The Crane Project Derailed (Temporarily)

Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. I just got one of the hardest origami books to find. Happy birthday to me.

My ambitious crane project will have to wait for a while. I now have a pristine copy of Tomoko Fuse's incredibly hard to find The Mask. Thank you Katie.

There are a few models in the book that have to be folded before I can go back to the thousand crane project.

If you are lucky enough to get a copy of Ms. Fuse's wonderful book. I would love to hear about and see your attempts at folding these beautiful models.

Now if I can just get a copy of Eric Joisel's pamphlet on faces from the BOS convention years ago, I will have all the books I could ever want. Maybe.

Bride of This Little Light of Mine

In another attempt to give my wife a reason to freak out over a paper lamp, I folded this beauty out of handmade Japanese masa rice paper. The folding for this I got in a rather round about way. I got the link from the wonderful Paper Forest blog. This link was to the Yasutomo paper site. A beautiful design by one of my origami heros, Tomoko Fuse. Give it a try, you'll be pleased with the results.

Reality Avoidance Technique #157 - Modular Origami

I started working with models from Tomoko Fuse's book Fabulous Origami Boxes today. Ms. Fuse is one of my favorite origami artists. Talented and prolific, with a sense of form and style that shows in her pieces.I have ignored this book for several months now, having moved to other things. What a wonderful book. The modular nature or the models allows the folder to make a fairly large box. Even with really large paper, most single sheet containers are too small to really be useful.
I find the functional beauty of origami containers fascinating.This model is folded from plain origami paper. I hope to make the model from better paper soon, but with all the scatterbrained stuff I do on a day to day basis, I'll be lucky if I make another.