Yoshitomo Nara Cafe Ometesando ♡

So the other day, we finally made it! (after a long hunt) to Yoshitomo Nara's cafe in Ometesando/ Aoyoma - two areas I'm now totally in love with, so many cute little backstreets full of hidden gems and pretty cafe's & shops! (spotted a few Vegan places too which is always exciting!). The Cafe itself is located about 5 floors up a hidden building, and once inside is so sweet! Nara's work is everywhere gracing the walls and there's a cute little hut in the middle, and the view was so pretty! - Definitely will be going back! We just had pudding & drinks, but the food there all looked pretty delicious too!
Hope you like the photos ♡

Love Love Love x x x x

Harajuku Wanderings ♡

On of my absolute favourite places (no surprise) is Harajuku, its like a total hub of creativity and I'm always discovering new shops/places/galleries etc whenever I go for a wander there - which so far has been at least once a week! One of my all time favourite shopping places is the wonderful La Foret, a haven for everything cute with so many unique Japanese fashion brands and beautiful things. I love the displays of so many of the shops as well - so much thought and effort goes in.

On a visit last week I particularly loved this deer and floral display..so pretty!...♡

Love this shot of the front of Laforet during sales week, it was totally mental, completely rammed with trance music playing and all the shop staff screaming their deals! So much fun!

Some super cuteness in a few shops around Harajuku..

I also got Tokyo Street Snappered' By Reona Street Photographer:
Reona's Blog

An abidance of some of the cuteness I bought when in Harajuku when I first arrived - Laduree Make up *squeal* - ( more about that later!!)

& buying my dream shoes in my favourite shoe shop ever, Tokyo Bopper, not only are the staff all super cute and nice but the shoes are all made in Japan, super comfortable and just. AMAZING. I could create such a big wish list!! haha!

& wearing my new'uns!

Tokyo Bopper:
4 Chome-25-7 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo ‎

03-3497-5528 ‎

La Foret

Tokyo, Shibuya, Jingumae, 1 Chome11−6

Hope everyone's having a good week! Lots of love x x x x

Art Cafe Muse Shibuya ♡

New favourite discovery was this little gem, hidden away behind a load of teensy record shops lining the backstreets of Shibuya and a few floors up a little building, it was so cute & pretty! - perfect for spending a few hours with a nice drink and my sketchbook. There were cute drinks for couples especially for valentines day, swinging window seats with vines all around, fairy lights & chandeliers shining on everything and art all over the place! ♡ all over the walls and lots of individual artists homemade wares by the door that you could buy, definitely will be going back! ♡ 

Cafe Muse: 〒150-0042 Tokyo, 渋谷区Udagawacho, 11−1, 柳光ビル別館2F

Junie Moon & Curly Collective in Daikanyama ♡

Daikanyama is one of my absolute favourite places to go in Tokyo, there are so many beautiful shops, hidden galleries and nice window displays, and an abundance of creativity and cuteness ♡ Two of my favourites are Junie Moon (The amazing Blythe Store - which I love just going to see their window displays and shop decoration which frequently changes ♡) and Curly Collective, a super cute pink filled fabric and craft store full of cuteness! I'm sure I'll be posting much more on Daikanyama but here's a few snaps around Daikanyama filled with Blythe and kawaii goodness: 

Hope you enjoy the photos! Lots of love x x x

Junie Moon:
4-3, 1F, Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 

(They also have a handy map on their website: http://www.juniemoon.jp/eng/access/)

Curly Collective: 
Map: http://curlycollection.jp/about/

Tokyo Adventurings: Tokujin Yoshioaka at the Museum of Contemporary Art ♡

Going to try & up to date with lots of adventuring's so far (so expect lots of posts over the next week! One of the first places we visited was the Museum of Contemporary Art for the absolutely incredible Tokujin Yoshioaka's exhibition, in a sleepy little suburb called Kiyusumi-Shirakawa:
The Museum itself was stunning enough with its many structures and shapes made out of glass and flowing water features around the front, just a spectacle for reflecting the beautiful sunlight of the day into lots of fragments of beautiful rainbow colour - making it perfect for the exhibition.

If your not familiar with Yoshioaka's sculpture & art, I can't recommend it enough, it's absolutely magical, in 'Crystallize' the focus was all on Crystal and pieces of art he'd made from intense amounts of crystal, unfortunately only two rooms in the exhibition allowed photography so the majority of my photographs are from outside/ the initial rooms, but my favourite was a piece entitled 'Swan Lake' where 3 facing walls had huge pieces of crystal and centralised was a huge pool with flowing water over what appeared growing crystal rocks, and Swan Lake music playing full blast ♡

In the rooms you could take photographs, the striking factor over the whole exhibition was the way that light was captured by the crystal or glass used, and the colours and shapes that it reflected - an incredible spectrum of pastel rainbow ♡

Hope everyones having lovely weeks! Be sure to have a search for Yoshioaka's work - you'll be blown away! ♡

- many of the photographs taken by the wonderful @craigalhunter (Twitter)


Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo:
4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
135-0022 Japan
TEL: +81-3-5245-4111(General Information) 

Ghosts of gone birds♡

An exciting little event of the past couple of weeks has been my participating in a wonderful new exhibition in Brighton ...opening on 8th November based on the theme of extinct birds. It's super exciting!!!...read more HERE ! !

For my piece I did a detailed drawing of a Dodo which you can see in progress here with me in my room :)

Here's a mini version of my piece! (should be available as a print at the exhibition soon!)

I feel incredibly lucky to be part of such an amazing exhibition of such a variety of super talented artists! Some of the pieces really blew me away! Don't want to reveal too much as I think you all should go visit for yourselves and see some truly beautiful birdy related treats! 

The wonderful lady who I couldn't have done all of this without needs a mention too, the wonderful Debbie, who runs MoonKo an online platform of wonderful artists (I'm again lucky to be part of!)

click here to visit the lovely moonko's page :)

& The wonderful gone birds facebook for previews on more of the pretty art!...GONE BIRDS FACEBOOK <3

Hope you enjoy having a little browse & that everyones having wonderful Monday's!

Lots of love

x x x x