Faulty.

I accidentally opened the back cover before rewinding the film. Very silly. But decided to post these faulty pictures so I will never do it again! Also they kind of have the nostalgic feels I am feeling right now as the year is coming to an end.
I think it's almost time for my break. Yes almost.

P.S. Thank you so much for many lovely comments and warm wishes on my previous "coffee" post. I'm so delighted and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. And.... happy new year!!!!! よいお年を♪

Coffee Love.

I usedn't to be able to enjoy coffee so much when I was much younger because it would give me headaches. It still does occasionally, but it seems to have stopped bothering me anymore. I'm also a tea lover and always have a cup of tea or two in the morning, but good coffee makes me smilie :) I sat down for a nice cup of coffee just then and it seems to make me feel calm.

P.S.
After doing this post I realised that this may be my last post before Christmas. In Japan we don't get the Christmas holidays and everyone works both on the 24th and 25th (though we celebrate it, or rather just party around with friends and lovers), so I will still be running around crazy trying to get all the work and other stuff done breathless for the next god-knows-how-many-more-days.
I hope all of you will have a very warm "merry christmas" and wonderful holidays :)

Shiwasu

In the old Japanese calender December was called "shiwasu" and this term is so often used even today more than any other month of the year. The word "shiwasu" (師走) is made of two kanji characters that mean "master" and "run", it means December is such a busy season that even a great master or priest must run to get everything done.

Oh my goodness this shiwasu, I have not ever been busier!
Christmas, at the moment I can only get a glimpse of it, but it's coming this week!? I hope I can slow down a bit.. somehow. *sigh*

Exciting New Project!

I think it was still summer when I received a pleasant message from Ulrika. Her offer for the two of us to do a new blog together came all out of blue, but I instantly loved the idea and accepted it. How many emails did we exchange, I don't know, but after many thoughts we put into it it has finally become presentable and here I'm very happy to announce to you the launch of this new blog by Ulrika and I (hiki), from Helsingborg and Tokyo. I hope you will visit and enjoy it!

　

Wonderful Gifts.

Wonderful gift #1 from gini, all the way from the French alpus! She handmade the sweetest card holder for me!!!!!!! Such a lovely postcard, designed by gini of course :) I'm trying to save the chocolate for later but I don't know for how long...... And her cutest little boy has just turned 1 too, omedeto!
Wonderful gift #2 from oly arrived from Taipei - so full of cute little surprises! Took me a long time to open them all but it was a lot of fun :) The calender and paris photo card set are seriously gorgeous. And the way she presented them, beautiful papers, stamps on the package...!

Thank you lovely gini and oly, merci, xie xie, arigato!
I always send out packages overseas, but it was so jolly receiving them for a change ;)

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