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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Days #17 & #18: Modular Box & Trays
Yesterday’s project was taken from Tomoko Fuse’s book “Joyful Origami Boxes,” and let me tell you now that the process of making these was slightly less than joyful. It was more in the range of extremely irritating, actually. I’ll complain more later, though – too busy today.
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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Days #14, 15 & 16 (Origami Horse, Card Case & Modular Star)
I fell behind in my origami duties this week, but here you go… I’m exhausted and still have to get some grant writing done today, so not going to write too much. I wasted most of the afternoon making these (and other failed attempts at…
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Continue reading →: Back to Earth
It’s Sunday morning, and the first time in a long time that I don’t have pressing matters to attend to immediately. In fact, today’s going to be relatively uneventful in comparison to the last two weeks of outrageous stress and worry. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve got a very…
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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Day #13: Origami Lesser Stellated Dodecahedron
I have no idea how to pronounce “dodecahedron,” but I made one! This project was difficult – it took me almost two hours to complete. It’s still not perfect; I’ll count this as my model, now that I know what I need to do to make this thing look a…
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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Day #12 (Origami Candy Dish)
I’ll make this short, since it’s after midnight and way past time for me to go to bed. Today I tried to make a stupid origami rabbit, only to screw up the same easy reverse fold on multiple attempts. Finally, in a fit of pique, I gave up and…
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Continue reading →: Sunny, With A Chance Of…
I’m so flattered to have been nominated for my very first blogging award – isn’t that so cool? Unfortunately, I’m probably not all that worthy of the honor…I was actually nominated by the fabulous Cam over at A Witch’s Life back in late August, and am just now getting around…
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Continue reading →: Working Out the Work Out
If you’ve been following this blog at all, you’ll know that I’m constantly going on about losing weight, and never managing to do much about it. I count calories or work out for a week or so at a time, then fall off the wagon. It happens over and over.…
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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Day #11 (Origami Tricorne)
Apparently this is called ‘tricorne’ after the hat of the same name – though the end result has little in common with the hat. Instead, it’s a 12-sided shape that is very easy to fold and fairly irritating to put together. Once it goes together, though, there’s the magic.…
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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Day #10 (Origami Robin Star)
This one isn’t hard – just time consuming. It’s a modular star shape designed by Maria Sinayskaya. It requires 8 small squares of paper, so I used two 6″ x 6″ pieces of paper, cut into quarters. I’m actually considering folding up a bunch of pretty Christmas ornaments in…
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Continue reading →: Thirty Days of Origami – Day #9 (Origami Cat)
Oooooh, I’m so happy with today’s project I could just coo and twitter and crow with pride until I annoy the shit out of everyone around me…and I think I will. Excuse me for a moment while I push my coworkers to the edge with my self-congratulatory behavior. OK, I’m back!…
Hello,
I’m Nova
I have no “personal brand.” I’m not a girl boss, I’m not an influencer, and I don’t aspire to be powerful, inspiring, or rich. I probably can’t teach you anything, and there’s a good chance that there’s nothing at all of interest or use to you here. This is just where I come to talk about the random bits and pieces that make up my quiet life as a sober woman in her 40s. I’m engaged to the love of my life, have six (yes, SIX) indoor pets, and spend a lot of time gardening and hunting for thrift treasures. I also study classical voice (I’m a lyric coloratura soprano) and am deeply interested in all things spiritual and paranormal. Right now I’m trying to recover from career burnout and even out my personal energy, but my eventual goal is to become a medium and shamanic healer, using music to remind humans of the things that actually matter: connection, community, and loving all living things as though they were our own children. I may or may not talk about all of these things here (and sometimes all at once). Welcome!
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