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.

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!

Crane 0014 comes from Lima in Peru (South America) and was folded by Elsa. As you can see her crane is floating in the pool and I agree completely; what a wonderful peaceful place…!

Crane 0015 was folded by Karen from Vanilla scraps who lives in Canberra Australia. This is what she tells me about her crane

“I photographed my crane (the inside of a security envelope) in one of the parks by the lake in Canberra. It is called Lennox Gardens, it was going to be called the Nara Peace Park (Nara being Canberra’s twin city) but due to politics (last PM, don’t ask…), and has some lovely memorials here.”

Crane 0016 was sent to me by Nancy from floating ink who lives in . Here is the story about her crane

“This crane (folded from a tiny piece of rice paper) in a shadow box is the last page/inner back cover of a handmade book (my retelling of the crane wife tale) that I made for a friend last week before I saw your
call for cranes. More pictures of the book are posted on my blog floating ink

Crane 0017 was folded by me this afternoon, I took the picture at work on top of some feature lights with big patterns on them. It was folded from a very dark purple and black advertising I found in an old magazine that was in the recycling box.

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.

Crane 0011 was folded by Melanie from Sugarlemon she lives in Melbourne, Australia (love the pics of the kangaroos on your blog!) The crane is made from the inside of a security envelope and photographed in a nearby bushland reserve, which is a favourite peaceful place of Melanie.

Crane 0012 was folded by Evelyn from Die Farbe Ev  who lives in Germany. Here is what she says about her crane:

“My crane is fold out of a memo of my boss in which he asked me to look for his flowers during his absence. He is back now and the flowers are still alive . My crane is sitting in my butterfly-bush (buddleja) – the sweet smell of his beautiful flowers is involving the peace of our garden for me.”

Crane 0013 was folded by Kristel from vlijtig. If you visit her blog check out the lovely stamps she makes!! Here is what she says about her crane

“During my lunchbrake I always like to do something creative. This time I decided to make a crane for you. I used a print with the plan of a building (since I’m an architect). Pictures are taking in my office. One shows the crane on my computer, the other one shows my view from my workingspace.”

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.