{"id":538,"date":"2008-12-07T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=538"},"modified":"2008-12-07T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T19:12:26","slug":"holiday-decorations-origami-flower-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Holiday decorations: Origami flower bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebulbproject.org\">The Bulb Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebulbproject.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/joost_tulips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebulbproject.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/joost_tulips-224x300.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-147\" title=\"Origami tulips by Joost Langeveld http:\/\/www.joostlangeveldorigami.nl\/home.html\" height=\"300\" width=\"224\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>You meant to start forcing some bulbs so that they&#8217;d be in flower for the holidays, but never got around to it.  You could still visit the florist and buy a pot of bulbs in bud.  But if you are the do-it-yourself type, you still have another option:  Flower bulb origami.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s only one place to go for that:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joostlangeveldorigami.nl\/home.html\">Joost Langeveld&#8217;s Origami Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have guessed by the name, Joost is from the Netherlands, and most of his origami subjects are flower bulb flowers.  Browse his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joostlangeveldorigami.nl\/gallery1.html\">gallery<\/a>.  It&#8217;s amazing, but also somewhat intimidating.  (Here&#8217;s a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ezQRKflsGrs\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ezQRKflsGrs\" rel=\"nofollow\">video introduction<\/a> to his work.)<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Joost has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joostlangeveldorigami.nl\/beginners.html\">page to help beginners get started<\/a>, and the first subject is tulip flowers (see video below).<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also find step-by-step instructions for many flowers and other subjects, including leaves, steps, vases and boxes, and even tips for making origami floral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FvAGQ2KEH9s&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><ibed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/ibed><\/object>See also Joost&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile_videos?user=joostlangeveld\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile_videos?user=joostlangeveld\" rel=\"nofollow\">collection of how-to videos<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at The Bulb Project. You meant to start forcing some bulbs so that they&#8217;d be in flower for the holidays, but never got around to it. You could still visit the florist and buy a pot of bulbs in bud. But if you are the do-it-yourself type, you still have another option: Flower bulb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holiday decorations: Origami flower bulbs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}