Archive for November, 2007
A very sweet candle-making book has just been released!
It shows you how to make candles of a doughnut, a baguette or a rose and a Ranancuras, which all look so very real.
I was given a doughnut candle as a gift, but it is just too lovely to light &let it melted…
There are also the candle-making workshops, but they would be fully booked straight away every time. It would be a miracle if you can join the workshops !
At the moment, I have been really into “KIRIGAMI”!
It is a paper motif made up by folding, cutting and then reopening a piece of paper.
Kanako Yaguchi has published several “KIRIGAMI” books, and among them, I love the “OTONA NO KIRIGAMI NO HON”(ISBN 4569692354) most.
The other day, I was making “KIRIGAMIs” with the book like mad , and have ended up loads of them…
There is a website that lets you make a “KIRIGAMI” online, too.
This is for the Japanese style.
“MON” is Japanese traditional patterns often used for “FUROSHIKI” or “wagashi”, and these “MONs” can also be made by “KIRIGAMI”.
How about putting the “MON” you made on a card or a coaster?
Or using a fabric “KIRIGAMI” for an appliqu?, which would be cute, too!
“ALWAYS sunset of the 3-chome:”, the sequel of the mega hit movie “ALWAYS sunset of the 3-chome” has just been released.
Now the Seven-Eleven is running a tie-up campaign with this movie and offering the related products.
The movie is set in Japan around 1960‘s, so there are various stuff of that time, such as the remade, retro looking packages of confectionaries, or the choro-Q cars of the models of the time and so on.
Trailer
Collectable 6 type of choro-Q in the “blind box”! I bought 2 boxes! I’ve got Mazda T-2000 and Mazda Carol360.
I never saw these real cars but imagine if my granpa ride on …
On the second of November, the MoMA Design Store was opened in Omotesando. This is their first store overseas.
There, they have a lot of products that you cannot get from their online shop.
I found that Anemone Pen, which is also very popular at 8tote’s real shop!! (@o@)
MoMA Design Store
5-10-1 GYRE 3F
Jingumae Shibuya Tokyo
Arranging a plant ( “Ueki” in Japanese) like a piece of cake, that’s “Ueki Cake”.
These unique miniature plant arrangements are works of Tomoko Mitsuma, artist & display designer.
At her Ueki Cake exhibitions, she shows a lot of fun ideas for plants and sells her Ueki Cakes in the glass showcase used for real cake shops or displaying them with zakka.
She has held her exhibitions not only within Japan, but also in Paris, which was very well received. There are also books showing how to make Ueki Cakes or how you can wrap and present them.
I just got a new cosmetic bag”forest print” form COOKIE fortune.
This is a new print for holiday season. sooo cute.
Can you find a cat in the forest? Her name is Mimio.
This is a new card case form Michiru Abe. She started a bag brand “MICHIRU ABE” in 1993. You can get her works at Beams.
I’m not a big collector of Suica Penguin goods but I do love the Suica penguin. I got some stuffed Penguins, a Penguin pass holder, a ballpoint pen…
This penguin is the mascot character of “Suica”, which is a prepaid card available for JR east (the train lines around Tokyo).
You can get various character products at the station’s kiosks, pay by Suica, and of course, by cash.
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If I take you to look around Tokyo, I would take you to Asakusabashi.
Well, if around the JR Akihabara station is a “town of OTAKU nerds”, then the next stop Asakusabashi is a “town of handmade”.
You can get beads and accessories materials, ribbons and other hand craft stuff at wholesale price.
Because Asakusabashi is wholesale-stores area, you can also find many other goods like commercial wrapping papers, display supplies or artificial flowers.
Of course, many stores accept a purchase for retail, so I often visit Asakusabashi for shopping.
I’d recommend “Shimojima”
Come out from the East Exit of JR Asakusabashi, walk to the left along the Edogawa Street , then next to a bakery there is 8-story shop building. That’s Shimojima’s 5th shop.. This one has the largest variety and number of goods of all Shimojima’s.
As it was close to Halloween, there were full of Halloween goods.
If you are into beading accessories, then you should not miss visiting “KIWA”!
Come out from the East Exit of JR Asakusabashi, walk to the right along the Edogawa Street, then you see “KIWA” right away.
There are always so many people busy with getting their beads and accessory parts.
Or if you like ribbons then check “MOKUBA”.
They have so many ravishingly gorgeous ribbons.
You can purchase from one meter. Take a roll you like to the counter and ask them to cut it to your desired length.
