Christmas Countdown 2023 Revisited

My best intentions of blogging about my Advent paperfolding last month went awry ... a little like a New year's resolution, I suspect. However, I decided today to revisit the Christmas Countdown and create a summary of all of the Christmas themed paperfolding I completed in December 2023.

And here they are in no particular order...

Day 15 - an eight pointed star ( which I think if folded in a different colour, would have made a great poinsettia flower)

Day 14 - an owl ( perhaps Hedwig from the Harry Potter series?)

Day 12 - a 3D Christmas ornament

Day 11 - a Christmas tree

Day 10 - a swan ( 7 swans a-swimming - the other 6 didn't materialise)

Day 19 - an 8 point pin wheel ( I made this twice as a present decoration, instead of a ribbon)

Day 18 - a Christmas wreath

Day 17 - lots of folded hearts so many that they were made into a Christmas garland

Day 13 - 4 calling birds ( the leader in black and white and the others in shades of blue!)

Day 16 - a red woven heart

Day 24 - a peace crane

Day 23 : My granddaughter made the reindeer I was trying to fold and I settled for an interlocking star

Day 21 : another 3D ornament which slots together.

Day 20 : my favourite 5 pointed Christmas stars.

Day 22 : a dimensional interlocking star - looks simple, but was difficult to get the elements to fir together!

Day 9 - the Bethlehem star

Day 6- Christmas stocking with a candy cane

Day 4 - Summer cicada

Day 7- Lotus star

Day 5- Santa Claus looking a little triangular

Day 2 - Pendant ornament

Day 8 - "Home for Christmas "

Day 3 - Green Cockatoo

Day 1 - Simple pinwheel

And here are some of the websites which provided the inspiration for this series of paperfolding - Advent 2023.

Diamond origami https://www.craftingdailydose.com/post/july-2021-instahop

Hearts https://www.origamiway.com/origami-heart.shtml

Woven heart https://youtu.be/Oni3nX9sYkw?si=MVKlDfvyvLezf36Z

Five ;pointed star https://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/5-pointed-origami-star.html

https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/origami-star.html

Origami owl https://www.origamiway.com/origami-owl.shtml

Calling bird https://www.origamiway.com/origami-bird.shtml

Swan https://www.origamiway.com/origami-swan.shtml

3 d shapes https://www.allthingspaper.net/2015/12/origami-ornament-techniques-tips-for.html

http://www.atelierfeteunique.com/2016/04/26/diy-guirlande-de-diamant-origami/

In the Pink

At Tag Tuesday . Pinky O' Hagan is hosting a tag challenge which asks for 'a bit of pink".... not so difficult if you like pink. I don't use a lot of pink in my work, so it was quite a bit of a challenge when I thought only of pink - my thoughts went to pink roses, pink hearts, pink confectionery !!! Then I referred to this week's colour prompts, #coloricombo by artists Este MacLeod.... pink with sap green, dark tea, and sea green. I'm not sure I got the colours in this palette exactly, but here is my tag, a stylised landscape - The collaged background of the tag has torn pieces of watercolour art rejects, painted magazine pages and a little bit of gift paper. The tree silhouette is decorated with paper dots, cut with a hole puncher.

Wednesday's Children and Others.

STITCHED UP is now in its third week of exhibition and breaking all records of visitors - such an overwhelming response - so it is inevitable that a few people have had their photos taken with Wednesday's children, the stick doll installation.... First of all, Ben, a member of the amazing installation team at The Lock-Up. Thanks for taking such care installing 'the girls' - the digital laser level worked wonders and did I hear you talking to a few them? Ben from the installation team The Lock-Up Wednesday's children up on the wall. Then, of course , my own family - not all positive critiques, but you can't win them all! Many of my friends have been really supportive.... they have even visited a few times. Here are some of my Rotary friends on the opening night. Members of the Rotary Club of Wallsend-Maryland - Clarice, Cia, Sandy, Wilma, Christine Unexpected visitors even dropped by las...

The Sea - for Tag Tuesday

For the current challenge "The Sea" at Tag Tuesday, I made a couple of painted/ hand drawn tags . These were created from a piece of watercolour paper which had been sprayed with acrylic paint - blue, yellow and quinacridone gold. I then sketched over the top , trying to follow some pattern created by the splatter and then add some felt tip pen lines watercolour pencil to highlight the shapes. The tags represent the fantasies of the hidden city of Atlantis and a mermaid. With this theme in mind, I also add a free motion stitched tag I made earlier this year for 29 Faces -

Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

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