Enabling

My job title – Curriculum Lead – doesn’t really offer any clue about what I actually do.  So when asked to elaborate, I often rely on a short phrase: Enthuse, Encourage and Enable.  I am frequently accused of that last one (with a wink) because I really do like to share any interesting discoveries with my like minded friends and one in particular (you know who you are…) is very easily tempted.  I make no excuses because everything I do is legal, honest and more often than not, just jolly good fun.  But yes, now and again, I have heard the words “Oh, you are such an enabler!” in that tone of voice, for sure.

This morning, I was on the receiving end, though.  I was mooching through some Pinterest pages I’d stumbled upon last night, and one particular pin caught my eye.

Folded paper bracelets?  How neat are those?  With a cup of tea in hand and having decided that I’ve earned a morning to myself today, I followed the link to a very interesting page, right up my street and with a very tempting sidebar full of links to follow up, too!

Scrolling down to the folded bracelets, I found the link to Fiber Lab and found all kinds of very clever paper manipulation there.  I am in awe of people who can think their way through such designs and who can create beautiful three dimensional objects from a two dimensional piece of paper and this particular one is so clever!

Don’t take my word for it, download the pdf here and have a go yourself!

What impressed me most was the marvellous presentation of a fairly complicated technique on a single sheet of ordinary paper.  The information is all there, shown in such a way that anyone could follow and create a paper bracelet from scratch in less than half an hour.

See?

Sadly, it’s just a little on the small side for me, so I need to enlarge it in some way.  But isn’t it clever? 

Thank you, Justine, for sharing your work!  I love it.

Comments

[jordi]

Oh how did we miss this site???? I know I am not the only one you enable, but I am right there with you, I have been immersed in bookmaking lately but you KNOW i have the perfect paper for this..... all I have to do is go find it!!

[Georgina]

Really interesting post Gill - so I know what I am doing in front of University Challenge tomorrow night! And I can now follow you on that Black Hole of freetime known as Pintrest, thanks to the link!

The book has arrived Thank You!! II will be having a go soon!