I finally had a weekend to myself and decided to start on my origami making. My goal, is to make a thousand cranes. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane. A thousand cranes for one wish, that's a pretty time-consuming price to pay. So I better get started asap.
I had to first shop for origami paper. I had no idea where to go since I am in Oregon, where Daiso is not so easily accessible. Luckily, a coworker told me about this Japanese market where you can find them, Uwajimaya in Beaverton. Although, it's no Daiso, I am glad I was able to buy some decent paper. Getting the paper is the easy part, folding 1000 of cranes will be challenging. I experimented with different ways of folding them to find the most efficient way possible. Right now, I found the most efficient way of doing it is to crease multiple papers at once, and then fold them separately. I timed myself and now I can easily fold a crane in less than 2 min. I know that's still pretty slow, if you know a better way (i.e. <1min), I'd be happy to learn it. I try to not think about how many hours total it will take me to fold all 1000 at this rate. It is a good thing that I'm not that good at math.
I was also contemplating of making fabric flowers. I've seen quite a few of them on etsy and I find them quite cute. I can't imagine them that difficult to make, and I was able to find a few simple tutorials on google. These stay at home moms' websites are pretty helpful.
http://www.maryjanesandgaloshes.com/2011/11/amazing-flower-tutorials-and-giveaway.html
http://mrspriss.com/category/diys-and-tutorials/page/3/
