Panties for the panda lover. $6.50 at Delia’s Also available in bikini cut for the less Risqué ladies.

Cute panda card from Etsy.

$4.00 at nydampress’s store. Simply adorable.

Buttercups Ceramic Studios in the UK has devised a unique way to raise money to help in the fight against breast cancer. Buttercups is offering the opportunity to paint a plate with something other than your hands. The plates cost £12 and the studio will donate at least £3 to Breast Cancer Care In fact, it has several ideas to choose from where women can paint a Breast Cancer Cure plate with the very anatomy that they’re trying to save. What does this have to do with pandas you ask? One of the paint ideas: a panda.

Use your imagination and look closely at the panda’s eyes.

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I absolutely adore Sewing Stars, and when I saw she added these charming stuffed pandas to her store I immediately fell in love. They’re available for only $25 a piece and come with a tiny little 5′ x 5′ blanket! They’re made of microfleece so you know they’re super cuddly, too.

The newest cub at the San Diego Zoo turned 100 days old today! Keeping with Chinese tradition, she was given her name today. The public voted, and winning with 36% – over 50,000 votes! – was Zhen Zhen. It means precious, and it couldn’t be more perfect for her!

Photo found on apandalover‘s Flickr photostream

As promised, here are a few panda paper crafts for the origami challenged. They look adorable and are easily made from a few pieces of paper, a good pair of scissors or an x-acto knife, and a printer. Well, looking at the instructions, I suppose the term easily is subjective!

This first one seems to be the simplest of the three.

You can download the template here, and the instructions here. The Canon site also has lots of other adorable animals to choose from.

Two more including my favorite after the cut!

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This silk screened and hand embroidered brooch is a perfect gift for the panda lover. Available from Hannah Zakari for £14.00.

I’ve always been intrigued with origami, and have even dabbled a bit. I’ve never been able to make anything more intricate that a star or box, but I absolutely loved that I could make something three dimensional from a flat piece of paper. In the midst of Christmas decorating I found a box of my old origami paper and it sparked my interest again. I searched for a panda pattern and found several different ones that I loved. Of course, I wanted to share them with you!

For the more visual learners, you can follow along with these two videos (1, 2). Unfortunately embedding is disabled for these videos so you’ll have to visit YouTube to see them. However, it’s well worth it; the end result is amazingly cute!

I’m more of an instruction reader and find it easier to follow along to written instructions, so the rest are all written instructions in .pdf format. I’ve linked to all the original sites below, but uploaded all the instructions for these patterns to the Perfect Pandas website so they’ll always be available here. Please realize that these lovely patterns are someone else’s hard work, and I take absolutely no credit in their creation.

For those of you (which includes me, too!) who find it easier to cut and paste and glue, the next post will cover very cute printable panda designs that you can just cut out and glue or staple together.

Now let’s get to folding!

If you’d like to start out with something simpler, this cute little panda face project is perfect. Download the instructions here.

More instructions and ideas after the cut!

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For those of you in the US, we here at Perfect Pandas wish you a happy holiday with friends and family. If you’re outside of the US we wish you a lovely Thursday!

Don’t forget to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade today. A few years ago they had a wonderful panda float, hopefully they’ll have another this year!

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These elegant vases will look great in any type of decor. It gives just a hint of Asian flair, yet remains  modern. They’re quite a steal, too. Available from CB2, an offshoot of Crate & Barrel, for only $4.95 – $9.95.