The finished shaker box

[wiseheart]

This will be my last Christmas box for a while - it has been half-done for quite some time but today I finally got around to finish it.

The outside (the round stickers on the outer panels aren't visible, but they aren't all that interesting, either):



The inside:



And a closer look at the little Christmas tree (actually a pine cone) in the middle. I painted it green, then added white edges and some green and silver glitter and even managed to fasten to the middle of the box - hopefully, it will last:




My all-time favourite student decided to enter a convent. She's leaving for the novitiate in Rome within the next fortnight. I knew she had considered becoming a nun an one time - she told me because I used to be one, too - but I thought she'd given up the idea. Well, it will be an interesting, hard and wonderful time for her, complete with culture shock (I think today's youth might have it even harder than my generation had), but I hope it will work out for her. One of us ought to get her heart's desire.

I rewrote a few paragraphs of a finished "Mazarbul" chapter partially, but I'm afraid it still isn't enough; might have to ask my wonderful beta, lindahoyland about it. I also wrote almost 3 pages for the next chapter, so I'm well content with my progress.

Of course, this means that I'll have to type up an ungodly amount of stuff tomorrow, but everything has its price.

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, no problems at all! I still haven't completely rewritten the parts that weren't actually mine in the chapter you've already corrected, so we won't miss our train, as we say over here.

I have high hopes for my student, too; to find her fulfillment, or if it turns out that it wouldn't be her way, after all, not to have such a hard time to accept it as I had.