I Made: a ribbon necklace

Materials I used

• A piece of ribbon
• A crown charm from a broken cell phone strap
• An old necklace chain

Inspiration

• Ribbon Rainbow Drop necklace 
• This Anthropologie outfit
  

Do you wear lots of necklaces? Or make your own? I don't plan on adding jewelry making to my growing list of hobbies but this was fun. :)

Weekend Snaps: Sandbox Bakery

Some pics from my little weekend trip to a yummy bakery called Sandbox Bakery in Bernal Heights.




curry pan


negi-miso pan

I've never been to this neighborhood, so it was quite an adventure. Citrusboy and I took a bus there, and it took lots of turns up the hill. My sense of direction was totally gone when I got off.

We got some savory breads like curry, negi-miso and apple+bacon. Oh hohoho.. they were really good. I was reminded of all the bakeries we visited in Japan..  Why doesn't my neighborhood have a bakery like this? Oh wait, there's Tartine.. I really shouldn't complain. But I want my negi-miso pan every day!

Ok, I will stop now.

Valentine's Day Dinner

What a delicious weekend.

I did some more baking, and on Sunday, citrusboy and I went to a yummy bakery in a new neighborhood (which I'll blog about next), and then we had an awesome dinner at Frances for Valentine's Day.


Surprise!


We started with a calamari appetizer, beet salad, and parsnip soup.

My entrée of Lacinato kale and crêpe cannelloni with maitake mushrooms



Desserts were fantastic as well. Citrusboy had the "lumberjack" cake with d'anjou pears and dates, and I had the panna cotta with winter citrus and shortbread cookies (pictured above). Everything we ordered was so good.

Mm.. what can I say? He knows the sure way to my heart. ♥ ♥

Weekend Snaps

Breakfast with camera-shy citrusboy in his Tea Time t-shirt.






Some baking for Valentine's Day, which I took Polaroids of and made a mini print set with. The tweezers came in real handy for decorating the dark chocolate cupcakes with tiny hearts. Hooray, tweezers!

It's only Wednesday but I can't wait for the weekend to come! :)

Shop Update

This is a quick post to announce that my Etsy shop has been updated with a new Polaroid mini set (here). A yummy Valentine's Day theme! It was really difficult taking pictures of cookies and cupcakes and cleaning up afterward. Oh yeah. ;)

I'm still participating in Papernstitch, so come on over and take a look around~
Some lovely goodies that I found at Papernstitch:

• Dancing Hearts by Kitty Rogers Photography
  
• Abacus pendant by Snoozer Loser
  
• Tiny Red Clothespins by Olive Manna
  
• Mwah Letterpress Folded Notes by Paper Lovely
  
• Less Than Three Petite Sterling Silver Charm Pendant by Metal Smitten
  

Tourist for a day

After I don't know how many years of living in SF, I finally went to the Cable Car Museum. I wanted to show the city around to a friend from Japan, so I used that as an excuse to finally make the visit. It was a neat little museum! Free, too! These rows of wheels actually move all the cable cars in the city, and each row is labeled above with the name of the line it moves. The Powell St. line was the only one not moving (not pictured) because it was out of order. It was cool to see the reason why we couldn't ride the cable car all the way to the museum.

Then we saw Lombard Street and walked around the Ghirardelli Square, Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf, etc.. I know, very touristy things to do but we were in the area. I'm glad we did because that is where we met this cat, at a dock. It was totally chill.

Love napping cats who don't care that you're just an inch away.

Maybe I should be a tourist in my own city more often. And take more pictures. ^^

Weekend Snaps: Peko Peko

Being Japanese food lovers that we are, Citrusboy and I couldn't miss the opportunity to get some good izakaya food over the weekend. There was a one-night event in Berkeley hosted by Peko Peko, and we had to go. The wait was long and service slow but we were still glad that we made the trip.







We didn't have any leftovers.

Papernstitch + Small Shop Update

Just wanted to announce that I just started participating in Papernstitch :)
(Ooh, that is my Poladoodle print of pencils on the front page)

I also added a new mini Polaroid set to my shop in time for the Papernstitch update.


The previous mini sets are also available again. So please come visit my online table at Papernstitch right here and I hope you have fun browsing~

I'm such a dork #1

I get excited by things like the limited edition colors of Sharpies. Sad, I know.

But I love me some Hibiscus Tea (far left) and Earl Grey (far right) ♥ ♥