Finished projects

We've had snow and more snow and another dusting today. But here's what the world looked like at the leadership retreat I was at earlier this week.

The two "Belgians" that I was working on last week were thank you gifts for our facilitators. The book itself was fairly simple to put together, but I had collected quotes from my group and had to format and print them on rice paper to be tipped into the book. My printer was not terribly thrilled with the whole rice paper thing, but it cooperated in the end.

The other project I was working on was a series of boxes to hold some personal objects. I love sets of any sort and have thought about creating one for myself out of my beloved japanese paper. There are nine boxes here which nest in a tray with a favorite poem from Mary Oliver.