Tiny Origami by Me

I saw a 60s doc on someone who did tiny origami for a career! And I thought I’d try it myself, even though I have made smaller origami. The latter was with tweezers, and didn’t look great as it wasn’t supposed to, having been a test for Japanese potential surgery med students. Man, I mean talk about having confidence in your surgeons if they were able to fold a paper crane out of 1 cm square paper! At that small size, paper thickness relative to size becomes a factor because it doesn’t get 15X thinner just because you use paper 15X smaller in a square side, and 225X smaller in surface area!

How do you think I did? I have no intention of trying the crack the market to make a career, or even money, out of it, though.

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Upped my Gift Wrapping Skills

Before Christmas, I was asked to volunteer to do giftwrapping for a charity. I was going to say no, only because I was a terrible gift wrapper, but I decided to finally remove a weakness I’ve had for over 50 years… despite being a good origamist who can fold paper like most people can’t!

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My First TikTok Surprise

After 199 consecutive posts of mostly flag designs, I am no longer ahead of the game to post more. At least not posts I can yet share, or that I’d care to share because I discarded those designs without using them for my initial consultations. But I’ve been active on TikTok of late, so I’ll share some of my adventures there in this and future posts.

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Finalist Flag 3 for Kentville, NS

KENTVILLE, NS
Finalist 3
Two Half Acres

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Finalist 2 Flag for Kentville, NS

KENTVILLE, NS
Finalist 2
Apple Blossom above Battlements

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