Best FMA Accessory Ever

[kate_nepveu]

My sister-in-law does origami (for those of you at the wedding, she folded the 1001 cranes that were in the centerpieces and on the tables), and as a birthday present she sent me an origami bookcase, complete with individual books, with a note saying it was a library for Ed and Al.

As you can see from the pictures behind the cut (one of just them, one of all my Fullmetal Alchemist figures), they look very happy to have a bookcase to defend.

(The origami books are very cool; they're folded from a single sheet of paper, and have endpapers and everything. There's another picture behind the cut of a larger one she did for me for Christmas, and a stegosaurus she did for Chad.)

The Elric brothers and their bookcase:

(Looking at the picture, I'm wondering if I have it upside-down.)

Mustang, Hughes, Hawkeye, Winry, and the Elrics (sorry about the shadows) across the top of one of our own bookcases:

A larger book and a stegosaurus:

Comments

[treetelling.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are wonderful. I don't suppose she ever mentioned where she found the book origami pattern?

[kate_nepveu]

Probably in a book, but I've asked, since Googling for an origami pattern of a book is impossible given all the books about origami out there.

[kate_nepveu]

Okay:

The green book is from David Brill's _Brilliant Origami_ (which is supposed to produce a hardcover) with a 6" square of paper.

The books in the bookcase, and the bookcase itself, are from Kunihiko Kasahara's _Origami Omnibus_ (which is supposed to produce a paperback); the books were from a 4" paper. The stegosaurus is from a 6" square, took her all day and is "notoriously hard", and is from Kasahara & Takahama's _Origami for the Connoisseur_.

The paper for the books in the bookcase was wrapping paper that she cut up, because she liked the designs.

[treetelling.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I am going to abebooks right now. I am mildly addicted to origami books and it is often hard to know what will be good when buying online. I will probably pass on the Difficult Stegosaurus, though - she sounds like an expert, while I am only an interested amateur. Thank you again!