Our everyday breakfast is a toasted cheese sandwich.  One day, Mike made this one for me, and I totally fell in love with the taste.  Buttered bread and Velveeta cheese are a perfect match.

"The day's plan should be made out early in the morning." 

Absolutely, this is right for me.  I like doing things in the morning time. I can enjoy my time all day if I wake up early.  I like breathing fresh air after exercising.  I think I am addicted to exercising early in the morning.  It is big part of my life now.

I bought these two cups made by Eyoonshin for us.  I've been looking for inexpensive handmade mugs.  One day, I stopped by this shop and couldn't pass these up.  Each cup in the shop had a little different shape but with the same design, though.  This is the reason that I always love handmade things.  We use these for having tea and try not to break them when washing dishes. :)

We went to a yakitori bar on our special day this month.  Mike likes yakitori so I wanted to try to cook this at home.  But we didn't want to buy a lot of ingredients only for this dish. 

It was great!  He enjoyed it with an Asahi beer, and I analyzed the recipe.  Wait, honey... I will cook yakitori for you soon! :)

I usually eat my lunch box almost everyday in the work room.  Actually I'm in a hurry, especially on the days I take my yoga class, to prepare the lunch box on those mornings.  I think making my own lunch is more healthy.  And I like sharing the lunch box with my friend at the work room.  We usually joke, "We are lunch box friends."  I have my lunch box with a yellow lid, but I really want to get my friend's lunch box.  Sadly, I can't buy this one.  He got this one as free gift from a Japanese magazine, Bape.  It is really cute!!!!

My first block stamping trial.  It was not good though...  The acrylic paint was not thick enough so it was hard to spread over the rubber board.  I followed a guide book "Printing by Hand" by Lena Corwin.  It was pretty useful to practice.  I enjoyed all processes from carving to printing.  I am doing my next trial with my pattern now.

The weather was very good this Saturday.  We went to a big stationery store to buy some stuff for hand printing my stamp.  We bought cutters, paints, board... many things.  I am planning to practice hand printing these days.  I like my work designing books, posters, invites and logos... different kinds of graphic design.  But I thirst for doing some of my works by hand.  Maybe I feel bored designing and printing digitally.  I am excited to prepare new works by hand.

  

And we had a burrito at TACO in Itaewon.  It was great!!!  Actually, we really like Mexican food, but there are not many Mexican restaurants in Korea.  It is not far from our home so we can go often. 

I feel good when I eat many kinds of vegetables.  It is filling and the color is fresh but my stomach is not heavy.  I don't think I can be a vegetarian, but it would be healthy to be a vegetarian.

This is my first attempt at making risotto. 

I cooked it in an easy way with milk, seafood and mushroom. I got this recipe from my close friend, and it was a success.  Mike enjoyed it and gave me compliments.  My cooking is getting better, I'm very proud of myself. :)

I don't want to decorate with a big bunch of flowers on the guest tables for my wedding.  I would like to put some branches with small leaves in a small transparent glass on the table as a centerpiece.  It doesn't have as many colors as flowers, but I like this natural beauty. 

Good bye, our snow mobile. 

We finally took down these mobiles we made for this winter.  Mike tried to take them down in February, but I didn't want to do it.  So, he waited one month. :)  We now need something that looks like Spring!

I really love our area. Because it is the center of Seoul, very convenient to many things, full of cultural energy, and surrounded beautiful mountains.

We went on a small hike on Inwang mountain.  This special mountain is made of solid granite.   So we had to climb very steep rocks to the top.  The view at the top was very beautiful.  We found our apartment area and many other spots we know.  As I'm getting older, I like doing something in nature.  We felt we were being healthy in the fresh air exercising together.

We went to the bar to watch the WBC game with Sahngsoo.  This is the only problem of not having a TV at home. :D  The game was a little boring and food was not delicious.  But we enjoyed spending time together, especially Mike and Sahngsoo.

Jumping- Jumping-  I bought this lovely brooch two times. I gave the first one to my friend, and I bought it again. Luckily, I got this with a discounted price. Jump with me! :)

I broke a white dish few weeks ago.  It was very useful for many kinds of small food dishes.  I've thought about some new dishes to replace the broken one, and we bought these two dishes.  Now, the Korean currency is very bad so the price is higher than before, it was a little disappointing to us. >.<  I like Emile Henry's color and weight.  I want to get a series of brown dishes later. :)

I tried to do a DIY project.  I tried to make a stamp and engrave my company logo on an eraser.  It was not easy because my logo font has serifs and some lines are very thin... and I forgot to buy small cutting knife.  Okay, I'll do this again!

Macaroni and cheese is one of my favorite foods.  I had self-control to not eat this kind of high calorie food for a while.  So, I just was satisfied looking at photos we took of our cooking before.  But, I will have this fantastic taste this weekend.

Have a fun weekend!

I was busy this week.  So I expected this weekend a lot.  

Unfortunately, I'm in a rush because I have a deadline.  I should do some work, but I can be happy thinking about the weekend!!!

I found this treasure at the antique market in Indiana.  This antique sewing machine is written deeply in my heart.  We can't keep this in our small space now so I promised I will get this when we move to big space later.

I open the window. I can hear spring coming inside.

I just like this smell, sunshine and atmosphere...
Everything makes me feel NEW.
It's a New start! :)

Get away, please...

It was terrible these past three days.  I was depressed about having hives on my whole body.  The hives suddenly came and bothered me for hours and then went away.  And then came back again... It was most serious at night.

This morning, I looked okay so I went to the gym.  I skipped my yoga class twice this week because of my bad body condition.  So I really needed some exercise.  I did cycling for a while, but suddenly my arm and leg started to itch so I checked my body quickly.  They came back again!!!!! I was quite discouraged.  So, I stopped exercising and came home.

Finally, I discovered what caused the hives all over my body.  I took some medicine last Friday it had some side effects.  Doctor said to me that Tylenol doesn't have any side effects but some other medicine can cause problems when it mixes with women's hormones.  I feel good because I finally found out the reason.  I couldn't stop thinking about the cause of hives for three days.  I should go to see doctor tomorrow again, but I'm sure I will be okay soon. :)

I started to diet 2 weeks ago.  This is because of my wedding in May and I gained some weight recently.  I do yoga 3 times a week and some exercise in the gym a few times a week... but I ate a lot too.  So I decided to do diet. I never have done a diet with no dinner in my life.  But I started, passionately.  It is not easy because we always have dinner together.  I just cook many dishes with him and he can eat my delicious food.  And me?  I just eat a sweet potato or salad or hard boiled egg whites.  This is my dinner these days...

Um, I'm not sure anymore.  I'm starting to feel exhausted... Eating food is very big part of my life.  Also I'm very sensitive, so Mike is scared of me when I'm hungry.  But, there is still a lot of time remaining until my wedding... And now it is spring time so there are many kinds of fresh vegetables in the mart to eat. 

I can think too many reasons more... so I'm exactly not sure if I can continue with my diet... :(

When I opened my eyes in bed this morning I felt something uncomfortable.  My eye and cheek on right side were really swollen.  I looked like a stranger.  But it is still swollen, so I feel very tired... I had a cup of coffee 1 hour ago but I need more.  I don't know the reason.  Maybe something happened on my right cheek on the hot electric blanket?  I don't feel well...

We went to a children's book exhibition on Saturday morning.

We tried to go there before it became crowded with many people.

It was great, especially David Wiesner's book section.

Many pieces of his sketches were very impressive.  We really enjoyed it there. It made us full of imaginative energy.

The dandelion installation in the last picture was made by some Korean artist inspired by Wiesner's works.  It was fantastic! :)

There are many places to travel in Korea.  I should be more diligent. :(

We can set up some plans to travel this spring. 

Are you warm? :)  We found a cute scooter wearing fur around Hongik Uni.  I originally don't like scooters but this one makes me want to get one.

Three of us are talking through iChat now.  One of good thing about a macbook is the built-in video camera.  So we often use this camera on iChat.  He and I always are talking through iChat when we are working.

One day Sahngsoo came to our house so we tried to talk to each other.  We definitely have a funny relationship. :)

HELVETICA - My favorite documentary.

I like Helvetica especially the structure, scenes and music... actually all of this dvd.  I can remember the feeling after buying it on the internet and waiting for the delivery.  And then the moment when I played this dvd on my mac.  I watched it 4 times and I will watch it 4 times more.  Maybe more than that... :)

On the way to go shopping.  He tries to use the wide lens.

I look little different in this lens. :)

Winter is going away...  It is the time that our lovely winter slipper goes to the closet.  Bye, cold. Hi, sunny spring. :)