Die Rote IRis (Here Be Dragons) : topic:handmade

Prequel to 'The Yet To Be Named Bathroom Project'

Die Rote IRis — 2012-06-05T18:25:00Z

Some of you may remember my my last, epic adventure with windowcolor?

Back in bavaria, I decorated my bedroom window.
Sounds boring ...
But I didnt do the usual little stars and flowers , no I didnt - I did art noveau, and I did the whole window!

The pattern came from a art noveau pattern book and I modified it just a little bit to make it fit the frame. I did it in 8-10 pieces, the whole painting would have been imposible to insert into the window.

When we moved out I it too had to go.

With these pictures in mind, I leave you wondering what Im planing to do to the bathroom ... *muah-ha-ha*

Butterfly

Die Rote IRis — 2012-03-30T13:01:00Z

My little pretty friend, soon youre going to fly away.
I wish you good luck on your journey.

Im not done yet

Die Rote IRis — 2012-03-27T11:19:00Z

Ive folded a lot more origami birds over the past days.

And just as I got bored by the easy patterns
the web presented me with a bundle of new patterns which are to complicated for my present state of mind.

So I started modifying the familiar ones.
And some of my results look actually a bit like real birds.
Well ... with a lot of goodwill.

I think this one looks a bit like a tit.

And this one may be a sparrow.

Or that.

I like it when the paper goes all soft and ductile. In some ways origami is more about sculpting than about acurate folding.
I used these patterns as a basis for my birds:the dove and a flying bird.

tastes like cardboard

Die Rote IRis — 2012-03-25T13:00:00Z

Im afraid when it comes to rye flour Im a little prejudiced.
I dont like the greyish colour, the dough is sticky and smells funnny - and I think it tasts like cardboard.

Nevertheless you need it to make such great things as bread!
Which I have.

Annika over at 'im grünen Himmel' has this ongoing series on taking little steps to self-sufficiency.
Her last entry was about baking bread.
I took a simple recipe and it was indeed very easy. Time-consuming, but easy to make and I have control over every single ingredient.
AND it tastes great!

I have to do this again some time soon (if only because I have a glass of sourdough in the refrigerator ...).

Im recently into Origami

Die Rote IRis — 2012-03-15T15:14:00Z

Sometimes your just cant resist.

I have a friend who is deeply into Origami.
He made me this tesselation - just for fun.

Im not a very accurate person, Origami was always some sort of my Nemesis for that.
But twoday I sat down used up all my wrapping paper and folded some birds.

I started with this dove.

I made a rooster too, and a canary, but with the last scrap of paper I made this flying bird, which is more or less the thing I was aming at.

Here you can see the "square" in the middle:

Memo to self: buy Origami paper (the hardest part was to cut a square that really is a square)

As I said,
sometimes easy is not enough.
Sometimes you have to go for the stuff thats a tiny bit more difficult.
Sometimes you just cant resist.
Theres a whole world of folding out there. Im scratching just the surface.