I've been making bread for breakfast everyday.



naan


combination of no knead bread and Chinese green scallion pancake.










and today is walnut, raisins, cinnamon and nutmeg.
I'm going to try onion bread and olive bread.
I tried to use buckwheat flour to make no knead bread once. It was really
good.

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This recipe for naan is not bad. I found that use yogurt or milk to replace with
water adds very good aroma to the bread but you don't really need the egg though.

If you add eggs, butter and milk (replacing the water) for the no knead bread recipe
and it will become basic sweet bread recipe which can be cinnamon rolls and brioche.

Similar to no knead bread, Artisan bread in five minutes a day is a good book.
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*people who make nice socks
_ Hansel from Basel










They are having sale on their online store for the past season collections.
Above are from their 09 fall collection.

photos are by nicholas haggard
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*people who make nice shoes and metal ware
_house
(only photos of tools here but you will find more nice products in the website)




If possible I want to take this shoes making class.
(via oly)

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have a nice weekend!

after the wood block printing class
we walked along the water.









saw these boards and remembered i have a orange one sitting in basement............

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THANK YOU!

This all I want to say to you!
Thank you for stopping by, leaving nice comments and visiting my little shop.

My little shop is turning 3 years old this month. It's so hard to believe and I know I can't make it without you.
I'm adding two (linoleum block+ prints) in the shop. Both of them are at the special price for this anniversary celebration.

Many many thanks!!
xoxo








I made a sleeve for the deer print.



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Woodblock printing class in tortoise
I went to this woodblock printing class today. Shodo Iwagaki is a monk from Japan and he taught us how to carve and print.




The invitation he made for the show and the class.










We were asked to create some graphic with square, circle and triangle since it's a short class.



This is what I did! I'm afraid that I'm not "zen" enough. It's kind of fun that shodo pointed out the imperfect parts of the print and he said he likes the way it is." It's part of character of wood block printing......"



I like his free form bag. Things are just simple held together by a big sheet of fabric.



The fabric he designed.




His "Zen talk" postcard. I learned some of the Zen poetry before. It's really inspiring to see some of them being interpreted into graphic forms.







The lovely birds in tortoise. Tortoise is a dangerous place! I want everything there.

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Today is a busy Sunday! Tired but happy!!

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some sketches for the new project,






waiting the red birds to dry so i can send out some surprises to friends and my family.



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Trying to germinate seeds in paper towel. I did with basil, fennel, dill, heirloom tomato and strawberry.



What we ate tonight!




I also made some personal cards for myself.

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ice cream for free

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Flea Market
The best outdoor activity in spring is to go shopping in flea market.







I run into my best flea market pal, yuko, and I got too excited to take more pictures.
I started to go flea market because of yuko. She has good eyes for other people's junks.
We always have a lot of fun browsing in flea market.
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