I am very proud of today's thing as it required a lot of instruction following and a great deal of patience. Also, a friendly relationship with spatial relationships. To say that I'm not great @ any of these things would be a gigantic understatement. Tonight
I folded an origami crane. This is my first successfully completed origami anything so I'm very proud. While everyone else in elementary school was making those jumping frogs or cootie catcher things I was using that same paper to write some sort of emo missive about how unfair the whole activity was. I think it looks pretty nifty, especially considering that I used regular computer/printer paper, not the fancy origami stuff. In the interest of full disclosure I did require a lot of help [A LOT] from Joseph to complete this as I was having a lot of difficulty with the instructions and with not snapping/freaking out and destroying not just that paper, but all paper in the house.
I'm not sure that this is my path to inner peace. In fact, I'm not sure that any path to inner peace is available to someone like me. That's a shame. I'm not sure that I could make 999 more of these - although that's what one is meant to do. If you make 1000 of them then you can make a wish and it will totally come true. Also, 1000 cranes are made for when you have a loved one in the hospital or for weddings. I think they look really impressive all strung together as decoration. Apparently sometimes people do float them down rivers or whatever - although I'm assuming they don't use generic computer paper if one plans to do this.
2 comments:
I learned to make those as a child, but I remember the instructions being really frustrating. (There's one step that might as well say "and then some magic happens".)
Good for you!
Yes, I know the step you mean - it's right near the end. There is a crudely drawn instruction-ary picture and it's kinda like you fold it halfways and inside out...but it doesn't make sense. That was nearly the end for me.
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