I fold paper (is 'origami' a verb?) when I'm stressed. With some of the events of the past month, I'm stressed. I was on vacation, but still was folding paper just about every waking hour.

Here's the jet fighter from a while back, but with lots of subtle modifications. Most of these are minute and trivial, but they make it look better in my eyes.



The stand is separate.



Here's a shot of it straight-on, detailing how the stand attaches to the jet. It's not a 'the paper tears before the bond separates' strong bond, but it's strong enough that when the jet is lifted, the stand goes with it, too.



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I made another Death Star, too:



Actually, I made two. I made one to give to my cousin, who let me use his beach house for the weekend. It was relaxing, but I'm still stressed, hence making the Death Star. These things take five or six hours to make.

Here's the stand for it, as well:



The Death Star was what prompted me to design a stand in the first place. It was sitting on his mantle, but looked like a ball, slightly askew.

The stand starts from the frog base, just like the X-wing, but it has the point inverted. For the Death Star, the inversion is half the height of the 'body' portion of the frog base. For the jet plane (and there's one for the X-wing, too) it's half the distance from the apex to the peak between the 'leg' portions of the frog base.

Two thoughts cross my mind when I make them.

1. "Only an Aspie can do this."
2. "I wonder how much people would pay for this?"

No, I'm not hard up for money. I guess it's more an affirmation thing - do people value what I do? I give these away when I'm done. They help soothe me when I fold them, but I don't have any reason to keep them. Give me a sheet of paper and half an hour, and out pops an X-wing or a jet plane.

Still, I wonder what others would think they're worth...