Friday, June 22, 2007

1k names peace cranes better than nicotine

This is how she coped with quitting smoking:
Yes, origami. I know, weird, but it really worked. I am a project oriented person so I needed to channel this origami folding into something greater so I found that I could fold origami but
I decided that I will make 1000 cranes for the peace monument in Hiroshima, Japan. It was all the inspiration I needed to continue now that I had an end result to shoot for.
I have completed over 400 cranes and I have was pretty proud of that. However, I recently found out that they accept the cranes year round but only drape the monument in August for the anniversary of the atom bomb.This means I need to get busy!

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