Red and Brown Crosses

So here's the first thing I've chosen to do with some of those brown cross blocks...

I pulled out all the blocks which had a lot of red in them. There were 24, which is a nice number to work with.

Then I trimmed them to uniform size, making them slightly lopsided as I went along - half leaning one way, half the other way.

I grabbed my box of small pieces of red, and cut strips to go around the blocks... Except then I decided that was too red, so I went back to the brown box and got out some browns to do a round of browns first:

Then I added the reds (top picture) - there are two of each red.  Doesn't seem to have made much of a dent in the red box, though...