{"id":35355,"date":"2013-04-30T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=35355"},"modified":"2013-04-30T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T07:06:15","slug":"origami-merit-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/35355","title":{"rendered":"Origami Merit Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/a>, now with 4,945 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20146,765 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> former life<\/a> \u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For this week\u2019s Stitching and Crafting Merit Badge<\/a>, I put my tongue between my teeth, settled down in a comfy spot, and got out my paper collection. Since I\u2019ve been recycling and trying not to waste not\/want not, my paper supply was getting out of hand. I\u2019ve never really tried origami unless you count my heart-shaped valentines or the way I attempt to fold napkins at Thanksgiving (and I don\u2019t think the Buddhist monks who perfected origami would consider it such), so I was in for a\u00a0learning experience, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

Evidently, no one knows for sure and certain who invented the art of origami\u2014the Japanese or the Chinese\u2014but I think I can safely say they have both excelled at it. Me? Not so much.<\/p>\n

Not yet, anyway \u2026 but just you wait until Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I figured I had better start small (NOT the motto of\u00a0the Senbazuru Orikata: How to Fold One Thousand Cranes).<\/i> I picked out a lovely heavyweight paper of the polka-dot variety and watched a tutorial (huzzah for the Internet!) on how to fold a rose. Yes, a rose. Then, in my feverish passion, came a boat with a cheery striped print, and a plane in a shabby chic motif. I was getting the hang of it.<\/p>\n

With my newly acquired skill of paper folding egging me on, I made my first crane. He was so darn cute in his blue and green plaid paper that I made four more. Then another six. I could easily see how origami professionals could get to a thousand. It was strangely addicting. Soothing. Therapeutic. Weird, kinda.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exactly sure what to do with my new-found talent. (How do origami experts find jobs? Is there a college scholarship for them? An origami factory? An addiction recovery center?) But I figure I\u2019ll think of something. In the meantime, well, I\u2019m enjoying flying my paper airplanes for my kitty to chase, arranging my boats near my bathtub, and wrapping up Mr. Wonderful\u2019s lunch sandwiches in aluminum foil swans. I\u2019m pretty sure his co-workers are madly jealous.<\/p>\n

I fell asleep\u00a0counting\u00a0cranes flying over treetops instead of sheep jumping over fences. Nice.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with 4,945 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20146,765 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ Wondering … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladsome_sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}