spring!

this is a picture from cafe in cave in japan.

old furniture, cozy air, amazing fruit desserts(because the owner family also owns fruit farms!)  they make apple tea with actual fresh squeezed apple juice, oh, i want to have it right now...

“Great Luck in Beginning Spring”

bye bye winter, you are my favorite one in whole season!  see you!

as a mom...

crocheted stash basket from the purl bee

i'm a huge supporter of the purl bee now, wonderful design, unique idea, and generous free patterns and tutorials!  many thanks to the purl bee! 

I've been lucky to have magical time, such as, time to crochet or knit, time to bake cute cookies, time to stay on touching my computer, yes, it is magic!  When my two-year-old son comes over to get attention and says "mama! mama!" to me, he looks more adorable than ever, because I'm grateful for him.  BUT... sometime, I get a little edgy when he grabbed my yarn, or closed my computer's window, then I feel so self-centered... I'm such a baby, not mother...  I'm still growing into a mother who is big enough to take a break and play with him. It's been only for two years to spend time together with my son, I'm also two years old as a "mom". 

 

our valentine's day

a cookie with sewing stitch, a bunny with white tale and feet

they are sitting on a napkin with lots of tomatoes.

 I got a wonderful partner to make pink warmhearted vanilla cookie together.  She came over here with her special kit which is icing kit and message in cookie cutters. fun! cute! yummy!

 I love events, Christmas, new year's day, valentine's day, Easter... they made me want to be crafty more and more, my next project will be knitted Easter eggs, so excited!

I'm sending my "xoxo" through my picture!  

Hope you will enjoy it!

my love for basket

I needed a basket for my ongoing project, so I crocheted a tiny blue basket with linen yarn. 

 The pattern is from one of my favorite crochet and knitting book. 

There are several things I couldn't leave at my parent's house when I moved in LA.  One of them is "baskets".   A basket has been one of my loves, seriously, I have way too many baskets at my parent's house, because the basket is the best place to store my stuff in (I believe!)  Well, in a perfect world, I would love to live with hundreds of baskets, but we move often and won't settle down for a while...  When I miss my baskets so much, I treat myself with this beautiful site. The owner of this store has the best taste ever in ZAKKA, her selection blow me away.  

My fantasy is taking classes to make my own white birch basket in Sweden!  

good for me!

Hello,

Finally here it is.

One of the things I've decided to do this year is starting a new blog in English.

I also hope that keeping my blog will keep me on track and make me try the other many things on my to-do list even though I'm busy mom with my 2-year-old son.

This is huge challenge for me, as a Japanese, it is tough for me to write in English, so I am nervous... but it will be fine, just need to pretend keeping a diary for myself. Nobody reads, checks my grammar, yells at me each time I made a mistake. hahaha.

I made "hi" message with my son's "O"s on my favorite black check tray. This tray is from amazing Japanese shop called fog linen. This store sells exactly what I want to decorate for my house.