brooklyn window-cat collection

Hello!

White MacBook

I went to Apple's Genius Bar today.  

I use 13 inches white macbook and there was a crack on the bottom casting of a notebook.  

Within 15 minutes the bottom (keyboard side) was replaced, and my computer looks like a new one.  (If you have cracks on your white plastic macbook, you should bring your notebook to Genius Bar also.  Check this article.)

It started rain when I was at Apple store, and I was imagining while I was waiting for the rain to stop at the first floor.

  

What would it be like if I'm a member of iPad product development team?  

It will make me very proud to create such a sensational dream machine.  

I might be with tears just for watching people from all over the world enjoying iPad happily at a store.  

And I felt like I was touched by looking at all those customers at Apple store....then I realized that I was a jewelry designer and I didn't even work for Apple.

unusual engagement rings

Refinery29 has an article of "20 engagement rings you'll love", and they picked one of my rings from Catbird store.

My engagement ring from my husband was a very chunky and big white gold ring with diamonds, and I wore it on my index finger, not traditional ring finger.  

(Back then, I was working at an ad agency and I didn't even think about becoming a jewelry designer.)

I would recommend my customers to pick a wedding/engagement ring that is right for you right now even if that's an unusual one.

You would expect to receive an anniversary ring every few years (I would), and forty, fifty years later you will have a collection of rings which tell you your life story.

back to reality

I always get sick after a trip to Japan.


This time I caught a cold.  
I'm realized that my next show is coming soon and I need to create a new collection.  


While I'm thinking of new designs, I feel pressed thinking I may have something more important to get done now.  Then when I start doing another work, I'm pressured to create new collections.


I need my rehabilitation time to get back to reality slowly.


picture:  Tofu I bought from China Town, my bridge food between Japanese food and my everyday food in NY.

bibs

In Kyoto.  People make those bibs by hand for Jizo, guardian deities of children.  

Deities should be happy to be loved in this way.  It's like Spring/Summer collection at a temple.

back to NY

I'm back to the States.  
I stayed in Kyoto with my sister and my mother this time.  


It's just my personal opinion, but people in Kyoto in general looked happy.  I looked their faces in the street and wondered what was different there.  Children seemed free and active like real children.  It was peaceful and beautiful two weeks.  


I found Kyoto became somewhat international hippie commune.  
It's fun to see how traditional culture and creative people are mixed in this old town.   

hometown

Everything slightly changed in my hometown.  

But the biggest change to me is that my father is not here anymore.  

I don't know where people go after their death and I still wonder where my father's soul is.  

I visited his grave for the first time and I didn't feel his existence there as I expected.  

He told me how happy he was again and again on the bed at a hospice.

He might found complete satisfaction in his life so that he didn't have to stay here after he passed away.