Cheese Wax Craft by Kiliko

You know those individual cheese covered in wax, right?
I was just tossing the wax part out till my daughter insisted making a candle out of it.
She was fiddling the wax in her warm hands for a while - which made the wax to soften - and she shaped it into a stick. She asked me to put a wick in it so I just gave her a cotton thread & we wrapped it in the wax. Both my husband & I didn't think it would burn properly, so we placed it on the table as a centerpiece and forgot about the candle for a while.

One night, when my daughter's friend & my friend came over for a dessert, they complimented her creation & we gave it a try: It worked!!! Just like a normal candle. Pretty genius - she turned what we usually throw away into an useful object.

You never can underestimate the little ones' flexible thinking & creativity.

 

A Spring Day

Finally, we can blow some bubbles without feeling freezing.

Our first bubbles of the season.

やっとシャボン玉を吹いてもよいような季節到来。

今年の冬は長かった・・・

Easter Art 2014

My peaceful Sunday-afternoon-nap ended with my daughter's "Mama. I want to do something. I want to make an Easter craft." I mumbled back something like I was Japanese and I had nothing to do with this celebration, but it didn't work. I had to get my lazy ass up to fullfill this little creative soul.

We got to work & this is what we came up with:

I've never dyed an egg in my life, but actually it was fun. This link was handy.

All I needed (note to myself):

1 cup hot water

1 teaspoon vinegar

drops of food colors (amount depends on how saturated you want the color to be.)

jam jar

Dip the eggs in the solution for up to 5 minutes & you are done. We used tapes to make marks on the eggs & used a china marker to draw on it.

Kiliko had the box made weeks ago, so all we did was fill it with shredded colored paper, eggs, chick-shaped flashlight and paper hen upon her request. Kiliko had fun cranking the mini shredder I had.

She was satisfied & went off to watch Frozen (again).

Love this smily face she drew.

When it's slow, eat some sushi, feel better, and good things will come.

New products - soon in my shop.

３月は忙しかったのに、最近はとんとオンラインショップのオーダーも入らず、やることが次から次へとある割に一つ一つがはかどらないような気がして、なんとなしにモヤッと晴れない気持ちのここ数日。

午前中、あまりにお腹が空いたので会社の用事で寄った紀伊国屋書店の２階の総菜屋で、ものすごく久しぶりにお寿司を買った。

おいしい。

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聞き飽きたような言葉だけど、ふと思い出した。
仕事、やるべきこと、毎日の暮らし。ちょっと何かあったり（何もなかったり）しただけですぐに一喜一憂する自分に、たまには言い聞かせなければ。当たり前のことをコンスタントにしていく事が、本当はとても大切で、実は難しいことなんだと思った。

今日を丁寧に暮らしたことが、未来に力になることを願って。