I'm back!

Hello all! It has been a long time since i did a good post!
It turns out that I am pretty busy with senior year but i am doing some other things as well.
First off I am now taking a chado class! I get reprimanded a bit, but i think the teacher likes me over all... i'm just a bit too energetic and my tendency to hesitantly try and help explain(aka interrupt people) is the main cause. So far i really like the class though and i already have a cute Chawan i found at Asahi imports, it was very cheap (try $9.99) and yet perfect for me. i may get another one soon. I also just purchased my very own tea caddy on eBay, fingers crossed that it doesn't get damaged!

Otherwise the only other biggish news is that i may have a chance to show off my kimono locally (i got contacted!) which is exciting... its really mind blowing that I'm well known enough to get contacted like that.

And for all of you out there that like my kimono pics... here are some just for you!

Rainy day kitsuke

well yesterday was yucky and gray... but i just had to get in kimono and feel pretty. This was my second kitsuke in  two days which is more kitsuke then usual for me. So i broke out my IG Prize and put on the main peices... as in the kimono, the obi, the obijime, and the obiage. being still quite warm here in Texas i wore my hitoe juban (if i had a Ro juban i'm sure it would get much love). Texas has a longer and hotter summer then japan (i think any way by their awase- hitoe- ro/sha calendar) so i may not be able to wear awase much untill  mid october...

oh well thats enough gripeing! so here are some lovely kimono pics!

I must say, thease are some of my favorite kimono pics so far. I look cute, the kimono looks neat... my 1+ years of self teaching have paid off! thank you for the support every one! (though i mostly get support from the stats... i wish more people commented...)

outfit planning!

K in my last post/ Rant (of sorts) I said that i would be going to the japanese garden in my local area! well i will the date is just undesided, as it is with kimono you have to be carful of the weather, more so here in america (because there are no profesional kimono cleaners in site) so its lucky i live in texas.... dry and hot! Thats Texas...

Um so back on topic, i'm sure you all are woundering what i will wear well here it is! though this is just to check....

the moment i set those boots beside everything else i KNEW that i needed brown boots, light to medium brown for the best look... i need to get some because i have none at the moment.

So just for background purposes. The kimono is my newest tulip baby but since its all red i figure a little late is ok. the obi is a Tsuke Obi and much warmer then my winter bridge tsuke obi which on a side note is from the same person. It came in the mail two days ago and i am very happy with this purchase... I now have 7 obi (soon to be 8) 5 kimono(one has no obi officaly) 10 michiyuki, 3 obijime, 4 obiage (ok i admit some are scarfs), and i love them all so over all my collection has 29 peices at the moment. wow i sound kimono rich this way...

wow i got compleatly side tracked... The obiage is a green scarf i will be useing in place of an obiage... and the obijime is a handmade cord useing Kumihimo which some of you may recall the fact that i desided to try it out... years of finger weaving and such has given me patenience in this area...

So yeah i don't know exactly when i will make my debute (my first public kimono wearing which this will be it) but it should be in 2-4 weeks. except for the boots  realy like how this looks, very springy and fresh and almost a little mellow, makes me think of a flower...



Something to look forward to...

Just had to get this kimono related bit out...As some might recall i visited my local Jap garden on a scouting mission a few months back (yes i said i would posts pics but i never found them...) well also some months back my friend who is in photography class at school expressed an intrest in going with me and takeing pictures when i whent again in spring.

The only diffrence in this would be i would be wearing kimono, the garden would be half dead with stagnant pools and only 1 big Koi, hopefully it would be quite alive and better taken care of because spring is 'THE SEASON' for the Austin botanical gardens... Also i will probibly be driveing... i should practice getting in and out of the car in kimono...

So as to what i will be wearing well... it will be my newest peice, my red lovely, a nice pair of boots i will have to take a pic of, An obi i just won off of ebay (its cream, yellow, peachy amd a little gold and all geometric but its very mellow and will still contrast nicely) Also i hope to have a green Obiage(i just bought a nice green scarf i can use) and i will probibly use my new Kumihimo disk to make an obijime, (colors are undesided).

the obi should be here in a number of days, i will try and take pictures of the outfit layed out(i can show you my boots, by the way i'm wearing boot because the garden has this nice loose graval on a good number of the paths and i don't want my geta to be ruined and i need to test how long i can wear my Zori without pain... not ideal of a photo shoot!)

In other kimono related news... the obi i mentioned will be my last Major purchase for the next month or two. I may buy some new Tabi, heck i might even get an obiage or obijime... but no obi or Kimono... I am going to begin to save so i can buy myself a nice Ko-furisode Hakama set of some sort, maybe a new juban that will be long enough in the sleves for the Ko-furisode and most definatly a cute hanhaba obi, all i have right now in that deparment is currently pink or purple and they are both plain... so yeah saveing up for a big purchase... though it probibly will not change my posting  frequency... which is when ever i feel like it/ have something TO talk about... XD   )

My beautiful new obi!

Ok so some time ago i won a beautiful obi off of e-bay (like i have been doing). I just could not resist this beautiful one... It is pretty much good for all seasons... So far what i can idenify is Ume,

Chrysanthemum, Tachibana(i think, i am pretty sure), pine, peony, and of course the birds that i have no clue what they are. It is stunning so i must show you all just how stunning it is with thease pics!

daffodil kimono

So yeah my newest baby came in(hoooray!) so i had to try it on even if my birthday party was just a couple of hours away, my dad did me the honor of takeing thease pics!

I look a little top heavy in this pic but i think it has a little to do with the way i was standing..... oh well i love this baby and the sunburn isn't very visible... i think i need to wear my obi a tad lower... and i really need to make a padded vest so i look less bottom heavy in the future....

wow...

i just realized that it has been five months since i refell inlove with kimono.... in commemoration i think i should post a pic from my early days before i knew how wrong i was andmy first real kimono...



Left: a hakama furi inspired outfit you cannot see em but i have some nice rideing style boots that i plan to use when i have a real set of women's hakama this pic is over a year old now

Right: me in a homemade kimono based costume poseing next to an unknown catgirl... who is also not wearing a real kimono... sigh... this picture is about two years old...



why do some of my pics end up sideways.... -.-

sideways pic of doom: My first real kimono, a Yukata with Peony and.... daffodils and some other asorted flowers. its a lovely yukata.

Meh. in other news i think i'm going to make some new stuff... mainly i will atempt to make a makura pillow... i think i can make something of the right size and consistencey if i use some news paper.... i want to be able to dress up some of my friends oneday and if i wana do that i either have to get yukata or... i need to make some sub items for them/me to use...

I still need to check out the restraunt Origami... i hear it is cool with semi tradittional decor... my friend (she loves asian culture as well and is going to be a forein exchange student in south Korea) loves it there... they have low tables on a raised up platform because there is a hole under the table for the comfort of the non-japanese... lols i'm still trying to figure out a way i could sit at one of such tables in a kimono... I think if i want to acomplish such a feat it would take some kneeling, a lot of arm and hand help, and some twisting.... i could do it... >.> maybe.

perhapse i will wear my red kimono to this place...

Hah... Its Mid january in texas and its not very cold... perfect for wearing kimon though, its a lovely 50+ F weather right now so if the wind dosn't blow too much it could be quite comfy in kimono.

in just a few weeks i will have my new kimono... i am very excited but i have changed my mind on the obi color... instead of the high contrast blue i will probibly go for a grass green color (real green... not the color of the dead grass that is texas right now) as for the accesories... maybe a yellow.... or maybe something in the cream color area.... oh well untill i find my obi i cannot choose accesories...

Well thats alli have to talk about... (i post offten about what ever right? i don't have a lot of people would would listen to me ramble like this so i find it works great to ramble on a blog)

Bye bye... for now....

Pics of my red kimono

So... My new baby just got shipped yesterday! it should be here in 1-2 weeks. *sigh* Bliss... SO i desided to post a couple of pics from the auctioner... i mean it is mine now lols....

Now all i need is the perfect obi... oh and see that lighter area on the fold... that is a sun burn... lols

Yipppeeeee! XD

I just won a Red kimono! (while i stole it from under some ones nose-sorry person i do not know- i am very happy) It is compleatly red with little lighter gradient effects but looks really good! I plan to pair it with a Sky/light blue obi and some green accessories! It should look pretty good! 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!

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.