Japanese sake tasting

Well... I regret.
I was too busy enjoying the sake tasting night with my friend over this beautiful appetizer plate (and so much more!), I completely forgot to take pictures of the several kinds of great sake I had. Really, what a shame! Oh-well. Next time I attend the tasting event, I will be sure and remember to take more photos. But isn't this platter just so beautifully arranged?!



今回で２度目のきき酒の会、残念ながら美味しすぎて、楽しすぎて、肝心の日本酒の写真を撮りそびれてしまいました。次回の会では忘れずに記録を撮っておきます！　でも、この盛りつけステキよね！春の味覚、先取り〜♪

At Wabisuke, Nogizaka, a Kyoto style restaurant.
One of my usual and favorite places to have Udon/Japanese noodles for lunch. And of course, they have a nice selection of Japanese sake and Kyoto food for dinner.

Snow Tokyo

It hardly ever snows in Tokyo but it did from the middle of the night.
I'm not a big fan of the cold season but this is an exception. I love it when it snows late at night and the city covered in white is quieter than ever.

Happy February

Boy, time just flies! It's already February... and a year has passed by since I started this blog honestly I didn't think I would keep up this long at first. But looking back I guess it's been a blog- worthy year. I traveled to some new places, saw new things, spent great quality times with friends and I even started a little web shop. I'm really happy to have people from all over the world to check out my handmade and it's been a true pleasure to make people happy with what I make. Thank you so much for your support!
I feel this year will continue to be blog worthy as I foresee some big change in my life. We'll see how that all goes!

早いものでもう２月になってしまいました！そしてこのブログを始めてからやっと１年。３日坊主になるかと思ったけれど、続けてきたのを振り返ってみる新しい場所へ行ったり、たくさん友達と楽しい時間をすごして、さらに小さいけれど念願のウェブショップを始めたりと、とても盛りだくさんな１年でした。世界中の人に私のハンドメイドを喜んでもらえて、本当にうれしくて感謝してます！
これから大きなライフチェンジが待ち構えているので、きっと引き続きブログしていきます。どうなるかはお楽しみに！


Illustration by Jean Philippe Delhomme
Have I ever mentioned? I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE ELEPHANTS.

My recent work

I hadn't been able to arrange taking pictures or update my shop for a short while but I finally did. But only just a few for now. I'm also adding earrings to my collection. Something like this...

Slow cooking, slow food

It's time to make homemade marmalade again.

Super sour home grown natsu-mikan.


An endless process of slicing the orange peal.


And after over 8 hours of slow preparing and cooking....
Voila! Marmalade all stocked up!

Aizu-wakamatsu, Fukushima

I went to Aizu-wakamatsu over the weekend for an onsen trip with my very good friend. We did nothing but eat, soak in onsen and sleep!



Snow, snow, snow! A view from the Shinkansen on the way to Fukushima.



No pictures from the onsen site but this is where we stayed. The hot spring was great, the room we stayed was clean and ok (the best part was being able to check-out at 12 noon) and the food was pretty good. Overall, it wasn't so bad.

And a few pictures of nice retro architectures in the neighborhood.

Colorful wall

Just guess what this is...



A climbing wall with people hanging and climbing.


And that's me climbing for the first time!