Making things with my own hands.

Visited the dreamy Studio Ghibli museum in Tokyo, and brought home a little DIY sewing kit to create my own Totoro! Built him as a little project on a Saturday – thank goodness I have some basic sewing background, because the instructions were all in Japanese! Grateful for diagrams and my knowledge of Chinese characters (so I could roughly make out some parts of the instructions) Although the end product is so cute, some parts of the process didn’t look quite as adorable, esp

During our roadtrip around Hokkaido, it was only fitting that we spend some time with the famous Hokkaido cows and related products – we found the Watanabetaiken Experience Farm where we got to try just that! We were not having a great weather day (it was raining), but the farm had an all-weather-friendly course which we picked. It included: milking a cow, drinking fresh milk, making butter, and making ice cream – kinda like the general value chain of getting from cow to ice

During my time in Sapporo, Japan, we visited the 白い恋人 / Shiroi Koibito Park (one of the most well-loved snacks from Japan), and my partner booked us a short cookie-making workshop as a surprise! We couldn’t make the actual famous Shiroi Koibito cookies, but well, any cookies are better than no cookies 😉 The park was a short walk from the station at the end of one of the Sapporo subway lines – you can see a large welcoming “CHOCOLATE FACTORY” sign from afar 🙂 Seeing the “Cho