I haven't had a lot of time lately to work on my carving I’ve been pretty sick but getting better. I did begin to add an oval border to the background which will later be filled with 5 roses and vines representing the 5 decades of the rosary and later I'll be adding 4 lily’s to the 4 corners of the board representing the 4 mysteries of the rosary. Roses and lily’s are symbolic of the Virgin Mary so there is kind of a double meaning for the symbols. I've also thinned out the face trying to bring out the cheek bones and sink in the eye sockets a bit. As far as the face goes I think I'll only be doing some smoothing out and deburring. I hope to get a lot of the background completed tonight and tomorrow.
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