finished

finally.ive been shaking my head all day wondering how soulemama finishes sweaters in a week. its taken me god knows how many to finish these.i knit this pattern for hana in orange and purple.i love this pattern.i love making the bobbles.knitting and purling one way, knitting back the other way then slipping the stitches.people who make write knitting patterns fascinate me.

will have to take a photo of the plants before they finish.its been fun to pick them daily.the raspberry and blueberry gave us no fruits.i think my soil has too much compost in it.my sunflowers are about to flower and they are only 40 cm.my dill is struggling.the chocolate cosmos rather than going to seed, looks like the flower heads have melted.
oh well.cant get too attached if i head to australia soon no doubt they will shrivel within a day of my departure.i should bring them all inside and put them in the bath.
that way when koichi showers with cold water he can water them too.

i wore my nearly dead manon van kouswijk necklace today.i love this necklace.all the white stickers are turning varying shades of brown.
i went to an izakaya for dinner and ate finely sliced raw onion dipped in poznu.very bad idea.
i watched kamome shokudo today.havent seen it in ages and loved it all over again.what i was really craving was onigiri.

wool soup and pizza dough face.
housebound.wake me up when its over (heat that is..).

the next thing i make for hana will be a picture book for the folk tale stone soup.its my favourite story and maybe hers too.i always tell it to her so maybe its better i keep the images really abstract.or maybe i dont need to make it at all.better left for her to imagine..
she loves pop up books or pocket books so maybe i could make something like that.

showa kinen park. misty forest and hana.

drinking-elderflowercordial+mineralwater+ice+orangejuice
eating-yamagata cherries
planning-raspberry picking weekend in yamagata
missing-my mum
thinking-of taking hana to a homeopath as soon as possible
i should be planning the homeopath visit.
lili sent hana a wonderful package of inspiration and adornment and play and ♡
thankyou sweet too far away friends.
hana was sick all over me this morning.her eyes were so scared.i tried really hard not to cry too.she was fine as soon as.thankgoodness.
i hope the wind is cool this weekend.

its been so hot and humid.i wonder what i ever did to entertain hana in this heat?now must be about the time i get on an aeroplane? i thought i was doing her a favour not sending her to kindergarten so young but sometimes i doubt my decision.the girl uses the bored word a little too often.
if i do go away my plants will surely die.hana pointed that out to me today.
this morning she was enjoying watching a queen bee on the echinecea until it flew onto her pointer.two huge tears ran down her face.i swept it off with scissors and they were both fine.i like my plants.
have been sewing.made very wide navy, verging on indigo, linen pants.i threaded elastic in the bottom seams and they are like mums tracksuit pants only linen.
have been wearing my sisters magenta shoes with them.they make that noise when i walk.
the john galliano diptyque candle smells especially good tonight.
have been really slack with cooking.trying to feed hana lots of magnesium to help the cramps she gets in her legs.pumpkin seeds and peanuts, bananas.wish she loved spinach.i can get her to eat almost anything if i tell her she wont be able to watch any madeline on youtube.i hate bribing her.
tomorrow or before i miss it i want to visit this exhibition and buy an umbrella.

Fujiwo Ishimoto

ceramic flower garden.oh my goodness they are so beautiful.the colours and shapes and textures.id like nothing in my house but his ceramics.his textiles are also wonderful.what a talented man.
go see it if you can at spiral, aoyama.

japan

tomato flags at natural house.
bad bad bad waste.

one year ago today

i was in melbourne, loving the shadows of iron lace on old houses.
postponing flights back to tokyo because of sick hana who liked blue lipstick.
staying with my favourite friends in their beautiful home.

susan cianciolo s cookbook, this cookbook is made for jesus. i bought it today.not that i need another cookbook.but its not another cookbook.i like the colloborative paintings between her and her daughter.the messiness, the interview and her recipes.
hana loves to paint cooking too.

my dinner.
after which hana ate chickpea parsley and tomato soup and a bowl full of asparagus.she loves asaparagus again :-)

600 yen. i was seriously tempted.

himonya house.

































so-en love letter.

meguro station ikebana

we spent a big chunk of the weekend at

D♥Y.koichi had a stall there along with lots of others offering fun things to make and do. great food like deep fried pizza (kinda like an italian samosa).hana and i had lots of fun others looked like they did too.look ☟

hana made a colourful airvase.she had the most fun playing with the dressups.awesome glasses.

mitsuru koga
we made a beautiful envelope.the edges were cut with that tool (not sure whats its called)and then folded onto themsleves not needing any glue.its hard to explain...

stamping

spoken words project

at D♥Y
this was really nicee.they set up on the hotel roof and it was a really sunny day.they had a lots of cloth which they had already patterned to which you could add more.all with stamps.hana loved it.stamp queen.