LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 48 Origami Paper Dollars, 20 Projects and Instructional DVD
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LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 48 Origami Paper Dollars, 20 Projects and Instructional DVD Details
Review "This is origami in a whole new form. Michael LaFosse is a world-renowned origami artist and he is a great teacher too! [ … ] wouldn't this be a perfect way to give a little cash gift on Easter?" —Suzy's Artsy-Craftsy Sitcom blog"This fantastic book will help you turn your plain cash into awesome origami creations." —Liz Abderholden, FaveCraft blog"This book has a wide variety of models, simple to intermediate to advanced, modular to practical to animals. Something for everyone." —Yuki's Origami Blog"If you're interested in expanding your knowledge of money origami, this book is a worthy addition to your collection." —About.com"Give more than money, give art!" —Handmade By Deb blog Read more About the Author Origami master Michael G. LaFosse is a co-founder of the Origamido Studio, a learning center and design studio dedicated to the art of origami, and the only place in the world specializing in hand papermaking for the origami artist. LaFosse was prominently featured in the recent Peabody Award-winning documentary, Between the Folds.Richard L. Alexander co-founded the Origamido Studio, where he is the chief papermaker. Together, Alexander and LaFosse have created dozens of origami exhibitions, and more than seventy books, kits, and videos about paper and paper arts. Read more
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I have been folding dollar bills into a variety of shapes for close to 45 years. As a teenager, I started leaving part of my tips at restaurants in the shapes of a 2 dollar bikini (top and bottom - from my first book), peacock, elephant, shoes, boot, boat, and pig to name a few. I soon discovered that I had to give up on the idea of leaving a bikini as part of my tip - especially after I got married - my wife was NOT amused. I have purchased multiple "Dollar Origami" books over the years, and find this book to be the best book I own with respect to the diagrams, pictures, and quality of the models you can create. What's special about this book, is that if tells you that you are making a dragon, a rabbit, a seahorse, an orchid, a teddy bear, or a great seal, etc, you don't have to apply a lot of imagination to visualize the finished model as what it's named. The models in this book really look like what they are named - you don't have to guess. I have seen some money folding books where I hardly recognize the models as what they are supposed to represent. Of course, I will never have enough books on dollar origami (I have loved origami since 2nd grade when my older brother brought home a flapping crane he made in 6th grade) - but I do know for sure, that my library can't be without this one. I don't know how my library survived this long without this excellent book.
