Year of the Dragon 2012

To fill in the "missing" yearly post...

This Eastern dragon is folded from 2 pieces of square paper, joined in the middle of the body. The design is from Jun Maekawa, from the book "Genuine Origami". Time taken to fold is about 3 hours.

For more Chinese Zodiac origami, visit this link.

A Bouquet of Flowers

Most girls just love flowers besides handbags, shoes, clothes, fragrance, cosmetics, etc =) A half dozen of real roses will be about RM50-60 and one dozen would be around RM100. Prices will varies depending of what type of flowers and wrapping style. It will be much much cheaper if purchase from Cameron Highlands. Maybe RM10 will get 10 fresh roses, minus the wrapping. 

With RM10, an origami flower with a single leaf can be made (by Stephen Hecht). Here is a bouquet of three flowers with wrapping. Happy International Women's Day on the 8th of March 2011.

 Video instruction on YouTube. A photo instruction can be found here.

Gong Xi Fa Cai : Year of the Rabbit 2011

Made from RM1 note. Gong Xi Gong Xi !!

Year of the Rabbit 2011

Another new year is coming round the corner. X'mas is just a few days away and then the New Year. This come a little bit early =) Design by Noboru Miyajima (link) and folded from a 150x150mm pink color paper. Gong Xi Fa Cai !!

Happy Chinese New Year 2010 !

This year is the year of the Golden Tiger and falls on the same day as Valentine's Day. Hope everyone has a good double celebrations and holidays.

This tiger model was folded 2 years back from Origami Tanteidan Convention Book 1, by Issei Yoshino. The paper was 150x150mm and a bit too small to fold the details of the face. 

Origami Display at D'Monte Childcare Center Open Day

This year, 31 Oct 2009, once again, I displayed my origami art at my sister's childcare center. I brought most of my origami models this time as have 3 tables to use. However, there were much  less visitors as the Open  Day was on Saturday. Only 4-5 children visited my booth. I didn't even manage to teach any of the children to fold >< One was interested, but she wanted to fold all the difficult models.

While waiting for visitors, I folded some napkin models from a book that was given by a friend who bought it from China. 

Three types of shirt folds

Double candle

Star

Cabbage rose

Another type of rose fold, which is called cabbage rose ( 捲心玫瑰). The diagrams in this site are in Mandarin, but folding language is universal so I was able to understand it =) Folded from a 250x250 mm florescent pink color paper. It has a lot of small pointy pedals.