Origami Earrings-The Star & The Bell

These are my first origami earrings. This Sao May Man or Lucky Star fold I picked up from my last trip to Viet Nam last year. My niece, Khue, introduced me to this fold. She said that it was very popular with teenage girls there. They would fold and fold these beautiful little stars until they fill a glass jar with hundreds of them, and then give this jar to a friend or loved one as a gift.



These are strips of paper for the lucky star fold. They are about half an inch wide and ten inches long. The bottom strips were gifts from Khue. The top ones I cut out from gift wrapping and magazine paper.


Instructions for the lucky star fold. After so many tries I finally got it. The trickiest part is pinching the five corners to make it into the star.



Here is a heart-shaped box full of colorful lucky stars.











The display of my lucky star earrings.




This is the bell fold. I learned how to fold this from a book called Festive Folding by Paul Jackson. (This picture was in the book.)







Instruction of how to fold the bell.



And this is the final product. I used giftwrap paper to fold this earring. You can buy hooks, pins and beads at the bead store. I also sprayed it with varnish to make it stiff and shiny.

I hope that you would try these two folds and enjoy creating your own earrings.

Happy folding!