Known in some parts of the world as:
Cerridwen of The Vile

The Great Archives Record:
Vile, foul, filthy and greedy: this creature knows nothing of light.

SL is Second Life. It’s a virtual world that I design fashion in for avatars. Weird, I know and hard to explain. It gets mentioned here now and then because a number of my readers are also SL residents. Check out tomorrow’s comic because I’m posting some photos of clothes i designed for SL that actually uses my comic’s characters and patterns. It will give you a better idea. My store Nocturnal THreads has an entire GingerDead collection and even a GingerDead and Lenoir avatar. SL is free to join by the way.
www.secondlife.com

…I didn’t fold these particular snowflakes - I was TEACHING an origami-class @the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. One of my students (Art Liem) was snapping pix on his cell-phone as he went along. It was his way of taking notes, to remember this for later. He DID use my hands once-or-twice, but most of the folding you see was his work, under my direction.

Art e-mailed me the photos a week-or-so later, & I was so impressed that (with his kind permission) I used them to set-up these albums.

I hope to provide more instruction-albums as time (& skill) permit, but for the next month I’m preparing for a wedding. My niece-in-law has asked me to make paper decorations for her wedding’s reception dinner. She’s getting a MASSIVE DISCOUNT, because she’s “keeping it in the Family”, so to speak.
:P

You DO have the patience - everyone does.

Patience, like any physical muscle,
can be “exercised” with practice,
& then it’ll become stronger & easier to “flex”.

I made these “step-by-step” photo-albums so that anyone could teach themselves - at whatever pace works best for them. You need never worry that some teacher will become impatient, or that you might be holding-up the rest of the class. No matter how slow you want to go, or how often you need to look back at a previous step, the photos will patiently wait for you.

As for the make-up, I’m thinking of taking my ‘half-demon’ down to Manhattan’s Halloween parade this year…
…do you think he’ll fit in?
:)
Meanwhile, I’m so out-of-it, I’m not even aware of what “SL” means in the context of this discussion.
:P
:q
:d
:b
:)

Zombie stuff would be written either way, but I think that the resonance of things in pop culture can indicate psychological shifts and fears in the masses; in this particular case it could be viewed as an indicator of a rise in both good (cynicism/loss of innocence) and bad (paranoia) trends.

Sera - I used to make those cut-out flakes too

DMC - awesome pics! The origami is really interesting and you did a great job on the halloween make-up. Maybe I’ll post some of my faves that I’ve done when it gets closer to Halloween time.

[http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=21557&l=62a02&id=707232677]

[http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=21649&l=29e5a&id=707232677]

These URLs should work, even if you have no account with FaceBook
…& for Calan, an album of my attempts at Halloween makeup:

[http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15461&l=acd7b&id=707232677]

…just to show that I’m not afraid to get laughed-at!
:P
:)