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I was invited to be part of Bupa's campaign, "Make the Elephant Run", a four-week-long digital event to celebrate Bupa’s achievements at the midway point of their 3x6 company strategy, & to energise all employees to keep going.

I love the challenge of trying to design a few origami model to brief, and for this project there was the extra added twist – it had to be a model I could teach virtually to over 100 beginners in only 30 minutes for an event entitled “Rise Up!”, quite the challenge!!

As part of my daily work life during Lockdown I am trying to regularly fold a new model from one of my favourite designers – I will write another post on this, but I find that simply making a model from diagrams (not YouTube!) is one the most calming things I can do for my own mental wellbeing.

It’s that time of year again when everything suddenly begins to take on a purply-green hue and things get a little more spoookkkyy! (cue scary music!), so here’s introducing our Halloween Origami Workshops – Horror-gami!

I have been running Online Origami Workshops now for over 2 years and have been so surprised and satisfied to see how effective they are at bringing teams together virtually from all over the world. Here are 5 things I often hear from participants as to why they work so well—some of them might surprise you!

These strawberries and apples were a lot of fun to teach – they are classic models, but then with the addition of the leaf and a few other tweaks, they felt very fresh and a lot of fun in our live workshop with Sainsburys

I love to keep my Online Origami Workshops fresh and up to date, and really like to personalise them where I can, so I designed some super fun Origami rings for Pride Month 2021! Here’s my favourite one, folded from 8 pieces of paper.