Beautiful Boxes

We took these two painted copper plates to MolDeco and they turned them into these beautiful boxes.

Out And About Brasov

 Some photos from the municipal center of Brasov; you always know the town you're in because it's right there on the mountain.

The Legacy Begins

 We have had Risk Legacy for a while and were waiting to gather a group of people to play.  Got that now and played our first two games.  The board's changed a lot already!  The game goes much more quickly than old Risk and it's quite fun to play.

Poppy Done

Well, it's done and I don't like the results.  This one I'm going to blame on the directions.  It seems the designer was not familiar with the threads actually in the kit, which resulted in lack of coverage on the border.  The instructions were perfunctory and hard to follow.  The chart was unclear. And I really hated working it.  It's done now, so it's one more piece off my list!  I learned to not start something without proper instructions.

Toppling A Dictator

 In the center of Brasov there is a small park with about three dozen graves.  All of the fallen were killed or injured during the uprising against Ceacescu in 1989-1990.  The youngest is six years old.  This area is revered and taken care of and shows the price of freedom very starkly.

Chips!

The last footprint of the Stephans in Moldova is gone.  Brian left yesterday to be home with his family and start a new assignment in South Carolina.  We will miss them.  Brian, on his last trip back here, brought me four bags of dill pickle chips from Jen.  Andreas immediately appropriated one, leaving me three.  I've been nursing them along, as there's just no way to get them here.

Another Flutter

I've started the second butterfly and I'm almost to the right edge of the piece.  It's not a very  tall piece, so I hope it goes fairly quickly.  I'd like to have several things on my current rotation done before I start the Christmas push in October.