DIY Free Manga Camera iPhone App first seen at Small Good Things here. Love how her cute original images (more at link) change with this app. I have the best (and easiest) comic book program that I use to make comic book gifts for people and adding images using this app would definitely be cool. All Photos from Small Good Things.
DIY Olympic Nail Art from Small Good Things here. Emi got her inspiration from the Japanese Olympic soccer team outfits. She also used rings that are identical to jump rings that you can buy at any crafts’ store. *She has a link on how to make her incredibly cheap and easy decals at her post.
DIY Pearl Kitten Ear Headband Tutorial from Dastrict 5 here. The inspiration headbands are Japanese and would be cute for little kids too. DIY tutorial is really simple. Photos Upper and Lower Left: inpsiration, Photo Right: DIY from Dastrict 5.
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DIY 1000 Paper Cranes Backdrop. When I say everyone can do the majority of projects I post I really mean it. To have the patience to do this one is another matter! This was too cool not to post and was done by a bride for a boho wedding backdrop. Tutorial at The Boho Wedding Blog here. The bride said in the comments:
The beautiful story of 1000 paper cranes includes the thought that if a bride folds them for her wedding, she will carry this patience to her marriage and bring with it happiness, luck and prosperity.
pudentilla reblogged your photo: DIY 1000 Paper Cranes Backdrop. When I say…
I don’t know. I don’t want to be a bugger, but as a student of japanese I felt compelled to express my thoughts.
A 1000 cranes (senbazuru 千羽鶴) garland is much more than a DIY project. I would have found it more respectful if the bride or the blogger who posted it wrote at least something about this tradition. I’m sorry to rant, but I feel a bit uneasy in seeing it used as a mere decoration for a wedding.
First of all, a senbazuru is a thing you’re meant to make with almost religious dedication. And while it’s true that it is connected to weddings, reducing it to a good-luck charm seems reductive to me.
The tradition is, if you fold 1000 cranes, you’re granted a wish. While in the past it was linked to weddings, nowadays it’s gotten a slighty different meaning. A lot of cancer-ill people fold grarlands of paper cranes, both in Japan and in other countries. Also, the crane origami is a strong symbol for peace, as everyone who has been or even heard about Hiroshima and Nagasaki knows. Lots of people all over the world do senbazuru garlands to send to Hiroshima, where they are displayed near Sasaki Sadako memorial.
I would have liked to say more things, but this is more or less what I think about this matter. Of course the bride who posted this DIY has all the rights to fold how many origamis she likes, but she should be aware and respectful of the cultural issues behind what she does.
If I misinterpreted something, please tell me. I also could have made some error or oversemplification in explaining this issue, so please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Truebluemeandyou: You asked for me to correct you if you were wrong. While I’m not saying you are wrong, I’m wondering if you read all the comments on this project or took into account that the bride said (in my post I quoted her):
The beautiful story of 1000 paper cranes includes the thought that if a bride folds them for her wedding, she will carry this patience to her marriage and bring with it happiness, luck and prosperity.
We don’t know what her real intention was (but I do not think it was done as a cheap good luck charm or gimmick) because this was a blog post about her DIY by someone other than herself. But this was not a DIY done in the spur of the moment at all, but an incredibly thoughtful one where she had to spend months and months making these cranes by herself, then stringing them by hand for her wedding, thinking of the story of the 1000 cranes. She could have spent a lot less time creating an eye catching backdrop and hung a few ribbons or made cardboard cutouts or hung a garland. The bride writes in the comments:
It took me about 3 months of afternoons, evening and weekends folding… I think I am blessed with very flexible work so I could do a few whenever I liked. Realistically, I would give yourself double this!
Also, I think most people were taught in school about the tradition behind the folding of the 1000 cranes. I was as were all of my friends. I have a very close relationship with Japan: it was part of my major in college, and I curated a well known photography exhibition of my father’s historic photographs of Japan.
EDIT: TO READ pudentilla’s incredibly thoughtful and more complete explanation about the 1000 Cranes please go here: http://pudentilla.tumblr.com/post/20518432147/a-comment-regarding-my-1000-paper-cranes-post and here: http://pudentilla.tumblr.com/post/20518980197/thank-you-for-your-more-thorough-explanation-answer-i
Crocheted Kokeshi Dolls. From Pontinhos Meus here. Yesterday I posted wooden ninja Kokeshi here. I went from lethal warrior ninja Kokeshi to totally cute crocheted Kokeshi in one day. And the day before that I had no idea what Kokeshi were! Learning something new every day.*Note: if my plural of Kokeshi is off, please tell me… just like that Beck song where I didn’t know the lyric to.
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