Happy Thanksgiving to all of my U.S. friends (and happy Thursday to everyone else)! Good morning! Today is starting off with a cup of cre...

Saturday mornings move slowly around here. Hours feel like whole days, and Monday's return to the routine seems far away. This morn...

I finally got a couple of packages shipped off to far away friends, so now this baby red sweater is on its way to Japan. I really should ...

My Knit for Japan hat is finally complete! I chose the Milanese Lace Topper because I liked the swirl of lacework. Also, the pattern was...

yarning along Hello. Is it Wednesday again already? I can't believe it's been a whole week since we last talked. Since then I had ...

A note on the photos in this post:  I lived in  Yamagata , Japan for a couple of years (2006-2008), which is only an hour drive from Senda...

this weekend was fall break for me, so k and i took a little road trip to ann arbor. we visited my friend kristie, who happens to be from t...

Happy Autumn! I'm over-the-moon happy that it's officially fall. I decided to celebrate by sharing some of my favorite fall photos ...

Today is a gray and rainy spring day in Kentucky, perfect for tea drinking and splashing my way to class. Not so perfect for taking one of ...

Sencha and daifuku I recently unpacked the teapot I used most often in Japan, and since then I've been drinking green tea almost e...

K and I went to an orientation a couple of weeks after moving to Yamagata, Japan . The best part of that orientation was the cooking seminar...

Every time I think that I have a new favorite color, I always come back to yellow. It's such a cheery color--the color of sunlight, daff...

*Links I'm loving lately* RagamuffinDesign has got some awesome knitted and crocheted goods. I adore this gnome hat , this slouchy hat ...

I have pined for a crocheted stone since the moment I set eyes on Margaret Oomen's blog, Resurrection Fern . Crocheted stones have such ...

Umm...how to describe okonomiyaki ? I've heard it called both a Japanese pizza and a Japanese pancake, though neither of those does it j...

The Kentucky summer keeps trying to beat me. It brings the 90 degree weather and the super-humidity and thinks it will knock me down. The su...