For Today . . . Outside my window . . . the clouds are starting to come in – hopefully more rain is on the way. I am thinking . . . I...

I love being off work . . . spending days doing what I like to do.  I slept in, finished a book I was reading, and went through some more...

Busy weekend . . . but also lots of parties and fun.  I snapped this picture leaving a graduation party.  This is in our neighbors yard ....

 Today I visited one of the 4th grade classrooms at the school where I work.  Each year Mrs. Crow's 4th grade students read the book ...

I would not consider myself a hoarder at all -  (although my sons accuse me of being one - because they cannot understand why I keep some...

I worked on cranes for my crane project last night.  I have 50 new cranes all folded, quoted, and ready to go.   If you haven...

Check this out . . . A group of high school students in Hiroshima have sent 1000 paper cranes to every president and prime minister world...

I have been terrible about posting regularly . . . I think I have been waiting to post about something I have made - waiting for some cre...

This is one of the packs of new origami paper that I bought while we were in San Francisco.  Will my obsession with this paper ever end? ...

We drove up to San Francisco this week . . . one of my favorites cities.  We saw these (senbazuru) at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden G...

Yesterday one of the teachers that I work with asked me to come talk to her class.  They had just finished reading Sadako and the Thousan...

I folded this small crane for my friend Martha. Her husband found this small brass fairy at a yard sale and she wanted her to be h...

 I cannot figure out why some of my photos flip when I post them.  It bothers me - but I haven't been able to figure out why or how t...

 I have been wanting to hang up and display some of the origami cranes that I folded.  I actually would like to do something with all 100...