Springtime but still cold...

The flowers on the Camelia tree are so beautiful, like perfect pink flowers made of porcelain or marsipan.... The perfectness that the japanese people just love.

Kyoto houses gave me pattern inspiration...

Back in town... back to normal days...

I have spent an evening and half a day in Kyoto...

Old wooden houses in Kyoto.



Image from the hotel Grand Prince, Kyoto.

It looked like a nice Ryokan...

There are some nice areas in Kyoto. Along the river we found these beautiful old wooden houses with amazing entrances. Here you can find very nice restaurants and hotels also. Now it is high season and everything was fully booked, so we ended up a bit outside at the Grand Prince hotel, which was nice anyway....I liked the interiour design.

(But Kyoto is not a place for teenage girls... one of my girls was so bored that we went back with an earlier train...)

A geisha...

The fabric for the japanese traditional clothing are amazing...

A Day in Tokyo...

Three nice books!

In a pink cloud (soon)

As I wrote before... it is cherry blossom period.. Sakura. Everyday now I see more and more small pink  and white flowers here in Tokyo. It is so beautiful to see the streets filled with all these trees in full bloom...(that will happen after some more days). Under each tree you see lots of people with a camera. Today I will send two Sakura gifts to friends in Italy and in Norway. Small cakes with pink flowers inside... There are so many products around right now with the Sakura theme, cakes, drinks, candy, textile etc etc.

A grey day 23 of mars...

Like a pink cloud!

Just to show you some cerryblossom, sakura ....like a big pink cloud.... This will be all around in Tokyo within a week circa....It gives me a feeling of happiness!

Now some days to discover this incredible supercity...

It is springbreak time and I will have some days with my son and try to discover this super city more. We will look up the TEPCO Electric Energy Museum in Shibuya and the National Sience Museum in Ueno Park. We will also se how many more small pink and white flowers that are in bloom now...

My new jacket...

I got a new jacket on sale yesterday. I just love it!

Tokyo in flower!

Rolf de Mare' - a new book...

My new book from Sweden..... a source of inspiration!

I am searching for new pattern and oriental inspiration...

So I went to Suntory Museum, Tokyo Midtown, sat on their terrace and made sketches of houses, later I went to the fantastic museum Design Sight 2121( my absolute favorite)... 

I was sitting a long time watching a film about a ceramic artist... amazing artwork...

I am looking for new oriental elements for my own textile work...

Cute...

I do not remember where I found these cuties.... maybe Milk magazine...

Spring celebration everywhere....Sakura products and bars everywhere

Tokyo is so amazing these days...spring and sakura everywhere...

Sakura is cherryblossom time... it starts around 20 of mars... when the first tree have more than 5 flowers in bloom... normally it ends after two weeks, if it not is raining too much.

In a Sakura bar they serve everythink in pink... like pink champange and rice with cherryblossom... In some of the parks they drink beer and sake under the cherryblossom trees...

It is a big party for everyone who likes white or pink small flowers.

Working day and night in Tokyo...

Small spaces in high buildings and a man in hat and apron on his way to work...

Sweets for ninjas!

Today I ate sweets for ninjas...

A sakura gift from a friend...

The design of the box is water.

Omochi cakes... ricecream cakes with different flavours as cherryblossom etc...

Recycling...

Recycling: made of 30 copies of Financial Times and the other from baseball jackets and the stripe socks is made from rib cuffs.