Thank You Carolina!

Carolina gave me this beautiful temari and bag for Christmas.  I had admired the temari before, and she said when she gave it to me that she was thinking of me when she made it.  I love it!  The colors are so bright and  the design is so mesmerizing.  Thank you Carolina!

A Seagull?

It'll look more like a seagull in a bit.  This is my new project, Beach, for friends with waterfront property.

Lights At Night

Just some more lights in Munich.  Pretty!

Received In Exchange

I entered the Dice Tower secret Santa exchange back in October, and received this when we got home from Munich.  We actually played it last night and lost - it's a cooperative game, so everyone wins or loses together.  Maybe having a few more people playing will help!  Anyway, it's fun and actually a pretty good teaching tool, too, for people wanting to teach about epidemiology.  Thank you to my Secret Santa!  Oh, and I sent A Few Acres of Snow, another awesome game, to the guy I was assigned.  He also should have gotten a package of different Moldovan candies by now.

Significant Progress

I got quite a bit more done on my little gem.  It's at its final size now and almost done.

Lunch At Lowenbrau

When we got lost and found the Viktualenmarkt the first time, we decided on lunch.  There was a nice, warm-looking Lowenbrau tavern on the corner, so we went in.  I had this soup first, which was a clear beef broth with noodles in it.  Good and warm, but not much substance to it.  Unlike most soups of this type, it was not oversalted.  

 The mugs we'd collected that morning.  Truly, I didn't drink all of them!  Andreas had kinderpunsch in the large blue one.

 Beer, juice and water to drink in cool glasses.  I then had a cold meat platter, which was huge and very good.  Andreas had the wurst platter.  He also found it too big to eat in one sitting.

Not Quite Bluebonnets

I suppose it's hard for a non-Texan to capture the color of bluebonnets, so I shouldn't have expected a Canadian to get the color right.  So far, it's my major disappointment with this kit from Victoria Sampler.  On the other hand, I'm making progress on everything.