Brooklyn Zine Fest this Weekend!

Don't miss the best event in Brooklyn ever, The Brooklyn Zine fest! Saturday and Sunday, April 26th & 27th this weekend at the Brooklyn Historical Society, a very cool venue in Brooklyn Heights. Yours truly will be tabling as Usagi Por Moi, I will have photo & craft zines a plenty, lots of stuff about Japan ,stationery, & crafts. Plus, I will be hosting Dandy Horse Press micro zines and Polkaros lovely zines.

New Vintage Ephemera Zine Available

Papers & Things, is a collection of lovely vintage ephemera that I have collected over the years. This is a full color 24 page zine with a DVD included with jpgs and pngs for you to use in making lovely invites, cards, tags, jewelry. There are instructions on how to use the DVD and an idea page for wonderful crafts to make with the ephemera. Get it here.

 Limited quantities
 Full Color
24 pages
DVD included

Sweet Japanese Cafe

Today my friend texted me that she found a cute new Japanese cafe,Hanamizuki,

 near where she works, so I just happened to be in the neighborhood and popped on in. They have so many different and interesting flavored onigiris. They serve wonderful lunch sets for affordable prices and delicious desserts! I ordered the green tea and black sesame creme brûlée it was so good. I definitely will be popping back in soon.

Getting there:

143 W 29th St, New York

, NY

. Take the 1 train to 28th street station.

Treasures from Japan

As a birthday gift to myself I ordered a few items from (a couple of weeks ago) Hiki's store Uguisu the Little Shoppe. Hiki has the most beautiful assortment of goods and art from Japanese artists. My favorites are always the stationery, you can never have enough paper goods. One of my absolute favorite Japanese artist is Aiko Fukawa. Fukawa-sans delicate paintings are joyful, strange and a sheer delight to look at. I was fortunate to have found a few lovely pieces in Hiki-chan's shop including a wonderful notebook filled with Fukawa-sans work and still enough room to add your own notes. Plus, I'm waiting for a lovely 8 card set of Fukawa-sans's paintings which will hang in my home. Along with these treasures I bought a beautiful letterpress coaster set entitled "Squirrel Forest" also a gorgeous packet of origami paper by Cochae.


Beautiful wrapping by Hiki

special surprise gift inside from Hiki, lovely vintage stationery. Thank you, Hiki-chan! xoxo