Ophélie Lechat

Crappy picture courtesy of my Macbook!

That’s right — after I checked off the last thing on my to-do list for this evening, I made a paper crane out of it.

In high school I ate a pack of Starburst a day (… and lived on cafeteria food.  How am I still slim and not diabetic?).  I would make paper cranes out of all the colourful wrappers (my favourites were the ones in the green wrapper, though I couldn’t tell you what fruit they were supposed to resemble) and pass them to my high school boyfriend.  He has “scary tattoos” now, and he looks pretty tough for a guy that makes delicious food for a living, but back then he kept all of those tiny paper birds in a shoebox in his room.

Now I make those birds out of tea wrappers, receipts, magazine pages… and to-do notes.  It’s satisfying to turn what was once a stressful list into something pretty.