Temari Balls

http://www.sewhereblog.com/sewing-books/temari-balls/

tells about this craft. We first learned about it on a PBS show today. This 88, almost 89, year old Japanese lady makes them...has been making them as gifts for 20 years. Just gorgeous. She had a lot hanging from her ceiling with tassels under them. What a craft! Amazing!

Amazing Stone Sculptor

His name is Lu Huan. We learned about him on a PBS TV show today. It takes him usually several months to complete a sculpture. Some take years. He uses no paint...just the natural traits of the rock. He does not work from a photo because a photo is too flat. he goes and procures or buys the live specimen and studies it for a long time before he starts to sculpt. By the way, when he chooses aspecial rock, he spends much time studying it and contemplating it before he decides what to carve.

These carvings are superb representations of different species of reptiles, insects, and amphibians found in the animal kingdom. Each animal is carved out from a single piece of stone in exquisite detail. The stones used are found in China and Inner Mongolia, and belong to the pyrophyllite classification. From...

http://www.c-c-c.org/1996/06/15/stone-carvings-and-paintings-by-lu-huan-and-an-lu/

I Do Love Porches

So..here is a picture of one from the Internet. I imagine the smell of evergreens, the sound of birds chirping merrily, the fresh breezes. Aaahhhhh...
I believe "Porch Therapy" is the way to go!