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As some of you might have noticed, I created a new page “Gallery” on this blog, in which I can share beautiful art and craftworks created by my Japanese artists or artisans (and hopefully by myself, too in the future!). The main purpose of this page is to give them an opportunity to have their works seen by foreign people as often as possible. I believe this will trigger their motivation to create more kawaii or cool works.

Kawaii Notebooks:

Kawaii Notebook -Matcha-

Kawaii Notebook -Matcha (inside)-

Kawaii Notebook -Botan-

Kawaii Notebook -Botan (inside)-

Kawaii Notebook -Fuji-

Kawaii Notebook -Fuji (inside)-

Kawaii Notebook -Sora-

Kawaii Notebook -Sora (inside)-

Recommended usage:

These are small and handy. Chika likes to bring one of them as an idea book, which I think is nice idea. I’d love to keep one for myself and write down the good phrases I encounter from reading or talking with friends, as well as new ideas for this blog or business! It’s also nice to use it as a diary with little illustration. I personally don’t like lined notebooks. I like free style just like these. It’s also cool to write a story in the book and make my own fictional novel and give it someone as a present<3

About the artist:

Chika
Chika has learned oil and acrylic paintings and she also has experience of making glassworks. Nowadays she enjoys drawing works with colored pencils or pastels. She has mastered bookbinding while she likes book, notebook and cloth. "It's my great pleasure to be able to have someone, even if it's only 1 person in the world, who understands my feeling that how much I'm impressed with the beauty of the color or the line of my work." Chika is very happy to have her works treated at Tokyo Kawaii, etc. and I am very happy to be able to share her works with my readers! Please feel free to comment or contact me if you are interested in purchasing one of these works.

I don’t even have my iphone. But I happened to find some cute iphone 4 cases and I picked up some for selling at FlutterScape.

iphone 4 deco case (heart & pearl)¥4,210more details

iphone 4 deco case (pink heart)¥4,210more details

iphone 4 deco case (rose & heart)¥4,210more details

iphone 4 deco case (skull)¥4,210more details

Also this is the cutest Rilakkuma iphone case (for iphone 3GS/3G) I found at Rilakkuma store the other day. (I went there to shop for the giveaway gift for one of the winners. )

Rilakkuma Iphone 3GS/3G Hard Case¥3,175more details

In Japan, new cell phones are always released to the market and a-few-months old phones are disappearing from cell phone stores. Every phone had different shape and design and so it was impossible to change covers from old one to the new one, from one brand to another, and that’s why we had to decorate cell phones by ourselves if we wanted to have decoden. Compared with that, iphone is great. It’s the same shape anywhere. It’s a lot more eco-firendly compared with ours. We have too many different designed new phones with unnecessary functions added from the beginning. Thanks to iphone, we can easily purchase cute iphone covers like these and even decoden can be done so easily!!

I want my iphone…but if I had that money, I’d choose to travel somewhere.

I knew summer sale started at the very beginning of July, but I was too busy to go out for hunting. Well, there are other reasons I didn’t because I don’t like the fashion trend this year (maxi-take wanpi = maximum length dress and this kind of hat) and nothing looks attractive enough for me to shop. As I have mentioned at somewhere, shops in Japan do not sell anything that goes against the trends. That means, there’s nothing I want to buy when I don’t like the fashion trend. (I’d save the money for what I really like to have!)

Anyway it was a surprise when I saw the sign “Final Sales” at a Marui department store in Shibuya the other day! It’s in the middle of summer when temperature is over 35 degrees C, sometimes even nearly 40C everyday!! I know fashion always take the trends from next season, but I wondered if summer sale has ever ended so soon. If my memory was correct, it’s been mid August that “Final Sale” was announced. I even saw some boots for the next season.

Wow…it looked like I totally missed the sale period. I didn’t plan to buy anything but as it turned out, I found myself attracted by these sandals. Whenever I shop, I find the thing I want very quickly. This time was no exception. There were black and white (with mixed color) as other options, but I liked this yellow from the beginning! I knew how I should wear these right at the moment when I saw them. I knew they’d look so kawaii with colored socks, tights or leggings especially dark blue or purple and in autumn! I could imagine it so well and I asked the sales assistant how she’d think about that. To my surprise, she was totally impressed with my idea, saying “You’re so right. I’ve never thought of wearing these sandals in that way. I was only thinking about this season, but you’re right, these sandals are so cute to be coordinated with colored tights!! Now I know…” ^ ^; It sounded as if I were the sales assistant. But I was glad she liked my idea.

They were not discounted for sales, but I loved them. So I bought them. It’s 12600yen. To me, what I like is what I like and that I buy. I don’t care about the trends or everybody’s having. The soles fit on my feet so well and they were very comfortable to wear. Well there are places we can get cheaper shoes but I’ve been a big fan of this brand named WanoNano for over 10 years, and I usually keep wearing a pair of shoes from them for at least 3 years. This day I was wearing a pair of WanoNano sandals, which I have been wearing 3 or 4 summers so far. I went back home with the new sandals on, in exchange for the old ones to get repaired. I will wear them 2 more summers, hopefully. :p

I placed a piece of paper underneath because I already wore them outside house. (Remember? We take off shoes at home.)

Finally I can say good bye to the old pass case I used for over 10 years. I’ve been looking for a new one since I found small holes on the old one. I bought the new one from the left-over goods that waited for someone at the last minute. I kinda like to keep a train pass, library card and keys all together in a kiss-lock type of pouch. I think I keep this style for decades.

Oh, I also carry my Omamori (charm for protection) with me. Wait…I have no idea how long I’ve been using that Winnie-the-Pooh keychain. It must be over 15years I guess….^ ^;

It’s such a personal diary, are you sure you want to read something like this? Right now I’m reading the entry emails for the giveaway contest and I found some people are interested in my daily life, as a sample of how a local Japanese live in Japan. I’ve been thinking that my posts are to be designed for something useful and informative, but I guess it’s nicer to include personal posts like what I bought, what I ate, what I did in Tokyo…right? ^ ^;

Putting a little deco sticker on clothes is easy and it’s popular in Japan now. Unlike decoden or sweets deco crafting, it doesn’t require high skills. I’d like to share my first deco clothing experience video that I took while I was playing with it the other day.

It just made me worry because the rhinestones on the edge were not sticky very well. I think I was spending a lot more time than 20-30 seconds. (I also cut off some parts of the video to be edited no longer than 10 minutes.) I suspect it was because of the thickness of my pants.

But I’m relieved I’m finished finally with the bling-bling star deco on the back pocket of the pants!

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