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My house is over run with origami D: what should I do? what do you do with the origami that you make?

Give them away, throw the, put them somewhere for a random person (zoos, museums... are the perfect places for that.)... Atleast thats what i do.

where I live there is no such thing as zoos or museums but I can give them away to random people
Thanks

Neither where I live. But on scool trips or travels to somewher you can leave them.

I got one of these sets of drawers to store my origami stuff - a couple of the drawers are used for paper, a couple for books, and a couple I stuff with all of my non-display-quality models and practice folds: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40196241/

For display, I found this nifty shelf at Pottery Barn and hung it on my wall. It's only good for storing small to medium-size models, but you can store a lot of things in it (bonus challenge! can you name each model/artist in here?)


Another thing you can do, if you have any models that are mostly 2-dimensional, is frame them. I found some box frames at The Christmas Tree shop for like $3 each, and made some things like this out of them. They make fantastic gifts for people, since most people don't have many places in their home that they can display a 3-D model but have plenty of wall space to hang up pictures.

Put in bags

Just the ones I can make out, top-left to bottom right:

SK's Wizard, ---, Roman Diaz's Coyote
SK's Smilodon, ---, ---, Fumiaki Kawahata's Yoda, ---
---, SK's Unicorn, SK's Barosaurus, ---, ---
Rober Lang's Turtle, Jeremy Shafer's Suit (?), [is that the monkey from 50hrs+? and something else], SK's Loggerhead, Lang's or Montroll's Elephant
---, [some kind of peacock (Maekawa's?)], Josiel's Rat. Bull Moose (?), Jason Ku's Nazgul

That's all I can make out right now.


In the interest of staying on-topic, I just usually give them to people.

If I fold something when I'm not home, I'll usually just leave it in a random location. Occasionally I'll see someone walking around with something I folded an hour ago, which is kind of neat. At home, I usually just find somewhere to display it, or store it in a drawer if it's not that great.

Toogs,

im guesing i am the only one with a shot at winning your challenge, 16 is going to do most folks in (especially since it is the rare quasi documented variant)

SenorTortuga wrote:
For display, I found this nifty shelf at Pottery Barn and hung it on my wall. It's only good for storing small to medium-size models, but you can store a lot of things in it (bonus challenge! can you name each model/artist in here?)

@ := Maloriar: I am home schooled :*(
@ := SenorTortuga: the drawer is way too high priced with the shelf I could not find one but I might beadle to make one with two 2D picture framing I think it is a good idea but where I live people don't do picture framing
@ := Baltorigamist: I think I will do that.
@ := gad: that is a grate Idea
@ := bnm70: yes that is wet i am doing

shoe boxes work really well for quick storage

yes thanks for the idea

Baltorigamist wrote:Just the ones I can make out, top-left to bottom right:

SK's Wizard, ---, Roman Diaz's Coyote
SK's Smilodon, ---, ---, Fumiaki Kawahata's Yoda, ---
---, SK's Unicorn, SK's Barosaurus, ---, ---
Rober Lang's Turtle, Jeremy Shafer's Suit (?), [is that the monkey from 50hrs+? and something else], SK's Loggerhead, Lang's or Montroll's Elephant
---, [some kind of peacock (Maekawa's?)], Josiel's Rat. Bull Moose (?), Jason Ku's Nazgul

That's all I can make out right now.

Close! The elephant is actually by Roman Diaz, and #13 is Lafosse's Hummingbird and a Kawasaki rose.

maddoghoek100 wrote:Toogs,

im guesing i am the only one with a shot at winning your challenge, 16 is going to do most folks in (especially since it is the rare quasi documented variant)

Haha true, I forgot about that! #6 also shouldn't count, since it's not actually origami but a Portal-themed easter egg that I made.

OrigamiGeek wrote:... what do you do with the origami that you make?

I found these thingies at Hobby Lobby, going to start displaying some of my models around the house.

SenorTortuga wrote:I got one of these sets of drawers to store my origami stuff - a couple of the drawers are used for paper, a couple for books, and a couple I stuff with all of my non-display-quality models and practice folds: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40196241/

For display, I found this nifty shelf at Pottery Barn and hung it on my wall. It's only good for storing small to medium-size models, but you can store a lot of things in it (bonus challenge! can you name each model/artist in here?)

SK's wizard, ancient dragon, roman diaz's coyote, SK's smilodon, SK's barosaurus, jun maekawa's chick, fumiaki kawata's master yoda, michael lafosse's big brown bat, something from portal, SK's unicorn, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, jeremy shafer's mens suit, michael lafosse's hummingbird, kawasaki rose, SK's loggerhead turtle, XXX, begging doxie, meakawa's turkey, joisel rat, XXX, nazgul 8.1, XXX, roman diaz's cat, XXX, roman diaz's sheep, hands foling a blintz base, robert lang scorpion from origami insects and their kin.