Origami and Kirigami

This is the page-a-day calendar that Simon gave me for Christmas, with my first practice piece. Kirigami is the art of paper folding and cutting. Here are some amazing examples of this art! And here is more along the lines of what I see myself doing. Cool huh? (I asked for this calendar, having heard about it from a Yahoo Kirigami group I belong to.)

I learned to make this origami photo pocket from Karen Thomas on a recent Carol Duvall show. She actually made six of them and held them together in a cube with paper tabs - and had photos in each one. I put this piece of teal cardstock where the photo would go and thought I'd build on that design and use it on a card.

I finished Gretchen's framed paper quilt! I'm trying to use up some frames I had - and Gretchen likes color - hope she likes this. Now to finish Mom's, in blues and greens.

Steve and I were wild and crazy last night - stayed up until 11:00!! I know. We totally rock. And we ate appetizers for our dinner. We had shrimp cocktail and I made deviled eggs. I made White Bean Rosemary Dip for me and Steve picked out a couple of frozen appetizers at the store for himself. We went nuts with dessert - fat-free Snackwells and Fig Newtons. We be livin' the high life, for sure.

We watched our Netflix Supersize Me. I enjoyed it even more than I thought I would. Steve found it "interesting". Let's see. He eats fast food, I do not. Hmmm. (I do indulge in Arby's a couple of times a year, I'll admit.) Made me feel pretty darn good about all the low fat food I've been eating.

I spent a few years writing actual goals for the upcoming year, printed in a nice font, I kept them posted in front of me at my desk. But I haven't done that in a couple of years and it doesn't feel right anymore. But yesterday something that Carol Ross wrote resonated with me. So I'm declaring 2006 "The Year of Successful Craft Shows". And so it shall be.

Happy New Year!