hydrangeas from backyard

I love hydrangea.
It's said that hydrangea is originally from Japan. We call them "ajisai" in Japanese. Lovery sounds, doesn't it?

facebook

After so many years, I finally started facebook. Ha! If you're around, look for me and say "hi". Looking forward to seeing you there!

Good morning!

Hope you have a good start of a brand new day!

xoxo
Kumi

Origami

Do you know Origami? It's a Japanese paper craft. Japanese learn how to enjoy one piece of paper in childhood time.

The first photo is made by a young Japanese girl at my shop. She's now into Origami so much and made this panda bear for my daughter. So adorable!!

The second photos is turtle family made with just one piece of origami paper.

This is made by another customer at my shop. She's a Origami professor. Amazing, isn't it?

And these cute tulips are made by my six-year-old daughter. Sweet, eh?

Hydrangea Season

June has started. It means almost half of this year has gone! Oh, no!!!!!

We are now in the middle of the rainy season here in Japan. It's called "tsuyu season". I don't like rain, but I love hydrangea which symbolize this wet season.

my favorite shoes

I bought this in Singapore in March, and now I wear it almost everyday. This is light and very active. Love it!

Happy Mother's Day!

It's Monday morning here in Japan. Hope you had a nice Mother's Day!

I got a drawing of flowers from my daughter. Can you tell what kinds of flower? They're mix of tulip and carnation. Wow, eh?
And a sweet cake for the dessert! It was such a special day for me! Yum!

Trip to ISE/SHIMA/TOBA

We had 8-day -holiday here in Japan called "Golden Week". Nice, eh? We visited Ise area.
Ise is famous for Ise Shrine, very spiritual place for the ancient Japanese. The last time I visited here is back in 1990s during my university time. Gee, time flies.

Anyway, we drove down from Kamakura to Irago Cape to take the ferry. It was the first time for our daughter to hop on a ferry and she was sooooo excited! I took ferry the last time from Spain to Morocco when I was a Senior. It took
55 min. to cross over Ise Bay. Guess what? We came across dolphin's family!! WOW!

Belated ....

New cute fabrics are here!

Hello, hello, hello!
Finally I uploades some cute fabrics like these along with some other Japanese craft books on my little webshop, Atelier JADE. Pls check 'em out if you're interested. Thanks!

Atelier JADE: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~atelierj/

outfit for the little one

Hello out there! How're ya? Again I was silence for such a long time. I'm such a bad writer. Hehehe!
I've been busy sewing up this
and that for my daughter and myself these past months. I made this one for her in July.

Look at her! She always make faces ever time I try to take a shot on her! Gee, is this five-year-old thing?
And today, I just finished making this one in different color! She hasn't seen it yet. I wonder what she'd say???