Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel Parell won an eight-hour day in Wellington. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade union members and supporters attended parades in the main centres. Government employees were given the day off to attend the parades and many businesses closed for at least part of the day.....What a great reason to not work on the third Monday of October.
I love Labour Day.
It is the best holiday. My reasoning behind this is.....
a) We haven't had a public holiday in close to 5 months.
b) It is after winter, and it is the holiday where summer talks to us and says "Hi Guys, Summer here. I'm going to be visiting you a bit more now, so you better clean your jandles and put your best toe nail polish on, because soon I'll be here to stay" and we all yell 'YIPEE!'
c) Someone always has a BBQ.
d) You get an extra day off to do 'nothing much'
My nothing much was learning how to make paper cranes. Here they are flying over Russia. There is mumcrane, lilcrane and babecrane. Papacrane fell off the side of the earth as I took the picture. He survived.
This is how I learned! The good ol interweb and it amazingness. Then I just kept making them until I could do it with no guides. I did end up with some pretty deformed birds, but they were still beautiful in thier own little ways. These three were my superstar cranes.
It made me think about other paper crafts, so I went for a web wonder and found this.....Wow-wee there must have been some serious patience going into these rolls. These were done by Anastassia Elias from Paris. She also does painting and illustration.
They trump my cranes.
