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When potential customers reach out to me with questions about what I could put in a mobile, I always tell them, “whatever you want.”  I know that sometimes people tell you that but they don’t really mean it – well I do mean it.  If I can find an instructional diagram or video of the creature or thing you want, I can fold it and include it in your mobile.  If what you want doesn’t exist, then I can change a model to suit my needs and create what you want.  I am not an origami master by any means, but...

About nine years ago I used some birthday money to buy several instructional origami books – one of those books was about origami dinosaurs.  I had plans to make a mobile with dinosaurs one day and I thought having a book like this might come in handy.  Well, it only took nine years but I finally got a request for a dinosaur mobile last month.  I was super excited because now I had the chance to use the book I bought!     A recent customer asked if I could make her another giant mobile, but this time with dinosaurs...

 As a handmade seller, I tend to be reluctant when I get a request for a custom order. Custom work tends to take more time than anyone likes, and it takes away time I could be using towards increasing my inventory of best selling items. My most popular mobile size and style is a Large Paper Crane Mobile which can take up to 3 1/2 hours to make from start to finish, 1 hour and 15 minutes of that is taken up by folding the paper cranes. Another popular mobile I sell, the Under the Sea Mobile in the same...