""The reindeer are getting impatient, they are ready to go and would like to leave, because it's a long way, but there is a big problem....... Santa isn't there yet……."""

Model: origami "Sledge"

Design: Marcus Cooman

Folded from rectangle silver foil 15x30cm.

Model origami "Reindeer"

Design : Kunihiko Kasahara

Each folded from 15x15cm kamipaper.

I love this origami "Fairy" by Yoshihisa Kimura, it's a golden oldie and still a favorite of mine.

I thought to write a little story about these two ice-fairies, that they are in doubt if they should leave already or stay a little bit longer to spread their magic to the people.

But while taking this photo, I noticed I was humming the song of Peter Sarstedt "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" and also remembering the words of the chorus:

"But where do you go to my lovely

When you're alone in your bed

Tell me the thoughts that surround you

I want to look inside your head, yes I do."

Funny, how the mind works. So now you have two stories.;-)

If you want to listen to the song, just click here.

Design "Fairy": Yoshihisa Kimura

Diagrams: NOA magazine 202

There is also a turorial.

Each 'fairy' is folded from two pieces of paper:

- body: 15x15cm

- head: a square 15x15cm diagonally in half

oh, oh, oh, oh......!!!!!

It looks like Santa took the wrong exit......... and was transported to a parallel universe.........

When this was discovered he was immediately send back to our world again.......but, as you can see, something went wrong, his "structure" is more or less fragmentized.........

oh, oh, oh, oh......!!!!!

Model: origami 'Santa Mask'

Design: Akira Yoshizawa

Diagrams in the book 'Simple Origami" by Akira Yoshizawa

Head folded from 30x30cm wrapping paper.

Mask folded from 15x15cm kamipaper.

"Gecko and Fly on a Wall" is another ingenious origami model created by Herman van Goubergen, the two animals arise from out of the paper ;-)) It's a golden oldie, but I still like it.

Folded from wrapping paper.

Diagrams can be found here.

Submitted to Glow Challenge # 3 - November 1 to 30 - YOUR FAVORITE THINGS ! www.flickr.com/groups/glowwithus/discuss/72157658185279913/

Perhaps you already noticed, that there are many different Santa's and they all arrive in our world with different kinds of transportation.

Here is "Dinky"-Santa and is very, very enthusiastic about his ultra-supersonic "Dinky"-car!

When I met him for this photoshoot, he was dancing of joy, as you can see, because the journey from there to here only took him a few seconds, a new personal record ;-))

Meanwhile the Beatles were playing his favorite song 'Drive my car'.

Baby you can drive my car

Yes I'm gonna be a star

Baby you can drive my car

And maybe I'll love you

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah

Design origami "Santa": Peter Engel

Folded from 17,5x17,5cm kamipaper

There is a tutorial, if you want to fold it ;-)

Latest Santa-news:

"In the morning glow Santa Claus was detected, while stepping down into a chimney or is he trying to get out? Anyway, the good news is that he arrived safely in our world!!!"

Design origami "Santa Claus" and origami "Chimney-shaped penholder": Katsushi Nosho

Both diagrams in NOA #424.

"Santa Claus" is folded from 2 pieces 15x15cm and a small piece (for the face) kamipaper.

"Chimney-shaped penholder" is folded from 20x20cm and 30x30cm "stone"-paper.

My latest tessellation design in my Blocks-tessellation serie and I call this one "Little Blocks". You can see the 3 different phases, either follow the yellow or the blue path, starting on the left.

Folded from 15x15cm, kind of rice paper (very, very tin), grid 1:24

Discovered this pattern independently.

"I'm so happy", shouts this little 3D-Santa, "she did it and I am put back together again..... YEAH!!!!!. I feel like I can fly!!!!" Just in time for Xmas!

"I can't get enough looking at myself ;-0"

"So dance with me on the song to celebrate this and sing along" with "Happy" by Pharrell Williams.

'Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do'

Folded from

- 235 white

- 200 red

- 17 beige

- and 2 blue 3D-elements

I just love faries, so I folded this one ;-)

And this Fairy is dancing on magical water in Fairy-Land to celebrate the New Year. With this dance she is sending all her magical power to us. So open your heart and see what happens...... and please..... let me know ;-)

"A fairy is a mythical creature, commonly described as anthropomorphic and feminine. The essence of great beauty, can bring gifts to newborns, can fly, conjure, wishes and has influence on the future.

The properties of a fairy vary by area and culture. For example, a fee is a fallen angel, an elemental, a ghost or even human. A fairy is sometimes small, but in other cases of normal stature. She may be a young appearance, but also that of an old woman. Fairies are closely linked with the forces of nature and the concept of the parallel world." WiKi

Design "Origami Fairy": Henry Phạm

There is tutorial, just follow the link.

Folded from tant paper 15x15cm

There is a way out, but you just have to see it.

30 pairs of eyes deliberate how to do it ;-))

Origami Darth Vader has spoken: "I want to let you know that Marjan is having an absolutely necessary summer break..... She will be back, I promise! So live long and prosper until then".

Update: she is back........ ;-))

I always see faces in the world around me, I can't help it ;-D

While assembling this polyhedron "Star Prints", created by Aldo Marcell, I saw this face with a big surprise in the eyes and mouth, so I tried to translate that into a photo. To my big surprise the shiny surface created another distorted face, magical ;-)

So the 'Star' is looking at himself and wonders "Is that really me?"

Here you can see a different view.

Origami "Star Prints" is related to another origami dodecahedron I folded earlier: "Oleo", (also created by Aldo Marcell), which is an "easier" version, just a few creases less.

Folded from 30 pieces of double colored kami paper (7,5x7,5 cm).

No glue.

Tutorial can be found here.

Diagrams in the CDO (Centro Diffusione Origami – Italian Origami Association) Convention Book 2013.

Alien, my last variation of the origami "Clown mask 2" by Hideo Komatsu.

It's folded from some strange kind of foil, but I liked the effect this paper creates. Although it looks perhaps a bit scary, it's really a friendly specimen, this origami 'Alien' ;-))

Folded from 15x15cm doubler foil.

"Si siht yllaer eht den fo eht yrots-atnaS?", is Rudolf asking.

"Si siht yllaer eht den fo eht yrots-atnaS? ", is Rudolf asking.

"Yes, my beloved ones, the Santa-story is ending here", answers Santa. "Every Santa has reached his destination, everything has come to a good end! So we can relax for a few days and then return home".

"Si taht thgil dan yeht nac ees su won?", is Rudolf asking.

"Si taht thgil dan yeht nac ees su won?", is Rudolf asking.

"Yes, my beloved ones", answers Santa. " They can see you now, don't worry, they will love both* of you, I'm sure ;-)"

* Rudolf and Rudolf are identical twins, always have been! And they talk backwards, always have been doing that!

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

From the bottom of my heart

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas by Jose Feliciano

Design "Papá Noel" and "Reno": Carlos González Santamaría AKA Halle .

Diagrams in the book 'Una Navidad en tus manos' by Halle.

I extended the pattern of the "Molecule" in two ways by just moving the folding-pattern a bit. I used this paper, because of it's specific subdivision of lines, to see what it result would be.

In the upper row you see the frontside of the two variations and in the lower its back, or the other way around..... what makes it to be called a front- or backside? You decide for yourselves ;-)

I folded this "Molecule-blocks-tessellation" 4 times to show it all.

This is the flat version.

Folded from 15x15cm Freundenberger paper, grid 1:16.

Another lovely design by Aldo Marcell, called 'origami Oleo'. It was fun folding it and to ensemble this dodecahedron, you have to be patient, 30 units without glue.

On the photo you see the same model from two different angles but at the same distance. In the upper one I see a face ;-)

Diagrams in the CDO (Centro Diffusione Origami – Italian Origami Association) Convention Book 2013.

There is also a tutorial, if you want to fold it.

I folded it with 30 squares kamipaper 11,7x11,7cm.

"So sorry to interrupt the sea/sand series, but I just have to let you know that this is mine!!!!

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter", says the Easter Bunny ;-))

This origami cartoon-like Bunny (Conejo) is a design by Fernando Gilgado.

Diagrams can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/gilgado/8267640816/in/dateposted/ and in the two photos next to it.

Folded from hand-shaped paper 35x35 cm.

“A work in progress. And the possibilities are endless.”

Quote ― Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow

Folding a new tessellation, I have processed the colors, I wish there was paper that really looked like this ;-))

A very Happy Easter everyone!!!

"Mother Hen is teaching her little ones how to hide the chocolade eggs, so that the 'humans' can look for them."

This searching for eggs during Easter is a worldwide tradition in many cultures.

The origami hen is called "Abundance Hen" and is a design by Leyla Torres. The origami chicken is a model from Simon Anderson. They match wonderful together, although the folding proces is different.

Both can be used as boxes too, as you can see here. The hen has special feathers. Each feather is a written fortune message, the "Ten-Second Party Fortune". Also an idea by Leyla.

The chickens carry an egg and I added the party fortune idea as a little tail.

"Abundance Hen" is folded from 21x21 cm, duo-colored paper.

The chickens from a square from 5, 7,5, 8, 8,5 cm with German tekst on it, saying 'Frohe Ostern' ;-))

For each model Leyla Torres has made a tutorial on

her website.

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”

Quote ― William Hazlitt

The two lovely origami cats are having a conversation about how to spend their time this week. ;-))

This is an older model, but still so nice to fold and can be used as little presents. I folded two of them in a slightly different pose from 15x15cm double washi, black/gold. Final size: height 8cm, width 5cm.

It is also the last one in this miniseries, I have to fold more first ;-))

Have a great start of your too!!

Model: origami Seated Cat

Design: Patricia Crawford

Diagrams:

- in the book "The Art of Paperfolding - Origami 2" by Robert Harbin

- also on the CD 'The Origami World of Neal Elias' by Dave Venables and Marc Cooman

"Macroview of the triangle-lifestyle of the "Origaliens"-next generation." ;-))

Here you see their mothership 'SpaceCraft' .

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".

I finished the red one and I call this tessellation "Squarectangles" because you see squares and rectangles.

Paper: glassine, 20cm, grid 1:16

Discovered this pattern independently.

Here is a more detailed view of the centre and in different light.

This one is the last one of the Flower-origami-tessellation-series, this time I folded with very colorful wrapping paper.

I want to thank you all very much for your nice comments, faves and support, I appreciate it a lot!

Folded from a hexagon 33x33cm, Anett-Paper', grid 1:64

The other side of my origami-tessellation Star-Row" .

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".

A different view of "KiRara" (a golden oldie 1997) and it's designed by Miyuki Kawamura. Made from 30 elements, rectangle 1x2.

I used a small size of paper: 7,5x3,75cm Freudenberger paper, because you need thicker paper. Final height 9cm.

It's a nice model, here you can see another view.

Diagrams of this origami 'KiRara' in NOA magazine #263.

I had fun changing the colors, so I made a collection using the others colors of my "Molecule-blocks-tessellation".

This is my favorite color, not added in this image ;-)

Two origami-fish abstracts. I folded them both from 20x20cm hand shaped paper.

Model: Fish object

Design by Takashi Hojyo

Diagrams in Tanteidan 7th Convention Book.

This is the 3D-version of my "Molecule-blocks-tessellation". Due to the autumn season, I got inspired and changed the colors.

I could stop myself playing with the colors, so I made also a collection with different colors of this "Molecule-blocks-tessellation".

Here you can see the closed (flat) version of this tessellation.

Another beautiful origami cow (at least in my eyes) is this one. The fun part is the body pattern, the designer also encourage you to make your own pattern, so if you wish you can fold a whole herd with all individual cows ;-))

Here you see four cows, but actually there are just two of them.....by using a mirror you see their other side of the body which has a different pattern.

And I found the happy "Milka cow" , don't you agree....? LOL

Name model: Cow

Designer: Gen Hagiwara

Diagrams in O(rigami)USA-convention Book 2009

Both folded with kamipaper 24x24cm

From a friend hyphen_eight this lovely poem:

'The Purple Cow" by Gelett Burgess

'I never saw a Purple Cow,

I never hope to see one,

But I can tell you, anyhow,

I’d rather see than be one!"

During the folding phases of an new tessellation, before flattening the paper completely, this form occurred. A paper-secret that reveals it selves while folding. It reminded me a of star to be born ;-)) Because it is to fragile to stay this way, I just took a photo of this phase and continued folding ;-)

This origami Saint Santa is very old Spirit (you can see that because there is no color left) with special magical powers. He spoke that only a heart was still missing, once found he would make everything allright and Santa would be alive again.

Latest update: the heart has been found!!!!!

Folded from 21x21cm hand shaped paper.

It's my own design ;-)

Model: origami Saint Santa

Design: marjan Smeijsters

"""Let me take you to Origami-world, where something strange has happened......

The very old and wise Fish, a dear friend of our ancient Lady Witch, has been eaten.....all that is left, are the remains of the skeleton!!!!!!!

So you can imagine that everything and everybody is in confusion and this case needs to be resolved urgently: WHO DONE IT?"""

Name: origami "Fish Skeleton"

Design by Makoto Yamaguchi

Diagrams in Origami Tanteidan Magazine 10 or in the book "The beauty of Origami" by Makoto Yamaguchi

Folded from 8 units of square rice paper, different sizes

There is also a video tutorial

folded by Paul Reichert

This 'Origami-Snowflake' is a tessellated one, as you can see at the folded grid and a very complex one. You see the backlit version.

Benjamin Parker invented it years ago and Monika Hanková found the photo of this beauty again and reengineered it, she is very good at that! She also was so kind to show us how the backside looks like, so I was able to reengineer it too.

This is just one 'Snowflake', you can make a whole field of them ;-))

Model: origami "Snowflake" or "Uncovered Treasure Pattern"

Design: Benjamin Parker

Folded from a hexagon 16cm, 'Anett'-paper, grid 1:32, final size 9,5cm.

Detail of the back-side of my tessellation 'T-est 1'.

I wanted to see if I could find 2 different irregular hexagons to make a nice dense pattern. And I used the same paper and the same grid (1:48) as in 'Duo 1', but this paper is clearly to tick, so I stopped, but I still like the result, so here it is: 'T-est 1' (frontside)

I will refold it with different paper with a larger grid.

I'm probably not the first one who discovers this, but I found it independently.

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".

The basic "little hexagon-pattern" folded with a hexagon paper. In this stage this tessellation has a nice form, so I leave it the way it is. Like it is standing on the little triangle, that's why I call it "Balance". ;-)

Folded from a hexagon, 21cm, glassine, grid 1:48

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album "Origami - Tessellation Progression".

Playing with paper. This time I used a rectangle piece of paper.

The pattern I wanted to fold was not quite possible, the paper was too small, but it gave me a new opportunity to fold different forms by changing the little hexagons.

Different kind of wheels working together to find a way out. So I call this tessellation 'Escape".

Folded from rice-paper, 21x16cm, grid 1:32

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album "Origami - Tessellation Progression".

I wanted to see how the pattern of my "Connection 4" (based on my "butterfly"-molecule) would look like, when I extended that pattern...... and this is the result.

Folded from hexagon 33cm, glassine, grid 1:96.

I accidentally turned this tessellation 180 degrees, while making photo's and then I saw this face, called 'Help" ;-)). This face-tessellation is the same as this one above, only I changed the colors to make it more look like a face.

It's odd how the way you look at things can change your perception.

IIf you want to see the progress of my "Butterfly"-molecule pattern, click here for the album, where you can see my other tessellations, based on this "Butterfly-molecule".

Finally found some time to join the 30 modules together. But.....when I took a break and returned, I saw this face of an owl, so I couldn't resist to take a photo first, before finishing it ;-))

Here you can see the completed origami model by Miyuki Kawamura called "Star Orb" (2013).

Diagrams in the Origami Tanteidan 19th Convention Book.

"Despite all weather conditions, sicknesses and bad pandas, we have the very good news, that Santa is on his way. 'Ho,ho,ho!!!' Our special air-reporter was able to make a photograph of this 'traveling by cloud -Santa'. There is a lot of wind up-there, but he is holding on!", according to the Newspaper O-Ri_G_A-Mi.

Diagrams origami 'Santa', designed by Serge Afonkin, in the Origami Journal 10 (1997)

This Santa is folded from 7 pieces of paper of kami (and one for the sack) and you need glue.

Backlit back site of another (origami) tessellation study in finding (ir)regular hexagons, matching together. I call it 'Tessellation T-est 2'.

I did change the colors a bit and I flatted it ;-)

I'm probably not the first one who discovers this, but I found it independently.

This is how the backlit frontside looks like, in 3D.

Folded from a hexagon of soft, fine-textured paper, about 18 cm, grid 1:48.

If you want you see more about this project, check out my origami 'Origami - Tessellation Progression' album.

I take you back to my "Basics" origami-tessellations again, I hope you do remember .... if not you can have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".

I wanted to see if I could find 2 different irregular hexagons to make a nice dense pattern. And I used the same paper and the same grid (1:48) as in 'Duo 1', but this paper is clearly to tick, so I stopped, but I still like the result, so here it is: 'T-est 1' (frontside)

I will refold it with different paper with a larger grid.

I'm probably not the first one who discovers this, but I found it independently.

Here you can see a detail of the back-side.

Side view of the landed origami "Spaceship". ;-))

Here you can see the topview , where the origami spaceship 'Iceflower' is preparing for landing.

This time I folded the 'Starflower' from glassine and on a bigger grid 1:32, so I had more space left at the edges to invent this "Spaceship".

Hexagon about 15cm, finished model about 9cm.

Another way of folding my origami 'Butterfly"--molecule: "Connection 3".

If you interested, here you can see:

- "Connection 1"

- "Connection 2"

-or "Connection 3 and 2" not backlight

- or the progress of my "Butterfly"-molecule pattern, click here for the album, where you can see my other tessellations, based on this molecule.

To be continued ....;-))

Folded from a white sheet of glassine, about 30cm, grid 1:96. Final result is about 19cm.

For the photo I used another blue sheet of glassine, to create a colored backlight.

Changing the "Basics" into 'Duo 1', by changing the big hexagons into smaller ones and visa versa.

I made a little tutorial of the folding process to show you what I mean.

Folded from a hexagon of soft, fine-textured paper, about 18 cm, grid 1:48.

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album "Origami - Tessellation Progression".

I love this origami wizard and finally found the right paper to fold it with ;-))

Also for the '7 Days with Flickr' Crazy Tuesday Theme "New Purposes".

I want to fold so much more....... and also make beautiful photos of these folded origami-models, so I can share their beauty with you!

Model: origami Wizard

Design by Takashi Hojyo

Folded from one Washi Lux paper 35x35cm. Final height of the model is 19cm.

Diagrams in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #109.

Remember I told you I was going to connect my origami 'Butterfly"--molecule?

Well, this is one way of folding it and I call it "Connection 2".

Here you can see "Connection 1".

If you want to see the progress of my "Butterfly"-molecule pattern, click here for the album, where you can see my other tessellations, based on this molecule.

Folded from a white sheet of glassine, about 30cm, grid 1:96. Final result is about 19cm.

For the photo I used another red sheet of glassine, to create a colored backlight.

I was surprised to see the outcome the backlit photo, because it give the two tessellations a kind of 3D effect, that is actually not there.

Due to their own beauty I call them "Duo 2" and I also gave it a different color than the backlit versions of "Duo 1" .

Sometimes tessellations just have two front sides, you can decide which one prefer and just turn it around ;-))

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album "Origami - Tessellation Progression".

Once I folded the grid, a division of 1:64, I started to fold from the middle, in this case, the 'butterfly-pattern".

But because of the fragility and weakness of the paper I closed the little hexagon, so the pattern would hold together, that's is why it looks different then the finished "butterfly on the right below. You could say it looks more like a flower, this way ;-))

Also I had to change the distance where the next butterfly would be, because of the paper I used, it is not easy to fold. It is less accurate... the photo shows...please reminds me not to use this paper for this kind of folding....

I also had to remove some the fibers, they are not foldable, unfortunately....

On the left below, I hope you see how the continuation of this pattern takes place.

I made this photo in full sunlight, and the fun part is that the paper gets a metallic look.

Here you can see the completed pattern , called "Finished".

If you want to see other variations of my "Butterfly"-molecule pattern, click here for the album, where you can see my other tessellations, based on this "Butterfly-molecule".

Another exploration of one of my tessellations 'T-est 3' using different paper (glassine).

You see the front (left) and backside(right) of my tessellation "Yellow" using the big irregular hexagon connected with big regular hexagon.

It is not completely flat, it has a slight convex.

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".

Detail of my 'Tessellation Btt-6'.

If you want to see the progress of my 'Connection-tesselations', click here for the album, where you can see my other tessellations, all based on my "Butterfly-molecule", that underlies these tessellations.