Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Fun with old ARCs.

I am cleaning my living room, and I found more old ARCs! These are books that have already been released (mostly Pocket Apocalypse, since I was in the UK during the last few weeks before release, and that's when I usually really ramp up the giveaways), but are still good for craft purposes. So:

If you are a crafter or someone who enjoys making things out of paper, and would like to claim an ARC, please drop me a line through my website contact form. The ARCs themselves are free, but postage is $6 to US addresses (I will not ship a "chop this up" ARC outside the US unless you have a project special enough to justify the greatly increased postage costs; I've had people make paper roses for wedding bouquets, for example, which counts). Don't send money until we've corresponded, since I want to make sure I don't promise more ARCs than I actually have.

Any ARCs that are still unclaimed as of June 5th will be recycled, for the sake of my shelves.
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neko_san

May 28 2015, 03:19:42 UTC 2 years ago

My preferred crane paper size is 3.5 cm square (about 1 3/8 on a side), with the 40 cm size coming in second place. I think the smallest thousand I did was on 1.75 cm. The largest I'm happy to fold is 70 cm square (around 2.75 inches), though I was figuring I might need to go up to 3 inch squares for reclaimed paper, depending on the quality of the paper. I did do 1K out of something like 5 of 6 inch squares, but that was miserable (but for a good friend, so worth it!).

I don't know how many cranes I've folded at this point, but it's well over 20K. I've done 1-2K tiny butterflies (can't remember if that was one or two sets), 2K dogwood blossoms, and 1K irises. :) I was going to do 1K simple Kawasaki roses out of 70mm paper, but that petered out. :/

Cool beans on your husband's folding! Don't let him give up! (The first time I tried I was, like, 8, and stopped in the 300 range. I got in into my head that each crane should be differerent, and spent lots of time coloring paper with crayons and cutting different size squares. Both not good choices, as it turned out.)

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