Christmas will be soon, so it is time to think about how do we decorate our homes and our trees. I thought it will be nice to make something myself and I have decided to choose paper as a main source I will be making decorations from. Easy you would thing. Nothing more misleading as I found out very quickly that even most simple looking pieces are not so easy to make as I thought, and it takes long time and patience to be able to make them look really good.
First decoration I have decided to make it was very challenging and time consuming flower ball inspired and based on ancient Japanaise technique called KUSUDAMA ("The Japanese kusudama (薬玉; lit. medicine ball) is a paper model that is usually (although not always) created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units (usually stylized flowers folded from square paper) together through their points to form a spherical shape. Alternately the individual components may be glued together. (e.g. the kusudama in the lower photo is entirely glued, not threaded together) Occasionally, a tassel is attached to the bottom for decoration" (read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusudama )) You have to be very precise to make it look perfect but it is also fun to make, especially when at the end you can be very proud and satisfied with what you made. The flower ball is made from 60!!!! separate pieces - 12 flowers where each is made of 5 leaves - glued together. I have decided to make it just out of white paper and finish it with pale pink ribbon but you can make it of any paper you like.
Another decoration I made were paper stars with music notes and finished with pink and green ribbon. Each star is composed from 12 pieces. I have decided to make my own print on a paper and I have used for it some Ludwig van Bethoven "Adelaide" notes (listen it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEfJ3CGALQ )
The hardest part of making this stars was to sew 12 of them together with ribbon perfectly aligned and on the middle. My sewing machine was braking the thred few times and making ugly noises before I managed to do it.
I think I will be making some more decorations this and next week as although challenging it is still fun :)
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