Rafaelita kusudama 90 units

 

Rafaelita kusudama 90 units 

I used 3 inch square sheets, no glue...

Honestly I didn't succeed in this.... I stumbled on the end and messed up, so I didn't get the actual geometry which is truncated icosahedron... But still I somehow assembled because I spent hell lot of time folding 90 units and assembling.... Almost 2-3 days.... I somehow completed it... I have already folded 30 units of Rafaelita kusudama.... I just wanted to do this 90 units beauty...

Design by - Ekaterina Lukasheva 

Origami is challenging, not so easy as it seems

Until next time Sayonara 🌺 

Daisy dodecahedron and origami lion

 

Daisy dodecahedron 2 designed by Meenakshi Mukerji 

Book - marvellous modular origami

Origami lion designed by Oriol Esteve 

Tutorial by Jo Nakashima 

Origami dodecahedron - 30 units, 3 inch square sheets... 

Origami lion - 6 inch square sheet... Single sheet origami

Papers by Tuttle publishing

I've used glue for the dodecahedron, I didn't have so much patience today to take up the assembly challenge..... Somedays I just don't want stress, 😬 

Until next time Sayonara 💝 

Roses by Enrica Dray

 

Roses by Enrica Dray @enryory 

This is one of the 'love at first sight' models for me... I wanted to fold this whatever it takes.. I thoroughly enjoyed the process... I ordered kimono patterned sheets from Tuttle @tuttleorigami just for this kusudama.... 

Thank you very much for sharing the instructions and further guiding me, dear Enrica.. 

Folded by me. 1:2 ratio, I took 3 inch X 6 inch square sheets and used glue for assembly...

Until next time Sayonara 🌺 ❣️ 

Petunia floral ball

 

Petunia flower designed by Meenakshi Mukerji 

Book - marvellous modular origami

I took 4 inch papers... Could've done with 3 inch papers also.. Patterned papers looks even more good I believe...

I had panic attack today again... I hear the word 420 and I collapse.... My life is so dull and so challenging that I feel I was dead.... Everyday I think of committing suicide.... But then I get scared.... I wish I can overcome that scare and take my life.... I'm done with everything,  lost everything.... My past is fucked up and these people won't leave me.... Wherever I go they call me 420....  I feel like committing suicide.... Just today I had a panic attach and I took 8 mg of Ativan.... To calm me down ... I'm tired of seeing doctors, I'm tired of taking medicines..... I'm just done a with my life.... My mood right now is utterly depressed..... Due to 8 mg of ativan I'm feeling dizzy..... I'm listening to  mrutyunjaya stotra.... My life is fucked up

Sayonara

Sonobe variations

 

Sonobe variations designed by Natalia Romanenko 

Instructions: http://kusudama.info/tutorials/

Designed by Narong Prbu design available at Meenakshi Mukerji's website

Origami crane with beautiful wings designed by Tomoko Fuse, tutorial by Origami maniacs...

Until next time Sayonara 💝 🌺 

Origami water lily

 

Origami water lily

Designed by Meenakshi Mukerji 

One sheet origami. I took 8.25 square paper. 

Looks good on duo paper 

Tutorial by Meenakshi herself:

See you next time... sayonara 🤗❤️

Star Infinity

 

Star Infinity designed by Francesco Guarnieri 

Tutorial by Sara Adams 

Kamalika flower

 

Kamalika flower 

Designed by Meenakshi Mukerji 

I took 8.25 square paper. 

I got the instructions to kamalika upon completing a survey my OrigamiUSA.

It's a beautiful design... Looks pretty in duo papers..

Until next time Sayonara 🌺 

Origami animals

 

Origami animals I folded over the last few weeks. I was bored of modulars and wanted a change. So came out of my comfort zone and tried these stuff. In modulars one has to fold several units and then assemble, while these are single sheet, we can start right away. So I was kind of lazy also to fold units for modulars. I'm glad how these animals turned out. 

Origami owl by @htquyet 

Origami chibi monster @oriol.esteve.origami 

Origami unicorn by Yudai Imai

Origami hedgehog designed by Paulius Mielinis 

Origami chameleon designed by @jonakashima

Unitil next time Sayonara 

Origami owl

 

Origami owl 🦉🦉🦉

I took 15  cm regular kami. One sheet of paper.

Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet

Tutorial 

Until next time Sayonara 💝 

Lorence sonobe

 

Designed by Maria Sinyaskaya

I tried with Tant papers. 3 inch squares. 30 units. No glue. Fairly simple.

Book reference: Zen origami

Until next time Sayonara 🌺 ❣️ 

Origami chibi monster

 

Designed by Oriol Esteve

One sheet origami. I took 15 cm paper. Intermediate.

Tutorial by Jo Nakashima

Easy origami unicorn

 

Designed by Yudai Imai

One sheet origami. I took 20 cm paper.

Tutorial:

I'm currently waiting for my flight back to India at Bandaranaike international airport. 

Until next time Sayonara 💝 🌺 

Origami hedgehog

 

Origami hedgehog designed by Paulius Mielinis

Single sheet origami

9 inch square taken

Tutorial by Jo Nakashima 

Until next time Sayonara 🌺🌸💮

Origami Mayur

Origami Mayur designed by Meenakshi Mukerji 

One sheet of paper. I took 15 cm paper. 

Tutorial by Meenakshi Mukerji in folding with masters series by Mariela Recinos @origamimaniacs

Origami ?????

 

Eye test, are you able to spot my origami?

Designed by Jo nakashima.

One sheet origami. I took 15 cm sheet of paper, regular kami.

Tutorial by: Jo nakashima 

Until next time Sayonara 🐸🐸🐸

Ligia Montoya flower

 

Designed by Ligia Montoya

One sheet of paper. I did this so long back like 3 or 4 weeks, I don't remember the paper size. I folded too many origami models that I can't recollect the sizes for some models.

Last few weeks I've folded origami like a crazy woman, I was totally hooked to it. And then I share on Instagram also like a crazy woman. Everyday I'm sharing something new. Everyday I think, this is my last post after this I'm giving a break for 2-3 days. And then the next day my hand itches to post on insta. I don't want to be so addicted to social media. It ruins productivity.

Anyhow, the tutorial for this is by Mr. E

Unitil next time Sayonara 💝

Origami frog

 

Origami frog 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

Designed by Hiroaki Kobayashi

One sheet of paper. Easy fold. I took 6 inch sheet.

Tutorial by Jo Nakashima

Until next time Sayonara 😍❣️

Sunflower

 

Sunflower 🌻🌻

Designed by Meenakshi Mukerji

Tutorial by Sara Adams 

This is made from single sheet of paper. I don't know why I chose pink for sunflower. It's a beautiful design by Meenakshi. I adore her a lot. I took 9 inch paper for this model.

Until next time Sayonara 🌺❣️

Origami Prima kusudama

 

Origami kusudama Prima designed by Brian Beitel

I used 3 inch origami sheets. 30 units. No glue. Simple and straightforward sonobe icosahedron.

Tutorial by Brian Beitel

Simple fish

 

Simple fish designed by Joseph Hwang 

Tutorial by Evan Zodl

A very simple fish indeed. I've taken patterned and harmony papers with size 3 inch and 2 inch I guess. I did this like a month ago, I don't remember the size of the paper.

Unitil next time Sayonara 💝

12 pointed star

 

12 pointed star designed by Peter Keller @valleyfolder

Tutorial by Sara Adams @happyfoldingdotcom 

This is like every other star, the speciality is I painted the other side with acrylic paint for the first time.. The step for this star starts from rectangular paper divided into thirds, and then cut into a hexagon. The model is mildly challenging. In the end we can see the colour change. Just to get that I took a red sheet, I bought acrylic paint and painted one side with glittering golden colour. You can see the colour change. 

This is the first time I tried this method. The texture of the paper totally changed after paint dries. Loved the experience.

Until next time Sayonara 🌺

Jorge Jaramillo's Sun

 

Jorge Jaramillo's Sun

I used 6 inch square sheet of paper

Instructions are available in Meenakshi Mukerji's website.

Fairly simple to fold .

Until next time Sayonara 💖💝❣️

Celtic circle by Robin Scholz

 

Celtic circle by Robin Scholz

I used 9 inch square sheet of regular kami.

Start from hexagon by dividing it into 32 grids.

When I first watched the video to check if it's doable, I felt it might be bit challenging. But when I dived into the tessellation, it was easy. 

Tutorial by Sara Adams:

Until next time Sayonara 💝🌺

A simple fly by Adriano Mariani

 

Simple fly designed by Adriano Mariani

This is a single sheet origami. I've used 3 inches sheets and 2 inches sheets.

Tutorial by Jo Nakashima

My health is not so good... I get anxiety attacks... And then I take pills... Which knocks my to sleep.... I cry relentlessly, feel nautilus, vomit and then sleep..... It's like my life is shit, fucked up royally....I compensate my depression and dull life by doing origami and posting on insta and here in my blog... I don't know how many models I've done in the past few weeks... I started this blog thinking it'll be a dedicated origami blog, but these days I share personal things. 

Until next time Sayonara 😔😔

Samurai designed by Adriano Mariani

 

Samurai designed by Adriano Mariani

I took 5 cm paper.... This is the smallest I've folded. For size reference I've placed it beside a 10 Rupee Indian coin. 

It's an easy fold, hence decided to try it out with smaller paper.

Tutorial by Adriano Mariani:

Until next time Sayonara 💝🌺

Origami snowflake

 

Iimori snowflake designed by Melina Hermsen aka "Yureiko"

Tutorial by Sara Adams @happyfoldingdotcom 

This is one design I found challenging to fold. I failed in my first attempt, it was hard for me to figure out the folds, after an hour or so I lost patience and crumpled up the paper and threw away.

Next day with more patience I started it back and I could make it... I could make both variations... The second variation was much easier since I had figured out the steps...

It's a beautiful design.... I loved it very much... Worth the effort... The satisfaction I got after I successfully folded is unexplainable.

I took 9 inch square sheet of paper for both variations.

Until next time Sayonara 🌺🌸🌺🌸

Maple leaf by Yuankai Zhang

 

Designed by Yuankai Zhang

The folding instructions are available on origami USA magazine the Fold. Issue 78

Https://origamiusa.org/thefold

For this, I took 6 inch square sheet of paper. This is one sheet origami. No cut, no glue...

I loved the design, though I scratched my head here and there to analyse. But it was total fun and a wonderful maple leaf.... 

Until next time Sayonara 🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸

Origami crane arrangement - dragon crane

 

Origami crane arrangement - dragon crane

Crane designed by @yamaki_62

9 inch square sheet

Tutorial:

I saw this crane in @ozneyer profile and got inspired to fold.

I usually do not want to post everyday, but lately I've folded many origami stuff and some very interesting designs. I didn't want to post today since I just posted yesterday, but I folded this fancy and enchanting crane yesterday late evening. It's a beautiful and an interesting design. I saw this is @ozneyer profile and wanted to give it a try.... Enjoy the dragon crane. 

Until next time Sayonara 🌺🌸

Sarah's star

 

Designed by Evan Zodl

I took 3 inch square sheets. Instructions available on Evan's website.

No glue. I totally loved this star. I tried with one color combination at first. Was not so happy with the outcome. Then I saw @dutchfolder had used harmony papers. I tried with harmony, still not satisfied with my work. Finally I saw another folder's photo. He had used multi colour. With that I totally loved the outcome. It's a fantastic design, worth giving a try.

Until next time Sayonara 💝🌺🌹

Popiolek star

 

Popiolek star designed by Natalia Guzowska

I took 9 inch square sheet of paper. This is one sheet wonder, meaning made of single sheet of paper.

The steps are intermediate,  but the final effect is simply wonderful.

I have gotten bored of modulars these days, so I'm looking for one sheet wonders. One sheet wonders can be quite challenging.

Tutorial by Sara Adams

Until next time Sayonara 🌺❣️

Home decoration with self-made origami models

 

I was having a very lethargic Saturday. I practically do nothing special on weekends. My weekdays and weekends are pretty much the same. I had folded many origami models lately and they were lying all around my apartment like abandoned junk pieces. With them lying all around, it was difficult to clean the racks too. So I thought of rearranging the display by hanging them from the ceiling, sticking to the door entrance etc...

Here are some photos of my display. Who knows I might change them in future too, when I get bored again 😜

Hope you all like it and hope it brought some colours to your weekend.

Credits:

All are folded by me but designed by various artists around the world.

Music: Good time 02

Musician: Xuxiao

Until next time Sayonara 🙋🙋🙋🙋

Garland of hearts

 

Garland of hearts 

Designed by Francesco Guarnieri

I had my eye on this design from a long time, but last time when I tried from the diagram I couldn't get the folds. Recently this week I tried and I could figure out. It's a wonderful model. I love it.

I took 4 inches of paper, totally 8 papers, no glue for assembly. Easy assembly.

Diagram is available in https://origamiusa.org/thefold

Until next time Sayonara 🙋🙋🙋

Origami Corgi

 

Origami Corgi designed by Steven Casey

I am tired of folding modulars. It can get monotonous because of the number of units one has to fold. In my origami community I'm almost typecasted as a modular girl and I do of course get lots of appreciation for my modulars. But I want to break that typecast and try something new. 

This is a single sheet origami. I took 9 inch square sheet of paper. I would say this is high intermediate, at least for me.... Because I had to replay some of the steps several times. But for some of you it might be a cake walk.

Hope you all like my one sheet wonder origami Corgi designed by Steven Casey.

Tutorial link is here

Until next time Sayonara 

Sonobe box 24 unit

 

This is 24 unit sonobe cube. Designed by Bennet Arstein.

Tutorial by 

I have used 4 inch size harmony paper. You get stunning looks. I have folded many 24 unit cubes but this time I ventured to assemble without glue. It was not so hard. It's a lovely design,  I might make a sonobe icosahedron someday. Until then enjoy this cube.

Sayonara 😀🙏💗💞

Origami Marta star

 

Origami Marta star

Designed by Maximiliano Ortiz 

This is a beautiful star which I liked instantly. Pretty much like live at first sight. I took 4 inches square paper from Tuttle . Total of 8 units. No glue used for assembly.

Tutorial by Evan Zodl