Origami Blossoms in Opatija

Camellia Festival in a majestic touristic gem Opatija hosted origami workshops. I was invited
by the Camellia Lovers Association to teach origami in the magnificent Villa Angiolina.

Festival kamelija u čuvenom turističkom biseru Opatiji ugostio je radionice origamija.
Bila sam pozvana iz  Udruge ljubitelja kamelija poučavati origami u predivnoj Villi Angiolini.

 

I also brought diagrams for my Camellia Japonica with me,
in case any experienced origami artists came along.

Ponijela sam i dijagrame za svoju Camelliu Japonicu,
u slučaju da naiđu iskusni origamisti.

We folded traditional Japanese camellias and origami models as desired.
Paper birds flapped, grasshoppers and frogs jumped, and faces lit up with smiles.

Savijali smo tradicionalnu japansku kameliju i origami modele po željama.
Zalepršale su papirnate ptice, poskočili skakavci i žabice, a lica se ozarila osmijehom.

 

 And after the workshops, a walk along the enchanting seafront promenade...

 A iza radionica, čarobna šetnja obalom...

Goodbye, wonderful Opatija!

Doviđenja, Opatijo bajna! 

 

Origami za ohrabrenje - Origami for Encouragement

“Što vam je teže, to se više morate igrati,“ podijelio je s nama znanstveni inženjer John Cohn u svom TEDx govoru. Promišljajući TED govor pionira istraživanja igre, dr. Stuarta Browna “Igra je više od zabave”,  odlučila sam pružiti priliku za igru papirom dijeleći svoje dijagrame. Iskoristila sam vrijeme naše karantene da dijagramiram po jedan origami model dnevno i objavim na Facebooku Hrvatskog origami društva i svom LinkedInu.  Tu ih je nekoliko.

“The harder it gets, the harder you have to play,“ shared with us the engineer scientist John Cohn in his TEDx talk. Having in mind the TED talk by a pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown “Play is more than fun”, I decided to offer some opportunities to play with paper by sharing my diagrams. I used my pandemic lockdown time to diagram one origami model a day, and post it on Croatian Origami Society's Facebook and my LinkedIn. Here are some of them.