// ART UPMARKET // Perth @artupmarket is on again. This Saturday October 19th @universitywa 10am - 4pm We will be in great company with 60 extraordinary Perth artists. A great opportunity to fill your home with local art. Mel x

// FLOCKS // A larger example of our ‘flock’ arrangement. A collection of cranes moving together in the same directions. We style these pieces in offices or bedrooms. They are daily reminders of movement. Whether it’s to work towards a collective goal or to simply remind you to get out of bed each day and chase that dream. Take that step. It’s starts there. Pieces just like this one and many others will be available for purchase next Saturday 19th October at Perth @artupmarket

// IGNITE // They say that climbing a mountain starts with one step. 👣 When challenges seems so big and goals out of reach it can be super overwhelming. You have to start somewhere. My best friend Em gave me a plaque one day that said “if you can dream it, you can do it” and I repeat that to myself whenever things get tough. 🎶 Do you have a Dream? Maybe you should do something to start moving towards it today. Mel x

// SOMETHING DIFFERENT //⠀ Every now and then I get an idea in my head and I can’t shake it until I give it a go... ⠀ ⠀ I found the most amazing branches on a recent trip up north of WA. I wanted to use them somehow incorporating cranes. ⠀ ⠀ Black birds. What do you think ?

// BELIEVE IN SOMETHING //⠀ Through many experiences of my own and when talking to others, I’ve worked out when we are faced with struggles or hardships on our journeys there is one thing that seems to ring true.⠀ ⠀ We all need something to believe in. ⠀ ⠀ Sometimes its difficult the strength to believe in ourselves and our capabilities, that what we are going through is tough but we’ll get through it. Maybe it’s that you’ve got a lot on your plate and it’s seems never ending so you need to know there will be a time when you’re not overwhelmed. Believe that what you need will come to get you through. ⠀ Most of the time I think it better to know you don’t have to do it on your own. We always need a bit of support from others. To believe that someone else believes in you too. ⠀ ⠀ So always know, Our little cranes believe in you. And so do I. ⠀ ⠀ Mel x

// ....AND HERE I AM // ⠀ ⠀ I’m Melanie. All 6ft of me, and that’s right - I’m not Japanese 🤣⠀ Haha, but I’ve been known to have a little joke with people when they expect me to be of Asian decent. ⠀ I have a pretty dry sense of humour - I often joke with people that this is my Aussie suit and I’m a little Japanese girl inside! This is not intended to offend but people sometimes get confused to how an Australian girl came to be folding origami for a living. ⠀ It’s quite simple really, I was taught by my Japanese teacher when I was 9 or 10. ⠀ She told me that if I folded 1000 cranes, I would be able to make a wish! Well that was enough for me, I was hooked. ⠀ ⠀ About 300,000 or so in, I’d say I still am. 😂 ⠀ ⠀ Little did I know at that time how much they would impact my life. But I am eternally grateful as now I get to share them with you, and you get to share them with others. ⠀ ⠀ Mel x⠀ 📷 @_thequirkybird_

// MY STORY //⠀ If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how it came to be that a 6ft woman from the Western Australian wheatbelt came to be folding cranes for a living.... well let’s just say I wouldn’t have to fold them anymore 🤣⠀ ⠀ You see I haven’t always done this for a living, I feel like I’ve had many lives. And I guess I kinda have. ⠀ ⠀ But what’s important now is that I know why I do this. It all make sense now and I look forward to sharing with you why these little cranes are so very important to me - and can be to you and your loved ones too ⠀ ⠀ Mel x

// MANDALA // 50cm x 50cm Multi chiyogami piece. Available at @artupmarket UWA Saturday 19th October 10am - 4pm

// SAVE THE DATE // Perth @artupmarket is on again. Saturday October 19th @universitywa 10am - 4pm We will be in great company with 60 extraordinary Perth artists. A great opportunity to fill your home with local art. Mel x

// DAISY BLUE // Always a favourite in our 4 crane range from our #acknowledge collection. 📷 @_thequirkybird_

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