few days before pay day

nekomusume in the house
finally started the project she has been holding for few years...

no need to go out for food
when there is good bottle of wine
and stinky cheese

finally, settling down with new layout!

after giving away black shelf, new one came in.
welcome, red rose.

making little forest on top of the shelf.
i picture myself getting small and relaxing on top of it... nice.

time in oakland!

"community in a cup come to oakland"

after few days of sun, sakura is hurrying to bloom at it's max.
take your time~

great to see a lot of people stopping by,
smelling, taking photos, enjoying the moment.

need a kid to enter fairyland...
time to put kid costume

had no idea they were there.
again, need a kid to get near them...

where are the kids??

thanks nature~

we finally saw blue sky today.
time to go visit wine country~

dream came true!
wine tasting, straight from the tank.
young~

and straight from the barrel.
creamy~

JK! found your world!

and new Friends...
welcome.

relaxing weekend

found bicycle coffee at whole foods!
glad to see new comers~

nekomusume, found your poster!!

restocking the empty spots.

feel comfortable now

and glad to see delaware post is
warm by someones hand knitted wrap :)

rain rain rain

crazy rain, wind...
old fabric is not for this kind of weather~

rain in the house too...

but after the rain, great clouds and...

happy bicyclers~

happy birthday tosh!

thank you for being here for us.

神降臨

got a call from "ageha"
it was a great wake up call.
thanks for making me laugh!

matcha cookies...

after nekomusume's cookie lesson,
my butter crave went up..
my top 3 favorite food:
1) butter
2) jam
3) nutella
and here is cookie of the night.
matcha, jam all feeling cookies.
not bad.

to balance out the sugar and butter,
i also made pickles.
hope it will turn out ok...

looking for stuff to sell

for upcoming bazzar and garage sale this weekend,
i am digging around to find stuff to sell in the room.
what else? what else???

dentention hall happy hour!

one of my favorite restaurant in the city
skool

food so good, forgot to take photos...
go check out the dentention hall happy hour too~

Japan Earthquake Relief bazaar

went to bazaar for tohoku earthquake fundraiser.

great to see so many people getting together!
and to see fun items donated, handmade, home cooking by many people~

2 of my favorite chefs!

bazzar will be open again this week!

March 23~25th (Wednesday~Friday)
12noon~5pm
March 26 & 27th (Saturday~Sunday)
11am~4pm
2599 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley
(@Parker St. Across the street from Seven Eleven)

(Handmade crafts, hats, ceramics, jewelry, pastries, antiques, clothes, shoes, dolls, records, books, etc.)

(がんばれ日本T- shirts, tote bags)

All proceeds will be donated to Japanese Red Cross Society
through Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco!!!
go check it out~

also, there are many people doing small garage sale for fundraiser as well.
here is little nekomusume helping one in the city~
she ran out of stuff to sell.....
her house is close to empty now~
good job nekomusme!

7 bottles and great time

with this wonderful home cooking

and great friends,

7 bottles of wine goes down really fast...
thank you karate ICHIDAN!

feeding sugar to brain

after talking to my IT lady, comcast guy #1,
apple lady #1, comcast guy #2, apple lady #2,
i spent few minutes crying...

zenzai was great medicine for the brain

but i still have no wifi...

almond cake

live food network Chanel!
today's menu is K-ko's famous almond cake!

roast organic almond

blend it with something

food coloring by wonderful beets

dreamy pink!

fun shapes for design

all these were done while nekomusume
and i sit on chair, drinking wine...
ahaha

put everything together

while it's in the oven, we played with M-ko's crazy hand made veggies.
comparison with real salami.

then, magic happened.
all the pink were gone...
it's science!

k-ko san! gochisosama, once again!

sushi at home

great visiter from west hollywood!
it's sushi night at akanekke35% restaurant

here is the "itacho"at 35%(now 36%)

this is called art.

anyone that needs home sushi bar, give me a call~

ganbare japan

went to an event to support the tokoku earthquake fundraiser, where nekomusume performed minyo.
i was amazed by how this event was put together really fast, and moved by everyone's effort.
what amazed me most was they were able to raise $22,621 at the end of night!!!

nekomusume on the stage
kids on the stage singing we are the world!
song that was made way before they were born.
great job kids!!!

日本のみんな！

がんばれ！
がんばれ！

congrats megmama!

happy baby and mom! (and me)
welcome to this fun world hana chan!