A fun project - turn your favorite stories or poems into lotus flowers .



I watercolored the pages for added color .

Have you ever tried this?

Love is Patient, Love is Kind - this romantic origami lotus flower is hand-painted with watercolors -



What other poems should I do?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Share the love!

Love is Patient, Love is Kind -

Hi Lisa,

Can you make something that would represent one of my favourite favourites...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.

I guess even if you use a rose but do it in a bright yellow paper, that could do it? Origami seems such a fascinating skill.

Cheers for now,

Lestie -

I'll definitely give that a try!

A rose has tiny petals so that would be hard to read anything. I think the lotus works best because the petals are much larger.

I just sent off a gorgeous pink origami lotus flower. These are hand watercolored then folded. I love making these.

Hi Lisa,
Very beautifully done!