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Tutorial: How To Make Origami Lucky Stars For #Bookstagram

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I am a huge fan of origami.

And by “huge” I mean, I can fold 3 whole designs and woah, go me. Someone stop this wild party I’m having.

I actually fold origami and sell it on Etsy which somewhat supports my starving artist routine while I write books. So shout-out to me and my awesome and you should definitely go buy 1 or 9 things off me.

But in case you’re a cheap bucket (like I am, basically, because why buy when you can MAKE???) I have decided to put together a tutorial on how to make origami lucky stars. This is because (A) these little beasts are delightful for #bookstagram photo props and I use them always, and (B) I have been asked by many people on what they are / how to make them, and (C) occasionally I’m agreeable and go “well I could do a tutorial on that”.

(I’ve had this tutorial in line to write up for MONTHS but the actual main reason I put off it off is because I needed two hands in the photos and I also need a 3rd hand to take  the photos. You see the issue? Because despite rumours, I am not an octopus. So I had to train my dog in the skill of photography and now I’m good to go.)

 

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step one

WHAT YOU NEED:

  • long strips of paper (not cardboard, just don’t even go there no)
  • you can actually buy precut pieces of lucky star paper on ebay (google it, fiends) or you can cut them yourself! I generally use something like 1/4 inch x 12 inches (but you can go thinner or thicker)
  • pencil (this is not for drawing so it can be a blunt pencil)
  • two hands (all I’m saying is that if you have three hands, cut one off)
  • several cupcakes (for snack breaks)

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You could also use a clean workspace, but who am I kidding?? WHAT EVEN IS THE MEANING OF “CLEAN”???

 

step #2

TIME TO ORIGAMI YOURSELVES.

What you want to do is tie a knot in one end of your strip of paper. This is about as simple as walking to Morder without Sam. But persevere I believe in you.

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My flesh looks yellow in Step #2 but I swear I am not actually yellow.

It is also not crucial to have double-jointed thumbs to make lucky stars, but YOU KNOW, all the cool kids (aka me) have them.

 

step 3

MAKE SURE YOUR KNOT IS FLAT.

I’m talking pancake flat. Crease it. Don’t be scared to squash it’s dreams of gentle curves. WE WANT FLATNESS.

Then fold that little extra edge piece over because who needs that. Not us.

Then, with the longer tail piece, start wrapping and folding it over and over and OVER AND OVER.

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KEEP WRAPPING IT OVER. DID I TELL YOU TO STOP? NO. KEEP GOING.

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You want to fold it until (A) your star is now quite fat, and (B) there is only a tiny piece left at the end.

Now tuck that little tail under. Hopefully the picture will convey what I mean, because I sure as heck have no words. Like TUCK THE LOOSE THING. <– Excellent tutorial explanations

 

step #4

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE A FAT VAGUELY SHAPED BLOB OF PAPER.

At least, I hope you do. If you don’t, you are a deluded melon, because obviously my tutorial is flawless and not confusing at all so far.

Next you want to grab that pencil and wield it like Eoywn when some jerk called her man. GRIP THIS PENCIL AND SMITE PERDITION.

I’m joking. Be very very very careful or you’ll ruin the star.

This is honestly THE STEP OF DOOM. This is when you need the luck of lucky stars. The stars have a tendency to just…squash. It’s devastating.

Rub the pencil very carefully along one side until it bends. Alternately, you can pinch the corners and squash them that way, but that only works on actual origami paper. If you’re just using general paper, it might be too stiff for pinching so: THAT PENCIL NEEDS YOU.

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Obviously rub all the sides. Once you get the first corner indented, you’re out of the danger territory. Mt. Doom is behind you. The orcs are slain. BUT DON’T GET TOO COCKY BEFOREHAND OR YOUR STAR WILL EXPLODE AND YOU WILL BE LEFT WITH NOTHING.

#NotDramaticAtAll

In fact, I actually ruined the star I was making for the tutorial. I am the origami master, obviously.

And feel free to continue admiring my yellow double-joined thumb in #14.

 

step #5

WELCOME INTO THE WORLD, LITTLE STAR OF LIGHT!

Looooooook. YOU MADE A STAR, you clever pineapple you. Now is time to congratulate yourself! Take a cupcake break! Marathon the LOTR films! Cosplay a firey eyeball! WELL DONE AND APPLAUSE.

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Look, now my little star has FRIENDS.

 

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AND NOW YOU REPEAT.

Probably, like, 89 times because the more stars the better where #bookstagram is concerned. You can literally spend years of your life doing this. But it’s worth it, I promise. Or you can hire me to make them for you, so. There’s that option too.

Now you’re free to sprinkle them about your bookstagram photos! Fill cups of them! FLING THEM ACROSS YOUR ROOM. * Enjoy your origami skills!

* Don’t do that, you fool. You’ll ruin them.

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PRO TIP #1: Dogs like to eat them. Little devils. Be ye warned.

PRO TIP #2: I have about 3 in every 5 success rate so don’t feel bad if you ruin a lot of them. This is not really a pro tip??? More like a “commiseration tip” in case you are terrible at making these like me.

 

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Thus ends my EXTREMELY competent tutorial.

Don’t say I never explain things. (Hopefully the pictures explain them to make up for my lack of…words.) Go forth and make your bookstagram photos aesthetically pleasing with cupfuls of stars.

But I have a petition to stop calling them “Lucky Stars” because tHEY’RE DOWNRIGHT UNLUCKY TO MAKE. Petition to call them Sauron Stars.

 

CHAT

does anyone else here do origami?? do you have any other crafty tutorial requests? DEFINITELY LET ME KNOW. do you also have double-jointed thumbs? and does this tutorial work? someone test it out for me omg.

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    • I’M HERE TO BE WONDERFUL AND HELPFUL. *flips hair majestically* 😂 I actually didn’t even KNOW about the pinching the corners until recently….I think the pencil generally makes them much smoother, which is great.

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  2. Haha, I knew this post was coming. 😉But your explanation was very clear. I got Shar to teach me, and i made a bunch out of an old bok, which now decorate my bookshelf, which is downright annoying, but it looks good so…. I sort of feel like I have the craft department covered for now on my own… like right now I’m knitting a (small) blanket fro my mum. But craft is awesome, isn’t it! You should tell us about making cupcakes next because I accidentally got involved in a starwars cupcake need for a 10 yo birthday party tomorrow?? Haha, I need my parents to return from their long abandoment of me and save me from baking. Just kidding. But I would love a movie review of Moana, because I’m going to watch it today and I’m SO EXCITED yusss. (this is a totally messy comment but whatever.)
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    • I gave it a few months though so it wasn’t too close to yours!! 🙈🙊 I’m still absolutely AMAZED that we both we’re thinking of the same thing on the same weekend thougH?! Geniuses we are, clearly. 😉

      Craft is definitely the BEST. And it’s always helpful for props in photos too!!

      I don’t make cupcakes enough really to do a post. *sobs* But I should do another cooking one eventually because FOOD is clearly my aesthetic.

      OHHHH I CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK OF MOANA!! It looks so amazing and I already adore the soundtrack.😍

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  4. Hi, Cait!
    I actually looked them up a few weeks ago after I read your Bookstagramm-Post. (It was two in the morning and I was reckless, because, hey, who knew that you could actually become pretty obsessed with these little cluckers.)
    So now I am folding them during work when I’m waiting for a callback and getting bored. I’ve yet to find a store that sells the strips pre-cut though because I never get them completely streight.
    Thanks for the tutorial anyways. I think I will try the pencil thing because I still do it with my thumbs like a beginner and it ain’t pretty. 😛
    Have a nice day!
    LG, m

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    • Oh yay that you like making them too!! They’re kind of addictive after a while too, right?! And just look on ebay under “lucky star strips” and tons of options come up! I mean, it’s cheaper to cut your own, but I got a pack of 50 purple strips for about $1 which wasn’t bad. 🙂

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  5. This is super helpful! Thanks!
    P.S. maybe do a tutorial on how to make those big origami flowers (which you made with book pages I believe) I saw in some photo of yours (can’t remember which)?

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  6. Nice tutorial.. I was curious ages ago and want to have origami star because of you 😀 so I went to you tube and learn from them.. 😀
    Now I can make one myself.. but I buy the origami star paper on gift shop in my town. They sell it.
    Thanks Cait for inspiration 😀

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    • Oh that’s so awesome you actually have a local store that sells the paper! LUCKY YOU. 😀 And eeep, I’m kind of honoured I inspired you to make some. YAYY CAKE FOR US BOTH!

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  7. Hi. I actually started on origami because of an old blog post of yours on lucky stars and yes, they definitely need to be renamed please. I love book covers and I’ve been having a blast making origami stuff 🙂 I always wanted to make an origami crane (from my days of binging on the Prison Break series) but I never could get the hang of it. (That was eons ago).
    Now, I recently watched a korean drama called Healer (OMG, Awesome) and in one scene, the heroine absently made lucky stars and I wanted to try origami again. So I started searching on how to do it and found your old post.
    Thanks for the post. I had a blast making the stars. And yes, a success of 3 out of every 5 I make. It’s super annoying when those 2 odd ones don’t make it.

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    • Omg that makes me so happy! I’m so glad you liked my old tutorials too! 🙂 And yesss, the cranes are awesome and I LOVED that part of Prison Break (like the rest of the time I was stressing so much I had to get up and pace😂) because I’ve always made tons and tons of cranes.

      And I don’t even know whyyyy sometimes the stars just die. But there’s no salvaging them, right?! AGH. At least we still have a mild success rate. *hi fives* 😂

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  8. Omg, those stars are unbelievably simple, but so pretty!! I’ll have to keep this idea in mind for some party or something. Bet it would look great on a table. Or maybe filling up a half empty present box?

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  11. I LOVED this tutorial. Perfectly clear and I actually feel like I could make those stars if I chose to. Yay! Thanks girl!

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  14. Origami and me just don’t go together? Also Cait, when are you doing your November Fury recap?? I LOVE THOSE. (And now it is the 9th of December, so I am just giving you a friendly reminder ahem) Also I have tried making these stupid stars SO MANY times, but the corner thing is the actual worst. Maybe I could do with the pencil trick?? JUST PRAY FOR ME.
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    • OKAY SO THIS KIND OF JUST MADE MY DAY THAT YOU WANTED THE RECAP!!! *flails happily* Okay so truth is…I’m not doing a November one. *hides under a hedge* I KNOW, AREN’T I LAZY?!?! 😭 I am doing a yearly recap at the end of December but gah, it’ll probably be end of January before I go back to the same-old recaps that I usually do. BUT LIKE IT SERIOUSLY MADE MY LIFE THAT YOU MISSED IT. <3 THANK YOU.

      And yesss, the corners of these stars are little hellions. This is why I have like a 50% success rate, if even that at times.😂 I PRAY FOR YOU. GOOD LUCK WITH THE PENCIL TRICK.

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  19. See, I WANT to do this, but I also… don’t? Because THOSE LITTLE STARS ARE SO *CAIT* THAT IF ANYONE ELSE TRIED IT, I’D JUST THINK “HELLO, CAIT”. I loooove origami and I’m notoriously bad at it (as all truly great romances go – with great, big hurdles to overcome), but I do have a few origami ‘staples’ (these not being one of them – WOOOO, COMPLICATED) and I HAVE considered including them in shots before, but…

    HELLO, CAIT-KNOCKOFF. So I didn’t.

    Having said that, will I fall pray to this MAGNANIMOUS, GENEROUS TUTORIAL OF JOY? Of course I shall. Because origami isn’t origami in Lexieworld unless I’ve tried and failed at it. <3 I'M COMING, SAURON STAAAAAAAAARS!
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    • AWW, AREN’T YOU SWEET.😊 I know tons of other instagrammers who use them, though, so DON’T FEEL BAD IF YOU WNAT TO AS WELL!! I’m secretly like horrendous at origami too, don’t even worry. Like I sell the stuff??? Yet I forever ruin the stuff??? #LifeIsSoHard

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  20. YES, THEY ARE SAURON STARS *promptly begins calling them so*

    I’ve tried making them before and OH BOY do I know what you mean when you say they are hard to do. THEY ARE HARD TO DO *glares at my little pile of Sauron star fails*

    ANYWAYS. Yes xD. Thanks for this post, Cait! I never thought of using a pencil instead of pinching the corners … I’ll have to try this *nodnod*. (also, when’s the next Beautiful People linkup going up?)
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    • YES LET’S HAVE THEM OFFICIALLY CHANGED TO SAURON STARS. That will be much more accurate. And they are such little beasts. I mean, they work sometimes and not others and WHYYYYYYY. It’s wizardry that’s all I can say.

      And omg I’ve forgotten about BP.😱😱😳😳😳 Lemme check with my co-host. I’M SO SORRY.

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  21. Oh, these are so cute! You are a talented bean, my dear!

    As I mentioned awhile ago, I am trying to get into origami, so , even I don’t have Instagram (on account of having no camera) I will try this (I want to call it a recipe for some reason??? Evidence that I cook too much) immediately!

    No I’m not double jointed anywhere except… My right shoulder. Peculiar, I know.

    And those awesome origami flower things? TEACH US HOW PLEASE!
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    • THANK YOU, KATE MARIE. *twirls majestically* And yes let’s call it a recipe because that’s fun and delicious. And I mean, is it even a tutorial or is it a commentary on Lord of the Rings? WHO CAN KNOW.

      And yes I can do one on the origami flowers! They’re not technically origami because they use glue BUT THEY’RE STILL GREAT SO I WILL.

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  22. I saw that you linked to how to make them in a post you did a while back, and since then, I have made many. To be fair, as you stated, 2 out of 5 are a disappointment and rebel against my wishes. Thus ending in sorrow and immediately getting thrown onto the fire.

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    • And I’ve made HUNDREDS and I still like murder most of them.😭😭😂 Honestly I think there is wizardry involved in these little Sauron stars and sometimes you have it and sometimes you don’t.

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    • Aww, thank you!😂 I mean, is this a tutorial on origami stars or a commentary on Lord of the Rings? WHO CAN KNOW. hehe.😂 But I’m glad this is helpful!! GOOD LUCK MAKING THEM!

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  24. I’ve tried to make these before! Sometimes they turn out right and then other times I just get a mess. The weird thing is I can’t even figure out what I’m doing wrong when I mess them up – it just happens sometimes, so I just start over. I used to know how to make an origami penguin, but then I forgot. I’m sure I could find it again online somewhere, though!
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    • SAME. And I mean, I’ve folded literally hundreds but I have exactly no clue why sometimes they come out nicely and sometimes they don’t.😭 And there’s really no salvaging them, right? I just chuck them when they crumble.

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  25. I’m sooooo excited. I used to be a big scrapbooker and I have hundreds, if not thousands, of lovely pieces of paper just sitting in the closet. Thank you! Oh, and I also just PM’d you on Etsy because I’m not going to even pretend that I’ll attempt those gorgeous creations!

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    • OH THANKS ANN MARIE! I sent you a message back about paper colours, so let me know what you think!

      And omg my mum is a big scrapbooker, which is probably why I’m so obsessed with paper. (Har har, Paper Fury after all.😂) But I just love pretty paper it is the besssst.😍

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  27. Your tutorial should work; your method is exactly how I remember making these stars. One of my friends taught me how to make them back in high school. Okay, this is going to show my age, but does anyone remember dot-matrix printers? The paper came in one long sheet that got fed through the printer. Afterward, you had to tear the pages apart along the perforations and remove the side pieces with all the little holes. The thing is, those side pieces were perfect for making these stars. So after tearing the edges off our assignments, we’d go to work. (Yes, the pieces had holes… but once they were all folded, you couldn’t really tell.)

    I haven’t made one of these stars in years, but I saw someone the other day who was making a ton of them to fill up one of those transparent lamp bases, and now I kind of want to make some again (but not enough to fill up a lamp base… yikes!).

    I had an origami book when I was a kid, but I found it really frustrating. In Grade 6, we had to make a bunch of paper cranes. That’s probably the only origami I ever really mastered (but I don’t remember how to do it now).
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    • Well it works for me!😂 It just depends if my instructions make sense to anyone except me BECAUSE IT GETS A BIT WILD IN HERE hah. Ahem. And I shall admit I don’t know what a dot-matrix printer is, but then that could be a country difference too? I make origami kusudama flower mobiles and like there’s always a thin strip left over from a 12×12 scrapbooking page — which is perfect for stars too.😂 And means I only make like 7 at a time and don’t LOSE MY MIND. Because these little devils get harder the more you make, I feel.

      It’d take like MONTHS to make enough to fill up a lamp right?!? I toyed with the idea of selling jars of them and then ran away crying.😂

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      • I’m pretty sure Australia would’ve had dot-matrix printers, but they might’ve been called something else. That was the only option before inkjet and laser printers. They were so noisy, and it was a pain in the butt to have to tear off all the edges. But on the bright side, since the paper was all joined together, you could make really long banners with very tacky greyscale graphics for your grandma’s birthday party…

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  28. OH MY WORD CAIT THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!! *flailing*

    So, like a month or two ago I wanted to make some because I thought they would be fun for my NaNo write-ins in November (since I’m in charge of a local region and run events etc. and the theme was space so PAPER STARS WOULD BE PERFECT FOR WRITERS) so I looked up a tutorial but never tried it and then lost the link… and then tried to make one from my memory of the tutorial… AND IT WORKED. On one star. After that I tried again and again AND COULD NEVER GET ONE TO WORK AGAIN DARN IT. They were all squashy and sad and confused. (This is like the time I went to try archery and hit a bullseye my first shot and ever after could barely hit the target. I’m a one-time wonder on my first tries, apparently.) So I didn’t end up doing anything with them for NaNo events (sadness) and I’ve been meaning to go find another tutorial and wondering how you make their gorgeousness (because I adore them in your pics!) SO THIS WAS PERFECT AND I LITERALLY SQUEALED AND CAME IMMEDIATELY OVER TO READ THIS THE SECOND I SAW IT IN MY INBOX. I’m so excited. 😀 So when I have a few minutes to actually try it out, I will definitely be trying this! *glares at non-existant time* It looks like it will be SUPER helpful!!! When I do it, I’ll let you know how it works for me! ^_^

    Also LOTR references!!!!!! SO MUCH WIN! I approve. *nods sagely* (Honestly it makes me SO SO HAPPY.)

    And… I guess my thumbs are double-jointed? At least… they can bend backwards like yours? But I never thought about it and kind of always assumed that everyone’s thumbs were like this… SO NOW I DON’T KNOW? AM I A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE FOR HAVING DOUBLE JOINTED THUMBS?? IDEK. Ahem. *now had this irrational wish to find out about everyone’s thumbs which could be an awkward conversation piece so thanks for that*

    JUST THANK YOU SO MUUUUUCH FOR THIS POST!!!! YOU’RE GOLD. <3 THANK YOU THANK YOU. I adore your tutorials and I can't think of any specific ones but I love when you do them, regardless!

    *is woefully behind on your blog because of NaNo busyness and hopes you will do a monthly fury sooooon*
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    • WELL I AM ENDLESSLY PLEASED THAT THIS TUTORIAL WAS HELPFUL. *awards self cake for kindness* 😂 And oh oh I totally get that whole “beginners luck” thing. The longer I make these stars, the worse I get haha. I usually make one or two between making other projects. Definitely do tell me if this tutorial works for you though! I NEED TO KNOW.😂 I mean, half of this tutorial was me going “I have no idea what this is called but do it”. GAH. TUTORIALS. So much fun. 😉

      LOTR REFERENCES MAKE ANY POST BETTER.

      You’re special, Deborah. *pats shoulder* You and I are the chosen ones and will probably save the world or fight monsters or something eventually. #winning

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  29. I’ll have to test out these stars. My sister used to do them and she had a mason jar full of them and they were all different pastel colors. It was pretty. I don’t do origami as much, when I was younger that was like the “Thing.” When I was in elementary school all the origami books were always checked out. I did it a lot in 5th grade, but not so much anymore. My mom has double jointed thumbs. My sister thinks that’s crazy, she thinks a lot of things are crazy though *shrug*

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    • I did it! I made a little star of light! It was hard to bend the corners into a star though, but that’s probably because I used thick card paper. But I did it, and now you know my star is a success and I will cherish it forever.

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    • YAY I’M GLAD YOU HAD SUCCESS WITH THE TUTORIAL! *gives self cake for effort*

      And omg I long to make one of those jars where it’s all layered colours. Because pretty.

      Also why do people get weirded out by double-jointed thumbs and things?!? LIKE WE CAN’T HELP IT. Whenever my thumb looks accidentally weird in a photo, like 90% of the comments are like “YOUR THUMB IS FALLING OFF”. 😂

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  30. Ooh origami! I used to do a lot of origami, ridiculous complex things, but never lucky stars. My books only ever had things made from squares. Why???

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  31. This tutorial stresses me out just THINKING about making these. I used to be able to make origami boxes (back in…year 5 when our teacher taught us) but I think these stars require FINESSE which I do not actually possess. BUT I’LL HAVE A GO.

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  33. I still have never successfully folded an origami shape. I promised myself I would try to make a crane last year for our Yule branch, but I chickened out. Maybe I will try this year. I might try these. You never know. Thanks for the tutorial. They do look lovely in your photos. 🙂

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  34. Oh my word! This is by far the best tutorial in the world, haha! I love it! This looks like so much fun!!! Must…try….

    And… Um…Cait?? How…how many of those stars do you have?????????

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    • OH I AM REALLY GLAD YOU LIKE IT. I’m glad it looks like it makes sort of sense.😂 And omg…I don’t know. I HAVE SO MANY. I have 2 boxes of them, haha. Although my sister helped fold some. But shocking news just in: I have no life apparently.😂

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  35. OMG YOU MADE A TUTORIAL AND IT WAS SO FABULOUS!!!!! I love all your stars! I often use magazine pages for stars because they’re thinner but more colourful. I love your paper, but I don’t think I’m about to buy some for myself (because no money, yo + waste of money). I am so backed up on all your posts it SUCKS. I will get to it… someday. Actually how did you take the photos? Did your chin learn how to take photos? (Side note: My friend was looking over my shoulder at this post and she was like ‘such pretty photos’ and I’m just like ‘I know right?”). Also, I can also only make about 4 things from origami: a water bomb, a box, a ninja star, a paper crane, and ‘lucky’ stars. 🙂
    Other things: WATCH MOANA!!
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    • THANK YOU SHAR!! I figured 3 months was probably long enough to separate our genius, right?!😂 (I still can’t believe I had the same post idea as you like literally 3hrs before yours went up haha. AH FUN TIMES.)

      And agh, yes, I hear you with the paper! I actually ordered some specific lucky star paper because it was $1 and I thought I’d bought like THE ENTIRE RAINBOW. No. I bought one strand of purple, which is actually my least favourite colour. *goes away to cry piteously* So now I just use whatever scraps I have.😂

      Oooh, a ninja star sounds exciting! I can do kusudama flowers, but they’ve got glue so they’re technically not origami. #shame OH. And a 7-pointed origami star!! They’re super fun!

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  36. I also have double jointed thumbs! Thanks for the tutorial, but I find I am better suited to paper airplanes than origami. Origami = major disaster.

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    • *DOUBLE JOINTED HI FIVE* We clearly are the chosen ones destined to save the world at some point. I FEEL IT IN MY DOUBLE-JOINTED BONES.😂 Ahem. Paper airplanes are fun too! 😉

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  38. Omg, I’m doing this. Who knew it was so simple?! (Hah! I say that before I’ve tried. Just you wait until you get frustrated tweets from me as I cry surrounded by mutant paper stars). You’ve given so many helpful tips in posts lately! CAIT YOU’RE A STAR! (see what I did there? Hahaha? Yes, okay, I’ll stop).

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    • TELL ME IF IT WORKS. Because honestly this is probably the worst tutorial in the world.😂 I’m like “STICK THE THINGIE BIT OF PAPER UNDER THE OTHER PAPER OMG” which is super helpful I’m aware.😂

      Oh oh I see what you did there. YOU’RE SO CLEVER.

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  41. Oh my word Cait this entire post was HILARIOUS XD and now I might need to make some of these leetle baby stars. RIGHT AFTER I FINISH ALL THE OTHER 456789 THINGS I WANT TO DO.

    stop giving me tutorials cait

    (actually no don’t stop i love them)

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  42. I am literally amazed by how much origami you have. HOW MANY STARS DO YOU OWN LIKE DO YOU RANDOMLY JUST FIND THEM EVERYWHERE YOU GO???

    Because I’m pretty sure that if I had that many tiny stars they would literally show up in every crevice of my life.

    Yet I’m now super tempted to go and make ten million.

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  47. My holidays have finally started and I’m trying to do these but are you sure it’s 1/4 inch on one side?? My strip looks WAAAY too small compared to yours in the pictures. :/

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