We met in a tatami room at the same community center we visited for the cooking lesson in January. The water for the tea is boiled on a heating element built into the floor of the tatami room. Whoever designed this community center deserves a gold star.
Misa and Mineko brought their hina-ningyo dolls to illustrate how Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day, March 3) is celebrated. I especially liked the elaborate set Misa's parents bought in Nara the year she was born which must have been sometime in the late 1930s as her father did not survive World War II.
I made two greeting cards. I will send one to you next year if you promise to send it back to me the following year.
Here are the instructions for Jana and anyone else who wants to try making an emperor and empress. The empress goes on the right.
I think this is something that you will have to demonstrate to us in person...I'm missing the part where the paper changes from the red flowery paper to the blue and silver paper then to the beige dotted paper!
ReplyDeleteThe red flowery paper and the beige dotted paper are two separate projects.
ReplyDeleteYou are folding two pieces together, like a coat and a coat liner.
Maybe if you post a video of the actual process....
ReplyDeleteHa, ha. You're distracting me from writing my next entry. I suppose that's on purpose.
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