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"Extremely popular contemporary South African artist, Ann Gadd’s work hangs in galleries both locally and in New Zealand and the UK as well as in collections worldwide. Such is the popularity of her “Sheep” series of works, that she is arguably South Africa’s best selling female artist."
Fnally got the IKEA cabinet together to house my toys. Thank goodness for relatives who are good at that kind of thing :).
We took so many pictures on Sunday that we split them in half. Here are all the water based shots. Check out SeattleSummerFun.com for details and for more fun stuff to do in Seattle!
Photo op of teenage emperor & dowager on way into the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.
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Look what showed up in today's mail! All right, so the instrument on the left is just a wee bit too modern for my mini-Deryni, but only by a few centuries. But I'm sure Dhugal would have loads of fun with an electric guitar, and if we modern folks can enjoy groups like the Society for Creative Anachronism, then maybe my little people enjoy going forward in time on their weekends. OK, that's a bit of a stretch, but I have to admit that the idea of Dhugal and Kelson rocking out makes me giggle a bit.
I actually bought the pair of ornaments for the guitar on the right. It still doesn't exactly match up to the "gittern" that I had Dhugal and Duncan playing at the end of Visionaries, as from the pictures I've seen of gitterns, they seem to be more like smaller, flat-backed lutes, so a modern mandolin might be a closer equivalent. Our modern characteristic "guitar-shape" didn't come along until the 1600s or thereabouts, if I remember correctly. But still, if musical tech in the Kingdom of Gwynedd is as advanced as their other tech, then maybe it's not too much of a stretch to hope that Duncan could somehow get his hands on an early proto-guitar?
As for the gameboard-in-progress, despite what I said about not planning on making it too fancy, I'm beginning to think that maybe some sort of motif in the central square might pretty it up just a little bit. Perhaps a golden fleur-de-lys?