Category — Crafts

For the crafty among you, this crochet buddha may give you some divine inspiration.

Via Craftzine

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If you wanted to try making origami other than a crane, this video will show how to make an origami koi. Its cut and edited to just show the paper folding on its own, which adds to a really nice handcrafted feel.

Via SwissMiss

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Space Origami packs combine metallic structures with paper media. “Paper-folding is now out of this world!”

This Space Origami set contains 120 sheets of brightly colored origami paper and a full-color 32 page instruction booklet to help you create: a Star, Rocket, Lunar Module, Space Shuttle, Astronaut, Tracking Station, Super Nova

Via Boing Boing Gadgets

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This is one impressive sock monkey. For some reason, a buddha subject seems to fit this craft.

Talented husband Jeff makes his wife a new sock monkey every year.

More on the Sock Monkey Flickr set by Jek

Via Craftzine

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The blog Craftstylish suggests creating paperless origami with fusible interfacing..

How to Make Paperless Origami

Via Craftzine

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Learn how to make origami stars with Zen Crafting. The blog shares a tutorial for making these modern-looking decorations from origami paper.

How To Make Origami Stars

Via Craftzine

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Marshall Alexander has a whole host of paper toys on his site to download and make. This “Bruised Lee” HAD to be posted here for your cutting pleasure..

See Bruised Lee on Marshall Alexander’s website

Via The Awesomer

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NiceBunny adds to their Ninja and Geisha Paper Toys with this monk edition.

Download NiceBunny’s Monk Paper Toy

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Bespoke bikemaker Chicara Nagata creates super amazing, custom bikes that look good and as well as different.

Nagata spends a staggering 7,500 hours perfecting his mechanical creations and hand-crafts everything but the drivetrains.

See more on Chicara’s website

Via Core77

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Origami Consulting provide little pieces of origami paper with their business cards together with instructions to make your own origami crane.

Cute, but I’m guess by the tagline “boutique communications agency” that they don’t teach origami normally.

Via Fubiz

Technorati Tags: business card design, business cards, origami, origami crane, origami paper