Dilemma

I'm not earning money at the moment. I should be saving. I shouldn't be spending. Do I hit "add to cart" or not?

Confessions of a Shopaholic in Tokyo

I've had a ball my first day in Tokyo. We arrived here around lunch time after a three hour train ride that just flew by.



Our first stop for the day was Nippori Textile Town. Mmmm.. lots and lots of yummy textiles. Of course, I bought way too much, but really, do you blame me?



On the main street of the textile area were many small Mom & Pop fabric shops and we browsed through these as we worked our way up to the famous Tomato fabric store. It had lots of gorgeous stuff, which of course I indulged in, but was so crowded that I maybe didn't buy as much as I could have. Mind you, I don't think I could have carried more than I have already bought.



Here's a few pictures of a small selection of what I bought today. I also bought lots of kawaii fabrics from another store, but they were all wrapped, so I'm going to save looking at them again until I get back home in a few days.

I just love the two fabrics on each end (the black and the red). I bought 5 meters of each as I'm thinking of making aprons or skirts with them.

I would have loved to have taken some photos inside the store, but it wasn't allowed. So for a moment, close your eyes and picture five floors of fabric... good isn't it.

After Textile Town, we headed for the famous Electronics Town, Akihabara. Actually, other than our capsule hotel, we only made it to one store, Yodobashi Camera. It's not just a camera store, but is nine floors and sells most electronics and conveniently has a floor of restaurants. The wood-fired pizzas there helped us regain energy for a few more hours of shopping before the place closed for the night. I splurged. I was very good with the camera equipment, but went a bit nuts with the computer USB toys. I bought three, yep three laptop coolers. One for my home laptop, one for my husband and one for my work computer. I also bought a USB fan, good for these upcoming summer months, a USB computer vacuum cleaner and a new USB hub to help plug them all in.

I don't quite know how I'm going to carry everything home and am very glad hubby will arrive tomorrow night. He's a great Sherpa.

And this, is my bed for tonight. I'm capsule number 803.

It's now time to lay my weary head and get ready for day of Shibuya department store shopping. Good night!

A Very Happy Mail Week

I'm a self confessed postaman stalker. And he was in my good books this week! Mind you, that will happen if you shop online too much. I try to be "good" and save money and then blow a bunch at once. Mind you, it is fun.

This parcel arrived with some resin moulds and jewellery making supplies....

This parcel arrived with some more jewellery making supplies and some other fun stuff to play with....

This parcel arrived with some gorgeous work by Kylie. The photo really doesn't do them justice, but her work is just beautiful with a touch of whimsy, and Japanese influenced to boot! Check out her Etsy store, Mizu Designs, here.

And lastly, a parcel of books. So far, I've only flipped through the Resin Jewellery book and am very excited. I haven't started the Artist's Way, but have nearly finished Bar Flower, which I'm loving.

To be honest, these all came at a great time, I needed a bit of cheering up. I haven't really talked about it much, but have been sick for the last six months. Not seriously ill, but frustratingly, exhaustingly sick. That's why not a lot of crafting has been done on this blog of late. But hopefully, I'll have some answers soon, even though answers seem to take much longer to come by here. Then I'll be back to my usual happy, productive self and I'll have lots of fun stuff to play with!