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Happy Chinese New Year!

I folded this for my mom on Christmas Day (2018).

Created by Ronald Koh
Folded from 10” square of elephant hide
Diagrams: AEP Convention 2011

Year of the Bacon

Happy Chinese New Year!

This was a quick fold this afternoon:

Did not get the proportions right; nor am I satisfied with the plate (design is by Stefan Delecat).  I will fold this again properly with eggs sunnyside up and a full set of silverware.

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Just in time for Halloween 2019!

Rodney Kageyama

I heard that Rodney passed away this morning.  He was a mainstay as an MC at cultural events like The Autumn Festival at the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival.  He and I always exchanged greetings and he'd sometimes promote my origami booth when MCing.  He was also on a television show with another friend of mine ("Quantum Leap"?).

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My Mother

Masae Sanders (on the right) engaged in the traditional Japanese art of folding cranes

My dad brought photo albums from their Colorado home to their home in Penn Valley so that I could go through and scan them into digital form (I drove up here for Thanksgiving).

I found this one of my mom (on the right) doing origami! We don't know the year, location, or why she was doing it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But there she goes.

My first introduction to origami was when I was 8 years old, vacationing in Japan, as I occasionally did during the summertime.  My cousins started me off with simple sonobe cube box, masu box (I was really into folding nesting boxes- about 50 packed into one!), cranes, and other traditional models.

I folded those on-and-off all through my life into adulthood.  I only discovered modern origami around 1999/2000.

Stefan Delecat's Crane Box

Crane Box

Designed by Stefan Delecat

Folded by Michael Sanders 

Lid and bottom container each folded from 19.5” x 19.5” square of Chiyogami or Washi paper bonded to foil paper (the lid got really thick on the lip portion).

Source: Tanteidan convention book volume 10