Since I've had so much free time this past month, I've randomly gotten back into origami folding. I used to be really into origami when I was younger — my childhood bedroom was literally filled with origami flowers and strings of paper cranes and jars of paper stars — and then I stopped having time for it after high school. But my interest in origami started all over again this past month after I decided I wanted to make a bouquet of smeraldo flowers, which is a fictional flower in the BTS Universe (of course, BTS is always the catalyst for all my interests, but there is literally an entire history and storyline for this flower and its origins, and it's actually really interesting!).
Origami "smeraldo" flowers
As it's a fictional flower, we only know what it looks like based on the bouquet of smeraldos that Jin holds in the Love Yourself Highlight Reel — kind of like a cross between a lily and an orchid, in varying shades of light blues and purples. I started off with four- and five-petal lilies and then glued them into partially folded lilies to give them more body. I think they turned out pretty cute. Don't know how accurate they look as compared to the creator's original vision, but hey, it's up for interpretation, right?
Origami roses and peonies
After that, I sort of got addicted to making origami flowers, so I looked up different styles. So far, I had only really made lilies and lotus flowers, which only require folding. But I wanted to make roses and peonies, and all the tutorials I found on YouTube require cutting and gluing. So I went to buy extra materials. I was determined. Each flower uses six sheets of paper (not including the stem) and half an hour to make. It was my first time putting this kind of effort into making origami flowers, but I think my first attempt came out decent.
Origami lotus flowers
Then I thought a bouquet of massive lotus flowers would look really pretty — it's basically the same method as making peonies/roses, but curling every single "petal" inwards — so I went to
Oomomo and bought differently textured paper that would be easier to curl. Y'all, it was like a full-on crafting station in my room. I had scissors, different types of glue, chopsticks, and toothpicks, along with four different packs of paper scattered all over my desk. These took the longest — nearly 45 minutes each flower — but I think they turned out the prettiest. Anyway, yeah, half my room looks like a flower shop now. But they totally brighten up the space! And I don't have to water them! And I finally found uses for my extra mugs!
My next project? Black origami swans. (Inspired, of course, by BTS' "
Black Swan.")
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