That's a Lot of Birds!!

I told you a couple of weeks ago that we had finished with our cranes. Last Wednesday (Canada Day), we had off from work, and we mainly stayed around the house getting things done. We wanted to begin to string the cranes, for decoration, and needed to make some sense of them, so I decided to dump all the colored cranes on our flat file, in the middle of the living room (most of them are there still....) Keep in mind that the flat file is approximately 3'x5' large.
Anyway, I emptied the multi-colored cranes from a box onto the table, and was in awe that they only make up a third of the number of paper cranes we made (it was interesting that without any planning, we had roughly equal numbers of multi-colored, large silver, and small silver cranes). I decided to pull the red ones aside, to use with some of the silver that we want to string. When I did that I thought, "I wonder how many orange cranes we have?," and so on with green and light blue, etc....

Soon enough, the table was covered in little piles of color, and it didn't take any time at all to give them a ROYGBIV-type organization. Once we said "How cool!" enough times, I realized that the center of the table was a perfect place for all the silver cranes as well (the top picture is only half of the silver ones!). You can see the results. We were pretty excited that the pictures turned out so well too.

We've Finished....

Making cranes! We re-counted them tonight, and we have one thousand and one (1001) paper cranes!



2/3 of them are silver, and the rest are colored or patterned. They are all unique. I am excited that we finished with so much time to spare! Now all we have to do is sew them all together! We'll see how that goes....

Three Hundred Fifty More to GO!

I have been having a great time getting ready for our wedding in July. I won't lie: my life is much more hectic than I would like lately, and I feel as though I am forgetting things I need to do....
Everything will get done, I guess, and what doesn't get done isn't that important. As I keep telling myself, as long as we are married by the end of the day, things will have gone perfectly.

We have oodles of cranes right now. 650-something, in fact. I am going to make more tonight. We sorted them last weekend, according to size and color, and at that point we had 632. They don't look quite as happy separated into plastic bags as they did all together in one big box, but they have all been accounted for.

Welcome

This is the first post on our blog!  Hopefully we can keep you all up to date on our progress on some of the projects we are doing for the wedding, etc.  

One of these projects, probably the most extensive, is making 1001 paper cranes to hang at the wedding.  Making these birds has always been a way that we communicated with one another, when we were first getting together, as much as now.  Right now, we have approximately 500 cranes already finished, taking into account some of the ones we made for one another over the years that we have been dating.  

Please feel free to comment on anything you see.  We are looking forward to seeing you at our wedding in July!  As of today, that is about 7 months, 21 days and +/- 2 hours from this posting.