Hikari School -- March 23, 2009

On a very windy day six ladies met and enjoyed Hikari School. The theme of the lesson is 'sakura' cherry blossoms viewing.

We cut the origami paper into sakura shape and pasted on the washi paper.

Today's tea was sakura-cha, green tea with salted cherry blossoms.

Art Shodo -- March 19, 2009

Today's lesson is to make a coaster and a tablemat. Each step of carving lovely objects, seclecting papers, arranging and laminating is quite fun.

Shodo -- March 9, 2009

We had a visitor who enjoyed shodo for the first time. Practice for some ladies was hinamatsuri 雛祭　which has many strokes.

Cooking -- March 2, 2009

As the next day was Hinamatsuri day, we made temari-zushi. Chirashi-zushi is the traditional dish for Hinamatsuri, but we did it last year. Another dish is harumaki, a bit different from ordinary harumaki. The filling is fake crab and sliced lettuce. We enjoyed making and eating both dishes.