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Émilie Simon!

June 7, 2010life

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7syvd7H88&w=500&rel=0 Last weekend we went to Tower Records Shibuya to buy Émilie Simon‘s newest album, The Big Machine, and watch her mini show there! She’s a French singer and composer, if you ever watched the movie La Marche de l’empereur (March of the Penguins), she’s the one who composed the original soundtrack. My husband and [...]

Tagged as: music

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Floral dresses (and second take on Tara dress)

June 4, 2010womenswear

I found these pretty floral fabric when going shopping to Asakusabashi with Chie and Kayo the other day. The fabrics are cotton with embroidered border on one side. I love how comfortable the fabrics felt on my hand. I used one of the fabric to make another try on the Tara pattern. No alteration other [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, dress, florals, sewing

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Chie and Kayo!

May 31, 2010life

These two beautiful ladies is Chie from VivatVeritas and Kayo from Crochetie, both of them are also Burdastyle members and both have etsy shops: Chie’s shop and Kayo’s shop. You should check them out because they make the cutest dresses and accessories! Anyway, I just met them today in Asakusabashi, it is another district in Tokyo with [...]

Tagged as: friends

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Meeting Yoshimi

May 30, 2010life

Do you recognize these bags? Yes, on the right side is my bag, and the pretty bag with rosettes is Yoshimi’s bag! They were sitting together side by side on a wooden bench inside an Indonesian restaurant in Shinjuku. Yoshimi and I spent a day together last Saturday, it was a bit cold and cloudy [...]

Tagged as: friends

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Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World

May 28, 2010life

Uncorrected proof of Made by Hand by Mark Frauenfelder (Boingboing.net & Makezine

Mark Frauenfelder, the founder of BoingBoing.net and the editor in chief of Make magazine has just launched a new book yesterday: ‘Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World‘. I had the chance to read an uncorrected proof before it was launched and it was quite an enjoyable experience. This is not the [...]

Tagged as: book, review

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Green dress: Fail!

May 28, 2010womenswear

Tara is one of the most popular Burdastyle pattern and yesterday I decided to give it a try. It is a top pattern, but as usual I lengthened it to make a dress. The green fabric is another vintage fabric from my mother, it is now pretty old and has a lot of little holes. [...]

Tagged as: dress, failed, sewing

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Simple tops

May 21, 2010womenswear

One of the advantage of having a small body is that I only need small amount of fabric to make clothing. That way I can make use of those impulsive half-yard cut fabric shopping. These tops were whipped very quick today, the pattern is so simple, and only consisted of two pieces. The batik top [...]

Tagged as: sewing, top

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Checks pants

May 21, 2010kidswear

I miss my blog! It has been too long since I post about sewing and you might (or, uhm, you might not) wonder where I’ve been. Well, it’s just that real life sometimes got in the way of blogging life, that’s a sad fact. Or maybe I just didn’t try hard enough. So the last [...]

Tagged as: pants, self-drafted, sewing

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Tagging game: Number 8

May 12, 2010life

This is a picture that my husband took two years ago when Sidra and I were about to go to IKEA, a week after we arrived in Tokyo. We needed to buy some furniture because our apartment was a bit empty after my husband got rid of his ‘single’ furniture. You know, single couch, single [...]

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Golden week 2010

May 6, 2010life

The end of April through around May 5th is called Golden Week in Japan since there are many public holidays during this period. We spent the holiday in the Okutama mountain area. Okutama is quite near to Tokyo, so instead of spending the nights, we made two one day trips there. My husband loves hiking [...]