My Life As A Magazine: Origami

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It's Fathers Day here in Oz, so I am sharing with you something I made for my dad. An envelope card decorated with my polka dot and alphabet stamps, a little text square with some new mt slim two tone tape. I also made a cute origami t-shirt to go on it!

Hope your Dad's are having a wonderful day!!

It is both my mum's and hubby's birthday this week, so I have been busy making and baking crafty celebrations!

First I baked some vanilla & chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles and made some mt tape bunting flags. Found some kawaii pink polka dot patty cases to put the cupcakes in too. It went down as a real treat with the family, the confetti on the high tea stand made it that extra bit party special too!

ステキ文具 Suteki Stationery Mook (a magazine/book) is the ultimate Kawaii catalog of Japanese stationary. Stationery fanatics beware, you won't put this mook down. I have had it for a few weeks now and look at it daily. It also comes with a special edition duo set of Midori D-clips of penguins and ducks!

The A4 Paper Festival had their opening night on Tuesday at The Paper Mill in Sydney and I got the wonderful task of selling zines at their zine stall.

The stall included zines from Mechelle B - folks loved her 'Little book of bearded chaps', Georgia Perry,Paper conventions very own Kit Palaskas whose Tiny book of disguises almost sold out and Paper Jewellery artist Anna Gleeson who was also exhibiting had a zine called 'A Playful search of beauty' which I wanted to purchase. As you can see by the table, so much to choose from. I also got to sell copies of my 'Little Book Of Mt Masking Tape' zine and 'Snap Tokyo Girls Bunting'.

It was clear that A4 Paper Festival founder Lisa Loxley's hard work paid off by seeing all the amazing paper artists she had curated for the event. Trial & Error's Paper City and Anna Gleeson's Paper Jewellery greeted exhibit goers in Paper Mill's street windows, inside were installations and 3D Paper works by; Hattie Newman, Jesse Brown, Matthew Roland and Benja Harney.I was in awe of Japan's Yoshinobu Miyamoto's giant paper dome sculpture! Some of these artists will be doing workshops hosted by the Paper Convention, so get in quick for tix!

Other stalls included The Paper Convention table which was selling posters, programs (works of art in itself) paper glasses, paper puzzle and Japanese paper airvase baskets from Upon a fold.

All paper from the night and for workshops are supplied by K.Doggett fine paper. I could see many people through the night having fun making paper dogs and notebooks. Love the hanging confetti pinatas!

It was a PAPER PARTY!

I fell in love with the works of Chicago based paper artist Esther aka Essimar a few months ago, which earned her a place on my blogroll. Using bright paper and mixed media such as; acryla gouache and mt tape Esther creates collage installations, jewellery, stationary, confetti packs and gift wrap. Her signature- bright pinks,white spacing, overlaying, polka dots and kawaii creatures gets a tick-tick-tick in my book.

You can purchase some of her works from her online shop and see more lovely photos like these on her blog and flickr site.