It took a flu and some rainy, cool weather to bring me back. With spring [and soon summer] on the rise, I've wanted to do anything but sit in my apartment in front of my computer screen. So with the warm weather on the bound, I am going to have to remember extra hard to take time to share my whereabouts and craftabouts with you.

This is a little thing I've been working on when my hands are bored. A few months ago I bought some origami paper at the art store and got to work on some of the cute little animals they had in their instruction paper. For me, the crane was the hardest to understand. So I tried again and again until finally I got it. But what to do with all my little practice cranes with bended heads or deformed wings? No way could I throw them out. Not with all we've been through. So after them setting on my desk for a few weeks, flopped over and tangled with all my pens and computer cords, I found them a home. I strung them up on some twine and hung it across my kitchen door frame. This seems, however, to be a temporary solution to me. I would like to get a wooden hoop so I can hang it like a mobile and keep adding colorful little cranes to sway in the wind. Now, to find a craft store near by.....

And here is card I made for my mum for Mother's Day -