Happy new year/Michiyuki party

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!

This has been a good year. I found kimono again, adpoted a kitten, got accepted into NHS, passed 5/8 exams for sure (3 have yet to be posted, uggg), i got some new pretty babies... oh and i had a Michiyuki Photo SHoot!

pics now!

so here are all 10 pretties al nice and folded up.

 

 

 

 

 

It was a lot of fun and a lot of people on Imortal geisha have already commented.

Hot pot any one?

Well tonight i finaly carried throug on my hot pot promise! all i can say is my family loved it with a certain amout of instrucations on how to improve it next time.... 1. i need to cook more noodles... we ran out! XD
2. i should lesses the amount of mushrooms
3. More meat!
4. I shouldn't almost forget the tofu!

Here are some pics rightbefore i turned on the heat and whent OMG THE TOFU!

 my lovely donabe... i need better pics

 what it looked like before the tofu... i tell you i need to cut down on the cabage so i can stack some other stuff

I'm closing the lid on my tofuless dish!!! (XD)

Woah!

I just discovered something amazing today ( you may feel diffrent but i never knew).... well as you guys know i got a whole slew of Michiyuki, i got a 10 pack from ichiroya... probibly not gonna buy many more for now my rubermaids are super full! Well back to the point i had this michiyuki fashion show for my relitives and it wasn't till later when i was folding them all back up when i discovered my thing of the day.
9/10 of my michiyuki had pockets... the only one that didn't have a niffty little pocket wa sthe one i bought off my mom... lols

its cool theres this one little pouch like pocket stashed in the frount right pannel and i never knew it was an extra christmas present!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Just had to say it guys and all of you have a very good holidays.

X-mas eve 2011

well i'm ready to head off to church but my whole family (even my dad whos all like you have an hour an hour and a half at most) well i'm posting because once again i am wearing a michiyuki ensamble. today its a black turtleneck, black dress pants, black 2 1/2 inch heels, and my michiyuki. I have a cloak (must have for winter kimono in the usa) that i will wear to keep the wet off of my michiyuki (yes rain not snow in december... ah texas).
I am so looking forward to tomarow. i get a whole slew of michiyuki, a bunch of geta, a donabe (yes my mom held it back till x-mas), and i think some other kimono items (i hope i don't remember some, that makes it a surprise)but untill then i have to go to church and wait till at least 9:30 before going to bed... i mean any earlier would be a little sad and besides i am sure my sleep will be less then stelar any way i'm one o fthose people who wakes many a time in the night. well i better go pester my parents.. and their gift wrapping (yes indeed they waited till NOW to wrap OUR presents, th eour refers to me and my sister.)

well happy holidays every one who happens across my blog (some times this feels more like a diary... but i try and keep everything jap oriented at least.... XD so again happy holidays or as a sign on our door reads 'HAPPY EVERYTHING!' XD

Red Fever

Man oh man i'm finding more and more that when i see a red kimono i gasp and go weak at the knees... i don't knw why either, i mean my favorite color is purple... and i am gaining a certain fondness for black and blue. But to me Red is stunning expecially in a Kimono. I wounder why... Oh well, just a random ranty post that i felt like getting out. =P oh well. Christmas is almost upon us and i cant wait, i know i'm getting 9 michiyuki, and a couple of other things... that excape me at the moment but i know they are kimono related. lols i really am forgetful! Well with all those new michiyuki i will have to have a michiyuki photoshoot and post em all here, and on Immortal geisha. lols Merry christmas all, i know i will post soon!

Bitch'in Threads

I whent today, finaly. Now what i have to say about the little shop. It did nindeed have kimono, and i learned that the word kimono is like the word moose, you cannot slap an 's' at the end. Now the kimono were in pretty good shape considering that they were hung up, there was a good yukata, and a kurotomesode that was spectacular... but otherwise it was mostly haori, and some odd stuff. Also it was all $100+ for sure, the Tomesode was about $600 and it wasn't even that spectacular except for its amazing condition. I say if you want some interesting vintage clothing, go, but if you want kimono... unless you have deep pockets i sugest you drive on.

In other news i bought a donabe today, its very cute and hopefully it will work well too! XD I have no clue when my obi will come in, but i hope it is soon, and i will probibly get a peach or blue gray obiage, and a creamish obijime... but there are a lot of obijime sets so maybe i will get a set of seven or something... meh cant wait for another dress up!

Vintage beauty reborn

ok so my newest baby isn't really reborn, but it is now wearable (as in i don't have to fear that a small tug will rip it terrebly! the collar took some fussing to get how i wanted but otherwise looks fine and pretty crip too. XD oh and i took pics, i think i look pretty good in this kimono, my obi works well with it but its just too much pink! i cant wait till my new obi comes in and i can see how it really looks... i digress... pictures! XD

Obi

Well yeah I bought an obi off of ebay some days ago... for my vintage beauty... i desided to post the pics. i think it will add a good pop, really make you go woa! it'll break up all that bland cream color and give it some... zest? i guess the word zest works. I plan to have a cream/white/pale pink obijime, so as to keep the lighter colors of the kimono from being compleatly forgoten. As for my plans on the Obiage... i'm unsure, i'm thinking pale blue, some pinkish color, or maby a greyish blue/ dark blue or a dark green or an orange colored obiage... i really don't know. sigh, i'll have to find something in those colors (not nesisarly an obiage) to see once i have the other stuff... oh well i promised pics so here they are!

 Looks to be a stain/age mark/discoloration... but it won't matter because to wear a nagoya obi in the Taiko bow i have to do some extra stuff... meh i must say haveing a small waist is a blessing and a curse when it comes to kimono... oh well.

I wounder what flowers thease are... i'll have to post a pic on Imortal geisha and see if any one knows... otherwise... i will just call them 'geometric flowers' and be done with it.

Updates

well its day two of project 'fix the little things'!

Last night i sewed up the worst rip... it was the back shoulder seam right... not sure how to illistrate that better without the use of pictures... so yea. the riped seam was... well ripped about 1 inch long while the frount end of that same seam only ripped about 1/3 of an inch... the oposite shoulder seam, as in the side that would be on my left, is fine, perfect even... i wounder what the prevouse owver did to make those seams give like that... catch their sleave on the door?

I also wounder why they sewed the colar in half... was it so they could display it in a frame and not worry about it or anything? i have no clue... sigh... i also found some more age spots... yet i find them kind of endearing... like freckles. lols its like i say folks. it kinda grows on you.... like mold! XD

Well in other news that is totaly relevent, i bought what i think may be a well matching obi (if its not perfect, you know thease things are hard to judge as pics, i mean sure you can edit and hold em up to each other but you never know till they are both there together in the same room... physically) so yea i think it will match very very well and if the colors are slightly diffrent... it will still match pretty well. i'll post some pics later... lols.

Vintage baby! Squee!

Ok so i won an auction almost two weeks ago and i have been eagerly awaiting the arival of my vintage beauty kimono (as i fondly called it). well yea so my vintage baby came in today, after a botched get together with friends before aikido plan this cutie was exactly what i needed! XD

Sha has long sleaves, and her cream base is actuly a little more pinkish in color. there were more age/minor damage spots then antisipated, i also need to do some minor repairs, oh and the collar was sewn in half (i wounder how long it has been like that....) but all in all when i put that baby on all the flaws just seemed to dissapear (then again the majority of them were on the back >: D  ) so when i get home from class tonight i will begin my repairs (useing some 'invisible thread' for now untill i feel confident enough to buy visible 'gasp' silk thread!) and hopefully i will be takeing some pics on this fridayish.

Due to the more pinkish hue of the base i do think i will go with that red obi i've been pondering, but i think i should go with a blue (preferably a lighter blue) or an orange obiage with perhapse a cream colored obi jime so that the cream color isn't totaly dwarfed.... heh lets see what i find... i'll probibly put off untill after christmas is (probibly not) over till i buy them though. well lets see where the river takes us.

The A in Aikido stands for Awsome!

Well tonight i had my first Aikido class. It was fun, lots of falling down but i didn't hit my head or feel dizzy after some rolling thing in PE (yea doing three rolls head first makes one dizzy). My arms feel a bit weak but hey i was actully pulling some people with all my might (and throwing some of my 107 lbs in there too, its hard to knock down tall people)

On my way out from class i was walking to my car... when two men that i must describe as "Two elderly black men of the faith" walked out of the curch next door... well lets just say when a young girl walks by wearing a cat eared hat said to black men of the faith cant not stop her... i was haveing a mental freek out but i pasted on my girl scout smile/ girl scout cookie selling cutsie voice. and made it out ok... one was a paster... dosn't diminish the fear factor folks. lols.

Exams are coming up soon... then after the exams i can go check out the local kimono store... 'Bitchen Threads' yea to think that there are kimono sold at a place with a name like that... oh well.

WOW

so this weekend/monday has been exsiteing. all saterday morning i made adzuki bean paste. it was good, i got the right bean (HOOOOORAY) then i headed over to my New Buddy's place. there we had Hot pot, geeked out a little bit and i learned that i can at least eat hot pot with chopsticks... (yes normally i'm a fail with chop sticks) i discovered that tofu isn't the nasty substance i thought it to be (my vegitarian aunt would be so proud) after words i got lost on my way home, had to call my parents but eventuly made it back safly (i really need a gps/smart phone)  then on sunday i had an awsome day of lazyness.

Today, though cold and wet, was good. I whent to watch said buddy's Aikido class. And i am offically signed up... i start wednessday, and boy am i nervouse (its so bad i cant even spell the word! XD). i'm one of those people who never got into/ tried martial arts as a kid... dude i tried tenis, soccer, dance of all kinds (from tap, to ballet, to jaz), and quite a bit of other things, but never martial arts... by the time i was considering them i was at that age where i was very easily embaresed... i'm still easily embaresed... i just deal with it and if i have to look at the teacher/adult and say "I'm sorry but my mind just totaly whent blank. can i have a redo?"(it has happened...)

Oh well i've got to man up and give Aikido a real hard try, i have made a promise tomyself and that promise is "I will not Quit Aikido at least untill the end of the school year (late may)" I made it that way cuz if i'm not haveing fun, or i just find i can't do it, or to something of that effect then well... i tuffed it out for about 5 months. but i will give this thing one heck of a try! XD

Sigh, fall/winter blues

i wish spring would come quickly so i can go out and see the japanese garden (in kimono of course) i checked the place out a month ago and found that the japanese garden, while small, was jam packed with things of intrest, yet due to the drought it was void of allmost all koi andmost of the water features that would have made it stunning were not on...

There was one koi fish in the ponds, it had to be at least 10 inches long, probibly longer. and in that same pond was a working water feature... i kind of wished that they had a real pagoda and not the tea house... but hey japanese is japanese and i feel it will be stunning in spring, rain has been falling a bit more often and so my hope is that with spring will come more rain and a true japanese jewl....

oddly i feel better now. lols guess thats how life works.

Vintage!

The night before last i won a vintage beauty (well i hope its ok i mean some times you can never tell) and it looks in pretty good ocndition.

The lining apears to be yellowed but i don't think that will be too much of a problem. i am very happy.