Journal archive
June 30, 2012
After a long trip southwest of DC I arrived late last night at my parent’s house. I was still debating on whether I should have delayed the trip by a week, but it was already planned and I went. Timing is everything, a huge storm hit Washington,DC last night downing trees and power lines and […]
Read story →June 29, 2012
Another quick simple arrangement as today is a travel day for me. I’ve spent the whole week with my family showing them around town, now we’re heading out of town together. I’ll have some quiet time to do more ikebana, and relax.
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June 27, 2012
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June 23, 2012
Today I did a little more work on braiding palm leaves, this time with phoenix palm. It has a very small leaf, interesting to work with but I think the areca palm I uesed a few days ago works much better. However I did learn more about how to do the braiding, so I will […]
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June 21, 2012
Earlier in the week I promised my sensei that I would continue to work on my weaving and leaf manipulation practice. Today I used the only palm leaf I had to do this piece for today’s ikebana, not perfect but still a pretty good start. With the woven palm leaf I used a stem of […]
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