Japanese contemporary Art fair

Assisting the art fair in hpgrp gallery for out of place gallery, in Nara.

Here are the feature artists.
Makoto morimura
Nakajima mugi
Mayumi terada
Tomoo seki
Katsunori kobayashi

Come and check them out!

Ny now 2014ss

This is our 2nd year in the ny gift show. We are collaborating with ovo ceramic, check us out our new candles!

Booth# 4217 at accent on design

Winter orange

Making orange pears and realized match my favorite, cara cara orange!

Birthday banners

For birthday party accent, handmade banner.

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Happy birthday to my girls, yui and sachiko!

A happy new year

First snow of the year!

Getting ready for holidays

December is here now.
Flower district is full of pine greens and holiday theme. Street venders are also ready!
These makes me just happy for the holiday season!

Mizuhiki class

Finally i took a lesson of mizuhiki, special paper knot technique for crafting and gift wrapping.

Long way to learn...

Mee mee bakery

From memanbetsu airport, we got here, mee mee bakery! My friend kowa opened bakery last year w/ 4 sheep and a dog and a cat.

Her breads are naturally raised, and all baked in mud stove. There are variety of bread from simple campanue to cranberry white chocolate. Pizza is so good too! she is baking from Thursday till Sunday by herself!

We experienced working at her bakery. decorating shop, making coffee and tasting bread!

To hokkaido

Took the early airplane, i could see the best view i ever seen of tokyo and mt. Fuji.

I am finally visiting my friend in deep hokkaido, shari. There is world heritage nature in that area.

Around her house is all nature and farm. Remind me of idaho life during high school year.

Wow, great sunset view!

Penn trip

On a labor day weekend, we went to deep pennsylvania trip.

It was long long drive from nyc, we left 4am and got there 2pm!

Falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright
Blending to the natural forest, and running river, one of the famous american architectures are loved by many visitors.


And next day, heading to antique market.
So much things to see.
Apple and cherry glasses match w/ sono.ei candles,

Pennsylvania filled with good old days of american life.

New display

Collaboration display with ovo by yuka.
www.ovoceramics.com

NY NOW started!

Gift show is finally started in javits.
Our booth 4210 is located on the north side of wall on 3rd floor, at accent on japan section.

Come by to check our beeswax candle!
My cute little mushroom display is the welcoming sign!

Count down to gift show

Came to javits for installation today.

subway and bus trip were smoothly.

start screwing, and realized upside down...

Ok, fixed it.

Need a little adjustments!

3 days to the show!

Burlap panel

Of course sono.ei decoration is also handmade. It's a fun time to design and make them.

I made fabric panel for show decoration under $20. finally my upholtering experience paid off.

Next thing is signage!

Get prepared

new york Gift show will start in 2 weeks. Now we are preparing display and candles! This time we have more space to decorate, we are trying with sample panel. we have ordered wood signage! Can't wait to see all together!

trying to see the fabric board for the show

I found the apple stamp for mailing postcards to the shops we like!  

making candles everyday!

Photo shooting

one summer day, went to prospect park as usual.

everytime i go, i find different scene.

 harvest in the park

new green apple is for autumn/ winter

Sumo

Went to see sumo for the first time in nagoya. Sumo is the japanese national sports, but many foreign players support it lately. Happy to see the tradition goes beyond the ocean.

So dynamic and beautiful tradition, sumo is one of my favorite sports!

Never seen many young wrestlers are walking back to home.

where is he going to?