Lazy sunday

Do we have to say more? Have a nice week.

Japanese kimono presentation

Last year I was asked if I could give a presentation about the Japanese kimono. Because I was really busy at work I wasn't able to do this any earlier than today.
I had some items with me to show and Annie(my fitting doll) was with me aswell. She wore a  blue tsukesage with a white nagoya obi with flowerpattern. Luckily my BF was with me and did the hard work by bringing everything upstairs, what a sweety.
For this occasion I wore my salmon-pink hitoe which was never before worn by me, I combined it with a reddish purple antique hanhaba obi. This combination was really nice, at least I thought so.
Everything went really well and afterwords people shared there compliments and were very enthusiastic.

 

Yukata with karuta musubi

I have a very nice yukata but never worn her until yesterday. Last weekend we were visiting some relatives so I thought why not wear my yukata. I never used this musubi before but is really simple and stays very well in place but I did use a obi jime.

かるた, Karuta, loaned from the Portuguese  word meaning "card", carta.

Kin sha kimono

A few months ago I bought this kin sha chirimen kimono, she has quite some stains which I probably can't remove but she still will be a beauty with a past. There were a few damages which where not mentioned in the ad, so that was a disappointment but in the end she did find a new home with me.
I hope to wear her some day soon.

Chirimen and kin sha silks have a slightly textured surface similar to crepe, achieved by twisting the threads during weaving.

Chirimen is heavier and stronger than kinsha and plain-weave silk and drapes exceptionally well.

Kinsha is a very fine, light-weight crepe-like silk.(source: kasuri Home)

New gagdet

Bossie got a new phone with effects so she took a picture of me, I think it's a very nice picture.
What do you think?

In this picture I look very strange but I heard bossie laugh when she saw the picture

Have a great week.

Newbie

One beauty I couldn't resist.

Vacation

Last year my bf and I were suppose to go to Japan, unfortunately that trip didn't went through because of the volcano eruption in Iceland http://catsandkitsuke.blogspot.com/2010/04/japan-here-we-dont-come.html.
So this year we planned our trip again but as you maybe can image the trip was cancelled by the tour operator.
We did wanted to go on  holiday because it was some time ago that we went away together. One of the countries which was on my list was Iceland so that's were we went.
How beautiful Iceland was to visit I still hope that we will have the opportunity to visit Japan someday. 
I hope you enjoy the pictures:

A path in Reykjavik between Perlan(a restaurant and museum) and the city.


















A park in the city of Reykjavik and the famous church Hallgrimskirkja.

Still water in a big national park Pingvellier.

We did have al kind of weather so also snow when we were on the road.