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Christmas Countdown 2023 ... #24-23-22-21.....

 


Over the last few years, I have created an "advent" regime of creating something with a Christmas theme in the month of December - sometimes, it's been drawing, tags, cards or sharing photos . The themes have been Christmas Tags,   Christmas Firsts , Christmas \postage stamps, Christmas cake, and crazy Christmas trees from the past.  You can search this blog with the tag #christmas countdown and see what you can find ? 

My mother used to love the #Christmas Countdown series  and it is now almost a year since she passed away. The "lead -in" to Christmas and origami were a couple of her favourite things, so this year, 2023, my December goal is to make a paper folded Christmas tree ornament each day n her memory. 

1 December, 2023 : To start with, I chose the simplest little pinwheel and added a button and a star. 


2 December, 2023 :  This folded shape starts with a pinwheel, so it seemed the logical follow on. And I also stitched on a button and sparking star.  These instructions  for the pinwheel and pendant were found on the back of an origami calendar which my mother had amongst her stash, so I include them here. 




3 December, 2023 : Where I live,  Christmas is in summer, so a time for cicadas . Please use your imagination a little to appreciate this paper folded cicada and some instructions from the book , Origami by Hideaki Sakata ( Graph-Sha/Japan Publications 1984 ) 



4 December , 2023 : Summer also brings beautiful parrots to the flowering eucalyptus tree in our garden. Here is my 4th decoration, a green parrot. I modified the instructions for a dove from the aforementioned book to create this paper bird. 



I'm looking forward to filling my "tree" for the next 20 days. Hope you will follow the progress.... 



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