wedding (gifts)

Some pictures from the wedding day.

- the dance floor before the party, populair by the children (3)

- delicious dessert made by Brood en Bloemen. (5)

Some Japanese wedding gifts (from people who know how much I love 

Japan).

- Japanese ceramics for Jonas (1)

- YUZU chocolates (2)

- Japanese towel for bath and spa (4)

- Mt. Fuji diy (6)

- Japanese ceramic plate (7)

kintsugi

Jonas broke one of my favorite plates a few weeks ago. Several
days later I read about Kintsugi, an old Japanese method for
repairing broken ceramics.
This morning I repaired my broken ceramics and saw confirmed
what I knew already;
if something you love is broken, you have to fix it.
It will become even more beautiful and valuable.

home

JJ and I spend the last tree days home, with the flu. Seems like 

everybody got sick here, except Jonas.

The wooden animals are handmade in Japan. I love them!

unreal estate

From today; walk with Jonas, eating Japanese with Katy (dreaming +
being nostalgic about Japan) and
a lecture, Unreal Estate, by Ksenia Galiaeva in The Mothership.

last days

A little birthday treat for the children of Jonas' daycare, cows on our
daily walk, Japanese textile for Katy's birthday, Jonas with his white
tiger and Martha in our garden blowing bubbles.

misaki kawai

So happy with my new socks, I can't stop looking at my feet.
By Misaki Kawai for Tiger.
Under Cherry paradise and Fuzzy love. More from this lovely,
crazy Japanese artist here.

drumming dog

I bought a Nara dog for Jonas! So cool, I just couldn't resist it!

Last two pictures from the book Lullaby Supermarket, works 

by Yoshitomo Nara. 

tree huts by tadashi kawamata

Today Elise and I took a walk through Brugge to visit the Triennale.
One of my favorite work was "Tree huts" by the Japanese artist Tadashi 
Kawamata.

UCHISHOKU 内食

Sometimes I really miss Japan. The only thing that helps on such a
moment is to buy something from there or to do something Japanese.
Wednesday was such a day. I went to the bookstore, hoping to find a
Japanese book and by wonder I immediately found one!
Tokyo Cult Recipes is a great cookbook, not only for the recipes but
also for the stories and pictures (see below).
Today I tried some dishes (pics above) and brought a little Japan into
my home.

koinobori こいのぼり

First schoolday of 2015. In the afternoon we made little koinobori fish.
In Japan they make them 5th of May, on Children's Day.
This one looks more like a pineapple-head :)

dots

I'm sitting home, because i'm ill. My throat is red with white dots.

Swallowing is really painful. Every effort is exhausting. Flynn doesn't 

understand why I'm lying in the coach all day long. She want's

to play and go outside. I hope I will feel better tomorrow.

Photo's under from the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Thinking of dots,

is thinking of her. Also check out this nice video about her work.

oma, mali, misao and fukumaru

Since Laura brought her cats to the farm, oma has a new best friend. 

Mali is one of Laura's cats who's always at oma's place. Oma feeds her 

milk and meat. They love each other's company.

Every evening, before oma goes to bed, we hear her opening the front 

door to call loudy "poeoeoeoeoesjeeeee, poeoeoeoeoeoesjeeeeeee..."

Oma and the cat always remind me think of a beautiful photo book I saw
in Japan and I was very happy to find the book here in Belgium! 

The pictures below were taken by Misao's granddaughter. Misao is a 

Japanese woman who found a kitten in the shed . She decided to take 

care of it and now they are inseparable.

I can't stop looking at those wonderful pictures. They move me.

More pics here.