I'm distracting
myself by making little etegami stones. Except this one is so small, I
couldn't get words onto it. I cut the images out of earlier etegami and
glue them onto the stones. Bigger stones make nice paperweights, but
they're harder to send through the mail system.
Etegami (e= "picture"; tegami= "letter/message") are simple drawings accompanied by a few apt words. They are usually done on postcards so that they can be easily mailed off to one's friends. Though etegami has few hard-and-fast rules, traditional tools and materials include writing brushes, sumi ink, blocks of water-soluble, mineral-based pigments called gansai, and washi postcards that have varying degrees of "bleed." They often depict some ordinary item from everyday life, especially items that bring a particular season to mind.
Omgosh, soo cute!!! And it would still make a good paperweight!
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Wow, what a great idea !
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