Origami flower bouquet for kids classmates

Art

We are planning to go to Japan in the middle of the school term.
Kids need to say goodbye to their classmates and teachers.

I want to make some thank you and goodbye gifts for their friends.

As my kids are half Japanese, so I think Origami might be interesting. Would origami flowers on pencils be a memorable gift?

The colored paper I use is from the kids school.

Yes, school gave us lots of letters, news, and homework papers. I kept the colored paper.

This origami flower is a tulip, it is very easy to fold.
After creating the flower part, cut the bottom a tiny bit, stick a pencil to the cut hole, and tape around the pencil.

I used green floral tape to attach the flower to the pencil. That tape is bit stronger than washi tape.

Hmm… 40 pencil flowers. Still lots to go!

Play with old books to make a St. Patricks Day art card

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I am a hoarder.

Because I love upcycling old stuff to art… that’s my excuse.

Now here is an old book which I did not read (I’m a bit sorry to the author!)

This book’s pages were easy to draw.

And luckily this book uses great quality paper to paint on.

It is strong enough to hold water color pencil with water .

Now! Let’s try a collage with crayon.

First, I made a messy crayon page.

What do I do now?

Cut a clover shape and look through the shaped cut paper.

Not sure what I can do with this. Maybe cut out the crayoned page to make collages.

And then, attach to a blank card.

Oh I like it! Let’s make more!

Done! For the message part, I used the PENCO embossing tape.

Now sealed and shipped!

Picnic and sketching at Norris Reservation

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Feels like spring is almost here.

So… let’s bring a sketch book and hike!

This is the entrance of Norris Reservation.
On the right side, there is a table and chairs beside a small creak .

We enjoyed sandwiches here along with water flow sounds.

Sandwich and coffee from the cafe.

After the picnic, walking around the reservation took us one hour.

My favorite spot is this old boat house.

This boat house has 2 windows and 1 balcony on the river. The view from these windows looks like a famous painting.

Since my husband just bought an iPad mini with Apple Pencil 2, we did quick sketching on the balcony.

This view turns into this sketch.

This is a map of Norris reservation.

No toilet, small parking lot (maybe 10 cars)

Urban sketchers Boston at the Time Out Market

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Hi! I am a member of Urban Sketchers Boston from 2012. But after I had kids, I became a ghost member. Maybe two times a year I am joining the meetup.

This time the sketching place was Time Out Market at Fenway. It is a big food court that used to a Best Buy.

Everybody was watching the menus filled with black and gray color.

I sketch this view using the iPad “Tayasui sketches” app.

Unfortunately my iPad had only 15% charge left… so I need to sketch super fast.

Here is the outcome printed out on paper.

Lunch during COVID-19 quarantine

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Aghhh… can’t go outside and don’t go outside is so different!

Yes I bought the ingredients that can be preserved for a long time. So I don’t need to go grocery shopping which means I don’t have reason to go outside😫

Lunch and dinner is my exciting time. Today’s lunch

Hey! My son ate one sausage before photo shoot!

Oven baked German sausage, Brussels sprouts, carrots, celery, mushrooms with girlie marinated olive oil😋 celery corn 🌽 soup and toasts, sauerkraut on the side.

Why so much celery? Because last week I went to Haymarket in Boston. 5 bunches of celery for 1$ !🤩

Coffee without a coffee filter

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We thought we had tons of paper coffee filters. But we did not notice how we are addicted to coffee. We ran out filters! But don’t want to go shopping only for coffee filters…

We had Aeropress coffee filters but we couldn’t find the press parts. So…I tried a cheese cloth filter.

Since origami is easy work for me, I prepared square-shaped cheese cloth.

Then food in half to a triangle shape.

Fold both sides

Fold top triangle part to the below flaps from the previous fold.

Done! We call this Origami shape “paper cup”.

Set this in a pour over coffee dripper.

It works!

The coffee taste was good. I can survive with this.😋

Weather after Memorial Day

Denim jackets everywhere

After the Memorial Day, it’s cold again! Of course the weather in Boston changes dramatically and each year is different. Hopefully Bostonian OOTD diary can help travelers from outside Boston prepare what to wear.