another little henna success

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: Last night I decided to try out the new applicator I got from Castle : Arts (it rocks! Thanks, Amy!) and do some experimentation with camphor : in my lemon-sugar solution only. : I decided to put a design of my own on my right hand. A bit scary, : since this was only the second time I've done a design of my own, but : I had sketched it out beforehand. (It was going to be a fan shaped : flower with a vine creeping out of one side.) : I wound up making it way too tiny! I didn't really want to scrape off : what I had already done, because my tiny flower had my first teeny, : tiny foo-foo lines, and I wanted to save it. So, I decided to take : the plunge and I just began adding to it, completely freestyle. I : didn't even consciously think about what I was doing, I just started : applying the henna. : I now have this nice half of a mandala-like flower with a vine : creeping up my thumb and another creeping up the middle of my hand, : and at least two areas with a bit of teeny-tiny line work. I can't : believe up until two months ago, I was afraid to draw more than a : stick figure if I couldn't trace it. And teeny-tiny lines? Me? The : mistress of "everything crafted by my hands is elephantine in size." : I got so excited that I wound going to bed pretty late. Oops. :) But : I felt like I had to share my little success with everyone. I never : would have done it at all without the encouragement and advice that's : been posted here!

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