So over the years I have made thousands of paper cranes. I've made probably 15,000 and I don't think that it much if at all of an exaggeration. I made most of them in high school and since them they have been sitting in tins in our basement. And this year I had a couple ideas of what to do with them.
Again please forgive me for the bad photos. I almost always work on/finish my projects at night and need a flash to take photos.
I started with an idea. What about using my Starburst cranes to make garland for my Christmas tree. I started pulling the colors out that I wanted and started to notice it was going to be a very difficult and long process unless I divided up my entire stash.
Like many of my other projects I got in a bit too deep! I had so many different red ones that were almost impossible to tell apart.
I took about 2 1/2 hours to divide up all of the cranes. It was worth it. So much simpler to find all the different colors!
Once separated I split into small colored piles. I used 6-10 of each color. I had 18 different colors. Who even knew that there were even 18 different flavors of Starburst!
From there I used a needle and hand quilting thread to string them together.
I'm very happy with the result. It adds a lot of extra color to my Christmas tree. And I hope that those who receive them for Christmas gifts like them too.
So all that time in class during high school that I was making these instead of holding my complete attention was well worth my effort. It only took me about 10 years to figure out what to do with them!
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