YAY!!!!! to the extream!

My furi came in today, dropped my bad and set about looking it over. there are some minor damages, a hole the size of the head of a pin, the little button that holds the collar together is gonezo and i need to repair the lineing a bit! BUT it is so pretty! pics (yup its a tad short, be that a lesson to me) (and note: still dun know how to turn them the right way... they are saved verticle but flip over when uploaded...)

Yay!

Short post (yes its about the furi i ordered... thats the only kimono news i have right now...) My Furi was shipped today and i was very, very happy to find out that it could arive as soon as this thursday, though i suspect friday or saterday to be more reasonable.

Once i have this awsome item in my hands i can begin a new quest for a gold (+white?) obi and deside offically what the colors of the Obiage and Obijime will be... i'll probibbly play it safe and get the same colors... right now i'm just gonna work up my collection slowly... but i plan on haveing lots of kitsuke things one day.... *sigh*

My next goal is a plain Komon which i suspect to be followed by a bunch of small accesory buys and Haori. Yay! i mean i can wear the Haori around town and all that without to much nervs or stares (i may have a thick skin when it comes to dressing oddly with a purpouse but i have never worn a costume to a restraunt... though Kimono is more then a costume... oh well)

Well i must say that this short post grew a bit due to rambling but oh well... i need to write an essay now so bye bye! DX

Yes yes yes!

I won the auction for this lovely furi:

I am takeing abit of a risk because this kimono is from someones colection, here in the united states, and not from a trusted seller that dominates ebay (seriousely i think its rare for a kimono fan *cough* addict *cough* to give up ANY kimono they own... but then again hey who am i to judge?)

So i have already payed and all that, yay, so hopefully the payment goes through quickly and the woman (man?) will send it off to me soon, it says expected arival date was the 4 or 5 of november... but i can hope for sooner for one reason... they responded to my question same day, and thats a good sign. =) i hope my gut instict isn't wrong here... i really hope so.

Squeel

the aution ends tomarow, i'm so excited i cant focus on my APUSH Home work! btw APUSH stands for Advanced Placement United States History... Its a collage level course that i, an 11th grader is takeing now in hopes that i will get a magical credit so i won't have to take it again in collage... i already don't have to take US history, HA college in your metaphorical FACE!

Yea i just felt like putting my excitement out for any one to stummble upon... lols i hope this dosen't backlash... >.> oh well  if my fish gets away there are more in the sea... oh well back to my collage in High school home work... BLAH!

Sigh.... life.

i feel so slow... i wish i could update this blog weekyly with some sort of kimono news... but sadly i can't. My colection's not big enough for random kitsuke that involves diffrent color combos... i mean i have 1 Yukata, 2 hanhaba obis, 1 nagoya Obi, and 1 kimono that i'm not sure about what it is... probbibly a dressy komon or something, idk. But i wish i had enough kimono (and a job to pay for it) to do that... and do it seasonally.. the one kimono i do have is spring, sakura so it can be worn around april... sigh  i need a plain kimono for practice and tones of others for seasonallity....

On the otherhand it's three days till the lot i bid on auction's ends... i posted a pic of what it was last time, a lovely autum kimono.. sadly i doubt i will be able to wear it in season this year... it'll be febuary at least before i have a mostly compleat set on that one (i don't think i'm going to get zori yet... maybe sometime next fall because i plan on working again this summer... wasn't  sure on that frount untill i fell back in love with kimono, now i have to have some sort of job if i want to fun my obsession... i will also have to spend more wisely after this.... no more $100 kimono for me... not untill i have a job that pays like $15 an hour anyway.)

hope....

i may be getting a furisode faster then i thought, sure it is specsifically for autum but hey i'm in america i can wear an out of season kimoo and no one will care... they'll be too busy watching a "white' american girl walk by to realize "OMG she's wearing out of season flowers!" (not that they'll know that to begin with.)

So yea i made a bid for an item on EBay, the seller didn't have its condition down so i asked and they said it had no visible stains (they said nothing about holes and i'll take that as a good sign because if there is a hole it must not be worth mentioning). I already sort of have a mental image of a good kitsuke combo,  this kimono:

Plus a mostly gold obi (some orange, yellow, red or brown on there would be ok) and then some royal blue accesories... one o fthe hardest color to find.... i may have to settle for only one blue accesory (obiage or obijime...) but i would prefere to have both of them blue... it would be strikeing and bring out the blue the kimono... yea i'm not being on the safe side with kitsuke combos... except for th eobi... that sounds pretty safe to me...

either way i'll have to wait and have my furi infrount of me (to see the real colors... and to actuly have it) before i do any real shopping for my hard to find treasuers... its called royal  blue for a reason... I hope i win this action... i first bid because it was beautiful and i knew i would regret it if i didn't even try toget it... but now its grown on me... i put my claim in not long after it came up and i would be sad to loose it... good thing i sighned up for austionsniper... even if someone outbids me i have autionsniper to save the day... i would love to have this kimono... it's grown on me... like mold... lols JK i really do like it though.

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Man oh man, i am bored and i keep finding things i want... more kimono... I'm not even entirely sure why i like them... all i know is that feeling i get when i wear them is priceless and a driveing force... Ok so i bid of a furisode, its a fall season furisode... lols if i win this auction i'll be one step closer to one of my dreams... Haveing a furisode for ever season... and then one thats multi seasonal. but before that i have a mental list of all the stiff i need...

1: furisode
2: Obi, Obiage, Obijime
3: a plainish Komon Kimono, so i don't have to drag out my best ones every time i want to practice.
4: a simple obi
5: another Komon Kimono...
6: Ko Furi with Hakama
7: houmongi
8.... ect

Man i need to make some cash... though all i do realy know is that after i compleat my furisode ensemble (when i get a furi) is that i want one or two Komons to just... wear. In fact i would like them to be pretty plain, or geometric so i can wear them fall-spring... i do want another yukata soon though as well perhaps something blue with little pink flowers to go with one of my hanhaba obis (hope i spelled it right XP)

Geh.... well i did dress up last night in my lovely kimono... still not sure exactly what it is but its just too nice to put on all the time... its sakura patern by the way... oh man i'm rambling, i better stop here... just had to have a mini rant thing.

Yay!

Well Monday night i dressed up in kimono... again... i can't help it! yes i know its my christmas present but.... its the only one i have! D= (i need to fix that soon... XD) oh well... heres a pic.

its better then my last one... though i need to show my nagajuban's collar more and my bow is... odd? well i blame that one on the fact that i was useing a folded up face towel for a substitute OBI MAKURA... the size diffrence is so great... i know that because....

dun dun dun dun! I got one today! XD and thats not all i got a whole set of accesories i was previousely missing *sigh of contentment* it came right when i was getting antsy for more kimono stuff.... i'll have to do some kitsuke this weekend again.... lols ^^ <--- in heaven. heres a pic of what my accesoriy/tool/ nessisary items (what ever you wish to call them) its the pic from ebay and isn't quite acurate... but it showes my point! ^^

Japanese candy

Well today i was puttering around the internet, after i had made my hat as seen below....

ANd i felt like makeing something. So i came acorss this thing called Zabon Satozuke
and the site told me how to make it. well first off this is basically candied Pomello rind/skin which can be substituted for grapefruit (which i did) so right now i am soaking the peals/Rinds in some water and will do so over night, the whole prosses involves lots of boiling, discarding of the water, boiling agin and then repeating. Then i add the sugar and cook it and eventually i coat it with more sugar... i sooo wounder what it will taste like....

Now anyone who reads this might wounder, "why make this?" well first off it sounds interesting and second off i had some odd desires that have begun to pop up in my head... one of which involves wearing a kimono to the supermarket/craft store and getting remembered for it.... But this thing is more about when i fufill another dream that has poped into my head. I want to start a kimono club here in the austin area (if there isn't one already).

You see i've been feeling a little lonly and prowling Imortal geisha only helps so much, i have a couple of friends who are showing some intrest in Kimono but not nearly as much as me... and so yea... i whent looking and was surprised to not find a Kimono club in austin... which i might add is the city that sells T-shirts reading "Keep Austin Weird!!!" I swear i already know the reaction any one on the street may have when they see you walking around in a kimono.

A.) they might stare at you for five seconds and then get on with their life.

B.) if they are a musician then they might stare at you for five seconds and use it as insperation for a song.

c.) they would ask you why your wearing a kimono, and after you tell them they would respon 'Cool'

d.) They would ask you to take a picture with you

Seriusly i doubt there would be ANY sort of bad reaction... There was a Japanese family who moved into the area when i was in Middle school, 8th grade formal dance the boyu gose out, the mom comes along armed with camera in a kimono... I thought it was cool... i don't hing any one tought anything off it acept to glance at her and then think 'hmm... you don't see that every day' and then get with the dance.

Ok well that was way off topic... well yea when i have a kimono club i think it would be cool to get together at my house, in kimono, and enjoy some tea together in kimono and eat some japanes sweets... next misssion.... makeing bean past for said sweets... labor intensive but dosn't look too hard. wish me luck will post pic of finished candied peels... oh i also used the inside of the grapefruit to make some gelato.... yum!

So maney bunnies...

Ok well by bunnies i mean rabit ear hats, and man while i'm only makeing 4 (gonna sell em and use the money for kimono, XD) Since the Ears are around 40 Inches long each thats a whole lot of ear. Guh, my serger (yes i'm serging parts of thease dang hats) was acting up last night, twas a spoiled child and tried to rebell in an atempt to make mommie angry, i swear its mad at me cuz i havent used it in a while... but i wuvs it lots and lots.

In other news i have began my hunt for a furisode... i want one so bad and i found one i like on E-bay.... if its still there when the money gets into my paypal acount then i will call it fate and snatch it up, if its gonbe by then.... well at least i can hope that one goes to a nice kimono home.... Back to the rabbit ear hats, will post a pic of one when i'm done.

AH-HA!

Yes well as the title may indeed state n a round about manner i realised something. i was puttering around Imortal Geisha (ok more like stalking) and i saw a pic of one of the members wearing a kimono (wich is beautiful by the way but thats besides the point of my realisation) and she was useing the tie thing to keep her sleeves out of the way. Now you see i have been trying out how to do that for a while now, cuz it seems so handy, and i saw the bow on her shoulder and suddenly it hit me and i knew how to do it. So i tried it out on one of my cotton costume kimonos,(handmade by me and useful for this sort of thing) it was one of my two purple 'Haori' style ones and as i was beaming at myself i remembered something i had nearly forgotten.

You see i have two cotton Furisode style costume kimonos (all the fun of furisode with the ease of a yukata, or so i tell myself)  that i made oh... um two three years back, well either way one, a blue one i might add, i had made 'too long' (this was in the days before i knew putting on a kimono took some folding) and for some reason instead of surgeing it across the bottom i mearly folded it, sewed it, and called it done.
So here i am ripping some seems with the plan of 'remakeing' it... eventually... i'll make it more acurate this time... but i suck at hems so i'll just serge some parts with a nice cream colored thread. lols.

Ok....

So if any one has noticed... i made a new blog and am moveing over to here... a random power outage caused me to log out of Gmail ( i don't think i've logged out in a few years btw) and next thing i know i spent two hours trying to remember a password i didn't remember. So i made a new Blog with a pass word i'm sure to remember.... yea... well sad... luckly its not like i have any dedicated followers right?  Psh... i'm a drop in the bucket of the internet.... oh well