Season’s Greetings :D

Hope everyone is having an awesome Holiday! :)

Recommended Summer Oyatsu

We had a long day out at Showa Kinen Koen, and on our way back to our lodgings, we came across a shop selling a summer Oyatsu (Oyatsu means a snack) – Hon Warabi Mochi, they were handing out little pieces for free test tasting, and we got curious despite being super tired, and didn’t regret trying it out!

The packaging has this URL: http://www.kanesue.net

It was so delicious we went back for more on a different day, the 2nd time we went, the person who served us know that we’re foreigners (LOL) and after we paid, he said “4 days” to us (if I didn’t recall wrongly) he meant this can keep for up to 4 days in the fridge :)

The brown powder is finely ground soy beans – kinako. The mochi is soft but bouncy, and when chilled it is really refreshing :) I’m drooling as I type this! XP~~~

Highly recommended if you’re in Japan in the summer and come across their little shop inside the Ikebukuro station :)

Pumpkin carving 2013

Yoshi is our Pumpkin inspector, and Ebichu is the carving supervisor :P

I’m quite late this year with the carving but compared to last year I actually did my carving – on the actual evening of Halloween!

With the experiences I accumulated over the last few carving, I was thankfully able to carve this one a lot faster — partly also due to that my pumpkin is smaller and the design is not as complex. ^o^;

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Pumpkin and Society6

I’ve fallen off the blogging wagon for a while now, had been away from computer more than expected, ^^; On top of it all, one of our poor cat, Ginko is being treated for her seizures meaning unexpected extra expenses (argh!)

This year I’m not sure if I will carve anything too crazy on the pumpkins we’ve chosen just yesterday :P (pictured above)

On a different note, I opened a society6 account under puppy52 If anyone of you are on it, give me a shout and I’ll follow you if you like :3 Below is one of the artwork which I made while being inspired :3

And of course if you like any of the products, buy/share/promote any of them, I’d be extremely thankful and trilled! I decided to open shop with some new art which was inspired as I talked to my husband about refreshing an artwork I did before, and the idea grew into a little monster ^^;

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The Drawing Board Submission – Baby Versions of Fictional Characters

Thanks everyone who kindly helped me share the previous submission, and also everyone who liked it and bought it! I can’t wait for mine to arrive :P

I had an idea for the “Baby Versions of Fictional Characters” theme so here’s my artwork :3

I’m quite sure there will be tons of submission for this theme, who can resist drawing cute baby versions of fictional characters! There’s too many choices to pick from to babyfy LOL!

Yoshi on Zazzle

Yoshi is one of our cats, I’m trying to find a better photo of Ginko – our other cat – to turn into an image ^^;

While I was uploading the image, I noticed this discount code :)
October 2-Day Sale! 15% OFF ALL PRODUCTS! Ends Tomorrow! Use Code: OCTBERSALE15

 

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Lost in translation

(Photos are randomly selected from our previous trips over the years)

One evening husband started watching the movie “Lost in translation” on netflix.  And I started joining him after the movie started for a bit.

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Doodle ^^;

Update: Really stoked that they picked my art >_<;! It’s number 4 :D The designs will be available for a week, and the one sold the most will be kept on the sight but the rest will be gone forever ^^;

Drew an artwork for an art contest held by PDS Showcase of Awesome, now renamed to “The Drawing board” – Badass Teddy Bear ^o^ Larger size imgur.com here.

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Showa Kinen Koen – bike rental

We went to Showa Kinen Koen again during our last trip and decided to rent a bike to get around the HUGE park more efficiently. ^^

Entrance fee for adult was only 400 yen ^^/

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Fan art updated in gallery ^^/

Phew updated the gallery ^^;/ I updated the artwork onto my deviant art too, realised they have a “print” option, not sure how the quality is but I activated it for the three newest art ^^;

Being at the artist alley was an interesting experience, hopefully will be able to do it next year (and see more of you attend Anime Revolution!)

Ichika Takatsuki – Ano natsu de matteru

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