Shintaro Miyake

2005 kumao






(A Path of the Forest with Blooming Flowers)



(Honey -bee)

All images are from Tomio Koyama Gallery.

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We want to make more paper lamps and have tried on different kinds of paper. This one is vellum. Will try to use mylar next time.

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akubi_japanese vintage children clothing shop

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inspiration 01 ..2008 Fall







*scarf (it's nice to see thing in different scales)



*simple shapes and colors



*knit skirt



*twill + wood platform

All by Marni
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all time favorite,
hint magazine
(remember to check the "features/multimedia")

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fantasy of summer
don't you think those ipomoea are so wild. they grow in a crazy form.






just send out new prints " ipomoea" to little paper planes today!

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Jim House interview at fecal face.

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more photos of Polaroid




things around the house........................................................................................


good recipes of chinese dumpling

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Bread roller/ rolling pin

CL made a roller for me last weekend. We still have some leftover cedar lumbers in our back yard from making the deck. He knew that I've been looking for good roller for a while. He didn't let me to pick up one when we were in the Crate and Barrel. He said, that's not a good one in terms of shape and the weight. So he made me one. I really like the shape and it's much lighter than the ones I saw in the store.

We made Chinese dumpling skin by this roller! I have to agree with him this one is very easy to handle. I also like it's fine grain and the natural color. It looks so nice and it's a good tool.

I love the new bread roller!!



He also makes very good smoothie and pasta.
( sorry! scanner is still not working!)



Then, I made cinnamon bread for him and of course I used the new roller.



Have a nice weekend!

Adventure 123

I want to say thank you to Mav. and Lena for inviting me to enter this wonderful adventure_ be part of Lines & shapes Vol.03. Such a nice experience and I was too excited to go to sleep for a couple of nights. Ideas and thoughts tangled in my brain. Those sleepless nights were fun!!


Things I made for Lines & Shapes Vol.3 gather

*17 of 10"x22" gocco prints



*a little bit of details here




and I also made pumpkin bread, blueberry and strawberry jams for "favorite food" section.




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pumpkin bread recipe via here

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bad scanner
We are having some problems with our scanner so I can't show you the new polaroids.



Our deck and back yard are covered by these yellow flowers now......
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Will come back later today with good news and some links.

Yuko Yamamoto' paper plants
山本祐布子








No matter how many times I've seen these, I'm inspired every time when I revisit the website.
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Find her stationary and products in Loule.

I also like the textile design from "Maize".

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another long day !
I hope yours is better than mine. I will remember to take some break tomorrow and track down those incredible shadows in our back yard.

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If you go to the river you will not come back,

Eco color

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good mail day!



Last Saturday I got a nice package from goodness!! I want to say thank you to Leslie! she helped me to find some good Japanese books which I have been dying for .

First book to share is the 2008 s/s catalog from mina perhonen











I also got this book which I am really glad that I bought it. It comes with one to one scale pattern which you can trace and very detailed illustrations.



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Thank you for the nice commends and stopping by my etsy!!

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New prints

* another collaboration with Lynn

_ Water lilies





(design by me, and letterpress printing by lynn russell | satsuma press, thank you again! Lynn)


*my new gocco prints

_ cacti . birds eye view




_ willow




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a sad thing






this is one of my favorite scarves! i just found that CL washed it yesterday! (dumped it in the wash machine and dryer,.......).
so this is lovely scarves is totally destroyed,........
i felt so so so sad yesterday! (it was a gift from my best friend.....she is living in London now,. i always feel that she is around because of this vintage scarf.) I felt that a part of me or memory has been chopped out....

Have been thinking to bring this to my weaving teacher and see if he would know how to make the same pattern. I guess I will him the picture instead next time...........


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& a happy thing

a shop update next Monday!

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角田淳　醤油さし
soy sauce pot



Found it from here.

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Somthing I really miss !!

My grandpa used to bring us before dinner snack. Steam rice with stew pork, fish flakes and pickles which wrapped nicely with bamboo leaf.
I don't see people do this anymore in Taiwan. Have you ever thought about what did we use before the invention of plastic bags, PET bottles, etc..........?


(I didn't mean the bamboo rice dumpling. It was like a very normal street food but they wrap it with bamboo leaves.)





I found this picture from pingmag. As always it's a very nice article!!

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making & making








We went to a hardware store in little Tokyo! Yah!! we found the Japanese carving knife. I recycled some scraps of cedar which we used for our deck. I wonder where I can buy and find the scraps of teak, bamboo or walnut.....

I didn't apply any oil or bee wax. I like the natural look of it although apply the wax will enhance the grain a little bit.

It was a wonderful Sunday afternoon! Making things always makes me happy!

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