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Monday, September 24, 2012

Summer fun: Japanese Food Festival

These past two months have been crammed with summer goodness which is why I've been a little scarce on the blog and I do apologize for that. In NYC one of the biggies for summer is food festivals and we got to enjoy an amazing feast at the Japanese food festival in Astoria. Here is a roll I just back filled with mouth-watering dishes.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

A Crafty Wedding

About six months ago my very good friend Michelle ask her crafty friends to help her decorate her wedding happening in September. After many battles, procrastination and hurt fingers we pulled it off with big beautiful tissue dahlia poms, hand-lettered signage, and handmade paper crafted goods. We had many friend help make the dahlia's and hang them, hanging them was the bit that was most tricky, but Michelle married a clever man and he worked it out with his buddies and or dear friend, Adriana who created a master plan. Debra made beautiful signs for the wedding cupcakes, tables, restrooms, and directions. I in the end scrambled to make a pretty guestbook with lovely Japanese paper and vintage paper and gold leather I collected.

Pics of the wedding to follow soon. I also have a lot of catching up to do, I've had a busy two months and now I can catch my breath and share it all with you.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Trip to Rainbow Circus

Check out the little treasury I put together on Etsy

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Tsumori Chisato and paper crafts!

This week I popped into Kinokuniya to pick up my book on garland and mobile crafts that Jenna so kindly gave me the info after posting it on her blog, Hand Deco Interior. This is a super fun Japanese craft book with loads of creative ideas on making garlands, mobiles and ornaments. I must warn you the instructions are in Japanese and there are no visual instructions so it will take a little imagination and ingenuity on your part to make these. I was thinking maybe making a garland incorporating some of these lovely crepe paper flowers I found over on Oh Happy Day.

While I was at Kino I was browsing in the magazine section and I came across this Tsumori Chisato catalog with an awesome treat inside! I little golden kitty wallet by Tsumori-san! So exciting!