Still Shiny

The sun? The sun currently sets at 3:59 pm. It will continue to set at 3:59 pm until December 15, at which point it will set at 4:00 pm. That means if I can make it through seven more ghastly early sunsets, the sunset will start slowly creeping back to a more civilized time. I'll do my best. I hope you will too. Info over here if you wish to join me on my quest to stave off darkness with tidy folds and glowing light.

December 8, 2020|

Shiny

Look, I like what I like. And what I like is tidy things. Orderly things. Soothingly geometric things. And if you'd like them too, there's a post from last year that will help you get started.  You know, in case you share my predilections. Which I suspect a few of you do!

December 3, 2020|

Countdown

The tradition continues! Well, both the tradition where I fold lots of innocent bits of paper into nonsense, and also the one where I try to use December to both prepare for the new year (it's coming at us with alarming speed whether we're prepared or not) and rest.  Which, admittedly, I’m not very good at (I say, glancing at my calendar for 2020 and counting up the 19 brand new patterns I brought out this year and the 87 book patterns I brought out of their bookish purgatory and released into the world in their individual forms and the [...]

November 30, 2020|

Cheer, some assembly required

Have you noticed how many things require you to do lots of little steps, repeated over and over and over again, before the reveal their charms? I'm making paper stars (yes, again, pretty much every year around this time). And I want to take pictures of them against a bright shining sky to show them off.  But it's gray and gloomy today. So all I can do is offer these, which only hint at their true glory, and fold the rest of the pieces. And then, after I've done the same little steps, over and over and over again, I'll [...]

November 23, 2020|

Bright

If you've been here a while, you know all about this. You know that this is a compunction that comes on me this time of year. A compunction that I am more or less helpless to resits. I spend a few minutes folding a bunch of these. Then carefully carefully glueing them together (the glue dots are new this year and so far, they are a tremendous improvement over previous methods). Rinse and repeat until the urge passes or I run out of window space. People always always always ask, so yes, I can tell you how to do it.  [...]

November 26, 2019|

Bright

The sun is setting somewhere around 4pm.  All I can say is that my office windows face west, so at least I get the light as long as possible.  That helps...and filling those west-facing windows with these helps too! I've chatted about them here before, and the fascination remains as strong as ever. If you want to make some yourself, you need the magic paper.  It's sort of like a cross between tracing paper and cellophane (it's not like the colored tissue paper you wrap presents in).  You can find little squares of it here and big giant sheets of [...]

November 27, 2017|

Easily Amused

Huh, ok, you guys like the stars.  Honestly, I'm a little surprised.  I find it ever so slightly shameful that I like them (they're paper...folded paper...there should be fairly low amusement value here).  I'm downright shocked that you guys do.  I was expecting some folded arms and foot tapping and a little gentle prod back in the direction of the yarn. But who am I to argue?  The first round of stars didn't do it (no snow yet), so now I've added a yellow one to the mix.  It might be my favorite so far.  I've got one more window [...]

December 6, 2012|
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