flyer for the tokyo show

Tomo and Chiyo from Tuesday designed the postcard for our show. The July 7th opening day is right around the corner!

Pod Sack

I am working on a new batch of the pod sack. I am just about finished with all of the fabric. Now is the cutting phase, then I will hand the cut pieces over to Tetsushi's mom and she will start sewing them up.

BBQ

Yesterday was our barbeque. We grilled burgers, enjoyed the garden, and even played a little ping pong. Thanks to everyone for coming!

Hamburger Buns

We are getting ready for BBQ tomorrow! We baked buns all day and we are super excited to eat our own burgers.

evening walk

The weather has been great up here. We have been enjoying walking in the evening. The ricefields are all full of water, this one is still waiting for the rice plants.

garden updates

The almond tree is making almonds! We will probably get about ten this year. And the Yukianagi is blooming. Everything is green and happy around here. We are loving springtime.

Ladybug

I found a ladybug in the garden this morning. Most of the ladybugs around here are black with red dots, this one is the more traditional red with black dots.

Onpaku

We had an event at TeDe with Onpaku. 12 people came for coffee, dessert, and a brief lesson on loop braiding!

Productive Day

Tetsushi and his mom finished up the garden project today. They made steps into the slope, which before was full of rocks and clay. Now we can plant flowers and veggies in the beds. They both worked hard all day, even though it happened to be Mother's Day and Tetsushi's birthday.

Garden

We started this year's vegetable garden. We are growing tomato, peaman, jalepeno, lettuce, eggplant, potato, basil, and rosemary. We are really challenging ourselves this year, we'll just have to see how it goes.

We asked our neighbor to help us dig to expand the garden. We are thinking to plant flowers along the slope and vegetables in the flat area. We still have a lot of work to do!

Sunset

We caught a beautiful sunset on the way home from Oita yesterday.

BBQ

We are having a barbeque on Sunday, May 24th from 10:00-17:00. Please join us! Feel free to bring your own food and drink, we will have a hot grill waiting. If you don't want to bring anything, we will be serving American-style hamburgers for 600yen. We will not be serving the usual cafe food. We are hoping for good weather, but even if it rains we will have the party. This event is for everyone, so please bring your friends.

New painting

Mark gave us a new painting, we have quite a collection of his work. The title of this piece is "Bull becoming flowers, flowers becoming bull."

Studio time

We have both been busy in our studios lately. We have a lot of work to make for our upcoming show. The nice weather makes it so much more pleasant to be working.

Leaf

I noticed this interesting leaf in the garden today...the flower and the leaf are one. I love it.