sick day



Hello everyone, how are you?
I have been sick lately...
First I hurt my throat and now my voice sounds strange, I don't have a fever. That is somewhat good news.

I believe it was my son who  caught the cold first, he kindly tossed it to daddy, and now it I got it.
As a mother it is hard to avoid being sick.
Last year, I had a bad bad influenza. That was terrible.... It took almost one month to get well.

This year, I forced myself to get the flu shot in September. I hope my caughing does not become worser than it already is.

Green tea is good for the throat and my favorite drink.

My parents sent me a pack of green tea leaf last month.  The taste is much much better than the ones we can buy at the grocery store in US.

In my hometown, Shizuoka is the capital of green tea. We grow a lot of Green tea leaf.

In spring the first leaf is harvested as the first crop for green tea.  However, it is expensive becuase the flagrant and taste is the best!

This is the " kasutera " cake. (kind of pound cake) 
Do you know why it colors green??

This is green tea "kasutera" cake. :)

I had a tea time with my son today.





Of course, He loves it!! YUMMY!!

I still have power to take a picture what I eat and post it on blog. So probably I will get better soon. ;)

Have a great weekend!

New Christmas Stocking

Hello!

I have just finished to make new christmas stocking.
I chose red christmas tree fabric this time. (from Michael Miller)

Isn't it lovely?

Red is one of the most popular color of Christmas. I love the red, too.

However I made red mitton stocking earlier, they all sold out!! Thank you so much.
I miss something red in my shop.  So I made this one. I still have fabric to make one more red stocking.

If you are interested in, you can contact me throught the convo at Etsy.

Here is another photo of my Christmas stocking collection this year.

Blue ornament pattern and my favorite red mitton!

Blue tree(sold out), masturd yellow snow crystal pattern and white christmas tree.(one more left!)

They are all colorful! Just looking at these stocking makes me happy. :)

I hope all of my lovely customers who purchase these stockings love them in person.

Hello again

I don't know how I start to say...

It has been almost one year since my last update!!

I have two more blogs in Japanese.
1 : coconuts-soup (This is my first blog. About my life, like a diary)
2 : handmade shop in US (This is about my handmade, craft.)

To maintain 2 blogs, flickr, handmade, etsy shop....
It makes me difficult to post something here in English.
I don't have enough time!! plus I am not good at writing in English....

However, I am thinking to continue this blog. Because my sales of etsy reached 200 last week and most of my customers are from USA and international.
Thank you so much!!

I feel I should share my craft here in English. Addition, I would like to know about you guys! who share wonderful craft thorough the blogs out there.
(If you are interested in my craft, please join as a reader! :D)

But my time is tight! I can't change about it.
So I will move my blog No.2 to here. I hope some of Japanese reader continue to enjoy my craft life here.
I wanted to continue my first blog. Because It has been more than 5 years!! and a lot of my friends are looking forward reading this blog.


All right! Let's start to talk about handmade!



This is the set of 4 coasters made from Michael Miller Christmas fabric.
I made Christmas stocking with these colorful cheerful fabric. They also came out very nice, too!

Now I have a lot of scrap left. So I decided to make the coasters.
To make a coaster, I pieced the tiny fabric to make log cabin


I am very satisfied how it turned out! Coaster is great items as a gift!!

Here is another set of 4
I love these, too. They found new home now. Thank you!!

I have couple more ideas to make coasters.
I hope I will share about it by the next weekend!

Thank you for reading.
Have a great weekend!


Oh, anyways
This is my working table.   If you have any experience to make something from your scraps, you would understand this messy messy table. :D