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Triple Eye Candy Friday

Pagoda of a shrine on Miyajima Island, Japan. Maiko Geisha on her way to work in the Gion district of Kyoto, Japan. A monkey at the Iwatayama Monkey Park up in the foothills surrounding Kyoto, Japan. Random Factoid: Japan has the highest density of robots in the world. There are approximately 800,00 industrial-use robots in […]

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Star Treatment and some WIPing

I was walking in Roppongi (an area of Tokyo not too far from my house) and came across these cuties waiting patiently in someone’s bicycle basket! Japan cracks me up sometimes. Dogs are given the star treatment here–they have their own clothing, sometimes they are transported in special doggie strollers, they get to go for […]

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Eye Candy Friday and some crocheting . . .

Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo Interesting Factoid: In Japan there is no Tooth Fairy. When a child’s bottom tooth falls out, the child throws it up onto the roof to encourage the new tooth to grow in an upwards direction. The accompanying cry of “nezumi no ha ni torikaete kure!” (please replace my tooth with a rat’s […]

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Eye Candy Friday . . . just a little late . . .

A wedding procession at Meiji Shrine in Yoyogi Park last Saturday! So we have had company here at the Fuji Mama household since the middle of last week. This means that I haven’t really had that much access to my computer and have not been able to download pictures, etc. But now the guests are […]

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Eye Candy Friday

Well, not much has been going on. I have been slowly rippling along on the ripple babyghan I’ve been working on. When a get a few more rows done I will post a picture to show you my progress. I have about 3 weeks to finish it. My friend’s baby shower is on May 18! […]

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Eye Candy Friday

Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m biased! But seriously, wouldn’t you agree that she is eye candy? :-) Today I took the babe to a huge craft store here in Tokyo called Yuzawaya in Kichijoji. It takes about 40 minutes to get out there, and I have to make 3 train transfers, but it is oh […]

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SPOILED!!! Thank you SP!!!

This afternoon when I got home from running some errands I found these 2 packages at my door! I have been completely spoiled by my Secret Pal. One package was from the JCasa shop on etsy.com. Check it out, it has some wonderful things to tantalize your pocketbook: www.jcasa.etsy.com The other package was sent directly […]

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Clues!

I got an email from my Spoiler! With clues! I have 2 packages, yes, count them–2, in the mail! Don’t you wish you were me? Here are the clues: I’m so excited! Thank you oh Spoiler Pal ‘o mine! © Copyright 2007-2009 La Fuji Mama, all rights reserved

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Eye Candy Friday the 13th

Yeah, yeah, I know I haven’t been consistent with this at all. In fact, I’ve only done it once! But I swear, I WILL REFORM. :-) This picture is of the cherry blossoms here in Tokyo that are now basically done blooming. We came back to Japan just in time to catch cherry blossom season. […]

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Baby, Blog issues, and a new WIP

So, the babe is basically back on a schedule. Phew! Actually, it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting it to be, but it did take some patience. She gets cuter every day. She will be 4 months old on Monday–yeah! I love how much more responsive she is as the days pass. Although it […]

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