Back from vacation...

It has passed about a week since I am back from vacation to Tokyo. Yes, I went to my hometown! and I caught flu... I am in the bed about a week.. Uff..
Anyway, Tokyo was great!
We had good weather, about 20 degrees, every day. Just with shirt was great.
We went all around Tokyo. So, I would like to write about little Tokyo guide little by little.
For now just little hello!
Cheers,

Di Johnston - Shanghai Restoration Project

Di Johnston.
I like her music recently.
There's atmosphere of mixture of the world and futuristic city scape. Just like Tokyo or somewhere big city with many sky scrapper... you are there, at night watching the night scape from the big window.. You can see a lot of tiny light like you opened secret jewelry box and spread it all over. Or just running through the city with car in high speed. anyway.. the romantic and gentle voice will bring you to one night city escape..

Clazziquai Project

Music is the one thing which I like. I like anything, listening, singing and playing. Since I was little music was always near to me. When I was little I had small electric piano. I asked to my mother if she can buy me an exercise book and so I can learn a little bit more.. I've never got a lesson but I liked so much playing it. Fascinating the sound and touch my heart everytime.. anyway, this music group from South Korea, call Clazziquai Project is my recent favourite. They play kind of pop and electronic sound mixing music. Their symbol is a cute pig! My favourite music is this one "Sweety".
It lighten my heart and makes me happy! As the title say it's very sweet. Have a look!

Flights

And so.. This is the final of trilogy of the picture I like recently.
Flight. Not flying with airplane but there's a comic magazine collects of short stories call Flight. Edited by Kazu Kibuishi. I don't know much about the inside how is composed but I liked the cover he is making. It remind me some atmosphere of film Laputa and Nausica of Hayao Miyazaki. I love these flight scene and colors..

Pink bonbon earrings

Finally new item on my shop! I made these little beaded beads and combined with little swirled glass beads. It's pretty and good for girly party or just want to be in gorgeous mood.

Happy Birthday to me!

So today is my birthday! I get 31.. incredible! This is the mini card that my mother sent to me. She seems like mini square pop-up card. The time has pass incredibly fast and i even cant' imagine I've got 31... Anyway, the important thing is to be healthy and be happy. Like in the song.. don't worry, be happy! Singing this song and going ahead..

Hope you had great weekend too!

Pink and Violet

Here's my new pink and violet flower necklace!
This necklace is made of wood beads so it's not heavy. Light, pop color and cute! I love these violet and pink.
Here is getting hot again. Although, in the morning is very cool.. Little by little feeling of the foot step of autumn..
Have a nice weekend!

Poem book for children from Hungary

It was last year at Bologna Children Book Fair, I was really tired from walking all around the fair, it was almost time to leave, and I stopped at booth of Hungarian publishing.. then I found and I fell in love with this lovely Hungarian book.
It call "Friss Tinta!". It seems Hungarian poem but it's a pity that I can't read...
Every page is different graphic and illustration. I like these warm color and surrealistic drawing.. and so I looked up for the illustrator.
She call Mari Takacs from Hungary and is doing graphic designer too. She also did various illustration for other Hungarian children books.
I looked for on the internet if it's translated in some other languages but I couldn't find any.. If someone know if it will or already translated and pubblished, I would be happy!
Here's some of her work..

Little escape to Venezia

Yesterday we did short trip to Venezia!
We took highway and it took about 3hours. From Venice we took little boat to Murano.
Murano is famous for its glass work. And of course my purpose was to find beautiful glass beads! But there was not so much beads.. Instead there was many glass work mirror, lamp, little animal made of glass etc etc... I think there's place where selling bulk of beads but may be you should know the place... anyway, the island was bigger than I thought. But except the shop, when you go inside the island where there's resident area, it's silence.. I don't know if it's because summer vacation or because always in silence... a little bit sad..
anyway, at 3 o'clock, we took late lunch, fish spaghetti and fried fish. It was pretty good! and then we left Murano island and we went to Venice. We walked in the little alley like a labyrinth. Many small bridges everywhere. There's no car, no bicycle.. Only one we saw with the tire was a handcart for the post-man! It's very unique and at certain point you can feel as if you did a time trip to medieval. Feeling foot step of carnival people with mask.. mysterious and fascinating.. The day we went was hot! Extremely hot... there was no wind but strong sun light.. Anyway, we walked a lot and got tired but we saw many beautiful things.

Illustration from Taiwan

I found this illustrator call Jimmy Liao from Taiwan. I found he draw delicate but lovely illustration. Using sometimes vivid color which is like tropical climate of Taiwan. It seems in Taiwan he did many illustration for children books. and also some of books are translated in other languages too.

Mountain

This weekend, we went to mountain near Dolomiti, Trentino, border of Switzerland and Austria. It's about 180km from Bergamo. We took highway and then mountain road. The day we left it was not good weather... raining and cloudy. When we arrived at Mountain, it was cold! about 14 degree! I brought light cardigan but I didn't expect so much cold so we went to looking for another jacket and socks.. Next day it was fine sunny day, so we took the lift to go top of the mountain. There was only 10degree... so.. cold.. but the summer sun light is strong enough to get sun tan so we took chair and relaxed under the sun with jacket. We ate a lot and good cooking and relaxed..

Vacation to Belgium!

and so.. I went to the vacation to Belgium with my Mom! Me and my mother went around in the city of Bruxelles almost every day and visited many museum. Here's little guide where I visited.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: they had exhibition of EXPO '58, CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE WORLD FAIR which was a grand world fair when my mother was a child.
Another one was interesting comparing and influences between oriental and western art "Oriental Fascination – Japonism in Belgium" at Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles. I think Japanese art influenced in a lot of category and various artists in the world their fascination. This time was Belgium painter.
René Magritte Museum: it is the house of Magritte which he lived when he created a lot of his work. While he was working as a graphic designer he painted many brilliant work. And many of his work where you can find houses or room was where he lived..


Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art: it was second time which I visited this museum. This time it was to see Smurf 50's anniversary! I like this museum for the building and the exhibition. The building is very art-nouveau stile and my mom said one time it was textile shop. and now here it is, they are presenting Belgium Bande Dessinèe.



Ixelles Museum of Fine Arts:
Collection of Belle epoque mainly Alexandre Charpentier. I liked his work very much. Warm, delicate and fine sculpture themed on music and family.

In Bruxelles it was cool and not so good weather though as usual. but i enjoyed these exhibition. I hope you enjoy little tour of belgium museum with me!

Violetta

It seem it's not a series but i actually making series with this baby pink beads.
This time I combined with violet beads. She is very cute like a violet in the garden.

Pink!

New item on my shop. Pink body and light green crocodile named "pink".

Origianl

This is the original color of the crocodile. The very original first creation was a little bit bigger than this one.. I like it because it's very fun and toy color.

Treasury by bdbworld

bdbworld has made wonderful treasury! Thank you for including me!
Take a look!

Shiso

One of my friend gave me this plant call "shiso". In latin name call "Perilla". It's a family of mint and have unique taste and perfume. I usually put it in the salad or just chop and mix with boiled rice with sesame. Or roll with chicken also is good!

Into Wonderland

And so.. I made my Treasury too! I was thinking to make one recently and finally I did it! Have a look!

Treasury

So I am in treasury! It's poppy bracelet choosed by Nightingale03! I combined with fused glass and round red berry like beads.

Acqua

The second crocodile of this week is light blue one.
A drop of water made a cute one! Fresh like water of the mountain.