Back from my vacation!Now I am totally devastated and am thinking about quitting my job. Seriously. How can I live in such a hot and humid place? I am a winter person! Anyway, this black cardigan was completed on the 2nd day of the vacation, and has been pretty useful during the trip. Pattern: Empire Waist Cardigan by Pam Allen (from CEY New Harbor book)Yarn: Pierrot Tsubaki Cotton DK in Black, 8.5 skeins (approx. 765 yards)Needles: US 6 (4mm) circular needlesRaveled here – modification details Since I didn’t have enough yarn, I decided to make the sleeves slightly shorter and the skirt part less flared. In the original design, the skirt part looked a bit too heavy. I am very happy about the results…
knitting and slow life in Kyoto
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One last thing. I won this bag after the knit-along in May (a pink sweater I made a few weeks ago). The organizer selected a winner of each prize randomly. It’s a handmade knitting project bag sold by Jen (YarnPlayCafe on Etsy).I never win anything, at all, so this is pretty big for me. And the bag is cute. Surprisingly, in the same week, I also won a pattern (design instruction) of this very cute sweater by sheer luck. I sincerely hope that I haven’t used up all my luck for the summer! Photo courtesy of the designer, Elizabeth Wolden.
Our respected gourmet colleague took us to another new restaurant in an old neighborhood. Called Yama-Shokudou, meaning “mountain diner” in English, if you must translate. A dimly lit, very low-key Japanese style restaurant. They have traditional home cooking menu with fresh vegetable and eggs and such. Everything we had was so delicious. This Japanese wine, below, was also one of the best I’d had among Japanese ones. This area seems to be becoming more hip in the recent years. Something like below, an eclectic second-hand book store, is also nearby.
Categories: **ENGLISH**, 2. Diary
A gift from my sister from her trip to Seoul. A simple cute horn for iPhone. It actually works. My dad trades these things from China, so it’s always fun to visit his office for goodies. Sorry for the bad color – I should have used a regular lens to photograph… And, a back cover to match…. The front!! Of my new iPad2!!!! (yes, I bought it!)
Categories: **ENGLISH**, 2. Diary
I haven’t updated my blog for 2 weeks (because I was dog-sitting last weekend, which I enjoyed a lot), so please bare with me for a few more. My family had a reunion for the belated Father’s Day this afternoon. There is a new reverside restaurant not far from his office, called Cielo y Rio. One of my colleagues took us there on Friday for lunch, and really liked it, so I decided to go back with my family this time. the 3rd floor, river-front view outside the window food is itallian / fusion We had a great afternoon. My niece eats so much, she loves all kinds of noodles and fruits. She kept asking for more. It was surprising that my dad was…
Categories: **ENGLISH**
My French school, L’institut Franco-Japonais a Tokyo, is hosting a small exhibition of Yve Sant Laurant’s old black and white photographs. (Original photos by Jeanloup Sieff)When he was young and just released a new fragrance line, he decided to use his own nude photo for the advertisement, and commissioned Sieff the work. Yve and Sieff worked together for many years and left these amazing, classic, chic photographs. The show is still on until July 31st.
As I may have written before, I had been sewing a very simple linen dress these past weeks. Last weekend, my sister’s family were traveling to Seoul, while I was dog-sitting and borrowed her sewing machine as well. It’s a wrap dress in dark navy linen. A splash of purple in it. While I was sewing the hem (the finishing), one of the dogs, Rey, climbed up my niece’s (baby) chair on her own. So cute. Still sewing. The dress looks like this, it’s hard to make out, but it’s a wrap dress and there is a bow-tie in front. Here are something extra: some shots from this afternoon stroll in an old neighborhood not far from Akihabara (Tokyo). Lovely wall gardens.
I am completely sure that only 1 or 2 people I know have watched this movie. One of them could be my dad, who watches all the Hollywood movies out there. Everytime I saw its teaser in theaters, it left me utterly lost. The story looked so uninteresting. But, since Disney has spent enormous amount in its production, I suspected that it can’t be all bad.Then, I found out that there used to be an previous old version of TRON in 1980s.I actually rented the movie. 80% of the movie looks like below: It left me in awe. In awe, by its geeky-ness. How could someone with a right mind have made such a geeky movie with geeky computer terminology back in 80s, when nobody…
There is something about those “Y” shaped street corners. You will understand what I mean if you look at this. The bright street corner is an italian restaurant. Once I was walking around the neighborhood after my French school, found this place, and I couldn’t resist looking into the door. The place was full.I was so sure this place to be a French restaurant, because this neighborhood is sort of like a French quarter in Tokyo, and also because of this cafe in Paris: Au Soleil de la Buttehttp://nyctaloop.free.fr/index.html (an amazing photo site) Looks familiar? This cafe was where Xavier in the film “Spanish Apartment” met his old girlfriend (portrayed by Audrey Tatou), and the only thing I remember about this movie. According to…
I was looking for Richter’s Matthaus-Passion CD, couldn’t find it anywhere, then finally found it at a local library. I thought I was borrowing only 1 CD. Instead, below was what I received. Quite intense? Yes. I didn’t know a public library has these things. Tax money very well spent.
Categories: **ENGLISH**, 6. Music
Sparkles*United 