Both the blocks look great!! Karenmay, I've been looking to see if I could find a translation for your Kanji...no luck so far...but here's the site from the page where I left off.
Loretta there a some really cool dragons on this page too.
Chele, I just love your bold fabric choices they always turn out sooo cool!!
Here's the Kanji site...they're technically for tattoos, but I think they would be easy enough to adapt for embroidery.
http://www.tribalshapes.com/categories/kanji/13.html