Folding Trees

Hi all,

Thank you for having so much patience with me over the last couple of months. The Paper Crane project has been a little quiet but we are still going.

Crane 0022 was folded by Angela Gaida from Germany. Here is a copy of what she writes about her crane:

“The Paper is recycled from a calendar I am developing for myself; the very first page I printed came out the wrong way, so I couldn’t use it, but I still could make a crane of it. You can see the “1″ for January 1st on its wing. 

As for the peaceful surrounding: I took the picture in my homemade desktop photo studio, which is veeeery peaceful, since I don’t use it quite as much as I thought I would when I set it up. I think that counts for peaceful, doesn’t it? ”

You can find her blog here.

Crane 0023 was folded by Monica Riley, she made her crane from a papertowel that was stepped on. Love the creativity!

Crane 0024 was folded by Elsa Gygax. Lovely picture of the crane sitting in between the flowers!

I wanted to leave you with some links to other people’s blogs who are also folding 1000 peace cranes this year – go and have a look and cheer them on ok?!

1000 cranes 2009 by Bobby.

Suzy Q Jenn 

hopsieu by Anka

For more information on the 1000 Paper Cranes project have a look here. Or if you would like to see the cranes that have been folded so far go and have a look at the Flickr set.

It has been a long time since the last cranes were posted but I still want to keep going with this project and one day have 1000 paper cranes completed. If you want to help have a look at the bottom of this post for links to more information.

Crane 0018 was folded by Helen Scoggin from recycled gift wrap he sits atop a gazing ball in her garden in San Antonio, Texas.

Crane 0019: has been folded from a brochure for the Nelson Arts Festival which will be kicking off later this week. It’s quite an event for our city. The face you see on the wing is our mayor Kerry Marshall.

Crane 0020: was folded by me from a picture of an airplane. I am planning my move from New Zealand to Australia for January ’09 so this picture immediately had my attention.

 Crane 0021: the last crane for this week was folded from a an advert for hearing aids called “Dot”. They used a dalamation in the picture, as you can see his nose is on the wing. Gotto love the dots!

For more information on the 1000 Paper Cranes project have a look here. Or if you would like to see the cranes that have been folded so far go and have a look at the Flickr set.

I received an e-mail from Leonie Connellan with the link to the beautiful YouTube film you can watch above.

This is what she wrote: 

I study printmaking at RMIT University in Melbourne and also take a class in animation.  Back in 2006, when I was in my first year, I made my first ever animated short film.  It was about Sadako Sasaki and the paper cranes, and I called it “Sadako’s Cranes”

Thank you so much for contacting me Leonie, I absolutely loved your film!