Kitcher's Café: Back-post

I decided to get rid of the "Free Style" section and just add those types of pictures in my regular blog. Here is everything that was there from before, and anything new I add will look like any old post.

9/15/10

I decided to make a scrapbook of my time here in Japan! For several of my other trips abroad, I collected all of my brochures and tickets along the way and brought them home to the US. At that time I attempted to put together small memory/scrapbooks in order to show friends and family. Usually when I did it that way however, the first few pages of the books looked nice, and then towards the end all of the brochures are just taped to the pages or stuck in folder pockets.

I'm sure that the same thing will happen this year if I just bring home all of my papers in a heap, so I am going to put this book together little by little and hope that it will prevent me from getting bored with the project if I try to do it all at once. I took a few pictures of what it looks like currently. I hope you'll want to see the finished product when I come home!

09/10/10

Japan is bad for me because they have so many different types of stationary and office supplies! I love notebooks and pens and paper. I'm doing my best not to buy too much.

I saw these diary books that have specifically designed pages so that you can write, draw, and paste pictures in the diary like it is a blog. I liked the ideas they had, and will try to do something like that in my own diary! I actually haven't written in a while, but I've started a cooking book, and have been keeping track of good and attempted meals. Below are some samples...

Unrelated to food, in Japan you have to put money in envelopes before you give it to anyone. I am paying my tutor 500 yen a week for my Japanese lesson, so I put the money in an envelope. I bought new small envelopes, but realized that they were actually meant to be used for funerals! Instead of giving these to my tutor (who would probably realize my mistake and would either find it funny, or be offended...), I decided to decorate them. This is attempt number one.

This series of four shots is the process of a journey.

August 2010-

In an attempt to do some more free-writing, I may try to force myself to write something creative here every once-in-a-while. The only way I'll get better is to practice! Please look forward to finding something here some day, and if you wait and wait and nothing shows, remind me to get on it!

Yours truly,

Lana

My current creativity:

I realized that although I have not yet written any novels, nor do I have any photography prints or fantastic paintings, I do have journals!