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I find it hard to keep focused on one thing, especially if its development or production takes some time.
I still have not completed a display model of the Bounce and Tier Box. I have one section still to complete. Perhaps next week. Perhaps not.
I find myself easily distracted by other interesting design challenges or ideas which just have to be tried out before I forget them (damn my aging memory) or I get distracted from them, too (damn my ADD).
This week I found myself designing flowers with the intention of making a kusudama.
Never mind the fact that the Quad Lily is still waiting to be put together in this way and I have already designed the connector for it. But no! I find myself designing other things instead. It is slightly annoying. If my mind would just stop having fresh ideas I might get to complete those it has already produced. (Insert sighing sound here.)
So, back to this week's flowers.
I discovered that I could turn a double square twist into a variety of interesting flowers.
The original flower has a four-petal star-like center. It's the mauve one.
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The next version has a central curled twist. It's the lilac one.
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The third version has four raised points in the center. It's the peach colored one. It's also the one used for the collection.
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The fourth version arranges the petals differently and looks something like a four-petaled rose. It's the shiny red one made from Stardream paper.
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I found a way to provide them with connectors which double as leaves. All that remains to be done before they can be properly connected into a polyhedron is to design a triangular connector with bigger leaves. Undaunted by this unfinished task I have folded a box full of color coordinated copy paper flowers in readiness. Today's job is to begin folding the straight connectors.
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