Origami

Today was open origami day at 't Japanse Winkeltje (the Japanese shop)! I went there and two little American boys taught us how to fold origami cranes and lots more. Unfortunately, I wasn't there at the beginning and I couldn't stay till the end, so I only folded a crane...which was actually why I went there.

Below are a few pictures of the origami the two boys made.

A cute little origami fox

I'm not sure what exactly this is, but it looks pretty

I love the paper used for the ball end the red lizard

Origami cranes

Origami lotus flower (this one was taught at the beginning)

This is my crane. When I came home I practiced making origami cranes and I tried to make an origami koi carp. 

I wore my crane dress to the open origami day

This is my first crane (folded at the open origami day)

My second

My third

My fourth

And my fifth

They say that if you fold a thousand origami cranes you'll have everlasting luck. Maybe I'll give it a try...

Here you see all the cranes and the koi carp I've folded today

Tomorrow I'll post a 'how to fold an origami crane' so you can make your own!

And I found these amazing Kanji books if anyone is interested. They're in Japanese, absolutely no English, but they're for Japanese kids in elementary school, so very easy to understand! The title of the first book is 'Kanji no Hon Ichi Nen Sei' (it means, kanji book 1st year).

Mata ne! (See you soon!)

Pretty Little London Update III

I did some more stitching today, and - hurrah! - Big Ben is done! ^_^
I really really enjoy stitching this piece. Don't know if it's because I haven't stitched for so long or because I love England so much or because I just really like stitching a very cute and colourful piece.

Big Ben

I really like the Big Ben. Not as much as the real one of course.

What I've done so far

Mum is going to a birthday party of a friend of hers tomorrow, so she decided to bake a cake. She asked me to make some roses. I think this chocolate cake looks absolutely scrumptious! Although the white roses remind me of a wedding, not a birthday. Oh well.

Game of Thrones: the Exhibition

A colleague (and now friend) of mine and I are reading the same series of books; A Song of Ice and Fire (also known as A Game of Thrones).

When we heard about Game of Thrones: the Exhibition, we decided to go. What we didn't know is that we had to stand in line for like an hour and only had about fifteen minutes to actually see the exhibition. Anyway, we were brave and stood in line in the cold (this was at the end of May) for about an hour and went in.

Here are some pictures of the exhibition.

Jon Snow's outfit

One of Daenerys Targaryen's dragons

Two of Daenerys Targaryen's dragon eggs

I was a bit confused, because Daenerys Targaryen gets three dragon eggs when she marries Khal Drogo. I thought 'where is the third one?' My friend told me that they gave George R.R. Martin (the writer of the books) one of the eggs as a wedding present. Makes sense.

Daenerys Targaryen's outfits

My friend shooting an arrow

Me shooting an arrow

And finally, me sitting on the Iron Throne

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of my friend on the throne. Oh, and the throne was made of plastic and creaking eerily whenever someone sat down on it...

Think I'm going to go back to my book. I'm currently reading the third book (A Storm of Swords) and my friend is already reading the fourth (A Feast for Crows)! I need to hurry!

Pretty Little London Update II

I finally made some time to do some stitching.
Here is what I've done so far.

Tower Bridge is nearly done and so is the Big Ben. I wanted to finish the Big Ben today, but my thumb was kind of cramping and I was getting sleepy, so I decided not to. I did one tiny little square of pink on the clock bit of Big Ben.

Here are some cat pictures. They're so cute and I haven't posted pictures of them for so long, so I thought it would be nice to post some. They've just had a dental operation, poor cats.

Bouchra

Close up of Bouchra's eyes

Close up of Bailey's face

Bailey

Bouchra's paw

I always want to gently squeeze the little cushy things in the bottom of their paws. Why is it they don't like that?!