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.