Our new decoration

Our apartment has been pretty plain since we moved in 4 months ago. We love the furniture, but the walls are white and bare. This week at the mall by our house they are having an exhibition of Chinese folk art. In one corner of the mall, a bunch of local artists brought all their stuff and set up tables. We have walked by it a few times, there are so many cool things. Some of the things we can't afford right now, like the carved gourds or the paintings on the inside of bottles, but I still love to go watch them work. We did find something awesome though, that I couldn't pass up.

There was this little old Chinese lady who did paper cutting. She had some really cool stuff. It was all really intricate and I can't imagine how she even begins to do it. She had this dragon cut-out already framed and everything. Only 150RMB. I loved it immediately, and not just because its green. She told me something like this only takes her an hour to finish! It would take me a week.

We found some other cool pictures by a lady that does something called straw weaving. It was a little expensive, but they are there all week and I might be tempted to go back and get it. It was beautiful! Nick also found a market that is supposed to have people selling all kinds of cool things made here in Dalian. We are going to go check it out this weekend.