While avoiding all that backstitch in the "Red Thai Mandala"

(funny, I usually like backstitch in blackwork but the light oclor of that gray is driving me nuts) another completion of a small piece...

It's lesson 11 in the "Color Through the Ages" twinchies by Janet Perry, and uses DMC 310, 3706, 5282 and E677. I THOUGHT I was electing a silver metallic but when I started stitching with E677, it turned into a pale pale gold. Since ripping out DMC metallic is a PITA, I decided to leave it even though it isn't really Art Deco in feel any more.