Japan Paper Museum

Yes! This is made completely out of paper! And yes, you can make one too!

So, I recently found out about the Paper Museum. As far as I can tell, it's designed for children, but they have so much cool stuff to print out and assemble, like this "Japanese Style Room," complete with rush mats (tatami), floor cushions (zabuton), and other assorted pieces.
All told, there are printable dollhouses, food, vehicles (and a town to put them in!), ornaments, gift boxes, animals, and awesome insects and dinosaur skeletons.Their website is entirely in Japanese, but you can muddle your way around easily enough with their cute, reasonably understandable picture menu. You can also try a version loosely translated into English by Google. The first page, however, is still all in Japanese.

Knit a Cupcake

Here's an old tutorial from last Christmas for a knitted cupcake ornament:


I sort of made the pattern up as I went along, and I was inspired by many of the things I saw here: http://softiescentral.typepad.com/blog/cupcake_wars/index.html.

I don't have an exact pattern, but I can provide a brief outline of the techniques I used:
Cup
I used 4dp needles, size 4 or 5.

I cast on 6 st
Row 1&2: K2, add 1
Row 3 (until I made the base as large as I wanted), knit 3, add 1 all the way around.
When I finished the base to an appropriate size (about 2.5 - 3 inches), I used crossed stitch ribbing:
Row 1: Cross 2 RK, P1 all the way to end of row, repeat every other row
Row 2: K2, P1 all the way to end of row, repeat every other row

I did this until the cup was as tall as I wanted, then I knit one row all the way around.
For the cup top, I used a picot hem to make it look more like a paper cup.
Picot hem: K 2tog, yo, repeat to end of row
Next row: knit all the way around
To finish the picot hem, I folded on the picot hem row and stitched it down with yarn of the same color. Don't do this part until the "cake" part is finished.

Cake section.
I just switched to a brown color yarn and knit 3 rows, then decreased 1 st every 3 sts for one row.
After that, I knit 2 more rows, then decreased by the same amount as before.
From there, I knit one more row, then took the yarn end and ran it through the knit loops with a yarn needle to finish off the cake.

Top section
Knit with 4 dp needles, size 00
Pink frosting
Here I just knit until I had a length about 4 or five inches long.
I knit for 5 or 6 rows, then began to decrease 1 st every 4 sts or so.
I decreased for a couple rows.

Whipped Cream

Cast on 3 sts
k1, add 1.
Repeat for 5 or 6 rows. This is hard to do on such small needles, but it creates the great wavy effect.

Cherry
Cast on 10 sts or so.
Knit for 2-3 rows.
Then, k3, add 1 for one row
Knit for 2 rows
K3, decrease 1 for one row
Knit for 2 rows
Knit 3, decrease 1 for two rows, lace yarn end through loops with needle.

Putting it together:
Stuff the cherry and take yarn end through center to create dimple, lace through whipped cream and frosting, tie off with yarn ends from whipped cream and frosting.
Stuff cupcake bottom, take yarn end through center of cup up out of top of bottom section to make bottom more flat. See the crappy diagram, below:

Tie off yarn end from bottom with yarn ends from top.
Stitch on top with pink yarn and yarn needle.