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Wayo Secchu: Butterfly Bow and Kanzashi November 2, 2016 – Posted in: Accessories, Crafts

When talking about Japan, what image does it give you? Cities of neon lightings? Or traditional shrines and Torii gates? Of course, both can represent Japan. It’s a big country after all (Psst, it’s bigger than the whole of the UK). But to me, there is another side of Japan that I really like and often overlooked by other people. It’s the hybrid of Western and Japanese ideas. Wayo Secchu: Combining the West and the…

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A bit of fun – Pom pom making May 9, 2016 – Posted in: Crafts, Decorations

Does anyone remember the time when we were using an ordinary mobile phone. By ordinary I mean flip phones, slip phones and Nokia 3210. Phone charms were very popular at the time and there were all sorts of designs, one of which was pom pom. And if you want to make you own, you will need a pom pom maker. I wasn’t that interested in phone charms, but somehow my mum thought it was a…

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