snow storm

It has been snowing for last 3 days. I was -8C yesterday. It is cold... It is cold...

snow

We woke up this morning to this...the first snow of the winter! It is such a beautiful day today. If you are driving up to TeDe be careful.

drive

It has been such a long time since we have posted anything. Life has been a little crazy, but we are adjusting well to being parents. I had been itching to get out of the house, so we decided to go somewhere on Thursday, just out. By the time we were ready to go it was already lunchtime, and Yukine was sleeping so peacefully so we decided to wait until she woke up so she could drink milk and then we would go for a drive. She slept for hours! It was 4pm when we left but it ended up being a beautiful drive and a beautiful sunset. It was such a nice time.

Home!

Kristina and Yukine came home today from the hospital. We are starting our new life!

I made a blog for Yukine.
http://yukine-karina.blogspot.com/

I am going to sleep.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yukine!

Our baby girl, Yukine is born! 46.5cm 2416g healthy baby. Kristina is doing well, too.
It was an amazing experience. I cried..... Kristina and Yukine is coming home on 15th. Cannot wait. Keep checking the blog for more pictures to come. Daddy is sleepy...

Fall T-Shirts

We have new T-shirts in the gallery. Please stop in and take a look. Just a side note, we are still waiting to have our baby...any day now.

baby

Our baby is due on October 3rd, so we will be going to the hospital soon. If you are coming to TeDe, please call to make sure that we are here.

Fall is here!

There are signs of fall in the garden. This is a kind of chestnut. It is called kuri in Japanese. These trees grow naturally all around this area, when the nuts are ready the prickly outside opens up and the kuri nuts fall to the ground. We can hear them popping out of the trees throughout the day. It really makes me feel that fall is here.

Kagura

Last night we went to the shrine in our village to see the Kagura festival. Everyone gathers around the shrine to watch the dancers act out ancient stories through dance and music. There is no speaking or singing. The music is a steady rhythmic drumming and a flute. It is quite a special event. We are so lucky we can just walk down the street to see it.

New Cafe Menu

We have changed the style of the menu in the cafe! Instead of having the same menu every week, we are trying a more spontaneous approach. We added a few new items for this weekend, such as open faced sandwiches, pumpkin soup and homemade ginger ale. We will be trying lots of different dishes throughout the year and will only make food from the old menu occasionally. I am hoping that everyone will enjoy a little more variety in the cafe. Please come visit soon!

tommy guerrero

Hi there. This is Tetsushi. Kristina is usually in charge of the English blog, but since I am the only one who went to the live, I decided to write.
I went to Tommy Guerrero's live in Fukuoka last night. I would never guess that I would see him in Japan. The opening band was terrible and I hated every second of it, but Tommy Guerrero was awesome! It was definitely better than listening to the CD. He played for about two hours. In the end, it was a great live.

2 New T-Shirt Designs

We printed some new t-shirts and ecobags today just in time for the weekend. We will keep working on new designs for this fall and little by little we will put them in the gallery. We hope you can visit soon!

t-shirt design

We are making a couple of new t-shirt designs. We tried something different this time and are playing with text. I am looking forward to seeing how the final product turns out.

Track Bicycle Racers

Today we had a group of track bicycle racers stop into the cafe. It was really interesting to hear about their profession, something I didn't even know existed. It sounds like an extremely competitive sport where you have to be both mentally and physical tough. These guys are obviously tough guys, yet they were so kind and fun to talk to. Maybe we will try to see them race sometime in Beppu...sounds like it would be a lot of fun.

New Signs

Because TeDe is so hard to find, we made more signs. Hopefully, this will make it easier for people to find us. This time we made screens to print all of the writing and the making process went very well.

Garden Vegetables

The garden vegetables are looking healthy. We are happy that they are making a comeback. After all of the rain and so little sunshine in July, things weren't looking so good. It finally feels like summer is here with the sunny weather!

Baby Chair

Tetsushi just finished a baby chair for a client of ours. His challenge was to make the seat adjustable so as the baby grows the height of the chair can change. When the child eventually does grow out of the chair it could be used as a stool or a stand.

Summer Walk

It was a beautiful day today so we got out for a short walk. As you can see, I am quite pregnant. We are expecting a little girl in early October. We are excitedly waiting to meet her!

Furusato Matsuri (Local Festival)

Yesterday was the summer festival in our village. It is a great event for the community. This year they did kagura, a type of ancient story telling with drumming, music, and dance. The picture on the bottom shows the dragon before the warrior sleighs him and saves the town. After kagura was taiko drumming and then dancing. The finale every year is the fireworks. It was quite an impressive show.

Exhibition at Rin

We had an exhibition at Rin last week, these are some shots of our work in the space. We would like to thank everyone for coming, and also thank all of our friends for helping out. It was a great experience showing our work in Tokyo, we hope to do it again.

Solar Eclipse

Today we so lucky to see the solar eclipse. I wasn't expecting to see it at all because it was raining most of the morning. It started to clear up just in time to see this amazing event! From here, the sun was covered about 90% at the fullest. It didn't get dark, but the light was eerily beautiful. It was quite a special day.