Fabric District, Egg Salad Sandwiches and Kimono Club - Everyday feel so good!

[aimeekitty]

Today was pretty awesome, I'm in the BEST MOOD!

I met Ali, TrueMee and Michelle in the fabric district this morning. Ali helped me find some metallic spandex for my Vampire Hunter D costume, and just in general we looked at sparkly things.

I picked out some chirimen for my Takuya Angel-esque corset. Isn't it great? SO VIBRANT. (a full $5 cheaper per yard than online, btw. for the exact same fabric)


Check out the super tacky Kenshin fabric we found. I think someone needs to make a sexy dress out of this.


Ali wanted to go to Yamazaki, which is always a good idea. Best thing, though, was that they had egg salad sandwiches. I only like egg salad sandwiches from Japanese delis usually... cause american ones always have pimento or too much onions or something. I pretty much just want the egg and mayo. lol. So I was super happy. (btw,... Senka cafe underneath the LA Curry House makes egg salad sandwiches with CUCUMBER slices in it. WOW. SO YUM) I need to learn how to make it. O_O ALSO CREAM PUFFS. mmmmm


I also got this piggy stationary.
It IS a fine day, piggy. Everyday feel so good!


Then I had to get into kimono for the art opening at Kyoto Grand. (Daifu Wada: Buddha's Smile)

I wore this ro galaxy kimono, this leafy ro nagoya obi, this flower obidome, teal ro obiage and obijime and my july maiko uchiwa kanzashi. (all items are summer kimono made out of open weave fabric... you only wear them at the height of mid-summer.)

I wanted to go with a feeling of willows blowing in the night breeze... since it's so HOT TODAY. UGH. 100 degrees even at 5 pm.


here's me at the opening with some members of the LA Kimono club (my teacher is in the beige kimono with the bright lime green obi).
I enjoyed the artwork on display, they were some sort of art print...? But they'd been specially embellished with sparkles and gold. It reminded me of Amano's stuff.
It was really nice to see my teacher... I've been too busy lately!


... so in that group pic above, the adorable woman in the taupe kimono right below me? She is the wife of the artist. I spoke to her for a little while and explained why I like kimono, etc...
and then she gave me this fan! Wow! It's so pretty! How nice!


the sunset while driving home. Gorgeous day.