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As a child, I always loved to draw a smiling jack-o-lantern face on my pumpkin for Halloween.  I recreated my memories of that pumpkin in this model.  It was created with 11 elliptical shapes with tabs.  Glue the model into a circle first.  Please be patient and allow the glue to dry before proceeding to glue each segment together.  When there are three segments left to glue, make the stem and insert it into the middle of the pumpkin. Continue gluing the elliptical shapes, one at a time and allow the tabs to dry before proceeding to the next tab.  Glue the circle to the bottom of the pumpkin. Add the jack-o-lantern face to complete the pumpkin. You can add a witch's hat and broom to the pumpkin.  I designed them in a previous post http://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2013/10/halloween-witchs-or-wizards-hats.html It is the cone net hat and witch's broom that is displayed in the photograph below. Here is the .Studio file for the jac...

I made three versions of witch's/wizard's hat for Halloween.  In designing them,  I kept the values of pi, 3.14 and the golden ratio or phi, 1.618 in mind because these ratios create images that are pleasing to the eye.  Sadly, the Silhouette designer software rounded the 1.618 value to 1.62 so it is not exact.  I created circles that are 3.14 inches in diameter and the hat is 1.62 inches tall.  It is a little longer for the tabs at the bottom of the hat...but it was 1.62 inches...just in case you were wondering and looking at the file. Pi is for circles.  It is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.  Phi is for straight lines. It is the ratio of the line segments that result when a line is divided.  The Egyptians used this golden ratio when designing the Great Pyramid and the Greeks used this ratio when designing the Parthenon. Here is the .Studio file of the first witch'...

I made two different versions of this pumpkin.  One for a bulletin board with a flat side and the other as a tabletop decoration. This weekend we went to see the movie, Captain Phillips.  We walked past a party room at the movie theater and on a table was a tissue paper ball in the center of the table.  The ball reminded me of a torus with its honeycomb structure.  I was always fascinated by the tissue paper decorations with their honeycomb shape.  I remember as a child looking at it and wondering how was it made.  The movie was riveting and Tom Hanks was wonderful as usual.  I would highly recommend going to see the movie.  When I got home, I  wondered if I could create a pumpkin centerpiece using the torus structure and I did it.  Here is the result.   I measured each angle. The first slit is vertical at 90 degrees, the next slit is 25 degrees from the first slit (I used the Silhouette software to create ...

  Wouldn't it be nice to have some pom pom chrysanthemums?  Yes...they are in season but how would I make one out of paper?  I took down the display of paper sunflowers in the classroom and one of the teachers gave me the idea of making pom pom chrysanthemums.  I took my torus shape and point edited the edges to create the longer flower petals needed for chrysanthemums.  This is not an easy torus to put together...it requires patience.  I recommend doing the easier flower torus from a previous post before working up to this one. Here is the .Studio file for the chrysanthemum torus. Make one of each file using cardstock. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYMURwcUliN0Q4ZkU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYVmxZLW5MVGRpdFE/edit?usp=sharing Here is the .Studio file for the center of the flower. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYaTBkc01hQV9ka00/edit?usp=sharing Here is the .Studio file for the leaves and the stem...

After creating the sliceform pumpkins, it dawned on me that the interior cuttings of the circle sliceform looked like a spider.  However, the cuttings only had six legs and spiders have eight legs.  No problem, using math, I created an eight-legged spider.  Each of the legs is at a 45 degree angle.  I found some random beads in my craft closet...one of the beads is from a broken necklace and the other beads are seed beads and glued them to the center of the spider. Here is the .Studio file for the spiders.  There are twelve on one page.  I used cardstock. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYV2ZScHpNWW1haUE/edit?usp=sharing Here is the PDF of the spiders. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYQmhIU0pFdWk4cmM/edit?usp=sharing I love my spiders! They look so real that they fooled my cats.  Be careful if you have a cat, they might want to steal it away and play with it.

Using the images that I created in a previous post of a pumpkin and apple, I created a sliceform version.  I made a circle with a six pointed slit in the middle (60 degree angles were used to create this).  This circle slides down the center of the pumpkin/apple to create this sliceform.  They both have three horizontal slices. The pumpkin version has the largest circle in the middle. The apple version has the smallest circle at the bottom and the largest circle on top. Here is the .Studio file for making one pumpkin.  I used cardstock and I have included a leaf and a curly vine to make. To make a curly vine, twirl the paper around a pencil. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYNlZtM2oySjlTSlk/edit?usp=sharing Here is the .Studio file for making one apple.  I used cardstock and I have included a leaf for the apple. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYMXMtZHlWQUFtb0k/edit?usp=sharing #sliceform #torus

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue...on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. So why do I ask, because I am going to give you a .Studio file of these ships. My husband woke me up at 4:45 the other morning because he wanted to study for his Mathematics for Economics course at Johns Hopkins. I could not go back to sleep so I decided to make a ship for Columbus Day before I went to work. Here is the .Studio file for the ship. I used cardstock https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYSExJcUR1VHhVWFU/edit?usp=sharing Here is the .Studio file for the masts. I used regular white copy paper for the sails and red cardstock for the cross. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYOExyaGNXNGpuWGs/edit?usp=sharing Glue the flag on the main mast...longest one and apply glue as shown above.  Make it into a square tube.  Glue the red cross on the white sail.  Attach as shown below. Repeat for the other two poles. Curve the body of the ship as below before gluing on the side...