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?

It's That Time of Year

It's that time of year, when all you can think of are the holidays. Finding the perfect present, giving the best hints, securing that secret hiding spot. And forgetting about the wrapping paper, of course.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!

That's a lie, I already have those. I want wishes! I want piles and piles of wishes! I want so many wishes that I can't keep up with them.

So, what do you hope you're getting for loot this year? What do you wish you could buy your favorite friends and family? What miracle do you dream about?

I'm exploring a bunch of options to make the Wishing Star Collective an even bigger success than it already is. Kickstarter has gone well, and rewards are being sent out, and ideas are breeding like crazy. Each idea starts as something crazy and then slowly matures into a maybe and then eventually turns into a Tada! I'm hoping for one or two more tada's before the end of the year.

More pictures to come, of the rewards being sent out, and other potential goodies.

But I can't do it without you.

Facetweets

Every day, when I sit down at my computer, I do at least three things. I check my email, I check my facebook and I check my twitter. I watch people post multiple status updates a day, right alongside their tweets. It's easy, takes two seconds, everybody does it. (Or at least a lot of people do.)

I have been trying to come up with a way to make submitting a wish just as easy. I haven't come up with anything yet, short of commissioning some brilliant designer to set up a page for me. Until then, the idea sits and waits for a stroke of genius.

Until then, I wish every person who wakes up and goes to their facebook or their twitter will take the 2 minutes to come to this blog, and submit a wish. Even if it seems like the most insignificant wish in the world. How insignificant are some of your status updates? The whole world won't know it's you, but every wish I get works towards the goal of a thousand stars.

Make this your mission for a week! Make other people make it their wish!