Paper flower wreath

I follow a particular vlog on YouTube, and one of the girls made a video on how to make these adorable paper flowers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4FXWiP1jrI She used sheet music to make hers - I used the rest of the old book I made my origami stars out of.

I decided to make a wreath out of them for my mom for Mother's Day. They are extremely time consuming, but the result is so pretty, it was definitely worth it. 

I just bought a styrofoam wreath and some ribbon and hot-glued everything together after I'd assembled the flowers.

I didn't have enough flowers to cover all the styrofoam, but I think it worked out. And my mom really liked it, too. :)

paper stars

My room has been looking very boring to me lately. After several long bouts of scrolling through pinterest (something I would not recommend to anyone), I've been thinking about adding some dimension to my room by means of ceiling decorations. While I'm still not certain what I want exactly, I've seen some cute mobiles featuring origami made out of sheet music, and I thought it'd be fun to make some stars from the pages of an old book I had.

These kinds of stars actually require a pentagon to begin with, rather than a square. This is the template I used: http://manaelf.com/projects2/pentagonset.pdf

From the template I cut one out of cardboard to do the rest with.

Here's a rough step-by-step:

For more details, here's the cute blog I found the instructions from: http://fivegoblogging.blogspot.com/2012/11/wish-upon-origami-star.html

I still need to string them and find something to hang them from, but I really liked the way they turned out. The book I used was an old copy of Silas Marner, and it was really cool to read little glimpses as I worked. I'd forgotten what an amazing story it is. If you've never read it, I would really encourage you to. If you're into that sort of thing. :) ♥