1000 cranes

Japanese artist Naoki Onogawa is taking origami art to the next level, and she's doing it in the most Japanese way ever.

Senbatsuru; 1000 cranes

1000 paper cranes wedding backdrop

(Aren't they cute?) My wedding gift for Claire and Gary is finally done and delivered, and I thought I'd share. The japanese tradition says that folding 1000 paper cranes for a couple on their wedding day is wishing them 1000 years of happiness and prosperity. My obsessive paper-folding tedium-loving self thought this sounded like a great plan, and a few months of continuous paper folding later, I achieved a very large pile of pretty white birds. 1000 paper cranes I had them all folded in…