flowers

our studio yard is now filled with flowers!
the top pictire from the window right next to my working table.
following two pictures were taken from the side of the building.
sweet smell is all around our yard!

spring came!

this week has been so beautiful spring weather. finally and truly, spring came!
i waited for it for a long time. it is really high time to have this weather here!

because of this weather, i am often just looking outside through our studio windows and enjoying the sunshine and spring smells.
plus, very often having a tea break by the window.
i became such a slow worker.

many and many blue flowers everwhere around our studio yard, smells sweet all over the back yard. great spot to be.

i made small flowers. they go well with the weather!!

more to go

the other business gifts are also ready to go.

i love the package. ( i designed!)

again, thanks for the company, great experiene to do this.

thanks for J, helping me for printing!

ready to go

those are the business gifts i amde.
finally, they are packed and ready to bring to the company.
hope the company likes them.

thanks for the company, giving me this opportunity.
and thanks for J, helping me out for printing the package!
V made the package design. great job!

a girl M from singapore had contacted me regarding my glass keys.
her unexpected kind email made me such a wonderful feeling!
i am NOT a person who can do many things at same time, so it takes time for me to do things one to the other.
well, but now i get back to you M very shortly! please wait for me.

good things and bad things

it has been overcast weather this week; caused my mood swing.

feeling up and down.

even not receiving emails made me feel down.

well, but there are things that made me feel happy, too.

yesterday, i had a fisrt-time visitor to my studio!

a friend H came to visit me.

H and i have been friends for over 10 years, wow!!

we started to live in canada around same time, and we lived in the same town, went to the same school and took the same course for a while.

oh, yes, she was the first person who told my name spells the same and read the same as finnish typical boy's name. ( my name is a typial japanese girl's name though. )

our life styles have changed a lot as compared with the time we met in canada.

our common language, too..?

after knwoing each other for over 10 years, we spoke english for all our past years together. but yesterday, we spoke in finnish. WOW!!

thanks for visiting me, H!

i made an another panel for our window.

today, finally sun came out.

i love it!

ANDON lamp

my friends who are checking out this blog have asked me to make a table lamp.

K got a new job and she orderd me a table lamp to congratulate on her new start. how sweet of her!
and other friend J also orderd me a table lamp.

K and J do not know eache other, but as if they have talked about it together, their orders are pretty similar to each other. it is funny.
what they wish for their lamp is a table lamp with simple form.
something like "ANDON" ( japanese oil lamp; made of wood frame and covered with a papaer)
it is quite rare they both came up with this ANDON idea.

anyway, i started to plan and made a sample of the ANDON lamp.
K and J's lamps will be something like it....?? what do you say K? J?

a princess mirror

this is a princess mirror that i named.

grinding small glass pieces into round shape takes some time. but it is surely worth of doing it.

pretty pink glass was given as a farewell gift from my stained glass teacher in japan. on my last day at her lessen, she gave me a few glass sheets, and this pink was one of them. saying " you can play with them untill you find a sheet glass shop in finland"

she was a great teacher and with good sense of humor. we stay in touch by sending postcards. ( not emails!)

the priness mirror is pretty on the wall as well as against the window.

if you have a spare mirror and want it to be a priness mirror, you are very welcome to contact me. ??