anthropologie – McLaughlin Designs https://elisajoy.com/design Create a Fashion Statement {knitting, photography, design} Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:46:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Origami Goodness https://elisajoy.com/design/2011/11/origami-goodness/ https://elisajoy.com/design/2011/11/origami-goodness/#respond Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:46:40 +0000 https://elisajoy.com/design/?p=1697 What is it about the holidays that makes me want to fold paper into tiny animals? I can’t say really. One year I made fifty origami cranes and hung them around my tree from fishing line. It looked so amazing!

I had the idea this year to make ornaments out of paper. I though it would be a good way to re-use the Anthropologie catalogues (that I have read enough times and was finally willing to give up).

Using an industrial paper cutter I cut the catalogues into origami size squares. I did 6 and 3 inch squares. So far I have only used the 3 inch squares but the result has been wonderful. The thin-ness of the paper and the colors and shapes of the images make for very interesting paper creatures. I focused on cranes today. My children carried them around the house delicately all day. I am planning on hanging them on my tree or around my house.

I look forward to trying my hand at a few more origami creatures. I would also like to find a good star pattern. Here is a great resource if you would like to learn how to fold an origami crane. Check out Planet Pals for a cartoon tutorial on folding a crane.

When cutting up a catalogue it is helpful to try to line up the cuts with larger pictures. In a catalogue like Anthropologie it is easy because almost all the photos are large and beautiful.

]]> https://elisajoy.com/design/2011/11/origami-goodness/feed/ 0 PALM https://elisajoy.com/design/2011/03/pal/ https://elisajoy.com/design/2011/03/pal/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:00:42 +0000 https://elisajoy.com/mclaughlindesigns/?p=359 I have many sources for inspiration. As many of you have noticed Japanese Fashion is one of the main sources. When my sister recently returned from a year of leaving in Japan she brought back with her a Japanese Fashion magazine/book. It was titled PALM and I was instantly in love. You may remember “the girl in the terrarium” photo, that was the cover of the latest PALM issue. I have been trying to get my hands on the latest issue but the website is in Japanese so I couldn’t figure out how to purchase it. I went out on a limb and contacted the magazine directly and they are sending me the last two issues! I am so excited and I will definitely post pics when they get here. PALM produces breathtaking videos as well as web issues that are brilliant! Here are pictures from a few issues that I absolutely love the look of. I have included links in case you want to see more of each issue.

Love So Sweet

See more of this web issue…

Place of Repose

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There are also some amazing videos on the PALM website.

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