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Origami Instruction DVD by Lisa Shea

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I am Lisa Shea and the author of this DVD. This is the only way I could find to post the content listing for my DVD, which is published by CreateSpace. I do have full details on CreateSpace but for some reason they did not carry over into the Amazon listing.

This is not a review - it is a listing of the contents of this DVD. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at all about the DVD.

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Have you always wanted to learn how to fold origami? Would you like to make a bouquet of lily or iris for your loved one? How about crane ornaments for a Christmas tree? Decorate your walls with cat origami, or fill your windows with colorful butterflies. Origami is an inexpensive way to beautify every room of your home with color-matching works of art.

With my instructional DVD, you can watch on your TV or computer as I lead you step by step through a collection of 20 different traditional origami shapes. If you have struggled with book instructions, take heart. It is MUCH easier to watch the folds being done, and to hear spoken instructions for each step.

My DVD provides complete instructions for:

* origami cranes
* origami lily and iris flowers
* origami long stemmed roses
* origami empresses
* origami balloons
* origami fish
* origami cats
* origami doves
* origami swans
* origami love knots
* origami helmets
* origami cups
* origami stars
* origami catamarans

In addition, learn how to fold money origami! These designs are perfect for providing beautiful wedding or graduation presents, birthday and holiday presents, and of course tips for waiters and servers! I help you learn how to fold:

* money origami bowties
* money origami butterflies
* money origami hearts
* money origami rings
* money origami ducks
* money origami shirts
* money origami long stemmed roses

Make your wedding or party an event to remember! Create bouquets for your dining room table that can change with the season! Give away origami as thank-you presents for people who brighten your day! Perfect for entertaining kids with on a rainy day or on a long car drive! There are 1,001 ways in which origami can make your world more peaceful and beautiful. I'm here to help!

Cast:
Lisa Shea

Title #241740
Running time: 68 minutes
Format: DVD-R

Not for a beginner!

This video is for people who already know how to do Origami, but just want a few new patterns. Very hard to follow since you are looking at the folder from across the table. So it is upside down. Some of the directions are hard to follow, since you can't see what the folder is doing.

I brought this DVD with me recently on a trip to fold some money I was planning to give as gifts to my niece and nephew. The video instructions are easy to follow, although I fold my money origami a bit slower than Lisa, so I used the pause button while I make my folds. I was able to easily fold a money duck and a money heart without any problems whatsoever. I didn't find that the upside down folding of the origami was a problem at all as one reviewer mentioned it was a problem for them.

I found this DVD helpful to watch for creating my quick little gifts.

Lisa Shea's Origami Instructional DVD is pretty easy to follow, and offers a lot of unusual shapes to fold, including a handful of interesting money origami designs.

Lisa's voice is very easy to understand and soothing to listen to. You only get to see her hands, but you can very clearly see the paper being folded. You can also hear relaxing classical music in the background (as well as some parakeets chirping, from time to time). :)

Lisa does a fine job of pointing out which are the tricky folding steps in each design and uses simple terminology to describe what part of the paper to fold into where (ie - "tuck the pointy end of the cat's head into the little pocket fold by the cat's ear").

The speed is a little fast for beginners to follow, but the beauty of a DVD is that one can pause, rewind and watch again infinitely. Having the papers folded on a graph paper-type surface is also helpful for orienting the paper positions properly.

I appreciate how Lisa suggests what we can do with each shape - how cranes and fish are very nice as ornaments and gifts, and can be attached to handmade greeting cards. The cup can be made quite easily from any handy paper and will hold water for drinking. Flower and doll gifts are possible, and of course, folded money makes for easy gift giving or for leaving tips. This helps one decide what to fold and what you can do with the product you've created.

The menu offers two options: 1. Watching the DVD from beginning to end, or 2. Using a submenu offering individual origami videos. My suggestion is to always use the menu. There is no introduction to the DVD about origami itself - it just jumps into the first shape, in alphabetical order. So there is no actual reason to watch this as you would a movie.

Since the submenu lists the designs alphabetically, there is no sequence of easy shapes through to advanced. You have balloons, cats, cranes, cups, doves, empress dolls, fish, helmets and so on. In addition, you have to do a lot of menu forwarding to get to items later in the alphabetical order. A longer menu listing showing all the options would be cleaner and easier to use.

I would love to see an updated version of this DVD indicating somehow which designs are easy, intermediate and advanced. With only the word Crane as a title, I need to watch the actual video sequence first to make a guess if it is something I am ready to fold with ease.

I would also like to see the money origami choices pulled out into its own submenu tree. This way if I wanted to refresh my memory on making a ring from cash, I could more quickly hop to those options.

A few of the instructional sequences end a bit abruptly - for example, I did not get to see a finished version of the balloon shape - but for the most part the filming is smooth and clear. This video is much more easy to follow along with than any book I've tried. Lisa makes it look easy and has good crisp folds to emulate.

I would recommend this origami DVD to anyone with paper in hand who is ready to get down to the business of folding!

GREAT dvd origami instructions...Your videos are the only ones clear enough to follow. I wish you would show me more items to do with money.

Thanks for your wonderful website!

Gerri
GA