Sunday, January 28, 2018

Fudangi Friday - January Edition

Ever since the first one, I keep missing Fudangi Friday! đŸ˜… So here’s the belated Sunday addition! 


I wore a light purple yuki komon, yuki obiage, brown wool heko obi, and pink obijime. There are a lot of “errors” here but that’s ok! It’s meant to be very casual. đŸ™‚ I love using heko obi for this because their soft texture will always make the musubi a little “imperfect”.


This obi musubi is called "wano"(ワノ). It came from one of my favorite casual obi musubi books, 「ファブăƒȘăƒƒă‚Żăƒ–ăƒ©ăƒłăƒ‰ăźæœŹ」. If you love women's heko obi, you should pick up a copy from Kimonoya Kururi (can be ordered via Rakuten or Amazon JP). The ISBN is 978-4-309-28459-0. 


Saturday, January 20, 2018

Oishii Japan 2018

I wore kimono for tea ceremony presentation at a local event today. I chose a purple iromuji, cream taiko gara fukuro obi with karabana design, pink obijime, dark purple and blue obiage, and pink zori. (I've been playing with a new selfie stick/tripod/bluetooth remote, so the posing isn't quite on point yet.)


More photos of the event were captured by Frank Chin, a talented local photographer. There's a few of us performing tea ceremony during the event. Please click here to see them!

Thursday, January 4, 2018

My Portrait!

This lovely portrait of me was made by the talented Merrie Go Art - Melanie Georgiou! I'm just awestruck! đŸ€©
image copyright Melanie Georgiou
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