Fox Project - Background 60% complete

The Fox Project is coming along. It's taking far longer than I expected -over 100 hours to complete 60% of the background. It's full size is 4806 x 3597 and I am drawing it all with a 1pixel semi-transparent brush on Photoshop. Now that I am over the dreaded up-to-half-done struggle, progress should be much faster.

Once the cave is completed, I will submit it as its own image. After that, I will add the foxes and fireflies and submit the new image. I may work on several versions of the image using the same cave background.

Here is a snippet of the level of detail I am working to (cave walls, rocks and the cave pool) Bear in mind the actual size of the picture I am working to!!:



Other Stuff - Cooking!
I am really getting into Japanese food that the moment. I've always loved making and eating Chinese, but then I discovered Japanese Bento Boxes and it went from there I've been making Bento Boxes for lunch each day (decorative lunch boxes containing veggies, homemade stuffed rice balls etc.). I've also started cooking more Japanese food for main meals such as Sesame beef and noodles, Drunken chicken etc. especially now I've found Tesco have Sake, Rice Wine, Miso etc.

Cakes too! I've been making a lot of cakes. Yoghurt roulade, Brownies, Shortbread, Cup cakes etc.

Plus other snacks like Mozzarella Sticks, tomato dips and cereal bars.

Yummy Yum!