Stellated Cuboctahedron

Design from "Exquisite Modular Origami" by Meenakshi Mukerji

Snowflakes

Design by Sok Song from "Crease and Fold"

Winter Tree

From Genuine Origami by Jun Maekawa

More complicated to make than the Christmas tree in my last post, yet the result looks much simpler!

Christmas Tree

The idea for this design came from "The Gingerbread House" blog

Japanese Macaque

"Japanese Macaque" design from Genuine Origami by Jun Maekawa

Dragon

"Western Dragon" design from Genuine Origami by Jun Maekawa

Frog

"Frog" design from Genuine Origami by Jun Maekawa

Hina Dolls

Two "Hina Dolls", each wearing a unique Kimono. Folded out of rather some rather exquisite origami paper from the Japanese Shop.

Hina Dolls design from "Genuine Origami" by Jun Maekawa

Cow

Cow design from "Genuine Origami" by Jun Maekawa

Mice

Mouse design from "Genuine Origami" by Jun Maekawa

(Thank you Grandma D for the super present!)

Paper Plane

Propeller Place design by Seiji Nishikawa from "Essential Origami"

Wolf Howling at the Moon

I like this design because, surprisingly, the Wolf and Moon are both part of a single sheet of square paper. The finished piece give the illusion that the moon might be separate!

Design from 'World's Best Origami' by Nick Robinson

Unicorn

Ever since I took up Origami I have been creating origami birthday cards for my family & friends. Anticipating this, my big sister recently requested a Unicorn for her birthday card this year! This proved a bit of a challenge... this was my third attempt and the one I went with, and although I'm not 100% happy with the result I think it did the trick! I might post this design again in the future after I've had a few more attempts and improved it a little!

The unicorn is based on the following design by Donya Quick; 

http://donyaquick.deviantart.com/art/Origami-Unicorn-Instructions-123623739

Bear

"Square Bear" design from 'Encyclopedia of Origami' by Nick Robinson

Bunch of Flowers (and Snail)

My wonderful mother turned 60 and retired this weekend, so to mark the occasion I gave a bunch of Iris' - unfortunately a crafty little snail managed to sneak into the pot.

I used a number of different designs to make this bunch of flowers; the idea came from a photograph in "The Encyclopedia of Origami" by Nick Robinson, the flower pot design came from "The Simple Art of Japanese Papercrafts" by Mari Ono and the Iris and Snail designs both featured in "Essential Origami" by Steve and Megumi Biddle