Lets Make Origami

I always loved making origami gifts and I realised that by actually writing a message on it, makes it even more personal..
It's like giving a handmade present and a handmade card in the same time..

These days I folded 3 mobiles for 3 newborn babies and I realised that this is, by far, my favourite type of work, when it comes to folding paper.
Creating them makes me feel like a painter: I get to choose the colours, the characters, the size, the place, the details.. It makes me feel like a true artist, creating not just a model, but an entire composition - vibrant and unique, because no matter how hard I'll try, I'll never get to make 2 identical ones..

Somewhere, over the rainbow, I decided to fold my second multiple Pluto model.
I used 450 paper squares, grouped into 30 cones of 15 squares. The smallest piece was violet and it measure 3 centimeters. Indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red followed, at 0,5cm difference between each other.

And so, a rainbow rised in front of me, shining every morning and every night, in my own small livingroom, reminding me that life is a mix of colours, smiles and moments.

Is paper still paper when it becomes this?



I don't see it as paper anymore..  I feel each origami ball - called "kusudama", receives a certain personality as it turnes into the final product. It depends on the colours you use and the model you choose to turn it into, but in the end, you manage to breathe live into what seemed to be "just paper" moments ago...













* photos taken by Creativ Hobby

I enjoy making "Merry-go-round" mobiles more and more.. I never know how it's gonna look until it's done, but this only makes me feel challenged and excited.
Everytime I put my hands on a new type of paper, an entire Merry-go-round starts creating itself in my head and I can't resist not to transform it into reality.
This happened when one of my university teachers gave me a wonderful, "Earth coloured" paper - I instantly saw it becoming...this:










And in the nature:





* the first four photos are taken by a friend - Creativ Hobby