2012 was a great year. There were personal and family milestones (adoption/foster care registration) and professional ones (fun blogger collaborations and making dance costumes). I have loved sharing with you in this little blog and am grateful for all of my readers’ support. I’m excited about even bigger things to come in 2013. Happy New Year!
Archives for December 2012
Merry Christmas! & Giveaway Winner
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful day. I am respected my husband’s wishes and kept the whole Christmas affiar very simple. Christmas is not as big in Japan as the U.S. It is more of a holiday geared towards couples than families here. As Andy wanted, we made Russian tea cake cookies and went to see the Christmas lights at Miyagase lake. I only had a very small fake displayed in the house! I am a good wife. We skipped the roasting mashmalow part since Andy doesn’t know how to make fire and I feared that he might burn down this little Japanese town house.
Also, thank you so much for entering the Christmas giveaway! I had fun reading every comment and your goals. I have to do this again sometime!
I picked the winner using the random number generator and the winner is…… (drum roll)
Amber H. of Wamber’s Whimsies! Congrats Amber, I will be emailing you for the details later.
Mommy’s Diary: Handmade Polk-a-Dot Curtain for Nursery
Decorating Kiko’s nursery has been a challenge since we live in a small Japanese rental town house. Her room is a Japanese room with tatami mat floor and low ceiling. On top of that, the ceiling is in wood pattern paper, so when I taped something on the ceiling and pealed it off later, the wood pattern came off! I think the traditional Japaneses room could be nice if you are not trying to make a colorful nursery out of it.
Anyway to brighten up her small room, I made a curtain in pink polk-a-dot pattern fabric the other day. I bought 5 meters of the fabric in Nippori. It was 100 yen (about 1.20 USD) a meter.
I just hemmed the both top and bottom of the fabric, and added the tie strings on top to tie the curtain on the curtain rail. With the left over fabric, I made the curtain straps.
I also made the window seat cushion cover. The inside I put the old mattress. Not the big bed matress, but the kind you use underneath futon in Japan. I cut the matress to the size of the window seat and sewed the edge.