These are pictures of my paper cranes. I folded them out of origami paper, comic book paper, scrapbook paper, newspapers, magazines, notebook paper, wrapping paper, thin cardboard and pages from old children's books.
1000 Cranes
When I was very little one of my grade school teachers read my class the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. The story is about a little girl who has leukemia and who believes that if she folds a thousand paper cranes she will get better. Unfortunately she died after only folding 644 cranes (true story). Anyways, I've always loved origami and about two weeks ago I decided that I would like to fold 1000 paper cranes myself. A couple days ago I finished. I started folding these cranes when a small tragedy struck my family, so they have become as sort of miracle cranes. The ancient Japanese tradition says that whoever folds 1000 paper cranes gets one wish (which I have made in honour of my family). The 1000 cranes are also strung on 25 strings of 40 cranes each.
