Hi! I went to see the doctor yesterday.
My baby is 2700g now. My baby and I are doing good!
I am so excited to have a baby in 3 weeks.
I want to teach her knitting, embroidery and cooking!
My belly is huge. I found strange red stretch marks on my belly...
Knitting for my baby girl is my happiest time now.
Hi!
The doctor told me that my baby may be a girl!
Now I can start knitting with pink or any pretty color!
We are so excited about our baby girl.
I am pregnant for 8 months now.
My belly is bigger and bigger in last two weeks.
It's hard for me take something when I drop it on the floor.
My baby is moving all the day. It makes me happy.
Take care,
Hi friends,
I am in my seventh month.
I am going to have a baby in September.
My husband, I and our family are all excited about my baby.
For my parents and parents-in-low, my baby is the first grandchild.
I want to know my baby's gender very much. Many expectant mothers know their baby's sex in sixth month.
In Japan, there are classes for expectant mothers.
We learn how to breath in delivery, what is good to eat, maternity yoga, how to feed and so on.
We make friends with other expectant mothers at classes.
It's nice to have friends who are in same condition.
We talk about our body change.
I am so happy when I feel my baby's kick.
I knit my baby's hat, mitten and blanket. Now I am waiting to knit. I want to knit with right color for my baby.
Blue for a boy. Pink for a girl. It's Japanese tradition.
So, I am stitching Teddy Bear on a baby's blanket. It takes time to stitch.
Take care,
I found that there are many coffee shops in Kobe.
If I walk 30 minutes on the main street, I will find a next coffee shop.
Fortunatelly, I like coffee very much. I drink at least 4 or 5 cup of coffee in a day.
I go to a coffee shop, then I take a note about coffee. Flavoir and taste.
I will try all coffee shops in Kobe.
I like to find a nice coffee shop.
I heard that Kobe was the first city that someone opened a coffee shop in Meiji era. It's hundreds years ago.
I will reasearch more about coffee.
I started working from this month.
I work for a company from Monday to Friday all day.
The office is just by the Kobe port.
And my office is on the 11th floor.
The view from there is great! It's good for refleshing to look through the window.
I don't have so much time for knitting or embroidery.
But when I knit or I stitch, I relax.
Now I understand some of my American friends say "Knitting is same as yoga for mind."
It was my birthday yesterday!
I got wonderful birthday gifts from U.S.A.
I got the felted ball with NY bird picture from Barbara, BeauKnits. It reminds me of NY!
I got the embroidery kit from Pat.O and Pat.S. I will enjoy the embroidery kit!
I got the pretty cloth from Sue. I love the color and picture of the cloth!
I got the special issue of spinning magazine from Debb. I enjoy reading this magazine!
I got the handmade lunch bag from Judi. I will bring lunch with this bag to work!
Thank you very much!!
I am so lucky that all of you are my friends.
Thank you very much for thinking of me!!
I had fun day yesterday.
I read birthday cards from U.S.A. many times and smiled!
I enjoyed dinner with my husband.
I cooked pizza, soup and salada.
It was my first time to cook pizza by myself with new oven.
It turned out great!
My husband bought my birthday cake from the famous chef in Japan.
It was delicous!
It's Halloween today.
I couldn't get a big pampkin here.
So, we enjoy looking the Halloween cards that Barbara and Sue sent us.
Nice pictures!
There is a sheep farm near our apartment. It's only 20 minutes drive from here.
Lots of sheep! I liked the sheep farm at the first sight.
But in Japan, zoos and animal farms are in trouble with their business.
The sheep farm in Kobe need donation for them.
There is a supporter group, which helps sheep farm.
Everyone can join to the supporter group with donating some money. And we can go to the sheep farm with free entrance.
It's like a one year passport to the sheep farm.
So, we donated and join to the supporter group.
The sheep farm held a party for the supporter group to thank us.
They invited us and Kobe wine company.
The wine manufacturer gave us the wine lesson. How to taste and how to select good wine and so on.
We enjoyed the party very much!
Last weekend, my BeauKnits friends went to the sheep festival at Rhinebeck in NY.
Barbara sent me beautiful photos that she took there.
I like leaves changing their colors. Red, yellow and brown.
That's why I love Autumn the best.
Last Autumn, my husband and I enjoyed the trip to the sheep festival with BeauKnits friends.
We don't have such a big sheep festival in Japan.
We don't have so much space and sheep here.
This is one of the wonderful thing for knitters and spinners to live in U.S.A.
Last night, I got mail from Debb.
It was a surprise for me.
And it was a spinning magazine!
I enjoyed reading it very much!
There are so many kinds of great craft magazines in U.S.A.
I liked American knitting magazine and cooking magazine.
We don't have so many kinds of hobby magazines in Japan.
We miss BeauKnits. We wish to visit them near future.
Thinking of BeauKnits,
Makiko
My friend, Pat contact me by skype today!
She got speaker phone and camera for me!!
My husband and I were so impressed.
We are happy to see her. We enjoyed talking with her!
Through internet, we can communicate.
Now I really appreciate this technology.
Pat is so high tech grandmother.
Talk to you later, Pat!
Today, we shipped our buggages to Japan. There were 30 boxes! It will take more than 45 days for shipping from east coast in U.S.A. to Japan. When we came to here, we sent only 7 boxes from Japan to here. But now, it increases more than 4 times.
The main reason is ... Knitting. There were many projects such as sweaters, Teddy bears, bags, puppets and so on. A person who came to pick up the boxes asked me what that sound was. He worried about if it is anything easy to break. The souce of the sound was a bell. It was the bell put on the puppets.
The puppest are here;
They were making appeal!
I learned Japanese and European Flower Arrangement for six years.
I like flowers very much.
One of my favorite time is botanical lessons by Debb.
During drive, I find interesting flowers and ask her the names of them.
Sometimes we exchange names of flowers in English and Japanese.
When she drove me to Altamont in June, I found a bunch of lilac.
I have smelled lilac perfume. But I have never smelled fresh lilac.
So, she stopped car for me to smell them. The lilac smell were so good.
I learned that there is a flower calendar. You see same kind of flowers at one season.
But once the flower time is over, you never see it untill next year.
Each flowers has meaning. It is called Victrian Language of Flowers.
In Japan, we have our language of flowers, too.
And I realize that every coutry has their language of flowers.
Language of flowers from their shape or smell has same meaning in each country.
Language of flowers from religious or historical story has different meaning in each culture.
To study how flowers got their names, and folk tales with flowers are interesting.
I want to make the list of Language of Flowers in comparison with other countries.