Friday, March 17, 2017

Sticky Notes and Birthday Cards

If you read my first post, you’ll know that I used to (and still do) love sticky-note origami. It doesn’t work for everything, though. Since the paper has a strip of sticky stuff on the back, it’s not great for pieces like this week’s butterfly box, where the back of the sticky-note shows or is on the outside. It kind of ruins the whole aesthetic when there’s just this grey band full of random dirt and lint peeking out. However, it works great for ones where only one side of the paper is visible, like with a crane. Plus, since the paper is smaller, all the pieces just look twenty times cuter (as tiny things usually do).

In the beginning of the year I was folding sticky-note cranes left and right in class. I know, I know, some of you are gasping at the fact that I would dare not pay attention in any class. Or maybe you’re not. I don’t really know. Other than the heart and the box, it was the only piece I retained from my origami phase, and I’d make it all the time. I’ve made it so many times that I could probably make one blind-folded. I sort of stopped for a couple months since I knew it wasn’t the best way to be spending my time in class, regardless of how boring the teacher/curriculum was. However, I couldn’t help myself today, and I ended up folding some origami in Health class. No offense to Mr. Stokes, but the class can get really dull. Since the curriculum is stuff I already know, it’s hard to stay focused. Plus, the students are off-task the majority of the time, so we have to trudge through the content, even the basic stuff.

I mean, I do still pay attention while I'm folding, so I guess it could be a worse habit. Today in general was pretty stressful, and I think I needed something to take my mind off of that. I first folded a single elephant, but, figuring I had enough time to make a second one, I granted her a friend. (Their names are currently undecided, but I'm working on it.) It was nice to be able to add a new piece to my sticky-note repertoire, and it's too bad not all of the pieces I've learned so far work with sticky notes.

Last post I talked about a birthday gift for my friend who’s birthday is tomorrow, and I figured, why not use the elephants as part of her birthday card? (Hand-making cards is the best, and I never give up the opportunity to craft one.) I’m already giving her a butterfly box, so why not throw in some more origami? I think the card came out pretty nice, even though I had to break out the glue gun to get it to lay down on the paper properly. The speech bubble is really lopsided though, which bothers me more than it should. Since it's technically origami, I decided I might as well share it here.