origami, origami, origami!!!!!

[quicksilver]

anyone.....huh! someone else out here's gotta love it. I"M NOT THE ONLY GEEK IN THIS FORUM, AM I?!?!?!

 

[Simcha]

I do a little bit of origami, but mostly on the cards that I make.

You can see some on my website http://community.webshots.com/user/beadiejay

 

[quicksilver]

..awww. I get a forbidden error on your link. I'm kind of new to origami, but having fun with it. I'm currently working on an origami chess set (just to look at, probably not good for playing).

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/t/ctm132/inside/chessboardandchesstable.jpg

http://www.fishgoth.com/origami/chess.html

The pieces are a little tricky, but the board is gonna take some time.

 

[Simcha]

wow, those look fantastic, but I can imagine the whole thing taking a lot of work....it will be well worth it when you finish though.

That's a shame you couldn't see my cards, I'll have to see if I can post some pictures somewhere else....will work on it tomorrow, it's nearly 10:00pm here in the UK and tomorrow is the kids' last day at school, so that means the last day till September that I have to be up really early!!!

talk to you tomorrow

 

[Simcha]

just seeing if this will work

 

[quicksilver]

I can put up with the difficulty of the work, but what gets to me is how much room all of this takes up. I've got different color and texture paper everywhere, my cutter on the table, chasing my cat away from previous and current works. Trying to find a place to eat is hard when origami takes up the table.....oh well.

 

[Simcha]

yay, it worked, it worked!!!

I've got some other cards, but will have to dig them out tomorrow.

g'night

 

[quicksilver]

Dig the kimono's. Nice!!

 

[Sun_flwer]

Wow that tales alot of patience, Simcha. Beautiful work! What a gift!

 

[Simcha]

I can put up with the difficulty of the work, but what gets to me is how much room all of this takes up. I've got different color and texture paper everywhere, my cutter on the table, chasing my cat away from previous and current works. Trying to find a place to eat is hard when origami takes up the table.....oh well.

hee hee, I know exactly what you mean, there is never another space for everything we need to do our craft!! Don't you find that all those little bits of paper have a habit of multiplying when you're not looking LOL

btw, thanks for the comments about my kimonos

 

[Simcha]

Wow that tales alot of patience, Simcha. Beautiful work! What a gift!

aw, thank you Jessica Antonio

 

[Simcha]

now that I know how to post pictures, thought I'd show a couple more examples of the origami that I do for my cards

The first one is an oriental fan, which is very simple to do.

The next is called teabag folding....it's a form of origami, where you take 8 squares of paper, all exactly the same size, and you fold them all exactly the same way (and some of the folds are really complicated and not at all easy to do!!) and then you stick all the folded squares together to make the design that's in the middle of the cards.

Well, my description sounds as clear as mud.....if anyone's seriously interested I can dig out some sites with better examples.