As promised – we had raspberry ice-cream for breakfast. (and Emma followed it up with pizza – well, its not a proper holiday until you have had pizza and ice-cream for breakfast is it?)
And I can happily report that the ice-cream tasted amazing!
Today we got a LOT of rain. And its about time too! The recent grey days have hardly yielded a drop, so the garden must have enjoyed itself!
With the help of my lovely niece Emma and her fancy phone, we created a video to show those who were interested in learning how to fold those origami seed packets, seen in an earlier post.
However… seems there are limits to what I can upload here and my video was about 200 gig oversized! Oopsie.
Damn.
So… I opened a facebook page for “Head in the Clouds – Feet in the Dirt” as the easiest way to share it that I could think of right now (not being the most tech-savvy person I am at the bottom end of the learning curve with this blogging 🙂 )
You can take a peek here . (I’ll figure out what else to do on the facebook page as I go along!) 😀
So…(again) as a preliminary instruction, grab your square piece of paper, turn to the blank side and mark out each third of the paper – for most standard origami papers that means every 5cm
You don’t need to draw each fold like I did in the video. That was just so you could see more clearly where the folds were to go.
Then watch video.
I apologise to those who don’t use facebook. When I have more time and get more savvy, I will work out a different plan of attack!
And if all else fails – stop-motion-photography! (What else am I going to do with those upcoming long winter days huh?)
I also had to finish off and wrap a few presents that we are sending back with Emma for various birthdays that have come and gone. Yes – on one hand its the cheapskates way of moving things about… but on the other hand I know they will get there. I have had a couple of postal hiccoughs recently – one parcel is currently lost between here and Canada – so at least I know this little lot will have a good chance of making it.
A friend of mine makes these amazingly cute little bags and sells them at the market for a crazy $5 each! Makes the perfect ‘wrapping’
I actually suck at wrapping. I am not neat and my only saving grace in the above photo is how pretty the origami paper is that I used!
The Japanese have got wrapping down to a fine art. In fact, there are lots of people in Japan, whose sole job is wrapping presents at department shops! Their presentation is superb, and even when you buy a box of bakery biscuits or cake its wrapped with tender loving care with all the trimmings – here in Oz, you’re lucky if someone shoves it in a bag for you!
And this is how you wrap sweets –
Beats plastic hands down any day!
Well, that’s all from me today! I will leave you with a few sunset photos I took a couple of hours ago – again after the rain, the sky and clouds were beautiful. (So far the across the road farmer hasn’t noticed me using his fencepost as position of choice for my photography!)
Cheers!
