Holidays

I am not a giant fan of the holidays.

They're so commerical. It's so easy to lose sight of what it means to people. Stereotypically birthdays are when people are supposed to make wishes. But the holidays are when I find myself wishing for things the most. (And I don't mean presents.) I wish for my family to make it safely though. I wish for the new year to be shiny and new. I wish for it to never snow (and then immediately take it back, I know global warming is a thing.) I hope that everyone finds a little joy. I hope people get where they're going and that no one gets hurt.

I think about past holidays and wish a whole bunch of other things.

What do you wish for? What do you hope happens?

New idea!

I have a couple of them. I'm writing a book, and designing my apartment (you can't put two theater designers in a blank apartment and not get a design rather than a moving in.) and I'm working my way into a new job. It's fun and constantly giving me new ideas.

Like this! I found these shallow-ish glass bowl like things - people usually put flowers in them, I guess - and I am filling them with stars and sticking a bunch of business cards in them. I came up with this as another option for business owners instead of the bubblegum machines. Their low maintenance and actually kind of pretty. Ok, they're really pretty. And easy to mail! Let me know if you want one.

Also! Let me know wishes! Plodding along steadily with this wish jar. Really hoping to have a jar to sell before the end of the year.

I wish I could get enough wishes to fill my thousand star jar.

I hope the holidays are not hectic.

I futilely wish for no show. sigh.

We're getting to the end of a semester, and a regular old year. What do you hope happens over the holidays? What wishes do you have for family and friends and the new year? Share!

I'm back!

I'm back! And I'm moving. Bleh.

I am pretty sure I have a place for a machine, in Worschester (spelling? Sigh.) Mass. in a fantastic bakery. So there! It's possible! Tell your friends! The ones, preferably, who own establishments that would like to have machines full of tiny adorable origami stars in them. Because, seriously, if I make any more of these things, they are going to fill every single container I have that could even hold stars. All of them. I'm tired of emptying them out of my soup bowls when I want a bowl of soup.

I wish I had moved and was settled.

I hope I get this apartment I'm looking at soon.

I also hope this whole adventure I'm embarking on goes well.

We're staring fall right in the face - what do you wish you'd done this summer? What do you hope to do for the fall? Who do you want to save?

Don't be shy, tell your friends, come back later when you think of another one, or write me a page or two of ones you've been saving up. I don't mind.

So much travel...

So, I have been living out of my car all summer - you can imagine that makes totting around my star making ...stuff...a little difficult. But I did manage to squish most of it into a travelable form. And I am now filling up a coffee tin instead of keeping them all separated out all nice and pretty like.

The tin is getting pretty damn full. (Ignore the quality of the photo - I'm traveling, remember!)

I hope I don't run out of paper anytime soon!

I wish I could make these all organized and nice again!

I wish I had a puppy! And a beer!

What are you wishing for right now? I could do with a nice hug too. Traveling can get awful lonely...

Edinburgh!

One of my favorite things about travel is sharing what I have with other people and getting new things in return - ideas, thoughts, food, customs, accents. So far I have adopted the way they say "no" and "do" and "sittle dune." (settle down) I have fallen in love with Crunchies - which are chocolate with honey comb in them! And foxes biscuits. And steak pies. I'm pretty sure I can manage to make a steak pie. I'm going to try it when I get back.

In return I've been making stars left and right, showing people, handing out cards and looking for a likely candidate to host a machine. I need to come up with a better spiel though. Even though my life is completely insane, being able to make these stars is a constant that I can take anywhere with me. It is a grounding piece to my life.

I wish I could think of a better, shorter way to explain my project.

I hope I can see all the things at Festival that I want too.

Are you at Fringe? What did you love? What stories did you hear? What wishes are floating around in your brains? Share!

Travel

After huge amounts of travel, I find myself momentarily stationary once more. And boy do I have a pile of wishes stacked up. They're my own wishes though, and I'd like some of yours.

I wish I'd seen more in most of the places I've been recently.
I wish I'd been better at staying in contact with loved ones.
I wish there was a way I could keep up this lifestyle.
I hope I get this job I applied for that will be terribly interesting.

I'm living on other peoples couches at the moment but I'm still making my mini stars. I want to keep up this project, so who's with me? Who's got some wishes?

Documentary

No excuses on why I haven't posted in ages - long, boring story.

I just watched a documentary about paper folding - Beyond the Fold - and it was utterly fascinating. I was, of course, doing some folding of my own while I was watching.

Paper folding is something of an art form, and the film did an interesting thing by tying the process to a variety of different fields - science, medicine, art, math, music. It reminded me of a boy I knew in highschool who would relate anything you said to him to baseball in 6 steps or less. It was fascinating.

So, here's a new idea for you for me, what do you wish origami connected you too? What do you hope you are connected to through something else?