Fantastic Folds

Book excerpt: Fantastic Folds presents 26 innovative origami projects, as beautiful as they are useful. Each project is true origami, folded from a single sheet of paper, and includes clear step-by-step instructions, sidebars that help you review your progress at every stage, and suggestions on choosing and preparing the paper and on decorating the final project. Full color photographs highlight the delights found on every page. From the whimsical practicality of "foldelopes", picture frames and a lampshade, to a head of rare animals-a shark, a seahorse, and a warty jumping frog-these projects will delight and inspire, whether you fold for pleasure or for a bottomless supply of inexpensive gifts. Projects include: -gift bag -crane in flight -jewellery box -sun and moon -disk holder -elephant -card box -seahorse -lotus bowl -tree frog -picture frame -shark