DR Vixmom - regarding The Vixter's interest in origami: she might find it interesting that my DH, a retired teacher of math/science to gifted 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, used origami to teach geometry. He also used the braiding of flat plastic twine (like you learn at camp?) in his teaching.
Oh, and I bet if I dig through all the Japanese stuff that exchange students have brought us over the years I could come up with some origami paper. Would she be interested in that or anything else Japanese?