Wow, it looks like a great option for total beginners (like myself). Starting with making washi tapes for my pens and pencils, which I have lots of will surely teach me a lot. Thanks for mentioning this and thank you others here as well for showing me so many different ways in which I can apply them, my motivations seems to be really strong now.

Leonard! Nice job. Don't pay attention to any negative feedback, those are pretty nice tutorials - I'm totally new to origami and yet I have been able to build a chick with just photos I have found over the internet and your tutorial. It's one of my first few arts I have ever done and I have never considered myself to be exceptionally good manually - average I would say, but always like the very art of creating something. Same I have gotten into origami just now as it seems to be a really cool hobby, but I hope I will be able to quickly make up the difference and soon create some really exciting stuff, just like some of you guys.