Origami Order From My Tummy

When was the last time you spent an entire day doing a craft?

I dream of days just sitting back and making pom poms, handmade paper, lanterns, dioramas and painting eggs... I think that's why I want to either have some small children (who stay that way) or be a primary school art teacher.

Otherwise there just doesn't seem to be enough time for play!

But, I guess I can thank a nasty tummy bug for deciding it was time I sat in bed and did origami.

Back in January I passed by Jim's bookshop in Maleny and admired the hangings in his window.

I then somehow bumped into a youtube clip on how to make a Kusadama Starsea. Can't imagine trying to work it out with diagrams on paper - that's always been the challenge with origami, interpreting the instructions!

So I sat in bed on Monday and began the painstaking process of creating the 30 individual parts.

That's where I got to. Only 25 pieces to go.

Fortunately I was sick again today, and worse than Monday, I couldn't do anything else but gently fold paper...

A complete sphere.

I feel a bit better now.

[current mood] Multiple Men Mowing My Lawn & The Concept of Chicken Soup

Comments

[poo]

i've been wanting to make loads pom-poms and suspend them from the ceiling (copying an art installation i saw recently - the concept was balls, no pun, so i don't feel bad about ripping it off). if you and me do it they'll be hung up in your toilet.

[Natalija]

Excellent. We have a pom-pom project for the homely nights we will share. I shall buy the wool and make rings of cardboard. Maybe I'll find some children who like to be seen and not heard to join us.