Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Kirigami, Quotes and Mother Teresa

Hello! So happy to see you today!




"It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love that is put into them
that matters."
- Mother Teresa

A woman I deeply respect -

found at www.asianews.it


"Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person,
a beautiful thing." 

- Mother Teresa


Kirigami:
Here are a few (more) samples of the wonderful Oriental cut paper art of kirigami:





kirigami art by inkspired

I have added little scraps of leftover origami paper behind my cuttings,
to give a sort of 'stained glass' effect.
I'm such a recycler, it kills me to throw away such pretty little bits of color!
Needless to say, my husband does not share my pack rat enthusiasm,
so we are a happy balance for each other!
:0)


"Being with someone,
listening without a clock
and without anticipation of results -
teaches us about love."

- Mother Teresa



You can always use the search blog box to find more kirigami from past blogs.


kirigami card with stamped and cut image of angel by inkspired


"Do not think that love in order to be genuine
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love 
without getting tired.
Be faithful in small things
because
it is in them that your strength lies!"

- Mother Teresa






On this kirigami card, I used a triangular kirigami of purple dragonflies
then layered a scrap of another kirigami cut from green paper
and added a stamped/cut out cone flower to finish it.

(The flower is from a discontinued Stampin' Up! Two-Step stamp set.)


"If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other."

- Mother Teresa

I hope you have enjoyed this blog of peace,
Mother Teresa
and kirigami ideas!

See you soon,

inkspired
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Monday, November 21, 2011

November Flower of the Month Chrysanthemum

Greeting to all!
I am fighting major headaches (storms moving in, out and all around apparently).
Plus, we still haven't figured out why our internet is being squirrely. Is it our computer? Is it the blogspot's computers? Twitch in the cable? Did someone open up a computer room with scads of computers hooked onto the same cable as ours?
These are deep questions....
oh not really. They just seem important when I am trying to post a blog!
:0)

November's Flower of the Month is the Chrysanthemum.
From here on I will refer to the flower as 'mum' as I don't feel like typing the whole word out each time.

photo by Yuriy Brykaylo

The Mum has a very long history, and appears to start in China.
I found 2 theories on how the mum got its' name.
The first is:
Chrysanthemum is derived from the Greek words
'chrysos' meaning gold, and 'anthemon' for flower.
However, others believe that chrysanthemum is derived from a
Latin compound word meaning 'golden flower'.
Different original languages, but both came up with the same meaning-
golden flower.

shutterstock photo of the week

The thing is, mums come in a rainbow of colors and shades -
yellow, purple, pink, deep pink, orange, white, red, green
and more!



Now this next was news to me -
the blooms come in a huge variety of 'forms'
such as Incurve, Reflex, Decorative, Pompon, Single, Semi-Double,
Spoon, Quill, Spider.....and more!

a 'pompon mum


a 'spider' type mum


Some of the photos I saw that said they were so-and-so type mum
I woudn't have believed it until I did some research!

courtesy Swaminathan

I need to close now,
but I do have lots more info for you about mums,
their history,
vintage art, vintage song sheet covers,
lots of fun!
I'll try my best to post tomorrow!
:0)

'bubble romper'

inkspired