Origami from Canon Creative Park

I found this awesome site through one of my favorite blogs. The site has amazing paper crafts you can do using your color inkjet printer. One of the crafts I would love to try is Origami. They provide some amazing patterns to print out to make their items. Click on the picture to go to the original page.






















I think some of the following Origami items would look cool with the patterns above. Click on the picture to go to the pattern download page.
















I love this origami craft. You could change it up by using one of the papers above for the dolls dress.

COLOURlover

So I went from this:

















(Image Copyright: How About Orange)

To this:














To These:













How?
The author of one of my favorite blogs How About Orange created the fabric painting. I then went to the amazing website called COLOURlovers and created a palette of colors using the fabric painting as inspiration. Then you can make a pattern from the palette. This website is a lot of fun and allows you to be creative with color - which I love! Go to this page to see my other creations.

Something Purple for the Computer

These are just some of the amazing purple wallpapers out there. I will post more in future posts. (To download, click on the picture and it will take you to the original download page.)






Beach Bottle Beauty by Irene's Dreams









MikeLevin.com Photography












Darkspace Graphics











PerplexCity The Board Game

SwitchRing

I have know about these rings for a while but did not have a forum to write about them. Now I do!! They are called SwitchRings. The only downside is that their sizing is very limited. Small is a size 5, medium is size 6.5 and large is a size 8. I wish they would make them in x-large , size 9 so I could wear them. They have started making necklaces that are cool. But to me not as cool as the ring, but at least I can wear the necklaces.

Something Purple for your Walls

While looking for purple things to write about, I came across this cool vinyl flower from INLuxuryDesign. (What is even cooler is that the designers went to Emerson College - where I went for grad school.) I think it would look great in a contemporary dining room or office. As I was looking for where to by it, one of the sites has fantastic purple wallpaper. Showing is one of my favorites.

Purple Veggies

There a few purple veggies out there such as eggplant, purple onions and cabbage but cauliflower? I could not believe my eyes when I saw these cauliflowers.

They were developed by Syngenta - a world-leading agri-business committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research & technology.

The colors are not food dye but came after decades of traditional selective breeding. The orange color comes from high concentration of beta carotene, a form of vitamin A that encourages healthy skin. The purple color comes from anthocyanin, which may help prevent heart disease by slowing blood clotting. The green comes from chlorophyll that is also found in broccoli.

I am not a huge veggie fan but I would not mind trying these since I do like cauliflower. You may have already seen the green variety in the grocery store. The other colors are being sold in Britain. Hopefully they will be coming our way soon.