Fox Treasury!!

Hello Hello!!

I hope everyone is having a good fall/winter season!! I'm still in the process of getting things in their places...We had our movers came on October 23rd....There were 134 boxes of stuff and since our new home is a lot smaller than our house in US....We have been struggling to find places for EVERYTHING for about a month now!!!(We're also having a problem with our wi-fi connection because of all the stuff we have...) I was hoping to post some pictures of our house, but it will be another a couple of weeks....We are having a house warming party on Dec.6th, so I will have to get the house ready by then!! I don't know if I will be able to get rid of all the boxes, though(*-*;)...

Anyway, Someone sent me an Etsy conversation and let me know that my fox scarf is in her fox treasury!! It's really cute!!! Thank you for including my scarf(^-^)!!

We have a lot of stuff going on this week!! I have to go do some errands now...Busy busy!!

We have been having some good weather here in Yokohama!! It makes me want to go out and walk around ...(^-^).

Yesterday, My friend Aki and I went to Jiyugaoka and had lunch and walked around all day long!! It was so nice to see her and it's also so weird that we haven't really changed since High School...(*-*;)...I guess that''s a good thing!?

After lunch, We went to this super cute tea store in Trainchi. I can't drink any tea right now, but I fell in love with their tins(>_<)!!! I got some caramel tea, orange tea and berry blend tea(which I can drink!) and gave them to Steven since he loves teas...and he's been trying all kinds of flavored teas.
...and of course I will keep the tins(^v^)!!!

We walked around and did some more shopping here and there...and we had doughnuts at the Doughnut plant!! I had a Tres Leches doughnut and Aki had a salty caramel doughnut!! There is another doughnut store across the street....They have really cute tote bags and Aki bought one...I will try their doughnuts next time(^-^)!!

After hanging out with Aki, I came back to our home town and went to the store in front of our building to get some groceries.

We had "Japanese dude" tofu (What a name!!! ) for dinner...It was surprisingly good(^-^;)...

I'm going to Costco with my family today!! It will be exciting now that we have a fridge to stuff....(^0^)!!

Greeting from Japan!!

Hello! Hello!!

It's been a month since my hubby and I came back to Japan...We were slowly getting things ready and we finally finished remodeling our condo yesterday!!! It's been really rough for us to live in our condo without.....Everything(>_<)!!! Luckily my dad and my step mom live in the same building, so we were able to eat and take showers and stuff(^-^)....I'm sure it was hard on my step mom to take care of us everyday...(*-*;). Thank you, Nayomi~!!!

As we were getting our condo ready...My step mom and I went to Kojima Denki (which is located right next to our condo) to get all kinds of appliances for me and Steven to use(my step mom knew somebody there, so we were able to get discounts!!!). The big stuff istn't here yet, but I managed to get a bread maker and I have made 2 loaves of bread so far...

It's so nice to eat fresh bread straight out of the oven!!!(not exactly from an oven...but still...) I can't wait to get our new oven, so we can make all kinds of different bread!!!


One day, Steven and I went to the Immigration and the city hall to take care of his VISA stuff...We went to McDonald's to eat lunch. I usually order the Chicken Nugget set in the US, but they only have nugget set for Happy meals here, so I ordered a Chicken Tatsuta burger without cabbage and any mayo and a lady at the register made a weird face.....( I guess no one orders anything like that!?)

This is the Chicken Tatsuta that I ordered....It was pretty good without any condiments(^-^)!

We have been seeing our friends here and there(but not so much yet...). Right after Steven and I arrived Japan....Our friend/a fellow Tokyo Pop creator Tony Salvaggio and his wife Rain came to Japan to visit!! We went to see them in Shinjuku and ate soba and waffles!! It was so weird to see Tony in Japan....but it was so much fun to see him and also meet his wife for the first time(^-^)!! Steven and I went to see our friends Midori and Shota later that week and hang out in their house. Midori cooked for us and we played with their cat a little bit...It didn't feel like we hadn't seen each other for over 2 years...

We went to see Steven's former band member Brian and his wife Takako yesterday. We hadn't seen him for over 10 years or so!!! They told us that he and his wife just got married like a month ago(^-^)!! We went to Shibuya and they introduced us to a nice American restaurant(!?) which was on a roof top!! I wish I took pictures of the place(and their food!!!). After dinner we went to Cold Stone Creamery!!! I had never been to Cold Stone before and it was very yummy(^v^)!!!

My Strawberry Shortcake ice cream on a waffle bowl!

Steven's German Chocolate Cake ice cream.

On our way back to our condo....I saw this big poster in Shibuya Station. I thought Tony would get a kick out of this!!! I wish this was here when he was here...

I must go see this movie....(*v*)!!

Mr. Clauser(From DMC) looks better than ever!!!

This morning, A delivery guy brought a package for me!!!

It was a Le Creuset pot that I ordered 2 days ago....

I don't know why, but it was a lot cheaper than the one I saw in US!! I can't wait to cook in this bad boy!!

Okay, I'm off to buy a bunch of furniture.....I hope everyone is having a good fall(^-^)!!

Still....

painting...(*-*).

...I'm still painting the walls in my house(*-*;). Today I did some touch ups in my sawing room and my husband's office and started painting some closets. It's fun, but it's taking so long and since I'm not a tall person...I have to get on and get off a ladder so many times and it's very tiring(*-*;). I was too tired to finish all of them up today...I will have to finish painting rest of them tomorrow and we're getting new carpets in all the rooms that are carpeted on Monday...that means we have to move furniture by then...It's like never ending...I guess this is what you have to do before you try to put your house on the market(^0^;).

I was too tired to go to a store today, so Steven went shopping for me and got some groceries and he got me a piece of cake to cheer me up!!

It's a yellow cake with raspberry jam and vanilla cream and it's the best cake that I have eaten lately!!! It totally inspired me to make some vanilla cream cupcakes with raspberry filling!!!

I had been looking for a big black bag that I can put everything in!! I carry a lot of stuff everywhere and I could never find any bags that meet my needs...When I went to Ikea the other day, Steven and I also stopped by H&M and I found this bag for $10! It's big enough to carry everything...I mean EVERTHING!!! This will come in handy when we go to SDCC next week! This will also make a great movie bag(^v^;)...Oh, speaking of movies...I have to go see the new Harry Potter movie soon!! I guess it will be after we come back from San Diego, though(*-*;)...

VBS and Garage sale...

I was helping with VBS at our church last week and I had so much fun!!! This year...I was a kitchen helper and I got to prepare(play with food!?) snacks for kids and I got to meet some wonderful people!! I had to wake up at 6:30am everyday, but it was totally worth it(^-^)!!

Last Saturday, Steven and I had a garage sale and we thought we weren't going to get that many people because of the economy and stuff...but it turned out we had a lot of customers!! Some people got mad at me when I told them that our garage sale was going to start at 10:00am while I was getting ready(okay...I knew it was kind of late to start a garage sale at 10:00am...but we are not morning people!!!) and made some nasty coments and left(*-*;)..but everybody else was really nice and we had a good sale!!(I wish I took some pictures of the garage sale...but I totally forgot...) Steven and I have been painting walls all over the house since Saturday and we just got done painting our garage. It looks almost new and I'm really excited about that! I didn't know that painting walls can be so much fun(^0^)!!

I am off to paint more walls...I hope everyone is having a good Monday!!

Etsy Treasury!!

Someone contacted me and let me know that my elephant hat for Blythe in her Etsy treasury!! Yay!! I'm so excited(^-^)!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Happy July 4th!!

We don't do much for July 4th every year, but we do eat something "Red, White and Blue"...and for this year I made Blueberry scones with strawberries, Blueberries and whipped cream for our breakfast!!

We worked on our yard a little bit after we ate our breakfast this morning and we are now heading to Ikea to get some stuff for the house...very patriotic, isn't it!?(^v^)...

I hope everyone is having a good July 4th weekend!!

Kraftwork!!

I would like to thank everyone who stopped by our table at KRAFTWORK yesterday!! I forgot to bring my camera, so I didn't get to take any pictures of the show(*-*;).

It was my first time at KRAFTWORK and there were so many cool vendors and so many cool things that they were selling....I wish I could have looked around and talked to all the vendors...but I was pretty much too nervous to talk to anyone...I can't believe I'm still like this after 10 years of living here(*-*;)...Hmmm I guess the craft shows are kind of different from anything else...I kind of get intimidated by all the artists(same goes for conventions...)...I don't know why(*-*;)...

Anyway, I had a chance to trade one of my products for these cute cards from Jane Hancock Papers!! She had so many pretty things at her table!!!

I wish I could have asked more people to trade with me...but it's always scary to ask people that, ...I'm such a wus(*-*;).

There was a craft swap station presented by Re-construct DVD and I got to drop off some of my fabric stashes and zippers that I couldn't use...Since I was trying to get rid of most of my craft supplies and I didn't know what to do with them...it was a great opportunity for me to drop them off and someone else can enjoy them(^-^)!!