Dear all of my friends all over the world,
This is a combination of 2 kinds of red/white polka dots print. After giving a birth to Jade about 3 yrs ago, I kinda came to like girly things and colors which I used to hate during my teenager time. Strange, eh? Anyway, I LOVE those pinky girly things and I'm proud to say so!!
This strawberry pouch is another kawaii and cute one. I got a request from a Japanese customer to make something like this. I knew she loves strawberry, so here it is!! I even used a strawberry button for this pouch.
I forgot mention that I made this simple stocking for Jade. It's really simple. I wanted to make something more fancy, but I was running of the time. Maybe next year I'll make more complicated one like patchworked one!!
OMG, Christmas is coming in a few days!! But I'm not quite ready yet!! Why do I have to work at office? Is this because Japan is a Buddhist country?? Anyway, I finished making some gifts and handed over. Phew... 
In a few days, it'll be Christmas. It's been very cold here in Japan, and some part already has snow on the street. This is unusual weather. I wonder how my friends all over the world are doing these days. I do hope everyone is happy :D
Last Saturday, my work invited all of the staff and his/her family to spend the day at Disney Sea at Tokyo Disney Resort. We went to Tokyo Disneyland to celebrate our daughter's 2nd birthday last year, but it was our first visit to this Disney Sea. On the way, we were caught by a heavy traffic jam on Shutoko Express Way, but we managed to get there a bit after noon.
Look at this cute train!! From the nearest JR station, you can take this cute Resort Line to get to the Parks. Unfortunately, we didn't need to take this one as we came by our car. We love to take this monorail train the next time we'll be here!!
The park closes at 10 PM, and we were there until that time!! Even our 3-year-old daughter stayed up until we all left the Park!! We had so much fun, needless to say!!
I'm addicted to collect fabrics. I admit that. In my atelier, I have tons of all kinds of fabrics, some are from Edo Era (several hundreds ago in Japan). I just cannot resit buying them. Over the last weekends, I got 4 big packages from fabric stores. I don't know how much fabrics I buy every single week... Some say this is a kind of disease. I guess so...
Last Sunday, me and my daughter visited my sister who just bought a condominium very near Ginza/Tsukiji, Tokyo. It's so convenient for shopping and dining out. As you may know, Ginza has the top quality in food, goods and anything in Japan (that's why it's so expensive to shop around there, though).
After shopping, we had a relaxing hours at my sister's place. Anyone who visits her place will be fascinated with the beautiful night view of Tokyo. As you can imagine, Tokyo has so many high-rise buildings. And also Tokyo has many rivers all over. Her condo is situated in a water-front area. So you can see many lighted bridges, too. The view is just so beautiful...
Konnichiwa from JAPAN.
Last Sunday, we visited Aburatsubo Marine Park in Miura City, Kanagawa. It's about one hour drive along the Pacific Ocean from our home in Kamakura. We can enjoy the beautiful scenery from the car window. There they have a huge aquarium for all kinds of fishes. Also they have excellent shows of dolphins, seals, fishes and so on. You can enjoy the whole day there.
These penguins are called "Rockhopper penguin".
November 26 was Jade's 3rd birthday. Even though it was Saturday, my husband had to work as he had a group of customers from Taiwan. She and I prepared all kinds of things for her birthday party for the evening. Oh, look at this adorable card!! It was from her teachers at her pre-school in the town. It tells her actual weight and height along sweet messages from her two teachers!! So sweet!
Anyway, we two spent a great time preparing cakes, food, beverages and played a bit in the nearest park just three houses away from ours. She was so HAPPY all day long and I was happy for her!! When her dad got home, we started our small birthday party for her! Isn't it so great of her to wait until 19.30??? She even didn't have a bite of the cake!!
We Japanese enjoy autumn color of leaves around this time every year. The place where I live is again famous for this and we have tons of visitors from Tokyo Metropolitan Area every weekends. So the traffic is really heavy and we're always stuck on the middle of the streets. This is one thing we hate here in Kamakura, but we're so happy to enjoy these beautiful nature all around us!
Last Sunday, my husband made a small fireplace with bricks at our yard to enjoy baking sweet potato (and potato). It was our first time to do so. My daughter and I collected dried fallen leaves from our backyard to burn in the fireplace. She was so excited about it as she once experienced at her pre-school in the town and she loved it!
Anyway, it didn't take much time to build the small fireplace and we were soon ready to set fire. We also made a coffee with a vintage Pyrex coffee pot to keep us warm. It's getting chilly here in Tokyo Metropolitan area, too.
After a while, we could eat yummy baked sweet potato and potato with hot coffee. It was so delicious!! We've never had thought about doing this kinda thing at our own place, but it's really great to enjoy "outdoor activity" at home!
First of all, sorry for my long absence!
Every day, I get orders for bags, fabrics and zakka. These days, I'm especially busy as people are now shopping for Xmas. Yesterday, I shipped 5 Hawaiian bags and 1 Pure linen tote from the local post office to Europe. Those small bags are the most popular at the moment. Probably to give away as a Xmas gift as the price is reasonable?
Yesterday, I posted our sweet potato digging.
Have you ever seen a flower of eggplant?
My daughter didn't help us with sweet potato digging,
Last Sunday, we joined "Japanese red (sweet potato) digging" organized by my daughter's pre school here in Kamakura. It was our first time to experience this for me, my mom and my daughter. We were quite excited. Since we were grown up in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, we seldom have chance to visit rural land.
We were so lucky. The weather forecast said it would rain over the weekends, but the rain delayed to Sunday afternoon. So we could finish the digging before it started to rain!!
The red potato wasn't hard to dig out. What you have to do is just dig the soil a bit with your gloved hands, no tools needed. Voila, some sweet potato are here for you!
We harvested about 4.5 Kg! That's quite a lot, isn't it?
Look this building I'd found in Central Osaka.
The next one is another interesting one, you see.
I had to fly Osaka from Tokyo to do some business last week (it's faster than Shinkansen, just one-hour flight), and I spent one night there. Look at the plane I flew!! I wonder if you recognize this anime character, but it's called "Poke-Mon", a very popular anime among little children all over Japan for the past few years. The flight was at 10:00 AM on a weekday, and there were no kids around. Only adults wearing business suits (including myself!!). It was a bit strange experience. If my daughter were with me, she should have been so excited to see "Poke-Mon" all around her. Even the seat cover was "Poke-Mon" printed.
Over the last weekends, we were at my mom's place away from the Metropolitan area. We all had a very relaxing time. :D
And another package from Meihui, Singapore had arrived yesterday. Some cute fabric, handmade crochet hair accessory, a book called Girl Force (from Down Under) and another handmade tissue paper holder! Great works, Meihui!!
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