Featured on {KID} independent

Today I found a nice surprise in my Etsy convo inbox! Click the picture to read the lovely feature. I love how she displayed my creatures in the ric rac circles, and if you leave a comment on her blog a really cute cartoon face will pop up right next to your message. Mine had ginger hair, loved it. Try it!

Bonita Rose interviewed me

Want to read a very extensive interview with me? Hop on over to Bonnie's blog by clicking this picture:

This lady asked some pretty deep and interesting questions, which had me thinking really hard! A while back I interviewed her too, check it out if you want to know more about her beautiful work.

Tinysea interviewed me

This week is a little crazy, and I totally forgot to mention that the lovely Lauren and Wendy from Tinysea posted an interview they did with me, yesterday. They are my Indie Business classmates who also enjoy interviewing other crafty people on Wednesdays! I hope they'll answer my Eleven Questions someday soon!

Hop on over to their blog to check it out. Their questions were quite challenging but I did my best. And please don't tease me about the clothes-shopping thing!

Emily has been treasured

Look at all this orange! It makes me feel good. I love the "All You Need Is Love" art print because of the delicious colors and because Yasu and I were once on a TV show with that name.

And that cute little robot just above Emily makes me want to get my robot sketches out and finally create that felt robot I've been thinking about for so long.

Jacob has been treasured

Look at Jacob, he's already making friends with other bunnies in the Etsy universe.

I really like Etsy treasuries, and I used to have an ambition to make an Etsy treasury myself. I was dreaming up the most awesome and vivid color combinations, but I had to give up on that dream. I never got the chance, it was impossible for me to snatch up a treasury spot. I wonder how other Etsians do it, but I am glad they do and I'm very appreciative when they include one of my creatures.

Bye bye Japan

One artsy mama featured me on her blog. As you can see I wrote the answers to her questions a while back, because I'm no longer living in Japan nor an English teacher. Actually, after having lived and worked here for 1150 days, I'm flying to the Netherlands in a few hours, for a nice vacation. And next month Yasu and I are moving to San Francisco!

eleventh monkey on other blogs

Well, I know I love the creatures I make and like to show them off here on my blog. And sometimes other people show off my creatures on their blog too! 

I found the love skulls on Super Cute Kawaii and Hannah the Horse on Cutable. And Irene, one of my Indie Biz classmates, wrote a story about me and my hand sewn creatures on her blog Irene Design. Yay!

eleventh monkey in Kansai Scene Magazine

Kansai Scene Magazine is a monthly free magazine here in Kansai (region of Japan that includes Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and Nara), published in English and packed with articles, reviews, listings and classifieds. It is one of the most popular free publications and provides information on places to go and things to do in Kansai.

Last month someone from Kansai Scene Magazine contacted me. They were planning to write an article about Etsy and wanted to use one of my pictures to illustrate the story. They ended up using four of my pictures, and I’m so happy!

The article is about people from Kansai selling their handmade products on Etsy, but the pictures aren’t from Kansai sellers (except mine of course). It’s because the guy searching for pictures on Etsy wasn’t shopping ‘locally’ when he found his favorites. And he was very surprised to find out I live in Osaka, because almost all the other sellers he contacted were from the States.

eleventh monkey at the Cup Noodle Museum

Of course I couldn’t resist making another Cup Noodle myself when I took Yasu to the Cup Noodle Museum today, and very predictably I decorated my cup with eleven monkeys: