Every once in a while I discover some kind of handcraft that soon becomes an obsession until I get tired of it.
Just the other day I dropped by a japanese store with a work coleague where, a pack of brightly colored papers with various patterns caught my attention. Origami paper.
At first I thought I could use it for anything, pretty paper is so pretty you cam make up anything just to use it, to cover boxes, notebooks, just to keep it and look at it... but then, back at the office as I waited for our server to come back to life (not surprising but totally nerve-racking), I googled ORIGAMI and, oh surprise! Welcome to a new world.
I started with a simple shirt, easy, then I went on browsing and discovered you can use origami to make useful things, like toothpick cases or clip stands (cause of course everyone has a pocket full of toothpiks in every pair of jeans they wear). And then I went completely crazy. I crafted a very cute tie, a tropical fish, and discovered you can make balloons with paper and blow them!
I realised then this was the kind of silly little thing my sister would love, and just then, I could easily see the kind of madness I would unleash if I showed her my origami paper. And I did!
There's this very cute
origami website where they have all kinds of origami categories with instructions and diagrams...they have a page for everithing, and... oh, look! here it says Accessories, lets click here... Oh! you can WEAR origami, WEAR it, as in origami bracelets, origami rings, origami necklaces... and then and there I decided I could leave my sister the difficult parts and go for fashion. I may have done twelve origami bracelets in the last two days (lol) and next weekend: Origami beads for an origami bracelet!!
I went out on friday night on friday and found myself being "that crazy girl folding paper", I made some more shirts and ties, and fish while at dinner, and wished I had sticky tape to make some more bracelets, but of course, that couldn't be. Crazy girl folding paper was seen again on Saturday afternoon folding paper at a cafe while having lunch with
Agnes, wearing her super fashionable paper bracelets, which, by the way, are not waterproof, the rain in Madrid made that veeery clear.
Anyway, just as I had anticipated, as soon as I told my sister about origami, she went crazy too, and soon became the real origami master in the house, she made an amazing cactus and she has announced she is working on a car which may take her a while but will be awesome.
Origamad as we are now, I had to, HAD TO, get origami paper to fill a whole house. I got tons of origami paper from the same store on Saturday afternoon, of course, couldn't wait any longer. Our plan is to fill a huge box with them, or maybe we can decorate rooms, houses and castles with our origami creations.
Or maybe we'll get tired in a few days and will have just tons of colour paper we use for nothing (a very likely option).
Of course there is a dark side to this silly story. My hands are full of papercuts, and they sting like crazy.
Such is Life!
It's been a while since I last sent you a postcard. Sorry, work has bean mess, you know that. And then today my buttons arrived! Best thing that I have bought online so far. Awesomeness!! Etsy is a great place to discover new stuff and I know it won't be the last time I buy buttons.
The downside of being so excited about Christmas this year is that I have had to wait almost a month to show you this:
So friggin excited about Christmas I have managed to get all my family to tape a videoclip, just as the Kesler family, only with a lot more sense of humour and a lot less self conciousness.
Second visit just a few days away, I can't wait to see you. I can't wait to see you after that too, in fact, I may be more exited for Christmas this year than I have been in ages, cause you'll be coming home! So I have already started planning something special to make this year's Christmas countdown even more awesome.
I wonder though how on Earth are you going to resist until December 1 to discover your surprise craft. No cheating allowed or I am not playing wii with you.
Christmas! In mid October, I know, I know what you are thinking, no need to say it.
What about second breakfast? Well, I'll tell you what happened to second breakfast. I was planning on a supercool post on the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and all this Tolkien awesomeness and work got on the way. Work and then Ikea (but that is another story *note to self, post about your weekend in Ikea*)...
I am posting this as part of the SiL Archives:
I suggested some of my friends to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Hobbit by having second breakfast at 11:00 am, and no one wanted to celebrate with me. How devastating that no one around me understands the magnificenticly amazing moment I lived yesterday at 11:00am.
And I celebrated by having a cup of vanilla tea while typing incessantly in front of my computer's gigantic screen. How celebratory... (*irony*).
http://www.hobbitsecondbreakfast.com/ of course there had to be something special online, yay!!
I had to trick a coleague into printing it, and then I was almost late for dinner on friday, cut, cut, cut, washi-tape, washi-tape, washi-tape, baker's twine, baker's twine and more baker's twine and it was done! Easiest craft ever... May it was not intended for adults which explains (a) how easy it was and (b) this note that appeared on the first page: 
I am on top of my game! Still cutting expenses and doing awesome.
I just found out VIPS is selling washi-tape. Thank God they only sell 5 different models... I left one for the next time I feel blue.
I am desperate to fill the void you've left in my daily life, I have tried buying furniture, going to museums, pampering up and nothing could help me get over this sister depravation.
Oh Joy!!! A giveaway! And such nice stuff involved I had to give it a try, right? Hope floats, and I may get some very very nice things for writing this post! Also it is helping me to post more regularly, which is always good, and makes me learn some blogger discipline. I read the instructions eagerly, and first person I thought of was my friend Agnes, so I sent her a message and here we are, newly made fans of Blog Holamama of Facebook, and now writing this post! They have the loveliest stuff in their online shop, I may have fallen for their party straws (I may be or may be not planning a brunch to use them) and of course their washi tapes!!! I ordered them last week and they arrived yesterday and I have gone totally crazy with it, just have a look. 
Just the other day I dropped by a japanese store with a work coleague where, a pack of brightly colored papers with various patterns caught my attention. Origami paper.
There's this very cute origami website where they have all kinds of origami categories with instructions and diagrams...they have a page for everithing, and... oh, look! here it says Accessories, lets click here... Oh! you can WEAR origami, WEAR it, as in origami bracelets, origami rings, origami necklaces... and then and there I decided I could leave my sister the difficult parts and go for fashion. I may have done twelve origami bracelets in the last two days (lol) and next weekend: Origami beads for an origami bracelet!! 
I went out on friday night on friday and found myself being "that crazy girl folding paper", I made some more shirts and ties, and fish while at dinner, and wished I had sticky tape to make some more bracelets, but of course, that couldn't be. Crazy girl folding paper was seen again on Saturday afternoon folding paper at a cafe while having lunch with Agnes, wearing her super fashionable paper bracelets, which, by the way, are not waterproof, the rain in Madrid made that veeery clear. 
Of course there is a dark side to this silly story. My hands are full of papercuts, and they sting like crazy.
