From the book "Origami Jewelry" by Ayako Brodek, this is a little butterfly (it's sitting on my self-healing cutting mat, and each of those squares is 1", so you can see how small -- I started with a 3" square piece of paper) which I hope we can turn into a brooch (after some gluing and sealing). Perhaps if I get really confident I can make two even smaller butterflies (starting with 1.5" squares) for the matching earrings.
Just one alteration from the pattern: I knocked in the top corners of the front wings a bit. It doesn't look so harsh to me now.
I spent a bit of time this morning with my cutting mat and rotary cutter cutting 12x12 calendar pages down to 6x6 and smaller pieces.
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