things in life

Sunday activity

2012-01-29T17:20:00.001-08:00

Yoga, coffee break, etc.

Shoes, UFO paintings, latte, and city farmers

2012-01-28T18:22:00.000-08:00

Was checking out vintage stores and galleries, after hours, I walked around the suburb and found an organic garden @ kits, called city farmers.
I hard they're teaching about organic gardens.

Nice pair of vintage Italian shoes with surprising price!

@ equinox gallery, love the UFO paintings and Fire work factory paintings.

@elysian

I was wondering what's there.

Cool prints @ Le centre

2012-01-25T20:28:00.000-08:00

I went Le Centre, French cultural centre in Vancouver.

There is an exhibition "Babyloprint" by Chantal Poirier, she does interesting prints.

Love the idea of her flames too.

Chantal and Charles

It was an opening night, there're variety of French cheese and wine.

One of the cheese made me stinky breath but it was so tasty.

Nouveau mountain trail inspired fashion

2012-01-24T14:45:00.000-08:00

newclothing co

CoralLaceVintage

The Viridi - anne

Cafes I went lately

2012-01-23T21:31:00.001-08:00

They are all so good and comfy to stay.

Clean studio wish list.

2012-01-16T17:49:00.000-08:00

50's Swedish Wall Unit by dejavulongbeach

Record Album Storage Cube by stanpike

vintage metal wire basket by MyraMelinda

After the snow

2012-01-15T15:32:00.000-08:00

It was a snow weekend in Vancouver, and was sunny after the snow, I got out of home to take photos..

I went to a park..what's that?

Hahahaha..somebody made a geek one.

Kids started destroy it.

Wasn't like romantic snow scenes? I have more photos on my Flickr.

Beer, chocolates and movie

2012-01-15T00:47:00.000-08:00

I had some lambic beer and movie for weekend treats - and chocolates are bonus!

I watched Broken flowers by Jim Jarmusch.

I'm a fun of Bill Murray - he's always as "him" and enjoyable to watch every movie with him.

The Broken.. is pretty quiet but unique story.

I liked the Ethiopian musics in the movie too.

The Lambic beer, I had the one described as "wild fermented".

It tastes good, a bit sweeter than I expected.

Still I enjoyed the beer.

Mini hat show

2012-01-12T11:33:00.000-08:00

My mini hat show has been extended again.
It supposed to be until the end of Dec, it will be until early week of Feb-
I displayed new hats few days ago.

Thanks @ a french style cafe, coco et olive on Main.

My new year movie

2012-01-03T11:57:00.000-08:00

A happy new year everyone.

Holidays are over, I'm back to work.

When the holidays are over, I feel like a bit sad and blue every year - maybe everyone does.

My "holiday is over blue" cure is watching movies and listening music, keeping going out to cafes.

I watched a movie that my friend Chantal (she's a craft artist from Montreal) recommended, that called "Another earth" (by Mike Cahill).

According to IMDB about this film, the first sentence says"On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system.." it is Sci-Fi film, but it is not a spectacular type of Sci-Fi, the back ground scenes are along with people's regular life.

I like the cinematography which is like cold, winter days.

You can discover more stories with their trailer.

Another earth trailer on youtube.

Frosted window- my mini show has been extended

2011-12-23T11:56:00.000-08:00

My mini - show, Frosted window is ongoing now -

it has been extended till late December.

It is at a French style cafe, Coco et olive on Main street.

Their space is filled with cool + rustic interiors and arts.

Foods and treats are really good, I'll recommend to try their quiche.

Anyways, don't miss to try my hats too!

Almost christmas!

2011-12-19T20:10:00.000-08:00

The town smells like Christmas trees -

I love the green, woody smell.

Now still I've been busy for everything..it is most exciting time of the year.

Last week, I was in the One of a kind show and it was fun as last year.

My booth at the show

My friend, she looks dolly with the hat!

My Cap-puchino hat.

Medina @ near chinatown

2011-11-22T13:15:00.000-08:00

In these days I was crazily busy then I wanted to have a time for "refresh"-

So last Sunday, I went a cafe "Medina" for brunch.

I heard their belgium waffles are good but I was too hungry then I ordered an omelette.

Goat cheese and herbs, smelled excellent.

My friend had a meat ball dish. It looked yummy.

We walked around Chinatown and Gastown a bit then I found my favourite coat.

I have been looking for a perfect coat for a long time then I decided to have it next month(I can't have it now, sadly..)!

Well, my mini hat show will open tomorrow, I have to prepare for it now.

After the storm

2011-11-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

Yesterday's weather was like a storm came to our town..

After the storm, I saw a rainbow and sun came up in the late afternoon.

I walked down to a park then I saw many colours of leaves flying with cold wind.

The lighting was amazingly gold, the scene was like a dream.

Btw..I'll have a mini-hat show at a French style cafe called "coco et olive" on Main street.

more info: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145189595582216

The month of frost

2011-11-04T10:43:00.000-07:00

This morning, I found neighbourhood's roofs are frosting -

Halloween spirits were back to their place, seems like "Count winter" has been arrived.

November called "a month of frost" in Japanese old language, "Shimo-tsuki"

This is my favourite time, mid-autumn to beginning of winter.

Halloween spirit

2011-10-30T22:54:00.000-07:00

Today I walked down the street and looked at Halloween houses.

I felt the Halloween spirits when the cold wind blew.

Mystically beautiful skeletons

Poor witch..she had an accident?

Into the Winter

2011-10-07T12:26:00.000-07:00

It is already mid Autumn -

The colour of maple leaves are turned into bright red, the wind is chilly - seems like the town is preparing for the winter.

I bought a local apple, it smells excellent.

I like the winter weather, the air is clear and tight, it makes me focus to my work.

Photo : Jeff christensen / Model:Sae

New items keep coming up at my store.

Vancouver Autumn

2011-09-18T16:40:00.000-07:00

It is already in the middle of September, hot days are almost gone, time to say good bye to dry weather ..Vancouver autumn is beginning of rainy season.

Autumn/Winter are not favourite season for most of Vancouver people - but actually autumn and winter is my favourite ones, I love colder temperature since I was in Japan.

It because of clothing. I love to make layers, love wool sweaters and coats, of course most important accessories, hats!

Now I'm preparing for showing new autumn/winter items to public, they will show up soon.

This is my new item, ready to wear version of snow cap, a lot of unique details on the hats.

You can see more descriptions on my store.

Featured on vogue.co.uk

2011-09-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

When I found my" Snow cap" hat on Vogue.co.uk, I was screamed!

The hat is for a contest "Design for Stephen Jones" and it has been shortlisted by Stephen Jones and Dolly Jones.(see last post)

Again thank you very much for Mr. and Mrs. Jones, and thank you so much for all people support my work.

You can see the article here

Stephen Jones hat contest

2011-08-30T13:06:00.000-07:00

As last time I posted, I took my hat to a competition "Design for Stephen Jones".

Today my work has been commended,shortlisted by mr. Stephen Jones and Mrs Dolly Jones(British vogue.com) .

When I saw my name on their list, I almost cried by happyness and joy.

Thank you so much for Mr. and Mrs Jones for the commendation, and thank you for people support my work.

The article is here,

You can see more article at talenthouse.

Mr.Jones is my most favourite designer, I was really impressed by his exhibition in Tokyo at 10 corso commo in 2006 and I sometimes look at the poster to remind the exciting feeling at his exhibition. It was unusual hat world - ready to wear to houte couture, all are really fascinatingly beautiful.

So..Mr.Jones saw my hat and my name is on the shortlist,is one of my dreams came true!

Photo shooting at a collage studio

2011-08-21T10:13:00.000-07:00

Jeff Christenson( www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreychristenson/sets/ ),

he is a photographer of a book called" Yarn bombing"( yarnbombing.com/yarn-bombing-the-book) , he selected my hats for his collage project.(Thanks Jeff!)

I went a studio at his school with my hats, there are other two students photographers and I had a fun to see each person's shooting style.

Thinking about their lighting.

Make up artist is styling model's hair.

The photos will be uploded on my etsystore soon!

Lady bug

2011-08-18T14:00:00.000-07:00

The lady bug finished metamorphose and he turned into shiny red coloured lady bug!
He often disappeared to fly but he returns the end of the day.

2011-08-13T15:44:00.000-07:00

My hat is in a competition,

"Design for Stephen Jones"

Featured partner with Vogue.

Please vote from here!

A snow cap, cute mountain hat. more detail is here.

Sunday lunch

2011-08-08T18:31:00.000-07:00

We had a Sunday lunch at Peckinpah in Gastown.

The peckinpah is a cozy barbecue house.

Unique themed interiors.

Look at this shiny bun!

The bread tasted sweet and was perfect for the BBQ.

I had a chicken, they had separate sause in a bottle, I could put the sause as much as I want.

It was messy Sunday lunch, was taste good!

Aphid eater - Lady bug

2011-08-05T17:24:00.000-07:00

I have a balcony garden.
Some of plants got aphids and I was worried about them, because they are bad for plants.I heard lady bug's lava eats them then I wished that lady bugs come on my balcony.
One day I found two ladybugs, then after a while, I found two lady bug's larvaes.
They ate a lot of aphids and now one of them metamorphoses.
Now the plants got aphids again, hope lady bugs bring more friends.

He just through away his black shell.

He became almost a lady bug, there are black dots.

Things about beer

2011-08-01T18:55:00.000-07:00

Beer Glasses Letterpress Pub Coasters

By greenbirdpress

6 Groomsmen Beer Mugs

ByWhitewashSundries

Vintage French Advertisements Poster

By curiousprints

Stubby bottle

2011-07-31T19:16:00.000-07:00

The other day, I was at a beer store's casher to buy a pack of redstripe beer, somebody behind me told me about "stubby bottle".
She said that the "stubby bottle" was popular in 70s, now they are not common and the style is sort of nostalgic.

According to wikipedia,

" A short glass bottle used for beer is generally called a stubby. Shorter and flatter than standard bottles, stubbies pack into a smaller space for transporting. The bottles are sometimes made with thick glass so that the bottle can be cleaned and reused before being recycled.

Stubbies are used extensively in Europe, and were used almost exclusively in Canada from 1962 to 1986 as part of a standardization effort intended to reduce breakage, and the cost of sorting bottles when they were returned by customers. Due to their nostalgic value, stubbies were reintroduced by a number of Canadian craft brewers in the early 2000s. In the U.S., stubbies have generally fallen out of favour, with only a few brands still using them such as the Session Lager by theFull Sail Brewing Company, and Red Stripe, a Jamaican brand import.

(I short cut some sentences from actual article)

Here's some images of retro bottles - they look interesting.

Do you think I talked about beer so often?

Yes, I love beer!

"Rustic kitchen" wish list

2011-07-23T12:52:00.000-07:00

Vintage French Enamelled Skimmer

Red Rectangular Wire Basket

farmhouse tables

APRON organic cotton hemp

Lambic beer

2011-07-16T21:29:00.000-07:00

Since I tried Kriek beer,

I became a big fun of those sour taste beer.

They called "Lambic"

"Lambic is a very distinctive type of beer brewed only in the Pajottenland region of Belgium (southwest of Brussels) and in Brussels itself at theCantillon Brewery and museum." (from wikipedia)

Yesterday I tried was Lambic Gueuze, Cuvee rene.

It tastes righter than the Kriek or Duches,

according to wikipedia, "a good gueuze will be given a year to referment in the bottle, but can be kept for 10–20 years."!

It is amazing to know people start making these kind of drinks 500 years ago..

Trip to Whistler- Summer snow

2011-07-10T14:22:00.000-07:00

My boyfriend's parents took us to Whistler.

At a lodge we stayed, this is a glass of water, the white part is air, was disappeared after few minutes.

A cute bird, Whiskey Jack.

We could see snow in close distance in July was amazing.

This is super long gondola, called "Peak to Peak" the view was extreme.

We' re lucky enough, we saw a bear family!

Bear cubs were wrestling and rolling around.

It was my first time to visit Whistler and I was really impressed by the greatness of BC, the nature and mountain views..Vancouver is such a beautiful place, city and great natures close together.

Summer flowers

2011-06-26T18:38:00.000-07:00

It's summer and lots of flowers are blooming. I enjoy to see them when I walk on the streets, and I found the flowers in this year are blooming more beautiful than usual year.

I guess that is because of the rain and temperature,we had colder and more rainy days in the spring.

The poppies at someone's garden were awesome.

Announcement!
Free shipping campaign is now on my store.

Risa Salsberg's art works

2011-06-16T16:26:00.000-07:00

Risa Salsberg, is Vancouver based mixed media artist.

I saw her works and greeting cards at Robson square market.

I bought one of her cards, her illustrations are minimum and unique,

the simple lines remind me Japanese style illustrations.

According to her website, she has studied with the Buddhist nuns in a Zen temple in Tokyo.

From her website, "Drift" series.

You can see more her cards on her etsy store also.

Craft market tour

2011-06-07T11:53:00.000-07:00

This month is local craft market tour month.
I'll do lots of markets,
last week I was at "Fab fair"on Main street Vancouver,
it is 7year's running show.The vendors were fantastic!

This coming weekend(11,12 June),
I'll be at"Robson Square artisan market".
This is my first time to join in them, they will continue through the summer until September.
It locates in the heart of Down Town,
not only for local shoppers, it will be a great tourist spot, people can find special souvenirs made by local artists.
They also have performers and musicians.

On Sunday 19th,
I'll be Fort Langley in Vancouver.
It called Bloom market.
This is my first time to participate this show ether, their "designer spotlight" article on their website is fun to look at.

Home made brioche

2011-06-01T18:32:00.000-07:00

I made brioche last night.

While I was baking them, the room smelled excellent.
Home made bread is such a great thing..

Bloom market featuring

2011-05-23T17:01:00.000-07:00

Recently, I do more craft shows and market than before -
I'll join Bloom market next month, they have "spotlight interview" on their blog.
My designer spotlight intervew is on today, please check it out.

Bloom website

My new series, tomokotahara bijoux is out on etsy.

Thank you for the featuring

2011-05-19T19:54:00.000-07:00

The red velvet cake I ate today was huge amount..I couldn't finish it.

My item is featuring on Yann Pendaries's blog.He is a photographer and writing about unique story of fictional trip with his images, you can see his beautiful images on the blog.

Check out this,
Photography Project : 80 days in a Hot Balloon: the lights of Prague: "look how beautiful this city is rocked by light and poetry , watch and learn all other here ... montserratlacomba, ..."

Tambourine world

2011-05-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

The other day, my boyfriend needed tambourine for his song, we went a music store to buy it.

There are some selection of the tambourines, toy like ones to high quality professional ones.

We tried couple and I was surprised every style of tambourines had different sound, and we tried them all, like tambourine critics.

Of cause high price one has excellent sound,

even the regular ones had different sounds, we tried to compare them for a while - at last he choose regular one.

Then I discovered tambourine world?!

by tumbleweedsoddities

by thebearandthebea

by SurrenderDorothy

Sunday walk

2011-05-01T14:44:00.000-07:00

My boyfriend's friend was visiting today, they have known each other since they were children.

Now he has a beautiful son!

We went to Mainstreet for a walk.

We had a Brunch at "Lucy's".

After that, we walked around the street.

Went to "Lark", a lot of stripe shirts, their spring stuffs are beautiful. (the photo took from their web site)

At Dandelion Emporium,

they have awesome blankets.

They will be great for spring picnic. (the photo from their web site)

Don't forget to check out my stuff, spring items are out in the Dandelion emporium.

It was nice to see the friend, we didn't see him for a long time and, it was our first time to see his son!

Fun and relaxing Sunday.

perfect half circle

2011-04-27T20:11:00.000-07:00

Double rainbow appeared in Vancouver yesterday.

I bet the end is in front of my apartment.

I could see perfect half circle.

Sneakers wanted

2011-04-23T18:02:00.000-07:00

I was looking at sneakers.I found some cute ones. Unfortunately, they are not my size.

Who are the lucky sneaker cinderella(s)?

by 1stlove

bylisazain

by honeyhoneyhi

Flowers

2011-04-22T20:37:00.000-07:00

I didn't blog for a while..I was busy for work and pretty much staying at home everyday, didn't have inspiration for writing. Today I had a chance to get out from work, and walked around the town.

This is out of subject from today's walk but I felt like to write.
My boyfriend likes perfumes, he has a good nose(?). When we take a walk, me and he like to smell flowers from somebody's garden. The other day, we found currant flowers during the walk.Surprisingly, they smell like "wine gum(black coloured one)"!
We like the smell and every time when we pass by the tree, we take a smell of the flowers.
The other day, I found currant flowers at a flower shop, of cause I bought it.
Now the flower's smell is a bit faded but still they smell like "wine gum".

If I own a house..

2011-04-07T16:25:00.000-07:00

If I had a house, I'll put some classical stained glasses.

by absoluteglass195

by PanesToPetals

by HouseofShards

Spring garden

2011-04-03T18:09:00.000-07:00

Van Dusen garden, waiting for spring.

My new piece.

My favourite rain coat

2011-04-01T12:16:00.000-07:00

I tried to tweet this funny story but it was too short to tell. I'll write it here.

I bought this coat while ago and it is one of my favourite court, but I didn't have many chance to wear.

coat by secretlake

Today was rain and I wore the coat with perfect coordination, and went out.

As soon as walked on a small street from my place, a car came toward to me.

And then, a big splash came on me from a paddle, it was made by the car.

At least it made only my pants wet..the raincoat protected me.

Still my clothing was too wet to go somewhere.

I was gave up to go out and came back to my room.

I should go out later, after having a lunch.

I'm a bread fun.

2011-03-29T16:50:00.000-07:00

I'm a fun of breads, today I found "a bread affair"'s bread shelf at a supermarket and a little excited.
I bought one of their breads last summer at a farmer's market, and loved it.
Their breads are made with organic ingredients, if you are a sour dough lover, must try them.
Can't wait to eat the baguette tonight.

Vintage bread box or pie safe by 5gardenias

Local market

2011-03-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

I was in a local fashion market called Portobellowest yesterday.
It was fun to see colourful local artisans, also fun to talk with people.
Thank you for all people in the show!

Roy Arden, etc.

2011-03-20T18:32:00.000-07:00

Things I did in this weekends:

On Saturday, I went Roy Arden's exhibition at Contemporary Art Gallery in Yaletown.

Photos from:
Roy Arden
Contemporary Art Gallery

On Sunday, I went Steveston village for a walk.
*Steveston is a historical fisherman's village.

Looking for spring

2011-03-07T20:02:00.000-08:00

We went to a lake to enjoy the sun.

Dogs were walking everywhere in the park.This is somebody's dog.

Last time we visited this park, everything was frozen.

Now the ices were melted away by the spring sunshine.

Gallery walk + Public market,etc

2011-03-05T18:58:00.000-08:00

We walked around Granville street, visited galleries today.

Monte Clark's now Greg Girard, Photos of Hanoi city.

We also went Emily Carr University's gallery. Then we went there, they had a pottery auction.

It looked like interesting but we didn't see it.

We had some coffee and tea at the public market.

I was thinking about how can I use the leftover wine.

..and get mussels! 'll cook them tonight.

Lonely Heron

2011-03-03T18:55:00.000-08:00

I often saw a heron at a harbour, probably it is same one because he(or she) always stays in a similar spot.
I wanted to make a hat with heron since I saw it and was thinking that how could I represent the bird to it, finally I made it.
It will appear on my store tomorrow.

March, it is..!

2011-03-02T19:25:00.000-08:00

Spring items I checked.

Beautiful lined blouse, by Allencompanyinc

Chic look pants by viralthreads

Suede oxford by simplevintage

Snowy day

2011-02-26T22:00:00.000-08:00

It was snow in Vancouver today.
I just rolled up my favourite blanket a few days ago, but I opened it again.

My balcony plants were covered up by snow.

If will be sunny tomorrow, I'll take snow photos, if it will be rain or snow, maybe I'll read a book.

Hearty meal

2011-02-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

Vancouver's winter is almost rain everyday, but recently the weather is getting better and better.

If the daytime was sunny and warm,

I like to go out without my coat.

I made a bottle of souerkraut with 3 pounds of leftover cabbage.

Spring temperature is nice to make fermentation products, so I tried it and succeeded.

The other day, I made "Choucroute Royale(Braised souerkraut, from Julia child's recipe)" with roasted pork.
It tastes good as the exact recipe, but since my souerkraut tastes mild, I added apples and maple syrup, balsamic vinegar to increase the taste. It was a hearty meal.

Gold tree

2011-02-19T15:57:00.000-08:00

These days, Vancouver is not too cold, I rolled up my blanket.

Coffee and walking..

The trees were reflecting the sun, they looked like gold colour.

We don't forget to say hi to neighbour cats.

Long walking

2011-02-10T16:17:00.000-08:00

After I finished my work, I took a long walk.
It was about 1.5 hours,around 2km for a round.

I was thinking to go to a bakery which has really good breads. It is a bit far from my place, over a hill, I can't go there often.

Then in the middle of a walk to the bakery, I found a tiny cafe on a street.
I heard it opened on November last year, it is cosy and nice place.

The outpost cafe

I had a cup of coffee at the cafe and walked to the bakery.

My private project

2011-02-08T16:20:00.000-08:00

As I wrote last time, I'm trying to stay away from my computer whole day once a week, or as well as I can.

So..I'm thinking about to start writing letters for my friends constantly, instead of e-mails.
Usually I use e-mails not only for works, for contacting my friends also, they are handy and quick, easy to have contacts.

Letters take time for writing and arriving, they need stamps, but are more exciting to receive.

Here I'll introduce cute stationary sets.

By delphineSTUDIO

By ilfant

"Through away your book" changed..

2011-02-06T11:41:00.000-08:00

Once a week, I'm trying to do not look at my computer whole day, the day I call "Forget about the Internet, go out into the streets"day.

I often stack in front of computer, internet is interesting and handy, an irresistible world, but am trying to leave from it as well as I can. It is difficult to me, even only once a week.

The day's title(?) is inspired by a book called "Through away your books, rally on the streets" by Shuji Terayama.

The book was written in 60's, about his thought for young men's lifestyle.

I guess it is in the other words, " Learn about things not only from reading your books, also you should see different world, find out your own way"

He made a movie with same title in 70's, it is slightly different from the book, is artistic, thought of punkish film.

Anyways, today was supposed to be "no online day", but I woke up late and outside is rain as Vancouver's winter weather, still am stacking on the computer..

#The images from the movie

If I had enough space-

2011-01-30T18:06:00.000-08:00

If I had enough space, I will make a collection of..BLANKETS!

From olliesolio

FromVintageWare

From CometWreckage

Red berry collection

2011-01-28T18:08:00.000-08:00

Mystery

2011-01-27T17:24:00.001-08:00

At an old hospital..

Found a treasure.

A humming bird with a red belly came to me and flew away.

It is still January, isn't it?!

Quiet field

2011-01-26T17:15:00.000-08:00

We took a train to walk different town.

We found an abandoned field, it was quiet, mysterious place.

In the middle of night

2011-01-25T21:52:00.001-08:00

I often work in the middle of night,

and often bake scones when I get bored with my work.

Now today's work is all done, I'll start to have some beer with movie!

Smell of

2011-01-23T16:46:00.000-08:00

A chilly rainy day,

I was in my blanket cocoon, thinking to bake something.

I decided that I should make a blueberry pie.

Fragrant of stewing blueberry is always great.

Wooden soap opera

2011-01-19T15:23:00.000-08:00

Matoko, she is Russian.

Kokeko, she is Russian Japanese.

Kristoff, I don't know where is his origin, probably somewhere in Scandinavia.

I put them all together and face in front but oneday,

Matoko and Kokeko show their back each other.

Kristff might get in trouble in between with two women..?

Walking on a park

2011-01-12T17:59:00.000-08:00

After the rain, walked on a park.

Found a quiet winter pool.

Wet running track.

Sunny day walk

2011-01-09T18:31:00.000-08:00

Vancouver's winter weather is basically rain, sunny days are rare.

Luckily, we had some sunny days.

Sun makes everything looks beautiful.

Even the town I walk everyday.

Frosty days3

2011-01-08T17:28:00.001-08:00

A cold day,

I found a white frock on a frozen lake.

The beach was covered by frost.

A dog came to me to say hi.

Winter sky

2011-01-07T10:51:00.001-08:00

Originally uploaded by ianlanterman

Photo by ianlanterman.
The hat is inspired by frosted flower.

Frosty days2

2011-01-05T18:43:00.001-08:00

I went to a park the other day.

Everything was frosted.

The lake was covered by ice.

I heard sound of cracking ice on the lake.

It was really strange sound, remind me a sound of siren.

Frosty days1

2011-01-03T17:54:00.000-08:00

A cold winter day..

I baked Caramel onion pie.

My boyfriend made the filling with onion,mushrooms with balsamic vinegar.

Great with goat cheese.Yum.

2010-2011

2011-01-01T12:58:00.000-08:00

In the end of the 2010, we had a lot of beer, after hours,

spend time at six acres untill 11:30.

We walked to home to wait midnight.

In the middle of a bridge, the year 2011 started.

We could hear people screaming and sounds of fire works.

A happy new year

2010-12-31T17:18:00.000-08:00

A happy new year, wish everybody has a great year.

One of a kind show

2010-12-13T12:02:00.001-08:00

I just finished the last show in this year yesterday.

I joined "one of a kind show"was really, really fun and special.

It was my first year,

thank you for all people at the show!

(I need more English lessons by the way..)

My hat with Yoga style.Thanks for the cute coordination!

After witches, monsters..

2010-11-01T15:09:00.000-07:00

After my halloween reading..

Went for a haunted houses watching .

Preparing dinner..

Bloody fingernail.

Made a "Witchy Salad" Eye balls and fingers on the baby spinach.

The eye ball idea is from Michael Smith's recipe on Food network,

I putted centre eye balls on them.

Happy halloween

2010-10-31T10:14:00.000-07:00

(these are at a neighbour's door)

Monsters and witches will be partying tonight..

Looking for umbrellas

2010-10-28T12:53:00.000-07:00

I was looking fat internet for finding an unique umbrellas but..I found a cute Polaroid photo instead..

By pocketmemories

"Saturday morning"Treasury

2010-10-23T11:53:00.000-07:00

My item is featured in HollyKeenan's"Saturday morning" treasury.

Her treasury is always cute! Thanks for the feature.

Traditional, pop..

2010-10-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

I often help my friend's booth at "Granville island public market".

She is a glass lamp work artist, Minori Takagi. She've been working in this field over 10 yrs since before move to Canada.

I 'm looking forward to see her booth every time, her works are really cool.

Modern+traditional style

I like (I don't know what she calls but I'm calling them "Galaxy rings")these rings.

They look like a little universe in a glass.

Some twitters?

You can see her website, she has an etsy store with friend too.

Pumpkin curving party

2010-10-20T16:42:00.000-07:00

We were invited a Halloween pumpkin curving party at my boyfriend's friend's house.

Friend's daughter.She's excited about her first curving.(my first pumpkin curving too..)

Marked the face and cut the top.

The dog is curious to look at.

This is my work..may not for kids.

The dog was looking at my boyfriend's cat pumpkin.

My friend and his daughter's one.Princess pumpkin!

It was fun night.

Listening & Studying

2010-10-19T15:01:00.000-07:00

"Dandelion record and Emporium" is a cool store, they are selling records and gifts, is located on main street.

I often visit there, not only just by myself, it is good to visit with my boyfriend, while he is stacking to dig the records, I'm looking for "zakka(things)"s and books.

They have selected local designer's items also!

Interior design show west

2010-10-16T18:22:00.001-07:00

I went to see "Interior design show west", it was held at New Convention Centre.

There's a lot of exhibitors, not only interior related companies, paintings and photos, sculptures and artisan furnitures, young designer's artworks too.