I Love Japan

I had to start a new board on Pinterest to accommodate for my country crush: Japan. Here are some of my pins.

All the pictures are linked. Click on them to go to the original sites.

Support Japan

Photo: Sheneligans

I'm definitely buying these from Eli Renate and her husband on one of my favourite blogs Sheneligans. All procedings go to support the tsunami victims in Japan. They are already in her Epla store. Such a great initiative, and they are seriously cute as well. Now, where's my credit card?

Hello February!

Oh, how I welcome you. Even though it's snowing. One step closer to spring. Green. Yellow. Light.

Treated myself to some Japanese sweets while I was in Oslo. I loooove the packaging. And they're really yummy too. Great texture.

Cartoon Curtain

... well manga-curtain actually, but I'm a sucker for alliteration. And a sucker for everything Japanese. Made it last weekend. And I love it. All Tailor Moon and Godzilla.

And in the windowsill: Original Little Man art in purple and gold.

My Big Fat Lens

So today I splurged. Big time. Bought a fancy new lens for my camera 18-200 mm. Fun fun fun. Check it out.

(In the background are my Japanese doll bed sheets. They scare my other half)

Excited about taking better photos. And playing around.

Pretty Yummy

After following pretty pretty yum yum for a few days now I'm officially hooked on this Sydney-gals obsession with the kawaii (cute), kakkoii (cool) and omoroi (interesting) in Japan.

I (as I have told earlier) am getting more and more obsessed with that country full of contrasts. For now I'm indulging in Murakamis books. Soon, I will need to go go go. Maybe I should find a Japanese cooking class, or language class. The little Japanese I know is from my karate classes at university.

Untill I fulfill my dreams I can drewl over purple chocolate and kitty bento boxes. Thank you.

(All pictures are from her blog)

Surreal

Lately I've been immersing myself into Haruki Murikamis believable, yet unprobable, universe.

It all started on a trip to Boston. Left on my own on Harvard campus I wondered into their famous book store. (Worth the blurb by the way.)

- Give me something weird, I asked.

The book store guy came up with a soft back with a beautiful cover: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" was devoured on the plane home.

Murikamis universe is magical realism crammed into a zen and modern frame. A split conciousness being normal, and travelling between universes an every day chore.

I got to reading a couple other of his books, and only recently did I pick up reading his novels again. And what a pick-up it was. After reading three of his books in a month, my fave till now is "After Dark".

Shake me awake.