Yes, it's all done I feel better now!

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Well, I need to finish them today.

I've piled up those pre-felt egg coasters in my kitchen sink and looked at them every day "yap, I will do them..." then a few days passed, a week... a few weeks.... I started feeling they looked at me and asking "are you going to do today?" it's a bit paranoid. Well, today is the day I have to be strong and make them into a beautiful coaster TODAY!

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Recreating a 19th century Japanese Tsuba

Fantastic!

Recreating a 19th century Japanese Tsuba

via Make: Online by Gareth Branwyn on 7/03/11

One of our readers, Jimy Soprano, sent us the links to this incredibly inspiring short documentary of classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam recreating a lost masterpiece by the 19th century Mito tsuba artist Hagia Katsuhira. Years ago, I went off on a Samurai sword/Iaidō kick and obsessed over every detail of Japanese sword construction, maintenance, and the “moving Zen” of the Iaidō form. This video touched that obsession again.
The “tsuba” is the decorative sword guard, and like every other piece of a samurai sword, it’s work of art in and of itself. This video documents Ford Hallam being commissioned to create a tsuba for a Katana (long) sword to match an existing tsuba created by Hagia Katsuhira for a wakazashi (short sword). The painstaking, precise nature of the work is rather dizzying. [Thanks, Jimy!]
More about Ford Hallam can be found on his blog Postcards from the Path

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love lying down this way.

My lovely cat Hunter's comfortably lying down the art school floor. I think Hunter needs to go on diet and slim down a bit.

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Finished attaching white balls on 23 ReadingMates

Yes, I have stiff shoulders now. Making felted balls itself is hard work. then sawing them onto the body of ReadingMate(felted bookmark). I make the pupils tomorrow.

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Felted balls.

These balls will used for an eye ball and a jewellery.

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I been fed by dear my friends!

Sometimes i'm overwealmed by the love gesture from my friends. When I met one of my friends to get a small stuff then she gave me a lunch, The Japanese lunch she made earlier! I nearly cried......  The petite tomatos are from her garden...

The tea in the photo is from another friend. A beautiful Jasmin tea.

I felt loved and being well fed. Thank you dear my friends! 

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