Welcome / Willkommen
Welcome to my web site!
I am a mother of a three-year-old son, who is working full-time.
Though I started my weblog from August, 2006, several months after I went back to work after maternity and child-care leaves,
most of the themes of my weblog are not related to my work nor child care but what I do during my break time.
Comments are welcome!
My Origami Gallery
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Five Intersecting Tetrahedra (FIT), designed by Thomas Hull,
using 30 sheets of rectangle (3:1) paper.
This is folded during the maternity leave.
Folding units was easy, but it took a lot of time to assemble,
this reminded me of my primary school days I had made a lot of unit origami, mainly using Sonobe-unit.
This may be a trigger of my origami life.
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My favorite type is modular origami. I often fold several units on a commuting train, and assemble them in house.
- Modular Origami: My favorites.
- Origami Boxes: This is also a type of modular origami.
- Origami Objects: I besically prefer folding several units and assembling them, but sometimes I making a normal origami using only a sheet of square paper. Animals, flowers etc.
- Cranes: I am also interested in the traditional connected crane. While I use a lot of sheets of origami paper to make a modular origami work, two or more cranes are folded from one sheet of paper to make a connected cranes.
Paper Blocks and Polyhedra
Do you know Naef Spiel AG of Switzerland, which produces a lot of elegant building blocks?
The figure of them facsinates me, and I try to make the figure using origami and other material.
- Origami Figures of Naef: Using modular origami, I try to duplicate the famous blocks of Naef.
- Figures of Naef without Origami: I use paper and wax, instead of origami paper....
- Polyhedra and Toys: Inspired by the building blocks and polyhedra, I made several toys. I really want to have my son play with it, but paper models seem too difficult for him to use without squashing....
Platypuses
- Platypuses: One of my favorite animals is a platypus. I show you a part of my collection, including platypus pictures I found in children's books.
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