MISCELLANEOUS

[maria]

A few of us have been playing with creating textures on the cardboard we use for putz houses, tags, and “landscape” platforms for our putz houses—and getting very inspired. Here’s one using plastic wrap – a very quick video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQwiqCF ... AAAAAAAABQ

Not long ago we came across a new putz at a homegoods store that had applied “foil” in certain places—the effect was quite nice—we started to look around for how to accomplish that effect and…Check out this “foil” technique—a very quick video—all image, no sound, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpj9HfB ... re=related and Then visit their site for the products shown http://www.stampeecrafts.com

[maria]

I've often wondered if the Japanese construction of putz houses had a distant relationship with origami. I came across this article and links and thought you might have an interest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/com ... inment_pop
and
an amazing paper castle/city http://origamisan.org/en?c=Articles