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I work as a translator and enjoy it greatly. But (I will admit) I also enjoy Google Translate. It's a fast way to get the gist of something. Since my wine stains are now popping up on international sites, I'm enjoying Google translating comments or checking if anyone is getting creative in their translations with the mostly copied & pasted text from This Is Colossal.

So far, I've found translations in Hungarian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, German, Greek, Korean & Chinese. 

Of course, translation between English and Chinese is always fun. So, courtesy of Google Translate, I give you this:

On the site to see pictures of this one, really lamented, too creative, and see the beach before paint, did not think there is actually painting with wine. For everyone to enjoy, lamented about the art of charm.

Can not drink wine painting. American artist Amelia Harnas wine poured in cotton or paper to paint vividportraits created out of life.

Oh yeah - and then some very clever people figured out how to use Google translate to beatbox. I like this one.

Today, my wine stains were featured in a major art & design blog, This Is Colossal. It all happened via Facebook, in a 24-hour link recommendation blowout. You see, I met this ridiculously wonderful young woman, who goes by Zum Zum, and her boyfriend, when they hosted me, via Couchsurfing, in The Hague, The Netherlands, last winter. We got along well and stayed in touch. Usually, that's about where the couchsurfing story ends.

However, about a week ago, after posting some new embroideries, she wrote me a message saying that she wanted the whole world to know just how cool the wine stains are. Another week passes and BOOM, I'm on the blog.

My heart did cartwheels. I whooped and hollered. If I had a gun at that moment, I probably would have fired it at the heavens. I'll probably have to make do with a bottle of champagne this evening.

Yes, my dearies, this is colossal.