Tibetan Apron

Recently I made a shoulder bag for my friend who wanted to use her favourite piece of fabric as a feature panel. This colouful piece of fabric comes from a Tibetan apron. It is a strong fabric and those stripy colours are really gorgeous. The apron had three strips sewn together and I was thinking about the Tibetan woman who might have weaved this piece as I un-stitched them. I wondered what kind of apron she was wearing.

I found out later that traditionally, these aprons are worn by married women. It is really interesting to see how each culture has its unique way to distinguish woman's married status!

Fond memory

Here is my kids cleansing their hands and mouth before entering into the Shrine site.

Stunning view of ski mountain. It looks almost like a painting.

My daughter loves green tea now after learning tea ceremony. Here she is wearing an old kimono that I used to wear when I was a child.

Back into life

I was back home in Japan for almost 2 months. My children never seen that much snow in their lives, and yes, they did love snow ball fighting and skiing! I loved being able to relax at my old home with my mum's home cooking. Now I am back in Australia, I am trying to create something beautiful in the kitchen as well. I have tried bread making and also have been working on how to make kids' lunch box more exciting and nutritious. Hard work! Kids are back to school and so their friendship with school friends have come back to where they were at before we left for Japan. My daughter was invited to her friend's birthday party recently, so I wanted to make something for her. Here I made using strong linen/cotton fabric with feature patchwork using my kimono cut-outs. It was such a fun to match colours thinking about this little girl's gorgeous eyes. I used a wooden button recycled from Japan.