During the Summer, all I wore was summer dresses. Now the winter has come, I wear pants five days out of week. It’s been too cold to wear dresses even with tights. I kind of miss being pregnant, feeling warm all the time. Since I’ve been wearing pants, I was in a desparate need for new tops. I got sick of rotating my two favorite cashmere sweaters all the time the past few weeks. I had this navy and white stripes knit in my stash that I bought at Nippori tomato a while ago. I whipped this up in one night. I had fun matching the stripes. The trick to match the stripes is not to cut the fabrics on fold. I layed the fabric without folding in half, and cut each piece one by one, making sure that the stripes match on the side. 
My little assistant had too much fun snapping pictures using a remote. She is a much better assistant than grumpy Andy when it comes to taking photos. 
I wore this to go see Ballet on Christmas story last weekend.

Karada Dakara – Dance Event
I’m so excited to announce that a dance team I designed costumes for is having their performance this weekend, and I made their costumes! They are having 4 shows in total on 12/8 and 12/9. I will be at the 7pm show on 12/8, if you are in Tokyo and interested in coming out, please feel free to contact me at vivatveritasshop@gmail.com! The ticket costs $3,500 at the door.
It was a lot of work bringing the design that the dancer had in mind into real life, due to her need for movability and comfort, and its stage presence. The pictures above only shows the white dress, but I made some with an overskirt in red, purple and navy on top of the dresses. I made seven overskirts in one day, and didn’t have time to photograph them:(
Below is excerpt from Asahi Art Square, where the performance is.
とあるところに一つの机と二つの椅子。 向き合ってる二人。 一方はディーバで、一方はエゴというらしい。 ディーバ『さー、どこから始めようか。』 エゴ『前に一歩踏み出したい、そんな気がする。』 ディーバ『こんなのはどうだい?』 こうやって二人の会話は始まった。。。 
■日時 12月8日[土]19:00開場/19:30開演、 12月9日[日]11:00開場/11:30開演、14:30開場/15:00開演、18:00開場/18:30開演
■料金 前売3,000円/当日3,500円
■住所 〒130-0001 東京都墨田区吾妻橋1-23-1 スーパードライホール 4F Tel. 090-9118-5171 E-mail: aas@arts-npo.org 10:00-18:00 *火曜日定休
■アクセス 東京メトロ銀座線「浅草駅」4、5番出口より徒歩5分 都営地下鉄浅草線「浅草駅」A5番出口より徒歩10分、「本所吾妻橋駅」A3出口より徒歩6分 東武線「浅草駅」より徒歩6分
■出演 [代表]秋吉朝子 [guest dancer]cen, shin, bashi, ken(z) [choreographer]まっつん, takabo, kaoru, 海津優子, 三田サブウェイラインズ、wired [vocalist]SAK.,虎徹 [drum]大津惇 [live paint]mika kawakami [projection]下山裕貴
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Thanksgiving Party
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. We had a party at our place on Saturday, instead of Thursday. We don’t have a Thanksgiving holiday in Japan and everyone was working on Thursday. We got a turkey from Costco, and my mom and Taren (of Oslo and Alfred) helped me with cooking. Everything turned out great, and I ate too much as you can see from my moon face! I like to blame it on my hair style, but I might have gained a few because of the holiday season.
20+ people crammed into our tiny town house. I enjoyed decorating the house with the DIYed garlands, flower lights from etsy (Pamela Angus), handmade table runner and a crochet playmat. I don’t have many pictures of Andy or myself, since we were running around a lot acting as a hosts, but both of us (and Kiko) had a great time with great food and great company. How was your Thanksgiving?





















