Above the Fold
This post comes with a little story about a girl (me) and a boy (Jon) who, once upon a time, took a Memorial Day weekend road trip down/up Highway 1. Our ultimate destination was Hearst Castle, but along the way, we spent a night in Big Sur. This excursion took place years ago — and I'll be straight with you, I'm not even sure if I had a savings account at that point in time. So we weren't staying anywhere fancy like Ventana or Post Ranch Inn (which is definitely on my list of places to stay someday). No, we were holed up at some roadside motel that had a giant meat cooker rotisserie thing in the parking lot, and was adjacent to a very loud dive bar that seemed to attract a lot of bikers.
The room itself had no TV. And we decided that getting an origami box from the gift shop at Nepenthe — where we had dinner — was a great idea. I still have some of those origami creations that Jon folded together that night.
I guess what I'm getting at here is: Origami is a sentimental favorite in our household. So I couldn't help but smile when I opened up a package yesterday from Chronicle Books and found this:
Creatures & Critters Origami Craft Pad is a kit that includes lots of really cute sheets of paper and instructions for 25 projects. I hear this upcoming weekend is going to be a bit chilly, so I'm looking forward to sitting on the couch with a big pot of tea and doing some folding. (And I'm not just talking about laundry.)
Maybe I'll turn my handiwork into a mobile, like the one Lauren and Derek made for last week's D*S DIY column ...