Obiage

Well i finally got in my 4 new obiage. Overall they are in good condition and only have a few stais or stains where it cannot be seen. The only disapointment i have is that the obiage i thought would be white or cream turned out to be a super light pink... otherwise all was its expected color... the gold fan i got with teh purple obiage is super cute and tiny though! XD

here's the pic of my whole obiage collection.

its not much but i'm still young and can collect more as the years go by. I have less then a month left before high school starts up again... its my last year and man am i getting nervouse! Well thats all for now. Every one thank you for looking at my blog!

To the Dark Side!

well I am feeling quite good right now all things considering. Ok first off i do indeed have an implant, woopde do... its short and feels as weird as it looks.

Now for the news that excites me... I may be converting my friend to the dark/kimono side. Her name is Kris. She already had an intrest in freign clothing, but she has Saris. I keep going oiff at her about kimono so she desided to learn a bit about it... and she found it very interesting and deep, just like me. so if i play my cards right i may get a kimono buddy my age (no offence to you Marry Ann, i loves you too,  but with our age gap there is always gonna be a bit of a gap) it would be very cool if i did lure her over... one step closer to my kimono club/ group dream!

And thats all. i just took my pain meds so i'm getting very, very sleepy... lols... nite every one!

Teeth...

well today's post has nothing to do with japan or a rant (maybe). i just wanted to inform every one that today i get a tooth implant.

You see when i was young they had to pull out one for my frount teeth because they feared the tooth would grow out of my face and so now i have a large gap. they have already stuck some bone up in that spot and will now stick a metal screw (or thats sorta what it is) in the same spot and then a cap that looks like an awsome tooth! yay, no more snaggle tooth for me.

there isn't too much that can go wrong really but Oral surgery of any kind (including a cavety filling) makes me freak out at phobia levels. so this time i asked for anti anxiety pills along with the knocking out option...

well thats all,  it'll be a few days before i post anything because i may feel super wonky and i have no clue how i'll feel aboy my smile. so see ya guys, wish me luck!

Nemuneko

Ok so here Is a pic of my new nemuneko plush, I'm naming her Suzu.

Update July 13

Ok this is mainly one of my Rants i guess but i felt the need to post some news.

First off my newest Zori Arive probably Tomorrow (maybe today) i am very excited, overall my Rakuten expirience was not bad. I just probably won't use them offten... mainly because even though the shoes were just under 9 USD with the shipping it ended up at 30+ USD anyway... but i do think it may be my go to for shoes still because of the veriety...

Second, i just wanted to inform every one i have desided on the color i want for my Prom kimono... Purple, a deep plum color would be prefrerable. Overall i think my Prom Houmongi will be the most expencive kimono i will get untill i have a solid carreer. I'm really glad i am strating my hunt early because i'm finding the color i want is a bit... well... hard to find... but it does exsist, the trick is to find something in my price range... right now my range is around 100 USD but untill my mom gives me an officall budget and i crunch some numbers it will still be my range... because i have lots more accesories then the average prom dress buyer... lols.

in other news. i still havnt received any hint from Naomi/The Immortal Geisha about shipping, not even a confirmation that she got my address... its making me a bit fidgety because i really want this prize i won... i have already desided not to enter any more raffles so i don't want this huge fish to be reraffled.... meh, Naomi if you can hear this please send me a sign that you got my adress!!! lols just kidding but i will send her a question on say saterday if i havn't heard from her by then.

Also my newest Plush toy came in the other day, Its a Nemuneko or sleepy cat. i desided to name mine Suzu. i'll post some pics of her As soon as i get some pics....

Finaly i just wanted to post a warning. I have a Proceeder/ surgery on monday... it may be some time before i post any more kitsuke pics... It all depends on how my smile looks really. Its an oral surgery because i have a missing tooth so i should finaly be getting my fake tooth... it may be a few weeks before i am comfortable with smiling and thus posting pics of kitsuke... because lets face it i'm a smiler in frount of cameras... i don't show to may other expressions when some one else is takeing my pics. oh well thats all for now.

I won...

Ok so today was the day that a certain Kimono Raffle ended... It seemed like a normal enough day, i mean i have had a long history of subpar luck when it comes to winning but i had entered any way. i spent a good chunk of the morning, checking and rechecking IG and suddenly i noticed i had a message... i had only ever gotten 2 PMs... 1 as a welcoming and another the other day when one of the administratitors contacted me about adding my yukata pic to their facebook yukata pic collection.

Then i saw that they had posted the results... of course i was all like "No.... it couldn't be..." so as soon as it was loaded i scrolled down to the Showa Retro Kimono Ensemble - Donated by Ichiroya & Naomi winners secotion... and i saw my user name. again i was like "really? i'm not seeing things?" so i check that PM and OMG (excuse the chat talk) i had actully won Showa Retro Kimono Ensemble.
I was simply extatic... i ran down strairs, arms flailing, to find my mom and tell her... then i told some friends and my dad... and then i filled out the nessisary info on IG so i would receive my prize and then i posted on face book and now i'm posting here... yay!

For those of you who are woundering what exactly did i win... well here it is:

Original picture from Immortal Geisha

and here is what it comes with:

Donated by Ichiroya:

- Warm purple haori with rose and faux shibori rinzu (this purple is notoriously difficult to photograph well)
- Gorgeous silk indigo komon with shibori momiji and ume upon a square lattice rinzu background (Length: 157cm, Wingspan: 125cm)
- Dark, dusty pink hakata nagoya obi

From the collection of Naomi Graham Hormozi:

- Soft pink silk juban with shibori and rinzu ume
- 1 Obi-ita with asanoha pattern
- 1 obi-makura with asanoha pattern
- 2 date-jime (1 silk hakata and 1 velcro with silk hakata stitched to the top)
- 1 korin belt
- 1 eri-shin
- 3 muslin koshi-himo
- Spring green shibori obi-age
- Spring green obi-jime
- Spring green kasane-eri
- Red han'eri with embroidered sakura
- Red and gold zori and matching bag

Of course i will wear it as soon as i get it but for now this is all i'll say.

Zori Rant

Man... My newest pair (3rd pair) of Zori hasn't come in and i'm finding myself impatient even though i ordered them 2 measily days ago... i should be more worried about my Nemuneko (bought it, and issues ensured.... ):  ) but i want my zori, this time they are black with a little bit of blue, not that the blue was very visible in the pictures but oh well... They are sized at something like 23.7 cm- 24 cm... idk why they have a rang but what ever.

i have steadily been buying larger and larger zori mainly because i guess i feel my heel still sticks out too much... then again i have no clue as to How much is Too much and how much is Too little... i wish i had a mentor or something to tell me this... or a diagram. Then again all of my zori have been very tight as well from the top (blaming my largish western feet on that part). So i find myself wearing them properly (aka, the thong part is not crammed all the way inbetween my toes) which makes my heel stick out even more... oh well.

Either way i cannot buy (have desided not to anyway) and more zori till my newest pair makes its apearence... and maybe thats why i'm impatient... i have silver zori that feel a bit too small, i have some fake tattami zori that fit a bit better... and as soon as i get thease black ones and see how they fit i will probably hunt down a 4th pair... the 4th pair must be white... after that i guess i'll try for gold... and after gold i may as well see if i cant find a gray/silver pair that fits better then what i have...

i want to much kimono... thats my issue... i find myself wanting more and more pretty silk/cotton/wool/synthetic kimono... i dread my college days because who knows how i will take life living as a poor student? i plan on working part time though as soon as i have gotten comy with college life though, so maybe i can make a kimono nest egg and stuff and tap it one a month or so? but no i feel that might not be enough...

even though i dread the days as a poor student i find myself looking forward to the days where i'll have a job that pays more then minimum wage... when those days come i feel i'll need a cat, a new kimono every time i see 1 i cant live without, new zori, tons of obi and gasp... Obiage and obi jime galore.... i'm gonna stop my rant here...

on one last not i will post pics of my new zori as soon as they come in.