shopping list of...

things fascinate me lately:

the green bedside lamp of Howe.
you'll see little stars shining in your wall at night.

the brown canvas bib apron of Labour and Wait.
they are more for gardening than for cooking, but i still like it.
After my life became cooking like all day long, collecting the series of aprons became my expression.

the neat Rain Cape for this season in London by Postalco.
and I love how they explain the products.
"The human shoulder joint is most frexible joint in our body. the rain cape covers without restricting of arms' motion. Maybe that is why rain capes are used for ages by travelers, farmers, horse riders, mail carriers and messengers."

the bird lover's brooch by Droog.
i would love to visit their store in Amsterdam again.


talking about Holland...

here are nice collections from Setaka's school trip to Utrecht, Holland last week.
craving craving craving....mmmh

St Ives shines #2

二日目の朝は泊まったB&BTre-pol-penの

ブリティッシュブレックファーストで始まりました。
本日の目的地は：エデンプロジェクト。

The second day started with a nice British breakfast at Tre-pol-pen B&B.

Our destination today is: eden project.

世界一大きいグリーンハウスは熱帯気候、地中海気候の生態系に分かれ、
その中に南米、西アフリカ、大洋島、アジア等世界中の植物が生息しています。
熱帯気候のドームの中は、汗をかく程の暑さ。
夏女の私は、四六時中うきうき！

This is the world’s largest greenhouse consist of Tropical and Mediterranean Biomes,
and you can find tens of thousands of plants from South America,
West Africa, Oceanic Island, Asia, and all around the world.
Inside the Tropical biome dome, it was sweating hot.
I -as a tropical summer girl, was very very excited at all time.

個人的に印象に残っているのは、植物を見せるだけの部分だけでなく
バナナやチョコレートなど普段私たちの身近な食材が、どんなプロセスを経て
どんな人達の手によって消費者の手に渡っているかを伝える情報ボードでした。
有機栽培でフェアトレードのバナナと、そうでないものの間に存在する
生産者の暮らしや労働環境。そして私たちの体を作る食材の品質。
スーパーで手に取る山盛りの安売りバナナからは
想像もできないストーリーを伝えられるのも、この場所の力。
空間の持つ力の可能性を感じた一日でした。

What inspired me the most was this educational boards near the familiar plants like banana and cocoa, which explained the whole process of production lines and producers' faces.
The stories lay between the Fair-trade & organic banana and conventional ones, talked about the lives of  producers, and the real quality of the food itself.
The stories you would never imagine when you see the discounted mountain of bananas at supermarket.
and the stories hit me hardly because of the power of this place.
Today, I learned the possibilities of what a "space" can do to our minds.

St Ives shines #1

連休を使って、せたかのBirthday Trip。
（と言う名の私のわくわく旅行）
がたんごとん、静かな夜行列車が連れて行ってくれたは
United Kingdomの最西端、Cornwall地方にある
St Ivesという小さな町。

On my long weekend, we went out on Setaka's Birthday trip.
(In another words, I got to choose everything excites me :p )
The destination a quiet sleeper train led us to was a small town called St Ives,
in the most west end of county in UK –Cornwall.

古い港町が1920年代からアートの栄える町に変わったのは、
同じ時期に陶芸家のバーナードリーチが濱田庄司とここに工房を開いてから。
その後も、画家ベンニコルソンや彫刻家バーバラヘップワーズ、
小説家のヴァージニア・ウルフなど多くの芸術家が彼らに導かれてこの町に舞い降り、
テート美術館の分館をはじめ
今でも沢山のギャラリーやスタジオ、工房があふれています。
アーティストをこんなにも惹き付けるのは、St Ivesの放つ「光」が関係しているそうです。

This old port town has became a big art village since 1920s,
around the time Bernard Leach started his pottery here with Shinji Hamada
and soon many more artists and writers were following in his footsteps,
notably Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.
Still now, new groups of artists are making their marks in this area by opening up galleries, studios and potteries.
I heard that it is something to do with the "light" shining in St Ives that magnets all the artists.

at Pengenna Pesties. It is a time for Cornish pasties, or
for Cream Tea (Clotted cream on scones with jam). yum.

Fore St Deli. We got to found the very neat selections of organic veggies, bread, and cheese from Cornwall.

and beautiful ice cream of Moomaid of Zennor.
Nobody can resist a moomaid. Even the weather.

Dinner at St Andrews St Bistro. we enjoyed the last open day of their season.
and yes, it was Halloween day!

seems like we were eating whole day... *cough* yes we were.
to be continued.

なんだか食べ物日記の様になってしまいましたが…こほん。
つづく。