Origami Success… and Failure

Yesterday I was going to write about my failure in the origami department, but it was such a dismal failure, I was afraid it would look like I wasn’t even trying.

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Gnasher looked more like it was in need of dentures. Smh

But today I attained a reasonable amount of success, so I don’t feel so badly sharing my failure along with my success.

Behold:
Yacht.

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Not of the Raymond Luxury variety.

Origami-ing in the New Year

A friend gave me an origami-a-day desk calendar for Christmas.

I figure that means I should show you some of my efforts.

Today’s goal: to make Jack’s Bird:

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Jack’s Bird. Shouldn’t be too difficult, right?…

Wrong.

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My poor bird looks more like it’s got a bad hangover.