Staggered Temari

 I am making a series of red, white and blue temari to donate to a charity auction.  This is one of them - a staggered kiku of a total of sixteen points.  I think it came out pretty well.

Silly And Beautiful

Who wouldn't want a beautiful bamboo cutting board with the periodic table burned into it?  I love it, and we'll use it as a cheese board so it doesn't get damaged.

On The Back Wing

The back wing looks just about done.  This is going so quickly!

On To Next Pages

Practically every color now bleeds down into the next lower pages.  That means I'm about a quarter done with the piece.  I still really love the look of it.

New Book

I love this language book series.  It's hard being dumped into a foreign country without a lick of language and then learning it on the fly.  This series (the book is the intermediate version) teaches Romanian to foreign business people.  Not even the beginner book has a single non-Romanian word in it.  This makes it suitable for teaching Romanian to people from any language.  The format is bright and colorful, and the CDs have a lot of audio content.  In the beginning book, I've covered several tenses of verbs and lots of things - like how to interact at stores and hotels and how to follow the gym instructor when exercising.  On top of everything else, it's fun.  It's also much, much better than any other Romanian as a foreign language book I've seen.

Middling

Working on the left building still; I've gotten more of the bricks done.  On the bottom outlining, I've finished the portico.

No Charcoal

It's been time to work on some charcoal color, but since I'm missing the blending filament, I've had to work on other areas.  The outlines of the outer garden are coming along, and at least I'm not sidelining this until it comes in.