Decorating our tree

In the 4 years Ksk and I have been together we haven’t really celebrated Christmas properly – spend the entire day eating and enjoying quality family time. Usually I decorate the tree and watch Christmas films on my own because Ksk has work. And since the actual day is not a holiday in Japan, we’re…

Ikaho

After visiting the Daruma temple it started to lightly rain but we decided to head to the onsen town of Ikaho anyways. It ended up raining heavier and becoming misty but it was still really enjoyable to wander around.  Thank you for reading:)

Daruma San

On Sunday, Mitsu came to Gunma and since neither of us had been to the Shorinzan Daruma shrine in Takasaki, we went. Apparently Gunma prefecture is the leading producer of Darumas in Japan, with Takasaki making 80% of Japan’s darumas :O.  We wanted to also see some kōyō (autumn leaves) but thought they’d be gone…

Oh hey!

Wow it’s been quite a while since my last post.   I got tired of blogging, because it became a much bigger and more time consuming hobby than when I started and I found myself thinking about posts and coming to the conclusion I didn’t have the time nor the energy. It became daunting and a…

Favourites of 2015

Bye bye 2015 and hello 2016, and with the new year comes all the posts about 2015 favourites of course!  So here’s mine. For me 2015 was the year of my liquid lipstick and greige obsession.  But another favourite for the year, were kohl eye pencils. I never liked pencil liners, never. Occasionally I would…

December Favorites

Mid way into January of 2016 and I’m posting my December favs. I know ….it’s late. So let’s jump right in, to be honest there’s not really been any new favourites or even old favourites for a while. But towards the end of the year, I found a few products I really loved. Melano CC…

Part 1 of my Matte Liquid Lipstick Collection

 It’s not a secret that I love lipsticks, if you’ve been following my blog for a while you might remember the Lipstick A Day Challenge I set myself earlier this year. While doing that challenge I decided I wanted to share my lipstick collection on the blog but as it’s quite a mammoth task, I’ve…

Week in Photos #53 – Weekday holiday, Roppongi lights and Tori no Ichi festival.

While Ksk was away the week before, I started watching the Women in Black and ended up terrifying myself. Ghost stories always scare me, so when Ksk came back I asked him to watch the rest of the film with me on Saturday 31st.  He always falls asleep in movies, so I had Gudetama for…

October. Week in Photos #49, #50, #51 and #52

The weather has started to cool down in October and it’s finally starting to feel like Autumn. Week #49 – October 3rd to 9th Sunday 4th of October  saw the start of roast dinners being served at Meguro tavern, and naturally we had to go. Monday I picked up a curry on the way home……

September. Week in Photos #45, #46, #47 and #48 – Picnic, Fashion Night Out and SCAJ Exhibition.

Week #44 – 4th of September to 11th I ate maze soba with my friend on Friday 4th of September and followed that with udon with Ksk in the evening. Saturday 5th, Ksk and I went on an epic walk and had good taiyaki! The only taiyaki I have had in Japan has been horrible,…

August. Week in Photos #40, #41, #42, #43 and #44 – Hanabi, Beach and a million other things.

August was busy. Really, really busy. :O 5 weeks. PHOTO HEAVY! Week #40 – August 1st to 7th. Started the week off with a catch up with Nic (The beauty maniac in Tokyo) for apple pie on Saturday 1st of August in Jiyugaoka. It was so delicious! After we naturally wandered over to a drug…

OOTD – Shibas and Sarutahiko Coffee’s new cafe

Going back a few months with this post to May (Week in photo post ). Ksk and I went to Sengawa to check out Saratahiko Coffee’s newest cafe. For the date, I wore my beloved (but now binned) cream Converse, navy swing skirt from GU, stripy Forever 21 t-shirt, pink ribbon chocker from WEGO and finished it…