Charity Auction in Aid of The Teenage Cancer Trust, We are Macmillan Support and CLIC Sargent

I am very proud to be taking part in this wonderful charity auction over on Facebook tonight.

https://www.facebook.com/events/373828029444759/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

It is being held by Tracy from Mad About Bags on behalf of friends whose son is battling Leukemia, and all money raised will go direct to their Just Giving page to be shared between the 3 charities.

Many wonderful and talented pages have donated a beautiful selection of handmade goodies, most with free postage so you know that every penny you spend goes to the charities.

I am donating this cute ickle Ellie and her friend butterfly on their sari.

If you would like to pop over and show your support, maybe even have a cheeky bid or two, the fun starts at 6pm - just follow the linre to join the event and get updates.

Thanks, Mel xxx

UPDATE

The auction was a great success and raised well over £300, and Ellie found her forever home xxx

Origami Fortune Cookies - new additions to the range on the way!

My origami fortune cookies have been proving very popular since I added them a few weeks ago so I was thinking, how about a make it yourself set?    

10 precut circles of gorgeous embossed paper plus full instructions plus link to online tutorial - available with or without precut strips of paper for the fortunes, depending on whether you wish to handwrite or print your own.

I also now have some cute little US style take out boxes available to send the cookies in - I'll be listing them soon to either buy alone, as an add on, or as a set with 5 fortune cookies in!

Look out for more details soon!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/219035723/red-origami-fortune-cookies-set-of-10?ref=shop_home_feat_2

What I do

For those who are new to my work here are a few pics of what I do and links to where you can find me.

http://paperbutterfliesorigamiboxframedart.virb.com/

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PaperButterfliesM

https://www.facebook.com/paperbutterflies

Welcome to Paper Butterflies HQ

Hi and welcome to my new blog!

I'm Mel and I run Paper Butterflies, Origami Box Framed Art (yes it's a looong business name, it has a story to it that I am sure I will blog about before too long ;) )

I have been mainly over at facebook and Etsy but with the new year I decided it was time to set up a proper HQ where I can chat, share ideas, give updates on new products and hopefully create some great origami tutorials to get your inspired :)

So New Year, new website, new blog and lots of new plans!

I would love to meet some new people, crafty blogs and just generally get to know people so feel free to leave me a comment and show me your blogs too xx

Mel xx