Butterfly & Fan Earrings

Fox

 

Fox Design from Origami Zoo by Robert J Lang & Stephen Weiss

Made using foil backed paper

Crane Earrings

Christmas Tree Decorations

Reindeer - Merry Christmas from Charliegami

Charlie the Reindeer

This little fella will be busy tonight pulling Santa's sleigh. Wishing you a very merry Christmas from Charliegami!

Father Elephantmas

Alfred the Skating Penguin

Design by Sok Song from 'Crease & Fold'

Origami Advent Calendar

This is a simple idea for an advent calendar using origami envelopes and wooden pegs! Each envelope is filled with a little origami treat too!

You can find the instructions for the origami envelopes here!

On the move... (aka, charliegami mobile phone pictures)

I usually try to take 'decent' photos of my origami for the purpose of this Blog, however, I often make origami on the go (especially on trains) and take a quick snap on my mobile phone instead! Here is a little compilation of some picture of my creations which I've snapped on my mobile phone!

A thumbnail Neale Dragon

During Hay festival, one of my Neale Dragon's appeared a pharmacy window!

Koala & Swan on a train from Nick Robinson's 'World's Best Origami'

Flowery 70s Suit!

Enemoto Elephants!

Halloween Special!

Some Halloween themed origami! Two new and two old!

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-spider.html

T-shirt pumpkin from 'Origami to Astonish and Amuse' by Jeremy Shafer

Wolf Howling at the Moon from 'World's Best Origami' by Nick Robinson

Devil Mask from "Genuine Origami" by Jun Maekawa

Neale Dragon (Take 2!)

'Updated' Neale Dragon

One of my favourite origami folds that I have devoted to memory is the 'Neale Dragon', and it's probably the model I create most often when out and about. The picture below is the traditional 'Neale Dragon' which I know and love. The picture above is an 'update' that I found in Jeremy Shafer's 'Origami to Astonish and Amuse'.

The base of the 'update' is identical to the relatively simple 'original' that I've been making for years, but a couple of alternative folds and the addition of a few details (such as a proper tail, more complex wings and a different posture) make the end result look a lot more detailed and complex! I like this idea of altering existing designs by adding detail to get a slightly more complex end result!

'Original' Neale Dragon 

Elephant Bums!

'Who's Staring at my Rump?' design by Jeremy Shafer
from 'Origami to Astonish and Amuse'

Elephantastic

This is a slightly different blog post for Charliegami, because I usually just post pictures of origami folds which I have made. However, this post is about an awesome project which I had nothing to do with (apart from a relatively small contribution of a handful of elephants folded by myself and some of the pupils at my school).

These photos are from a world record attempt organised by Whipsnade Zoo, as part of an 'elephant appreciation weekend'. The idea was to break the record for the most origami elephants in one place, and the organisers were aiming for 30,000 to demonstrate the number of Elephant left in the wild.

The great thing about this project was massive range of different elephants on display. Some were clearly made by origami experts and quite realistic, but loads were made by novices and children who made one or two simple elephants at the zoo and contributed them there and then! There wasn't just a huge number of elephants, but also a massive variety, demonstrating one of the great great things about origami which is looking at different ways to interpret the same thing by folding in a different way!

When I visited the elephant count was already under way... I am not sure if they made the 30,000 target, but they seemed pretty sure that the record had been broken! Despite the fact that my contribution was relatively minor, it was great to be a tiny little part of this massive and wonderful project - and to see all the elephants on display ready to count!

Oh, and the real live baby elephant was pretty cute too!

Tiger Mask

A rather lovely person bought me some animal print paper back from Japan recently, so here is my attempt at Maekawa's 'Tiger Mask' with tiger print paper!

Papillon (Dog)

Papillon design from 'Genuine Origami' by Jun Maekawa