I love craft stores. I love them so much. They have made this awesome day even more awesome. (Beware of redundancy!)
As is the norm for most people, I will start at the beginning. As I munched thoughtfully on my egg salad, tomato and cucumber-filled croissant, I expected nothing terribly exiting to happen today. Actually, to be perfectly honest, I was too distracted by said sandwich to think about much of anything, apart from swallowing. After breakfast, my host mom, Noriko and I went shopping at a huge, expensive department store for an obento box for me to take to school, which was uneventful aside from finding a cute red box with cats on it, and a few presents for people back home. It was on the way home, while chatting in broken English and horribly bad Japanese and admiring the patches on my crappy old jean shorts, that my host mom and I discovered that we have the same hobby: sewing. The second she found out it was all "We're going to the craft store!" which, how could I say no to that?
Needless to say, I'll be going to the bank soon to get some more money. I pretty much killed the last of my reserves at the store. Seriously, I could spend all day in one of those stores. I mean, they cater to every possible hobby--from beading to knitting to dress making to painting to fake flower arranging--and since I love most of those things, there's more than enough to keep me busy for a good, oh, 17 hours. More if I decide I'm into fake flower arranging.
If the Craft Store of Awesome wasn't enough, it turns out that my Okaasan used to make her own clothes, so as soon as we got home, she busted out these gigantic freakin' boxes of fabric (more than all those bags I have stuffed in my closet). So now I've been recruited to patch, repair, and sew a whole bunch of stuff, which suits me just fine. (Plus, now I've got knitting materials, and am making some nifty legwarmers. Without a pattern. Yeah, that's right).
Other bonus to today include sleeping in, chatting with my Okaasan's fluent-English-speaking friend, eating cheesecake, and taking two baths in one day. :D
As you may have noticed, I haven't really had any pictures in these last few post. (Beware the total change of subject!) That's because I'm trying really hard not to be a tourist, which means not bringing my camera everywhere, and not taking pictures of That Really Interesting Tree, or My Tasty Breakfast, or A Cool Piece of Lint I Found in My Pocket. I do, however, have some pictures of my house (or apartment, to be exact):
As is the norm for most people, I will start at the beginning. As I munched thoughtfully on my egg salad, tomato and cucumber-filled croissant, I expected nothing terribly exiting to happen today. Actually, to be perfectly honest, I was too distracted by said sandwich to think about much of anything, apart from swallowing. After breakfast, my host mom, Noriko and I went shopping at a huge, expensive department store for an obento box for me to take to school, which was uneventful aside from finding a cute red box with cats on it, and a few presents for people back home. It was on the way home, while chatting in broken English and horribly bad Japanese and admiring the patches on my crappy old jean shorts, that my host mom and I discovered that we have the same hobby: sewing. The second she found out it was all "We're going to the craft store!" which, how could I say no to that?
Needless to say, I'll be going to the bank soon to get some more money. I pretty much killed the last of my reserves at the store. Seriously, I could spend all day in one of those stores. I mean, they cater to every possible hobby--from beading to knitting to dress making to painting to fake flower arranging--and since I love most of those things, there's more than enough to keep me busy for a good, oh, 17 hours. More if I decide I'm into fake flower arranging.
If the Craft Store of Awesome wasn't enough, it turns out that my Okaasan used to make her own clothes, so as soon as we got home, she busted out these gigantic freakin' boxes of fabric (more than all those bags I have stuffed in my closet). So now I've been recruited to patch, repair, and sew a whole bunch of stuff, which suits me just fine. (Plus, now I've got knitting materials, and am making some nifty legwarmers. Without a pattern. Yeah, that's right).
Other bonus to today include sleeping in, chatting with my Okaasan's fluent-English-speaking friend, eating cheesecake, and taking two baths in one day. :D
As you may have noticed, I haven't really had any pictures in these last few post. (Beware the total change of subject!) That's because I'm trying really hard not to be a tourist, which means not bringing my camera everywhere, and not taking pictures of That Really Interesting Tree, or My Tasty Breakfast, or A Cool Piece of Lint I Found in My Pocket. I do, however, have some pictures of my house (or apartment, to be exact):
The kitchen and part of the dining room.
The tatami room.
The dining room.
My bedroom.
The view from my window.
2 comments:
Yay, knitting and sewing! How wonderful you and your host mom have this fun thing in common! and I'm glad you get to knit... funky hats for all your family members???
Speaking of... pics of family, please!!! :-)
BerJevawitz, did you find Eden in a department store? So what was the apple that kicked you out? Time managment? Budget? Security? And I'm sure some of your family would love striking a pose with you for a picture... eventually. ^^
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