Happy Hina Matsuri! Today is the Doll Festival (or Girls’ Day) in Japan. It’s a traditional festival during which families pray for the health and happiness of their female children. Celebration of Hina Matsuri consists of an elaborate display of royal court dolls 🎎 and a wide variety of colourful traditional food. Wishing girls around the world a happy and healthy life 💖
Continue readingHappy Luna New Year! Do you know?: Japan used to adopt the Lunisolar Calendar and celebrated Shogatsu the same time as the rest of East Asia.
Continue readingBeing the first post of 2022, we wish everyone a wonderful year ahead. あけましておめでとう!
Continue readingIt’s been two tough years, we wish you all a very merry Christmas.
See you again after the holiday!
Continue readingIt’s almost Christmas and New Year, and I think a clean at the studio is needed. My table is covered with flowers and half-finished work. I am sure having a tidy table is going to help me work better.
Continue readingOver the past weeks, we had been working extra hard to prepare the new stock for All Good Stuff at Butcher Works. After a few sleepless nights, all of the pieces can now be found in the shop.
As Christmas is closing by, we have also sorted out gift boxes for you and they are beautifully presented.
Continue readingInspired by the refreshing, cool and sunny days of early autumn, Ryo is a set of three bright and spirited headpieces.
Ryo features vivid yellow chrysanthemums and hand-painted blue asters, accompanied by platycodons and a hand-painted butterfly.
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 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/
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