This year’s Etsy Made Local is going online and we will be joining! 🎉
21st and 22nd November 2020
Expect awesome new items for Christmas 🎄☃️.
Find us on #EtsySheffonline
Continue readingI am getting all exciting because, in a few weeks time, I will be speaking in this online tsumami-zaiku event: The Art of the Pinch: A Lecture and Demonstration on Tsumami Zaiku
This event is organised by my fellow Tsumami zaiku artist Miss Tomomi Yamashita and The Japan Foundation, London.
Continue readingTo save you time to search our Instagram for all of them, we have decided to group the selection of the works in a few posts. Here is the first part of the Tsumami Zaiku Month Collection : Chrysanthemum, Butterflies, Gold Fishes and Sea Shell in Wave.
Continue readingHime nori is crucial for tsumami zaiku yet difficult to find. Let me show you how to make your own hime nori for your tsumami zaiku projects.
Continue readingPhoenix with wisteria in purple works really well.
The gradual change from dark purple to white of the wisteria brings out another dimension to the design.
Continue readingLive on Instagram tomorrow 6th May at 12pm UTC. Come and join me.
https://www.instagram.com/takara.sheffield/
Continue readingWe have designed this Kanzashi Cherry Blossom Branch Bottle Terrarium, so that everyone can enjoy an indoor hanami.
Enjoy and stay safe.
Continue readingTo ease my (and your) boredom of the lockdown in the UK, I am going to do an Instagram live tomorrow 1st April at 12pm UK time.
It’s not a tutorial but more of a demonstration plus general chit-chat. I will be speaking in English mostly but if you are from Japan or HK I will be responding in Japanese and Cantonese as well.
Link here: https://www.instagram.com/takara.sheffield/
Continue readingJust to let you know that we are still trading as usual but shipment may be delayed. We have redecorated the bottles of roses and added reindeer moss to it. They are now available in our Etsy store in 5 colours
Continue readingStaying at home can be boring, so I decided to make more new stuff to stimulate my brain. Here is my first attempt at blue (purple?) bell.
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