[MyMagic] Blooming Frog

Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,396
April 29, 2026

Gaeton Bloom is a genius and one of his little-known routines is his handling of the cut and restored thread. He has been fooling magicians with it for decades. Below you will find his work on it.

The Origami Card Frog was introduced to magic by Scotty York and popularized by Michael Close. Sam Sleibin decided to make scored playing cards so they can be easily and quickly folded into jumping Frogs. Sam teaches how to secretly fold them one-handed and two-handed.

My last release, Underhanded Open Travelers, was originally available in blue backs only. Just added the red backs to the inventory. See below.

►Bloom’s Gypsy Thread:

Gaetan Bloom has been fooling magicians with his take on the torn and restored thread for many years. It was often the talk of the convention when he performed it in his close-up shows and often using it as a closer.

What you will find is a simple gimmick that you will be familiar with, but the tutorial will teach you how to use it in an astoundingly clean and simple way.

The basic routine involves a sewing thread which is cut into small pieces by your spectators, then it is magically restored in your hands.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Folding Frog:

This is a deck of pre-scored playing cards that can be folded into a jumping frog in seconds.

The easiest way to present it is to force the frog card and have it jump around the deck looking for the selection, when it fails you unfold the frog and show it to be the selection and you can give it out as a memorable souvenir.

If you master the one-hand fold you can palm out a signed selection and create an even more impossible moment.

Either routine gets you laughs when you introduce the tiny Origami frog and have it jump around. You can even fold the card into a frog in front of your friends.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Underhanded Open Travelers:

This is a reimagining of David’s Open Travelers where the cards vanish from your hand and appear under your friend’s palm.

You begin by cleanly showing the Ace through Four of Hearts. Your friend places their hand over the Ace while you make the Two vanish and appear under their hand.

This is repeated with the Three. The Four is placed face down in the middle of the deck and it too vanishes to join the Ace, Two, and Three of Hearts under your friend’s hand. All the cards under their hand are examinable.

The exact same routine can be performed with the cards traveling under impossible locations like under plates, napkins, wallets, phones, or any item larger than a playing card. You can also use the system to present the traditional Open Travelers.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Coin Copier:

This is an ingenious self-working coin box routine that Christian Scherer created in the 1980s. Since that time the manufacturing technology and the availability of the gimmicks used has advanced and the current version works perfectly.

It is basically a coin box routine like no other. Even though it uses heavily gaffed coins everything is examinable at the end.

The basic routine involves a metal box which is referred to as a tiny counterfeiting machine. You dump the four coins out of the box; a Japanese coin, a Swiss coin, a British coin and a US coin. Using the Japanese coin as a sample each coin is placed in the box and one at a time, as the box is waved over the Japanese coin, the coin inside instantly turns into a duplicate of the Japanese coin. This is repeated until all four coins have turned into Japanese coins and everything is examinable.

Watch and buy: HERE

►BACK IN STOCK:

A couple of weeks ago I received another shipment of my Predict-Perfect. Close to half of them are already gone. Here is what I wrote about them recently: HERE

►Predict-Perfect:

An outstanding prediction effect where you have 100% control over 198 possible outcomes. This routine is a reputation maker. It has every performance quality needed to make it into a classic. It is self-working. Learned in minutes. Immediately repeatable. No memory work. No stooges. No complicated mathematics. Self-contained.

Can be performed up-close or on stage. You will love the method as well as the effect. It is a pure pleasure to perform.

Get one: HERE

►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

►MAY 12-14: Presenting and displaying at the Magic Collector Expo in Newark, NJ. Info: HERE
►MAY 24: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE

To view all my upcoming appearances, go: HERE

Stay happy, Meir

PS: I have a few Holesome Coin sets left from the 4F Convention. If you read this far you can get one: HERE

“Find the branch of magic you like, then devote all your time to developing it.”
…Julien J. Proskauer (Modern Magic Manual, 1939)