Origami Lily Flower

Today I successfully folded a new Origami Lily Flower! I've been folding origami cranes since I was a kid. A lot of people have seen me turn various pieces of paper into cranes and always asked me about origami. The crane was the only one I remembered and mastered. So this past weekend another coworker had a garage sale and found in their old things, some origami instruction books and paper. Yeay for presents on a Monday!

Had to dig in right away. I failed at a penguin attempt and alternative flower. I tried to do a butterfly but you needed scissors and I didn't want to cut anything. So finally after the 2nd time trying the Lily, I finally got it - here!

The flowers remind me of a Japanese restaurant called Buko we used to go to in Glendale. It was our special occasion and favorite Japanese restaurant. The owner even knew us and paid special attention to all the kids. At the end of the meal we would get a beautiful Japanese origami flower or animal. Being a girl, I usually got flowers.

Anyway folding origami from a book, I remembered how frustrating and confusing it was. The book isn't very clear at times what you're supposed to do with the paper. I struggled with a few diagrams and a coworker suggested "look up a video on the internet". Wow - genius. All that frustration trying to interpret the diagrams could have been saved by just watching someone fold. Anyway I love this new little book and will make sure to try all sorts of new origami figures. I may pair it with a video if and when I get too frustrated. Along with the book I got lots of fun pieces of paper, so I'll have to try it with different designs and such.

So this is what I made today :) How fun! For a Monday even!