Look what I did with my bamboo sushi rolling mat!

Really getting into the Christmas spirit, though goodness knows if and when I'll be able to finish this lantern. It's just a model, folks. The genuine Pampanga parols (Christmas lanterns from Luzon in the Philippines) are handcrafted of capiz and enormous and incredibly beautiful when lit up at night.

I didn't get to finish it this year, so instead I did printouts of parol designs and stuck them up onto the wall for the Christmas presentation at the school where I work.

The sticks from the mat also form the frame of the half-lanterns I made, here.