Kirigami

CRAZY STAR CUBE ! NICE PAPER - The funniest videos clips are here
Crazy Star Cube

THE BEST Of PAPER CD CASE ! Just Piece Of Paper. 2 Variants. - Free videos are just a click away
CD Case

Cooll Paper Cd Case !!! Flower Design ..... - More amazing video clips are a click away
CD Case Flower Design

Make A Book 16 Pages ! Just One Piece Of Paper ! 100 % Origami W - The most popular videos are a click away
Make a 16 page book out of a piece of paper

Awesome Paper Box. Just One Piece Of Paper . - The funniest movie is here. Find it
Paper Box out of a piece of paper

Paper Heart Pocket. Heart Mathematics . No Glue . Kirigami - Free videos are just a click away
Paper Heart Pocket

Awesome Paper ! How To Make Paper Flower Lamp ! - The funniest bloopers are right here
Paper Flower Lamp

Crafty Update

Craft-wise i've been mostly knitting, finished My-So-Called-Scarf, which is a lousy name for a quite good pattern, if you want to see my knitting updates start checking out this amazing site Ravelry, my nick is Escalla, if you enjoy knitting or crochet that is the site for you.

Photo by C.

Origami-wise i've been doing interesting things, i've finally learned the Dan of Toasters variation of one of the simpler Kawasaki roses, just trust me it's really cool, and i'm really very proud of myself, also i learned in a pinch the Swallow Tail Butterfly by Michael LaFosse (Thanks V. for that link, who would've known).

How to: Origami Crane

That is a instructional video of how to make the Tsuro, the most common of origamis.
It looks good but it's a little complicated, this one is better although the video quality is very bad.

Goodies from S. Paulo

My friend T recently went to S. Paulo, of course i had to beg her for Origami Paper, apparently it's quite common there. Being a too good friend she had to bring back some adorable mini Hello Kitty auto-stampers (Hello Kitty and Stamps, two obsessions in one), according to her S. Paulo would be a dangerous city for me, at least Hello Kitty-wise.
She also brought back my wonderful Mascot-Ball made by Madame Trapo. Leo is my horoscope sign and i just couldn't resist the little bugger. I love her work and also the little stories she writes to add character:

The little lion is a bit lazy, and loves to sleep belly up in the sun.

Per suggestion from T:

Weekend Wanderings

I've spent the most wonderful weekend.
Too bad i don't have a single photo of Saturday, i totally forgot my camera which was just as well since i didn't have my Memory Stick properly inserted in the camera for over a week and i've only noticed it Sunday.

Saturday
Had to wake up and be ready early so as to be picked up by my new neighbor T, I was of course late because of the Tupperware incident, but that's another story, we rushed to the airport to pick up T (and no she did not fly to Lisbon), after a bit of confusion with directions, departures and arrivals. We followed to Feira da Ladra where we met up with T, M, F and I.
From there we wandered around the city, shopping like mad.
Near lunch hour we were joined by F and Q. We ended up going to an unusual indian restaurant, i don't quite remember the place (it was near Rossio) and it was on the first floor of a building, the food was great either way.
Afterwards we went to F's house, where we proceeded to make as much noise as possible (at least according to some complaints) while crafting, that included playing with stamps and punchers, origamis, knitting, some beading and even a tutorial for modeling.
That was when M unveiled (unboxed actually) her surprise to me, my new housemate and a the star of many small stories and adventures, The Faerie:

You can see some of her adventures already in here.
It was an incredible day, i arrived at home exhausted but the weekend wasn't over yet, oh no, not by a longshot

Sunday
It was decided that this would be the day of the BookCrossing Meetup in FIBDA 2006!
I'm choosing not to discuss the Festival in here, it was disappointing as it was the last few years, the climate control is still not perfect and this year the features were very lame.
To see the photos i took go here.
Still it was a pleasant afternoon where we talked of comics, chit-chat and books.

I'd like to thank the two special ladies (M and T) that traveled specially to Lisbon for this weekend for the great time i had, i hope they enjoyed it as well, and i hope i played a good host.
Also thanks to the two crafters (I and F) whom i met Saturday, so far i had only admired their work from afar, and it was an unexpected pleasure to actually meet them.