{"id":57043,"date":"2015-10-24T00:09:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T07:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=57043"},"modified":"2015-10-24T00:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T07:09:54","slug":"origami-merit-badge-intermediate-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57043","title":{"rendered":"Origami Merit Badge, Intermediate Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: #800080;\">The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmgirlsisterhood.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/span><\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> now with\u00a06,691 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20149,460 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/10477\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">former life<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u2026<b>\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For this week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmgirlsisterhood.org\/badges-sc-origami.asp\"><u>Stitching and Crafting\/Origami Intermediate Level Merit Badge<\/u><\/a>, I began to see paper in a whole new light.<\/p>\n<p>Little bits of trash that rustled through the alleyway? Origami would be-s.<\/p>\n<p>Gum wrappers that mysteriously find their way into the bottom of my car? Paper cranes waiting to happen. Spearmint scented cranes, no less.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57046\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57046\" class=\"wp-image-57046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/800px-Thousand_Paper_Cranes_7115811393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Michael Day via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wadded-up manuscripts and doodled-on sheets of lined notebook paper? Origami babies.<\/p>\n<p>I collected and smoothed out used tissue paper, I hoarded paper grocery sacks, I bought stacks of scrapbook squares at yard sales, and I even began eyeing my trees with a gleam in my peepers (was there a paper-making badge?).<\/p>\n<p>I was hooked. I loved having something to do with my hands when I misplaced my knitting needles or was stumped on my Great American Novel or couldn\u2019t find the remote control. It gave me something to do when I was waiting in the coffee drive-thru lane for my Organic Almond Latte with Whip. Plus, it was fun making something out of nearly nothing, and I gotta say, my neighbor kids thought I was a genius. Forget balloon animals: origami brings a grin to everybody\u2019s faces. (And they don\u2019t pop or fly away. Score!)<\/p>\n<p>To earn my Intermediate Level Origami Badge I needed to make:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three different kinds of animals<\/li>\n<li>Three different kinds of shapes<\/li>\n<li>Three different kinds of flowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_57047\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57047\" class=\"wp-image-57047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/origami-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Caroline Gagn\u00e9 via Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Only nine in all? Pshaw! Why, I could do that, no problem. I turned to Pinterest for some how-tos and inspiration, and naturally, I tumbled right down a bunny trail of distractions.<\/p>\n<p>Pinterest can be detrimental to an easily distracted gal like Yours Truly. I tell myself to look for origami pandas and I end up baking an Oatmeal Cake with Pecan Glaze. I sternly get back to looking up origami swan nests and I find myself entertained for hours by mustache designing. I go back for origami stars and I binge watch gifs of kittens.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a problem. These badges seem to take forever \u2026 maybe it\u2019s me.<\/p>\n<p>Me and my addiction to wine-cork art notions.<\/p>\n<p>Double sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after finding some totes adorbs origami puppies (and also learning how to French braid a poodle, but that is neither here nor there), I finally folded my last crease. I had done it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An origami Dalmatian, a duck, and a dinosaur<\/li>\n<li>An origami heart, a star, and a box<\/li>\n<li>An origami tulip, a lily, and a pansy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s not every day you can add all that to your arts and crafts resume, chickadees.<\/p>\n<p>(And learn to build a fairy house out of wine corks. Not to mention, the DIY plastic surgery. Though I may rethink that one).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with\u00a06,691 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20149,460 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! 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