ikebana update

I did the following two arrangements on the same day. The first one is moribana, and the second one is freestyle... I forget what it's called in Japanese.


The next one has cherry blossom branches on the outer part of the arrangement. I had the most trouble with this one, and in the end I wasn't really happy with it.
But after taking it home and looking at it for a few days, I started to like it more. Then when the flowers started blooming it was really pretty to look at!

This last one I did this week. It took a long time to think of what to do with the flowers and how to cut them, but in the end I was happy with it. I think this was my favorite so far.
I wish you could see them in person though... it's hard to capture the 3D-ness in a picture.

vernal equinox

Friday was a holiday to celebrate the spring equinox. Kyoko was kind enough to invite me to her house (or maybe I invited myself?)... and we spent the day bowling, taking purikura, going to a sand dune, touching the pacific ocean, and looking for four-leaf clovers in a park. As you can see, we each found one!

picture by kyoko

in my neighborhood

oh these are the things in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood... oh these are the things in my neighborhood, the things that I found today....

Hotel BS

Happiness Part I


Domi Super Center (which has a 100yen shop, supermarket and a secondhand shop!)

If you couldn't tell, I was most excited about the Domi Supercenter.

it's all about the triangles

I started learning Ikebana with a couple of other gals from church today. Sorry the picture isn't the greatest quality... my camera isn't charged at the moment so I used iphoto and held my computer to take the picture. So it's kind of blurry.



This is also the recreated arrangement... First we do it in class, then Mimi, my teacher, fixes it (it's amazing what a little turn/twist/bend can do), and then we take a picture and sketch it. After that we take it apart and bring all the materials home to recreate it again (as my dad always says, "practice makes better"). It's kind of nice to have flowers in my room.

(on a side note: I think Japan is making me more girly.)

peanuts

The cutest Woodstock ever.

charlie brown, snoopy, woodstock, sally

This was drawn today for me by my friend, Emily (4 years old). :)