Japan & Our Family

After the Second World War my Grandfather who was in the Australian Army was one of the first posted with his family (including my mother who was a baby at the time) to Japan as part of the peace and relationship building process. It was a big deal back then and my grandparents were photographed in all newspapers at the time. My Grandmother traveled for three weeks on a boat to Japan with three children under 4!  her house had beautiful artwork from Japan and huge Japanese plates and vases. Their time spent in Japan forged some solid friendships and my grandparents loved the people, the food, the art, the gardens...all of it....They lived in Japan for years and my mother's first language was Japanese.
My DS loves to learn Japanese and along side his very close friend who is Japanese is learning the language quickly, we went over to their house the other day to learn to make Sushi which was great fun!
In honor of Japan here is some inspiration and my thoughts are with them at this desperate time,  Poppies for Grace are donating 30% of their sales to the Japan Appeal from now until April 15 ....

Designed and Styled by A Little Polkadot

Japanese Blossom Cake made by Planet Cake here

Kawaii Mugs here 
 Japanese Float Lamp from here

Decorated Marshmellows From We Heart It

From Here

Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam Woods of Net Knitted Wonder Space 2009, Japan.

From Here

From here

Seen via Little Sooti Blog Party Organised By Sweet Parlour

Seen via Little Sooti Blog party organised and styled by My Sweet Parlour

Japanese Tea Party  Seen via Little Sooti Blog

Japanese Garden Party seen via Little Sooti Blog

Cherry Blossom Cookies from Call Me Cupcake Blogspot

Cherry  Blossom Cupcakes by Hello Naomi Cupcakes, Cakes and Cookies

Elle Deco Japan
 
 From A Little Polkadot, designed and styled by A Little Polkadot

Vintage Large Japanese Bowl $34  from Etsy here 
 From A Little Polkadot Blogspot designed and Styled by A Little Polkadot

From Here

Japanese Fashion Poster from 1967 from here
 Cookie Pops from Hello Naomi
Kawaii Biscuits from here
From Little Sooti Blog
Kawaii Toast
Japanese Mugs from here