My friend Tiffany has some experience in this area and offered to guide us through our first origami lesson. In addition to paper, she supplied dinner and asked us to bring something chocolate, bacon, and a hairless mini chihuahua dog (I think those last two her husband Matt asked for). Not wanting to disappoint, we showed up with our gifts in hand:
A chocolate salmon (which didn't taste at all fishy), bacon, and toy robots. Hairless mini chihuahuas are hard to find. And robots rock.
After a delicious Mexican-inspired meal, we got down to business. She had gotten a book, so we just started from the beginning and worked our way through. First up, the duck. Easy, cute, and increasingly making appearances on my co-workers desks.
After making the duck, we realized it would be important to know the basic form A it kept referring to, so we went back and read some of the initial "how-to" basics. We probably should have read more, but we made it through just fine. This is the basic form A.
Next we made Monkeys...and discovered that to do good origami, you need really thin paper. Our monkeys didn't look great, but at least they looked like the ones in the book.
Next we did flowers, undoubtedly the hardest thing in the book. This one made me grumpy, but my Matt did really well (so did the other Matt), even making a mini flower. Show-off.
And then, birds in tuxedos! Penguins, that is. Mine is the emperor penguin on the far right sporting the bow tie. I was pretty proud.
By far, the owls were our crowning glory. They took a long time, so ended up being the last thing we made. Way too cute. And mine (on the right) is going to be donated to my friend at work, who is apparently terrified of owls. Something about how nothing should be able to turn its head the whole way around.
And in case you were wondering how one filets a chocolate salmon....
Wow! I am very impressed! Lot's of fun, too!
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