Folding it this way and that

You see all these great ideas on Pinterest, like some beautiful lampshades folded from paper. 
I downloaded the folding instructions and tried it out. It's fairly easy but I am not making actual lampshades. It was more about the challenge of getting the folds right. I have tried other origami projects and have always been defeated.

This was fun and I should get a large sheet of paper to make up a proper lampshade.

Note: You need to use a retardant if you want to turn paper into lampshades.

Paper Protea - improved

Eventually I found a reference for the paper protea - see earlier post - and so discovered what was missing from the one I made up. As Matthew said: Now it looks like a protea.

I have added a tutorial on how to fold this protea. You will find it on: http://journeyalonganordinarylife.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-make-paper-protea_18.html

Paper Protea

I saw a wonderful paper protea in a shop but is was so dear. I told the guy, no thanks I would make my own. I didn't have a reference so I had to work from memory. I'm sure the next one will look better.
I bought a bundle of Mills&Boons, don't laugh, they're the cheapest. Please, you don't have to read it first, in fact, as you're folding the pages you get the gist of the story ;-)