Looking for an excuse to embrace your geek side with something sweet? This weekend's DIY from the blog My Jell-O Americans (which wins the award for best website name pun of all time) via Craft magazine, shows us crafters how to get wiggly with our origami fundamentals.
The origami paper is made of granulated gelatin, water, and food coloring. Check out the video on Craft for all the details on creating a funky, folded treat.
French soap maker Compagnie De Provence Marseille has come up with some truly adorable packaging to help celebrate the company's 20th anniversary. Right now, you can buy the brand's extra-large 180 gram soaps ($8) wrapped in origami paper. That way, when you open up your bar, you just follow the directions to make your own sweetly-scented little paper critter. You can even see a short unwrapping stop-motion video by Studio Plastac, which designed the origami wrappers. Which fun foldable would you most like to make?
Dutch design studio and shop Tas-ka sells this Birdshade ($232), which is made of paper origami cranes. I love the idea of using origami pieces to create something that's more than the sum of its parts, and the colors here are really pretty, but the sharp folds in this shade look a little abrasive to me. What do you think?
I'm a big fan of origami (I can't tell you how many of those little birds and shirts I made from my old Netflix flaps), but learning how to fold everything just right was kind of a nightmare. But with some animated step-by-step instructions from this site, you can banish your cramped hands and get it right the first time.
No more folding and unfolding, or wondering which way to flip the paper over, 'cause you have the animated instructions right in front of you! Now you can make thousands of birds to hang around your apartment. Well, you could if you wanted to.
Origami is fun, but fashion origami is fabulous! Check out this adorable Fashion Origami Set ($12). It'll be so much fun to do with a bunch of your girlfriends. Each set comes with 120 sheets of colored paper and a 28-page instruction book on how to make shoes, shirts, underwear, and dresses. I'm off to buy, are you coming?
When my cousin and I went for sushi, we were seated at a tiny table with a wobbly leg that left my chopsticks rolling around. That is, until he showed me how to make a rest for my chopsticks out of the wrapper. Now I'm passing along my knowledge of what might just be the world's most functional origami piece. Read on to make your own.
If you're a Netflix member like Yours Truly, you've probably got a smattering of red envelopes lying around your house. And not the romantic, love-professing kind from your sexy valentine. Although, who knows, maybe you have both! In any case, there's a way you can put that tear-off slip of paper to good use without just sending it to the recycling bin, or heaven forbid, the trash!
Using ancient origami techniques, you can transform that petit papier into a tray to hold your popcorn while you're weeping over The Notebook (Netflix's ninth most popular film). All you'll need is your hands and the tear-off Netflix flap. To learn the steps, read more
OK Netflix junkies — or anyone else that has a queue-filled Netflix account like me. You know those little red flaps? The one you tear off Netflix envelopes when you're about to return the movie? Yeah, the ones you throw in the trash (hopefully you recycle them instead). Get this, there's actually a website called Netflix Origami that provides you with ways to fold your Netflix flaps into origami works of art! You are not only reusing and recycling these pieces of paper, but you're creating neat objects like crabs, hearts, frogs and gliders!
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Paper origami is so last year. The newest trend is making shapes out of dinner napkins. This set ($35) comes with a lesson booklet, as well as four napkins, each with printed folding instructions for different shapes: a sailboat, a crane, a carrot, and a snail. I'm personally not crazy about the idea; I just want my napkin on my lap. Do you think it's cute or over the top?
While sister Nicky opted to wear a fun Tibi dress to the The Good Life photograph event, Paris Hilton chose to show up in head-to-toe white. In fact, she wore the same origami-detailed Yoana Baraschi dress that Halle Berry wore last week while running errands in LA. Halle went the more casual route and chose to mix it up by wearing red flip-flops and an ivory Versace bag. Which look are you digging more — Halle's casual femme or Paris's matchy white on white?
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