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At a birthday party of a good friend I found out that the next day it is exactly 1 month that i'm working on the project. I wanted to have a nice number of paper cranes on that day, so I began to fold and now, exactly 1 month after the start, I have 150 paper cranes! If i'm folding like this the rest of the project, i'm definitely going to make it to the 1000 in a year. But we will see.

Here is a picture of the party paper cranes with a gift she got from somebody.

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I had a surprise for my friend who gave me her mini origami paper. The least I could do is make her some paper cranes. So I made her 6 cranes, 5 of the paper she gave me and one made of my origami paper I bought the other day.

You should have seen the smile on her face! :D

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Blegh, it's the time of the year that everybody gets sick, even me. So I was just behind my laptop watching series. During that I began to fold so finished with 25 more paper cranes.

There was one very special one. I made by accident a Lady GaGa paper crane. With her face on a wing, and on the other wing some letters from her song 'Paparazzi'. Love this one. 

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I hadn't spoke a friend of my for a very long time, so we decided to go to an exhibition made bij classmates. When we got there, we were too late for the presentation and decided to get a drink somewhere until the presentation was finished. So while we were chatting the paper crane project came up and she told me she can fold them too. Together we made some paper cranes. I had a great time!

Afterwards we went back to the exhibition and found out that it was already finished.

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So I used a news paper to make paper cranes. And i'm just still pretty surprised of the variation of the little papers. So here are three more.

I really love the ones with text on it.

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Just received two pictures.. Love them!

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Today I was folding with my new paper made of a newspaper. I really love the diversity of it. For some hard working friends I made some nice couples to cheer them up.

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A couple of days ago I was very bored so I was folding some paper cranes of course. But after a few I was done with the small ones so I made a very big one. Afterwards I glued the small ones on the back of the big one. Nice result.

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Yesterday I was at school using a newspaper to make new origami paper. I thought that it would be nice if I leave some paper cranes there for the next person who wants to cut something, so I left a small family of paper cranes behind on the machine next to it. 

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Here is just a meaningless picture of some paper cranes. But I couldn't resist it because they are so cute when they are this small. I made them in the shop I work and some customers who bought something got one.

When I came home my mom was cooking dinner so we chatted during and I made some tiny paper cranes for her, because she reacted the same way I did the first time.

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Here are some examples of the colorful little origami papers my friend gave me. I am totally going to thank her for it!

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At work my boss was very angry about the printer, because it took too long to print just one piece of paper. I was there because I was taking a break. So we were talking while she was cursing to the printer.

I made her a nice little paper crane and directly gave her a smile.

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A few days ago I bought some origami-paper for the first time. It's very expensive, so probably also the last time. But it's very pretty paper! A good friend of my had also some origami-paper for me she found in the attic. The little pieces of paper are 4cm x 4cm, so there are going to come a lot of baby cranes! 

These are for the baby paper cranes. 

And this is the origami paper I bought.

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I was waiting till dinner and I was bored to hell. So I decided to make some paper cranes and end up with 10 little light blue cranes who are cheering up my laptop right now.

Dinner is ready!

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Last night I went to dinner with 2 friends I didn't see for a very long time. We had a very good time. And while we were talking about everything I started about this project and they both were very excited and they both wanted a paper crane. So I made a crane for them.

Afterwards they directly made pictures with them.

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Last night at a party I had the great idea to give 2 good friends of my a paper crane. So I went to their apartment and made two little paper cranes for them. That was my way to wish them all the luck for 2012.

After the party everybody went home and Lex and Ilara went also back to their apartment and saw the cranes. They were happy. The moment I got home Lex had sent me two pictures.

 I love you guys!

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Once a month I will make a picture of my little crane-book where I write down hoe many cranes I made what day. So everyone can count with me. So here is december with a total of 53. It was a very good start of the project. :)

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I went to Paris a few days ago to celebrate NYE. Of course I wanted to leave some paper cranes in Paris. The first evening we went to the beautiful Sacre Coeur. I loved it! It's wasn't my first time there, but it was still very special. So inside I fold a paper crane and left it there inside.

The next day we had breakfast at a McDonalds and we were waiting for the rest to finish their breakfast. So while waiting I made a paper crane and left it with the straws. So maybe I will make a kid happy with it.

The next stop was the Eiffel Tower. Of course I couldn't resist it to leave one behind at the Eiffel Tower. It was very windy and it rained pretty hard, so we didn't stay long. I hadn't much time to find a good spot. But I'm happy with the result.

For lunch I had the most delicious toast so far. A very nice croque madame. I decided that the cafe earned a paper crane. So I left one behind with the receipt. The waiter smiled when she saw it.

I decided that I wanted to give all of my friends who was with me there a paper crane. To wish them all the luck in 2012. So at dinner I gave them the cranes and made a picture of them with the cranes. Everybody was very excited about it.

People were staring at us while I was making the pictures. Even the waiter was curious so we left one there and he was very happy about it and kept the crane at the bar between the bottles of wine. I couldn't resist it to ask to make a picture of the crane. But the best part was that the next day for breakfast we went back for that same restaurant and we saw that the paper crane was still on the same place. I was very proud. It was a good ending of the Paris-trip.

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From now on I will write the number of the crane and the name of the blog. So that ever a stranger finds one of the paper cranes, he or she can see what number they have and go to my blog and maybe one time a complete stranger will leave a comment with the message of having one of my cranes :)

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I went to a birthday party of a classmate. And in the train I thought that it would be nice to put a little paper crane in the present. And because I was to going to Paris the day after, I bought new colored paper. So I made a nice birthday-crane for her.

On the way back of the party, I made 5 new paper cranes. One of each color.