Crane/Stars/Beads Room Decor String

Type: Stars/Cranes

Color: Assorted (Made from scrapbook paper)

Size: Varies, around 3 1/2 ft per string

Units: Varies, around 40 stars, 10 beads, and 10 cranes per string

Time to make: 10 mins, with cranes and stars already made

For: Lots of people: Emily, Liya, Ms. Haws, Akanksha, and others who ask for it.

Rainbow Pencil Holder

Type: Golden Venture

Color: Green, Yellow, Pink, Blue, and Orange

Size: Around 5 1/2" (Sorry I forgot to measure it before I gave it away)

Units: 628

Time to Make: 1 week

For: Ms. Cartmell

Blue and White Pencil Holder

Type: Golden Venture

Color: Blue and White

Size: About 5 1/2" tall (Sorry forgot to measure before I gave it away)

Units: 540

Time to make: 2 weeks

For: Mr. Faidley

Blue, White, Yellow Pencil Holder

Type: Golden Venture

Color: Blue, White, Yellow

Size: 3 1/2" tall

Units: 396

Time to make: 1 week

For: Myself

Green and White Swirl Pencil Holder

Type: Golden Venture

Color: Green and White

Size: Around 4 1/2" (Sorry forgot to measure before I gave it away)

Units: Approximately 540

Time to Make: A week

For: Mr. Sears

Orange, Yellow, White, and Blue Pencil Holder

Type: Golden Venture Origami

Color: Orange, Yellow, White, Blue

Size: Around 5 1/2" (Sorry forgot to measure before I gave it away)

Units: 680

Time to make: 2 weeks

For: Ms. Haws :)

Rainbow Foil Swirl Kusudama

Type: Swirly Foil Kusudama

Color: Rainbow

Size: Around 3 1/2" in diameter

Units: 30

Time to make: 2 1/2 hours

For: Ms. Haws :)

Pink Cherry Blossom Kusudama

Type: Cherry Blossom Kusudama

Color: Bright pink

Size: Around 6-7" diameter (sorry I forgot to measure before I gave it away)

Units: 30

Time to make: 2 1/2 hours

For: Ms. Haws :)

Golden Venture Dog

Type: Golden Venture

Color: Orange, Yellow, Green

Size: 2" wide, 3 inches with tail, 3 1/2" tall

Units: 108 (Made from kit)

Time to make: 2 days

For: Myself

Modular Star 'Disco Ball'

Type: Modular Star

Color: Assorted (Made of scrapbook paper)

Size: 1' 4" tall and wide (Made of 12" x 12" scrapbook paper)

Units: 30

Time to make: 45 Minutes

For: Myself

Star Wall Decoration

Type: Stars

Color: Assorted (Made of strips of scrapbook paper)

Size: Varied, around 4 1/2 ft for each strand

Units: Varied, around 14 stars per strand, about 8 strands per horizontal foot of wall

Time to Make: 2 hours

For: Myself

Pink Flower Kusudama

Type: Flower Kusudama

Color: Pink and White

Size: 4 1/2" tall and wide, 1 1/2" thick

Units: 30 (half to fit on wall)

Time to make: 1 day

For: Myself

Magazine Flower Kusudama

Type: Flower Kusudama

Color: Assorted (made of magazine ads and articles)

Size: 6" tall and wide

Units: 60 (full)

Time to make: 2 days

For: Ms. Haws

Yellow Flower Kusudama

Type: Flower Kusudama Ball

Color: Yellow

Size: 7" tall and wide

Units: 60 (full)

Time to make: 2 days

For: Leslie's birthday :)

Swirly Foil Kusudama

In my opinion, this one is the coolest-looking of the bunch. Since you have to be able to curl the paper and have it stay, it's easiest to use foil paper. This also uses 30 modules, which takes me an hour or two. But since it's made of foil, its easy breakable and will smush easily. Here's a tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm2JEhBvxCg

Cherry Blossom Kusudama

This is a really nice one, especially since it has a cool flower pattern on it. It's made of 30 modules, and it takes me about an hour or two to make. It's one of those ones where it's hard to put together, and even sometimes I have trouble doing it. Here's a tutorial on how to make this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kr0Og_HR7Q (I didn't make this tutorial.)

Origami Paper

One of the most important things in origami is the paper you use. There are many types, colors, and patterns.

There's double-sided paper!

Theres glitter paper!

There's handmade paper!

There's paper with animations on them!

And then there's just plain old paper.

Paper also comes in different weight.

You can buy it, or cut it yourself. If you want to cut your own paper, its fairly easy (we learned it last year if you were at GRMS! Gosh.) I highly doubt you'll need to, but if you don't know how to do it, then watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqt3wUj0Dv8

Golden Venture Origami

This is probably the hardest type of origami I've made before. Just to make a simple pencil holder, you need around 800 units, depending on the size. It takes about 20 pieces of paper. Even though each unit takes only 20 seconds to make, assembling it takes about another 3-4 hours.

Here's a tutorial on how to make this swan http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-origami-a-swan-using-hundreds-of-paper-triangles-78290/

The fastest I've ever made one would be in three days, but only because it was over the summer and I had nothing to do at all. It takes a lot of patience and commitment, yet I have no idea how I'm able to do it.

You can make just about anything if you make a pattern for it. A lot of Japanese stores (like Daiso, they have ones for $1.50) have kits for mini animals and such. Those take a lot less time and they sometimes have better patterns.