temari are easy to finish in just a couple sittings 🤪
(prize-winners from 2023)

Here she is receiving tribute! She wasn't socialized well as a pup, and is super dog reactive even after 4 years of constant training. So it always makes me happy when other pups can have friends!! 😭

Calista, starring in an early version of the yearly 'the artist, the art, THE DISTRACTION' meme

Made a palette tester mari in a single day, which reminded me all the ones I'm currently working on are..........really freaking complicated, actually!!! I feel less defeated by them now 😂

Not a box but i do think @owlbowl.bsky.social 's soul is stored in this one. do not open.
(Metalwork by Yamamoto Natsuaki)
www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/works/469/98...

The Beginning of Time, by the inimitable Nakamura Keiboku again. The delicacy of the white in the center blows me away even more than the geometric burst.
www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/works/502/10...

Fastenings, by Murakami Shigeko. Yes I am struggling for perfect English that encompasses 結「ゆい」why do you ask. All gifts should only be tied like this in future. Divine.
www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/works/557/11...

A Dream of Flowers, by Fujino Seiko. Joy in a box. I want to stitch eighty offerings to this perfect palette.
www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/works/502/10...

Image, by Nakamura Keiboku. Today's special box award.
www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/works/486/10...