It’s time for another shop sale! I need to make some room in the racks for new inventory, so please take 20% off your orders by using the coupon code VVSUMMER during checkout. The code is valid for a week, until next Monday, July 4th. This sale also applies to the already discounted items in the sale section, where everything is $35 or less. I’ll be adding more new items to the shop later this week, so happy shopping!
Archives for June 2011
Five Lovely Things
This week, the temperature went up suddenly and we are reveling in the hot, humid beginning of Summer. This is technically the rainy season in Japan but thankfully the rain has been pretty light. I love the summer! I love the heat and love the smell! I’m planning on buying a deck table and chairs for our second floor veranda, so we can enjoy cold beer outside. I definitely prefer Summer over Winter!
Here are some lovely things that I found and enjoyed doing this week… Have a great weekend!
{Combination of gray and sparkles reminds me of midnight sky with stars}
{Finally framed some photos with vintage inspired photo frames (from 300 yen shop!)}
{Discovered a new favorite place to lunch in Machida, with natural food and comfortable couch seats}
{Gifted face mask with snail essence in them!}
{Some new dresses I made for etsy shop, found here and here}
Mommy’s Diary 9 (First Father’s Day!)
Last Sunday was Andy’s first Father’s Day! Since Kiko is incapable of doing anything besides eating, peeing, pooping, throwing up and sleeping, I helped her out with the Father’s Day celebration.
Andy and I both LOVE breakfast. We wish every meal were breakfast! We love American style breakfast with cereal, eggs, french toast, eggs Benedict, sausage or bacon. We also have a soft spot for the traditional Japanese style breakfast with rice, miso soup, salmon and natto (sticky beans). I asked (on Kiko’s behalf) what Andy wanted for his Father’s Day breakfast, and to my delight he requested Thai style fruit buffet. Whenever we go to Thailand (which is at least once a year), we indulge on huge breakfast meals filled with different fruits, such as papaya, mango, water melon etc. Now I doubt that it is a traditional breakfast that Thai locals eat, but at almost every hotel they have a glorious life alteringly good breakfast buffet. So Andy and I have come to remember this life changing spread as the “Thailand breakfast”. So we, Kiko and I tried although not perfectly, to replicate this. We were somewhat limited because the tropical fruits supply is limited at the local super market but nonetheless we made Andy a Thailand style breakfast.
As to the Father’s Day present, I made two simple T-shirts for Andy. Unlike Novita from Very Purple Person, who makes all kinds of stylish items for her husband, my husband is a rather unfashionable, boring man. Everyday, he would wear the same white T-shirt with a hole in it if I didn’t secretly throw them out from time to time and replace them with new white T-shirts. So, this Father’s day I decided to update his closet so he won’t look like a homeless person. I had salmon pink and brown jersey fabrics unused in my stash, so I used them to make….some more T-shirts (You can’t make a leopard change his spots). I traced the pattern from one of his old dirty T-shirts to make these new VV versions. Very simple and easy:)
I’m wearing the dress I made for Casey from Elegant Musing‘s 1940’s Swing Dress Sew-Along! I made this back in April, but it took me a few months to return to size and be able to fit in the dress. I’m so happy that the waist fits now:) The dress is great for nursing as well, as I can take out my breasts pretty easily with cross over front. Although the dress fits, I’m still far from going back to my original weight…which makes me sad, since beach season is coming so soon. I will leave this topic for another week to discuss!