Say HELLO to "Mrs and Mr Claus" (Kusudama)

Mrs and Mr Claus

Each year, I try to make a Christmas decoration  for our family.

Well this year  I got a new obsession 

(did you know i get obsessed with things)

I got a new book called 

Creating Lovely Paper-Flower Dolls 

(Kusudama folding technique) 

Had the book just a short time and  I have made soo

many different things out of the book and NOW slightly

tweakking things to suit the things that i have at hand, like

these two I am showing today. 

I used the book and then made my own santa and mrs

I will be showing heaps more of these things 

as i have been having soo much fun Kusudama folding 

Stay tuned

SWAN 3D origami

20 years ago when l worked in the city l used to love looking
at the origami in one of the shop windows that l used
to pass on the way to work, never thinking that
many years later l will know how to make them.
Yesterday i got side tracked from the project that l was
working on (well need that by december so that gives me time LOL)
when i found this wonderful Youtube of this swan
I have done origami and teabag folding in the past
but never made anything like this.
I cut the 480 pieces of paper and set to work folding
at first the pile of paper never seemed to get smaller but suddenly l
was ready to re-look at the youtube and put it together.
I am soooo happy with the result

Question HOW long did it take ? TOOK me nine hours to make
OK I am crazy that is a lot of work but now i can say
yes I have done that before