As I’m spending the day redecorating my room – after wonderful Boyfriend moved all my furniture around yesterday – I thought it only suitable to show you my little creation: the Origami Bird Lamp.

My lamp looks like an ugly beehive, you see, so this is my attempt to distract the eye. Here is how you make one:

1. Fold a lot of origami birds according to this site. You can use patterned paper, like I did, or make lots of birds in different colours, or simply make them with plain white paper. It will take some time in the beginning, but once you’ve done it a few times you probably won’t spend more than about 4 minutes on each bird, so hang in there!

2. Stick a needle with white thread through the middle of the bird, from the bottom up. Remember to tie a knot on the end of the thread so it won’t just fall out again.

3. Measure a ring of paper to the same size as your lamp. Then tape the threads of the birds to the paper ring (easiest to do if you remove the paper ring from the lamp while working). I think it looks the best if they hang at different lengths.

4. Fasten the paper ring to the lamp. My ring fit so snugly that I didn’t even have to tape it, which is good as the tape might have melted or become permanently stuck to the lamp because of the heat.

You can, of course, make something similar without attaching it to a lamp by simply taping the threaded birds to the ceiling itself, or to a wooden/plastic ring and then hanging that from the ceiling.

I also added a bird taped to the paper ring itself. It looks like it’s hiding, trying to ambush the other birds, don’t you think? Boyfriend suggested I tape a single bird to the ceiling itself a bit further away from the lamp, like this:

I think this is my favourite bird ♥