Origami family stories

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » September 8th, 2006, 1:09 am

I was just wondering if there was any girlfriends and boyfriends, husbands and wives, and possibly children (relatives of any sort) where you are all origamists. Personally, I try to get everybody into origami, yet it never works

I do have one relative on the forum, though! His username: ZEEKY baky doog (my cousin). I knew he should join the forum because he enjoys origami and he very sucessfully folded the seaturtle from "Origami Zoo" the other day

Narazeetak · Post by **Narazeetak** » September 8th, 2006, 2:54 am

Sadly, I'm the only one in my family that do origami.

But, some of my friends love origami very much.

MacGyver · Post by **MacGyver** » September 8th, 2006, 6:45 am

my little brother likes origami but he is a very bad folder ....
sadly he can't be precise enough so he allways gives up.

For instance, he tried lang's spenjurmunni many times, and I was there to help him, but he's still unable to fold the tail alone.

cu_long_than · Post by **cu_long_than** » September 8th, 2006, 1:46 pm

Narazeetak wrote:Sadly, I'm the only one in my family that do origami.
But, some of my friends love origami very much.

I'm too

.

paperz · Post by **paperz** » September 8th, 2006, 8:01 pm

My mom did a lot of origami, simple models that she had in memory like piano, boats, camera now though she is happy teaching kids around the neighbourhood....she inspired me to fold since i was about 5 and i haven't stopped since. My 3 year old niece makes very nice boats and keeps asking me to teach her complex folds! I hope my daughter does that too some day..... I would feel proud

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » September 8th, 2006, 10:41 pm

I forgot to mention that I am in the worst part of Canada to take up origami... I am the only person in my region (possibly the province!) that is serious about origami...

Origamilady · Post by **Origamilady** » September 23rd, 2006, 12:20 am

Hrmmm none of my immediate family does origami,
Ive gotten the Irish half of my family all enthused about it though

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I am a pre-school Montessori teacher though and have brought my own interest in origami into the classroom. The children absolutely love it and some of them (because they are with me for 3-4 years) end up learning quite complex models.

iAm4free · Post by **iAm4free** » September 27th, 2006, 3:54 am

I teach my sister what I do and sometimes she folds the model better than me.... I was inspired by my aunt when I was a child when she taught me how to do a jumping frog... which I struggled to learn... Would love it if I could transfer all my knowledge to my children when I have them

Origami is fun and everyone appreciates it in my family....

~folder~of~paper~ · October 20th, 2006, 12:22 pm

I'm the only one who folds in my immediate family. My uncle folds and actually was the one who introduced my to Kunihiko Kasahara's Origami Omnibus. I tried to teach my cousin to fold and I don't want to be rude, so I'll say this as downplayed as I can; She wasn't very good...

Seriously and she's so independant I was "NOT ALLOWED TO HELP!"... Then when she got fed up she threw the paper at me and yelled abuse about our fine art! A pity though... My uncle's good which helps! So at least I have one person to talk to about origami...

kenongab · Post by **kenongab** » October 20th, 2006, 10:56 pm

I'm not really sure but I think I'm the only one. Although there maybe someone in my family that is in the father side that can fold....but that's very unlikely to happen.

JeossMayhem · Post by **JeossMayhem** » October 21st, 2006, 2:18 am

Yea, my mom taught me since I was a few years old and now at seventeen I can fold things I wouldn't have even imagined of folding. But like everyone else here, I also don't any people closeby who share the same enthusiasm as I do, but I do my best to spread it among friends. It seems the commonpeople don't appreciate the effort, time, or skill required. Hardly anybody nowadays is patient enought to try. I blame pop culture. And the media, hah.

himanshu · Post by **himanshu** » October 21st, 2006, 7:34 am

My father is extremely creative (being ambidextrous and all that!). He did fold an Origami Ganesha with me once and I felt like hiding my model somewhere.

But sadly he has not taken up origami.

So it's just me as of now.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » October 21st, 2006, 1:13 pm

My friends noe in school randomly fold a piece of paper, and say "this is my design!"

It's funny to see what they come up with sometimes

Fanatic · Post by **Fanatic** » January 14th, 2007, 6:37 pm

My cousin just started to do origami. And as proof that Charles Esseltine's Dragon in Flight is not complex, it was the 3rd design she's (My cousin's) ever folded.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » January 15th, 2007, 2:10 am

Charles's Dragon was my 2nd model folded

Joseph Wu's Eastern Dragon was my first.

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