origami; Yamaguchi, Makoto;
Shufunotomo/Japan Publications

Kusudama 3: UFO

I did this with scrap paper. Never expected it to turn out so big. The main design is done with 6 sheets of paper. The centre pieces require another 6 sheets of papers. (each 1/4 the size of the main piece)
Here's a look at how it's hung.

Source: Kusudama Ball Origami; Yamaguchi, Makoto;
Shufunotomo/Japan Publications

Kusudama 2: Festival

This is a tiny one cos they were made from post-its. 6 orange pieces for the outside and the inner structure is made with 12 pieces.
Source: Kusudama Ball Origami; Yamaguchi, Makoto;
Shufunotomo/Japan Publications

Kusudama 1: Bleeze

The first of many Kusudama Ball Origami. This design here is called Bleeze. The very first design I made together with my sis. 12 pieces of papers were used and 6 small pieces were used for the centres.

Kusudama is a decorative paper ball for festive
occasions. Origanally, it was an ornamental scent bag hung to clear away noxious
vapors, thus the name "Kusu" (medicine) + "Dama" (ball).

Source: Kusudama Ball Origami; Yamaguchi, Makoto;
Shufunotomo/Japan Publications

Prison Break Crane

Here is the prison break duck. It is more a duck then a crane but it is referred to as a crane in the series.
Instructions By D. Flett

Standing Heart

Valentine's day is coming up soon. Those looking for some simple 'heartfelt' gift, can have a try at this heart. I don't have instructions for this standing heart but you can have a look at My First Heart. Instructions are available for this (my first blog entry... :-) )

Swan napkin

I know christmas is over and I've not been able to post as many christmas origami designs as I would have liked. Here's one for any occassion.

Source:

ORIGAMI, THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE ART OF PAPERFOLDING
Beech, Rick
Anness Publishing Limited 2001