So while folding the mette ring units for my Mette Ring of Rings project, I tried out some small variations to it and ended up with a neat variation.

Here the little triangles shows a colour variation that I found interesting. Anyway, will update soon on my progress. Till then!

Model Details:

Model: Mette's Ring Variation

Creator: Mette Pederson

Book: Mette Units

Author: Mette Pederson

Difficulty Level: Low Intermediate

Paper Ratio: Square

Paper Size: 3 inches

Diagram: Mette Units

Modules: 18

This little heart box is my attempt to organise my desktop with a few recycled boxes. For the first one, tried out a heart box. The base is made from cardboard, since I wasn't too sure I would be capable of weaving a heart shaped base!! 😄😄 The heart-shaped cardboard was covered with newspaper that was then painted the same colour as the tubes.

Based on the size of the box, I started with tubes placed at an interval of 1.5 cms. I find this is the ideal placement of tubes. I tried 2 cms distance but I found the weaving to be too spaced out. Smaller distances makes weaving difficult for me! So 1.5 cms it is.

After that, it was a very simple weave with 2 tubes. Finishing off was also pretty easy. Then it was just a matter of glazing the box to give me a really hard and sturdy heart-shaped organiser for my desk.

Model Details:

Model: Heart Shaped Desk Organiser

Difficulty Level: High Intermediate

Tutorial (making newspaper tubes): Youtube

Tutorial for making the edge: Youtube

After completing the origami owl designed by Roman Diaz last month, I realised that the book "Drawing Origami (Tome 1)" has another of his owls. This owl is a little more complicated and more realistic than the last one. But I must admit, the first owl that I folded is more dear to me than this one ♡♡

As for folding this one, I used the same animal hide paper that I had used for the previous owl. While the recommended paper size is 15 * 15 cms (6 inches) kami, I used a 12 cms (5 inches) square, which worked out quite well. The instructions in the book are fairly clear, though I faced some difficulties the first time I folded it.

The book is very colourful with plenty of models. Among them, I still want to try Ekaterina Lukasheva's Rubin, Mindaugas Cesnavicius's Swallow, Quentin Trollip's Bambi and Patricio Kunz Tomic's Joe Cocker. I think the other ones might be a little too complicated for me! Well, these are all projects for another day!

Model Details:

Model: Owl 

Creator: Roman Diaz 

Book: Drawing Origami

Author: Halle, Pere Olivella, Nicolas Terry

Difficulty Level: High Intermediate

Paper Ratio: Square

Paper Size: 5 inches

Model Size: ~3 inches in height

Tutorial: Youtube