Sweet Honey Complex

Peach and Mascarpone Tart♪

2012-03-03T19:17:00.000-05:00

that I made!!

Etsy Treasury!!

2010-11-04T17:26:00.003-05:00

Hello November!!

Our Turkey hat was(is!?) featured in an Etsy treasury!! Check it out!!

This reminded me that it's almost time for Thanksgiving!!!

I hope everyone is having a good fall(^-^)!!

We have our facebook fan page now!!

2010-10-30T02:31:00.003-05:00

It still needs a lot of work, but we have our fan page on facebook now, so please "Like" it(^_^)!!
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Baby Baby Baby!!!

2010-05-13T07:27:00.004-05:00

Hi there!!

I'm back!! I had my baby on April 29th. The birth was crazy...I had to stay in the labor room for 36 hours and they had to give me 2 different medicines to help my contractions get stronger, but they didn't get strong enough, so I had to get a c-section and I had to stay at the hospital for 10 days(*-*;)....I have to say it wasn't the best experience ever(*-*;)...but my baby boy is doing good and getting bigger and bigger everyday, so it was all worth it(^-^)!!

Born on April 29th at 5:10pm
8 pounds 11 ounces, 20.5 inches long
Welcomed with much love by
Steven and Megumi C.

My husband and I are enjoying having a new family member!!

A view from our balcony...

2010-04-01T02:17:00.005-05:00

I can't believe that it's been like 3 month since the last time I posted anything here....I'm still alive and doing good....Just in case you were wondering...Yes, I'm still pregnant(^0^)!!

We've been having a quite cold spring here in Japan this year, so Cherry Blossom trees didn't start blooming until like last week. There are whole bunch of them across the street from our house, so we can see them from our balcony which is really nice(^-^). I started taking pictures of them this Monday and they are finally pink!! Here are some pictures of them...

Monday-March 29th
It was raining and super cold...

Tuesday-March 30th
It was cold and cloudy...

Today-April 1st
I forgot to take any pictures of them yesterday(*-*;)...but today is nice and warm!!

I'm hoping to have a picnic lunch and eat it on our balcony and have a Ohanami soon(^-^)!!! I hope everyone will have a good Easter weekend!!

Matryoshka craze...

2010-01-15T20:16:00.009-05:00

I have been in love with Matryoshka for a while and my love for Matryoshka got stronger after I came back to Japan!! Everywhere I go...there are tons of Matryoshka goodies!!! It's really dangerous for me to see all of those things at stores(*=*).....Pictures above are some of the things I have...

1. Mug cup pouch(I got this for a baby stroller)
2. Paper Clips(I found at Sekaido while I was waiting for Steven to get his art supplies)
3. Fleece(I found this fabric at Yuzawaya)
4. Fleece Close up
5. Stickers(Also found at Sekaido)
6. Measuring Cups(a gift from Linda and Greg!)
7. Pouch(I use this for my camera)

Good bye yarns and Hello Fabrics!!

2010-01-14T09:08:00.007-05:00

I have been having some problems with some fingers on my right hands and I talked to a midwife and she said it's something to do with pregnancy...and she also told me to stop crocheting(*-*;)...so I'm taking a little break from making crocheted stuff until the baby is born.
I hope it's still okay for me to sew something....(*-*;)

I just listed some fat quarters in my Etsy store today!! I will be getting more(and cuter...) fabrics soon!! Please check them out!!

I made a french bread loaf the other day, but it wasn't so great(*-*;)....so I made it into some french toast this morning and they worked out great(^-^)!!!

Cold morning+Warm French Toast and Cafe au lait(Decaf!!!)=Lovely!!

Baby Sewing Project #1

2010-01-05T08:45:00.003-05:00

I bought an issue of Tamago Club magazine(one of the famous pregnancy magazines in Japan) a couple month ago...and the magazine came with a bib making kit, so I gave it a try!!

The kit came like this...

It came with an instruction booklet and a pattern, some fabric and a set of Velcro fasteners. It was supposed to be a thin bib and I wasn't really excited about that idea so I used a piece of fleece interfacing for a little support.

The bib has the Tamago club logo on it!

Finished product....It was super easy and I like how it came out(^-^)!!

Linda and Greg gave our baby his/her first Sock Monkey doll for Christmas!!!(Thank you, guys!!) I have tons of Sock Monkey fabric that I've collected over the years and I wanted to use some of it to make something to go with the Monkey plush!!

Here's the bib I made using the Tamago Club pattern. I used a pair of snaps instead of Velcro for closure this time and for the backside of this bib I used some blue sock monkey fabric to go with the main fabric so it could be reversible. It took about 10 minutes to finish this bib and it was so much fun to make(^-^)!! I'm guessing I will be making more of these from now on!!

Hello Year 2010!!!

2010-01-01T07:05:00.007-05:00

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a nice new year's eve and is having a good new year!! Early new year's eve morning I went to my aunt's house to learn how to cook Onishime and ate lunch with her. After that I met up with Steven and went to Musashikosugi to go to a post office to mail some stuff and we were planning on exploring Musashikosugi, but it was too cold, so we came home. Steven and I spent rest of our new year's eve with my father and my step mom. We ate a lot of good food and watched Kohaku(a special music program for a new year's eve every year) on TV...Pretty much normal for a Japanese new year's eve...I think.

Today we ate brunch with my father and my step mom. We ate Ozouni with homemade Mochi that was made by one of my father's sisters which also had Pikachu kamaboko in it(^-^)!!! After that we were supposed to go to my aunt's for new year's day dinner, but I wasn't feeling so well, so Steven and I stayed at home. As I got little better later we went for a walk and went to Hiyoshi station. Around Hiyoshi station almost all the stores were closed and the town was almost empty...it was weird to see that since there is a big university there and it's always really crowded!!! We found a book store that was open and we bought some magazines and books...I bought 2 magazines and one of them came with a lunch box!!!

It's Cath Kidston for Moms and Kids magazine. They have so many cute things in their web store!!

The lunch Box came like this...

It makes me want to pack my own lunch and go somewhere(^-^)!! Steven said that he wants his lunch in lunch box from now on(*-*;)...Maybe it's even more fun when you are at home!!!

Santa's little cookie house.

2009-12-23T22:53:00.007-05:00

So...I tried to make a ginger bread house from scratch. Doesn't it look more like a dog house than Santa's house!? Well...I guess it's good for my first time trying!?

I made patterns and just cut out the parts with a knife. This dough isn't actually ginger bread dough...I just used a regular butter cookie dough this time.

I made some thumb print cookies with the left over cookie dough(most of them were eaten by a certain someone already...).

I'm off to bake some more stuff for tomorrow and Steven and I will head to our church for the Christmas eve service. I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas(^-^)!!

Gettimg ready...

2009-12-21T22:15:00.004-05:00

for Christmas...of course!!!

finally decorated our tree....This year my step mom gave us a bunch of key chains that she got from crane machines(^0^)...so we decorated our tree with those...

We have decorated our teeny tiny hall way(on top of the shoe storage...) with Christmas stuff...

We put another tree in the hall way, too...This tree was something I used to use around Christmas time to hang my key chains at Craft shows...

I have to go do some Christmas shopping this afternoon...I hope I will find something good for my hubby...

20 weeks and counting....

2009-12-09T09:21:00.006-05:00

My husband and I are happy to announce that we are pregnant!! I'm 20 weeks now(^_^)!!

This is the ultrasound picture that we got last time when we were at my OBGYN's office(It's actually a hospital...) and the baby's face looks kind of scary there(*-*;). We asked if the doctor could find out the sex of the baby, but it was too early...Hopefully we will be able to find out whether we are having a boy or a girl next week(^-^)...

Because I'm pregnant...I had to go to a mother's class at the city hall and on my way back home I found a local bakery that has been really popular in this area (apparently they have the flakiest croissants!!)...and I found it from the platform of the station and when I went back there on Monday....It was closed(*-*;)...I will have to go back there some other day....

We finally put our Christmas tree out...but we don't have any lights for it, so we haven't really decorated it yet(*-*;)...We would have to go get lights for it somewhere...Our stockings are out, though...

Total randomness....We have been going to a church in Tokyo and on our way back home we try to explore the Tokyo area...and last time we were in Yuurakucho we saw this Godzilla statue(*-*;)...I guess this was somewhere he destroyed in a movie or something!? Weird....

It's December already!!

2009-12-03T09:23:00.005-05:00

It's time to decorate the house for Xmas!!!

...well we are having a house warming party with my mother side of family(with 18 people) this Sunday and there will be 3 children who might destroy everything( I meant it!!) so we haven't really decorated our house for Xmas yet(*-*;). Maybe we will put our Xmas tree out after the party(^_^)!!

I have been wanting to make a Ginger Bread house for Xmas, but I have never tried before...I just received an email from Williams-Sonoma and they apparently sell "No Bake" ginger bread house kits there now...It's perfect for someone like me(who had never made any ginger bread houses from scratch), however I'm nowhere near their stores now(*-*;)

I went to a local Muji store the other day and realized that they are selling ginger bread house kits(only it's not ginger flavored...) that you have to bake...
You can make a house like this...It's probably easy enough for me to do...Maybe I should try the Christmas tree kit first...

There are so many things that I want to make for Christmas this year...I'm too excited(*-*;)...

Happy Thanksgiving!!

2009-11-26T18:57:00.006-05:00

I hope everyone had(is having!?) a good Thanksgiving!! We had our Thanksgiving with my parents, my aunt and my brother(^-^)!! We had all kinds of Thanksgivingy-food...but I totally forgot to take any pictures(*-*)...It was really yummy and everyone seemed to love everything!! We have a lot of left overs for today's lunch and maybe for dinner as well(^o^)!!

My aunt brought some goodies for us to eat, but we had too much stuff to eat already yesterday, so I'm having a Taiyaki and a cup of tea for breakfast this morning!! Yum(^-^)!!!

Have a happy black Friday(^-^)!!!

Fox Treasury!!

2009-11-15T21:55:00.006-05:00

Hello Hello!!

I hope everyone is having a good fall/winter season!! I'm still in the process of getting things in their places...We had our movers came on October 23rd....There were 134 boxes of stuff and since our new home is a lot smaller than our house in US....We have been struggling to find places for EVERYTHING for about a month now!!!(We're also having a problem with our wi-fi connection because of all the stuff we have...) I was hoping to post some pictures of our house, but it will be another a couple of weeks....We are having a house warming party on Dec.6th, so I will have to get the house ready by then!! I don't know if I will be able to get rid of all the boxes, though(*-*;)...

Anyway, Someone sent me an Etsy conversation and let me know that my fox scarf is in her fox treasury!! It's really cute!!! Thank you for including my scarf(^-^)!!

We have a lot of stuff going on this week!! I have to go do some errands now...Busy busy!!

2009-10-20T19:20:00.008-05:00

We have been having some good weather here in Yokohama!! It makes me want to go out and walk around ...(^-^).

Yesterday, My friend Aki and I went to Jiyugaoka and had lunch and walked around all day long!! It was so nice to see her and it's also so weird that we haven't really changed since High School...(*-*;)...I guess that''s a good thing!?

After lunch, We went to this super cute tea store in Trainchi. I can't drink any tea right now, but I fell in love with their tins(>_<)!!! I got some caramel tea, orange tea and berry blend tea(which I can drink!) and gave them to Steven since he loves teas...and he's been trying all kinds of flavored teas.
...and of course I will keep the tins(^v^)!!!

We walked around and did some more shopping here and there...and we had doughnuts at the Doughnut plant!! I had a Tres Leches doughnut and Aki had a salty caramel doughnut!! There is another doughnut store across the street....They have really cute tote bags and Aki bought one...I will try their doughnuts next time(^-^)!!

After hanging out with Aki, I came back to our home town and went to the store in front of our building to get some groceries.

We had "Japanese dude" tofu (What a name!!! ) for dinner...It was surprisingly good(^-^;)...

I'm going to Costco with my family today!! It will be exciting now that we have a fridge to stuff....(^0^)!!

Greeting from Japan!!

2009-10-16T19:36:00.012-05:00

Hello! Hello!!

It's been a month since my hubby and I came back to Japan...We were slowly getting things ready and we finally finished remodeling our condo yesterday!!! It's been really rough for us to live in our condo without.....Everything(>_<)!!! Luckily my dad and my step mom live in the same building, so we were able to eat and take showers and stuff(^-^)....I'm sure it was hard on my step mom to take care of us everyday...(*-*;). Thank you, Nayomi~!!!

As we were getting our condo ready...My step mom and I went to Kojima Denki (which is located right next to our condo) to get all kinds of appliances for me and Steven to use(my step mom knew somebody there, so we were able to get discounts!!!). The big stuff istn't here yet, but I managed to get a bread maker and I have made 2 loaves of bread so far...

It's so nice to eat fresh bread straight out of the oven!!!(not exactly from an oven...but still...) I can't wait to get our new oven, so we can make all kinds of different bread!!!

One day, Steven and I went to the Immigration and the city hall to take care of his VISA stuff...We went to McDonald's to eat lunch. I usually order the Chicken Nugget set in the US, but they only have nugget set for Happy meals here, so I ordered a Chicken Tatsuta burger without cabbage and any mayo and a lady at the register made a weird face.....( I guess no one orders anything like that!?)

This is the Chicken Tatsuta that I ordered....It was pretty good without any condiments(^-^)!

We have been seeing our friends here and there(but not so much yet...). Right after Steven and I arrived Japan....Our friend/a fellow Tokyo Pop creator Tony Salvaggio and his wife Rain came to Japan to visit!! We went to see them in Shinjuku and ate soba and waffles!! It was so weird to see Tony in Japan....but it was so much fun to see him and also meet his wife for the first time(^-^)!! Steven and I went to see our friends Midori and Shota later that week and hang out in their house. Midori cooked for us and we played with their cat a little bit...It didn't feel like we hadn't seen each other for over 2 years...

We went to see Steven's former band member Brian and his wife Takako yesterday. We hadn't seen him for over 10 years or so!!! They told us that he and his wife just got married like a month ago(^-^)!! We went to Shibuya and they introduced us to a nice American restaurant(!?) which was on a roof top!! I wish I took pictures of the place(and their food!!!). After dinner we went to Cold Stone Creamery!!! I had never been to Cold Stone before and it was very yummy(^v^)!!!

My Strawberry Shortcake ice cream on a waffle bowl!

Steven's German Chocolate Cake ice cream.

On our way back to our condo....I saw this big poster in Shibuya Station. I thought Tony would get a kick out of this!!! I wish this was here when he was here...

I must go see this movie....(*v*)!!

Mr. Clauser(From DMC) looks better than ever!!!

This morning, A delivery guy brought a package for me!!!

It was a Le Creuset pot that I ordered 2 days ago....

I don't know why, but it was a lot cheaper than the one I saw in US!! I can't wait to cook in this bad boy!!

Okay, I'm off to buy a bunch of furniture.....I hope everyone is having a good fall(^-^)!!

Still....

2009-07-15T23:46:00.006-05:00

painting...(*-*).

...I'm still painting the walls in my house(*-*;). Today I did some touch ups in my sawing room and my husband's office and started painting some closets. It's fun, but it's taking so long and since I'm not a tall person...I have to get on and get off a ladder so many times and it's very tiring(*-*;). I was too tired to finish all of them up today...I will have to finish painting rest of them tomorrow and we're getting new carpets in all the rooms that are carpeted on Monday...that means we have to move furniture by then...It's like never ending...I guess this is what you have to do before you try to put your house on the market(^0^;).

I was too tired to go to a store today, so Steven went shopping for me and got some groceries and he got me a piece of cake to cheer me up!!

It's a yellow cake with raspberry jam and vanilla cream and it's the best cake that I have eaten lately!!! It totally inspired me to make some vanilla cream cupcakes with raspberry filling!!!

I had been looking for a big black bag that I can put everything in!! I carry a lot of stuff everywhere and I could never find any bags that meet my needs...When I went to Ikea the other day, Steven and I also stopped by H&M and I found this bag for $10! It's big enough to carry everything...I mean EVERTHING!!! This will come in handy when we go to SDCC next week! This will also make a great movie bag(^v^;)...Oh, speaking of movies...I have to go see the new Harry Potter movie soon!! I guess it will be after we come back from San Diego, though(*-*;)...

VBS and Garage sale...

2009-07-11T20:11:00.004-05:00

I was helping with VBS at our church last week and I had so much fun!!! This year...I was a kitchen helper and I got to prepare(play with food!?) snacks for kids and I got to meet some wonderful people!! I had to wake up at 6:30am everyday, but it was totally worth it(^-^)!!

Last Saturday, Steven and I had a garage sale and we thought we weren't going to get that many people because of the economy and stuff...but it turned out we had a lot of customers!! Some people got mad at me when I told them that our garage sale was going to start at 10:00am while I was getting ready(okay...I knew it was kind of late to start a garage sale at 10:00am...but we are not morning people!!!) and made some nasty coments and left(*-*;)..but everybody else was really nice and we had a good sale!!(I wish I took some pictures of the garage sale...but I totally forgot...) Steven and I have been painting walls all over the house since Saturday and we just got done painting our garage. It looks almost new and I'm really excited about that! I didn't know that painting walls can be so much fun(^0^)!!

I am off to paint more walls...I hope everyone is having a good Monday!!

Etsy Treasury!!

2009-07-11T20:00:00.005-05:00

Someone contacted me and let me know that my elephant hat for Blythe in her Etsy treasury!! Yay!! I'm so excited(^-^)!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Happy July 4th!!

2009-07-04T12:01:00.004-05:00

We don't do much for July 4th every year, but we do eat something "Red, White and Blue"...and for this year I made Blueberry scones with strawberries, Blueberries and whipped cream for our breakfast!!

We worked on our yard a little bit after we ate our breakfast this morning and we are now heading to Ikea to get some stuff for the house...very patriotic, isn't it!?(^v^)...

I hope everyone is having a good July 4th weekend!!

Kraftwork!!

2009-07-03T20:16:00.015-05:00

I would like to thank everyone who stopped by our table at KRAFTWORK yesterday!! I forgot to bring my camera, so I didn't get to take any pictures of the show(*-*;).

It was my first time at KRAFTWORK and there were so many cool vendors and so many cool things that they were selling....I wish I could have looked around and talked to all the vendors...but I was pretty much too nervous to talk to anyone...I can't believe I'm still like this after 10 years of living here(*-*;)...Hmmm I guess the craft shows are kind of different from anything else...I kind of get intimidated by all the artists(same goes for conventions...)...I don't know why(*-*;)...

Anyway, I had a chance to trade one of my products for these cute cards from Jane Hancock Papers!! She had so many pretty things at her table!!!

I wish I could have asked more people to trade with me...but it's always scary to ask people that, ...I'm such a wus(*-*;).

There was a craft swap station presented by Re-construct DVD and I got to drop off some of my fabric stashes and zippers that I couldn't use...Since I was trying to get rid of most of my craft supplies and I didn't know what to do with them...it was a great opportunity for me to drop them off and someone else can enjoy them(^-^)!!

KRAFTWORK

2009-06-29T16:23:00.005-05:00

Hello!

It's been so long since the last time I ever posted anything here....I hope everyone is having a good summer(^-^)!!

Come to Kraftwork at Young Blood Gallery & Boutique this Thursday from 7pm to 10pm!!

Kraftwork is the ATL’s monthly indie craft market hosted by Young Blood Gallery & Boutique and the Indie Craft Experience. Each month features a showcase of crafters, snacks, cocktails and good times! See photos of Kraftwork here!

There will be a Craft Supply Swap sponsored by Re-Construct DVD.

If you have some unwanted beads, yarn, fabric, tools, DIY books, or other supplies ingood condition, please drop them off on the swap table. Then you can"shop" from other crafters' stashes! If anyone is looking for particular supplies, please e-mail them to jeaneeledoux(at)comcast(dot)net so they can publish a wishlist on the Re-Con blog.

I hope to see you there(^-^)!!!

Blythe Con!!!

2009-03-26T11:08:00.005-05:00

The first American Blythe convention is held on 10/17/09 in Atlanta!! Team Blythe Con is storming up all kinds of ideas to make the Blythe Con better and better!! You can see more details about this convention(this is the first one ever, so it's going to be more like "Meet and Greet"!!..but I'm sure it will be super fun!!) in the official Blythe Con website and the blog!!

Are you going to be there???

This week...

2008-11-20T18:05:00.004-05:00

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table at ICE last Saturday!! Even though I overslept and I was about 30 minutes late for setting up my table(*-*;)....and I didn't have a lot of stuff to sell...I had a blast!! ICE totally rocks!! I can't wait for the summer one(^-^)!!

This week...Sweet Honey Complex will be participating with these shows, so please check them out if you are in the area!!

Steven and I will be at Nerd a Con this Saturday, too....Busy busy busy....