Thursday, October 31, 2013

Sumie -- October 29, 2013

It was another fun lesson! Today ladies painted grapes on
large sheets of paper. They practiced grapes before but
not whole tree. Each work is different and beautiful.
They have surely made a lot of progress.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Hikari School -- October 22, 2013

Hikari School started again! Five ladies joined the lesson.
As before we started with hand work. We did traditional 
stitch work sashiko and made coasters. Then followed
sencha tea ceremony. The theme was Japanese autumn.
The teacher told us about the moon viewing and the
events of October.
 

Friday, October 04, 2013

Ikebana -- October 1, 2013

Five ladies ejoyed October Ikebana with flowers such as dracaena,
cock's comb, solidago, chrisanthemum and willow(salixbkoriyanagi). 
Some arranged freely with unique shape of branch and some tried
leaf arrangement which is also attractive.