Instructables user Lizzio has a great recipe and photo tutorial up for making ichigo daifuku, or Japanese sweet bean and strawberry balls. This dough-covered treat looks light and refreshing for summertime, and it’s strawberry season!
Folding Trees has a tutorial on how to make these decorative origami balloon lights.
I love this crochet maneki neko pattern that Kathy of Mountain Weaver Fiber Art Studio has made available on her blog.
This Japanese site offers a bunch of really cute paper dollhouses you can download to print out and make. Check out the translated version via Google to read what the selections are (Note: for some reason in this version the download buttons aren’t there so use this as a reference.) Pictured above is the country […]
Our CRAFT friend June of Planet June shares with us her new project along with Eve in New Zealand called Folding Trees, a new site featuring paper craft projects. June writes: There is a huge variety of crafts that can be made from a humble piece of paper: origami, paper art, quilling, papercutting, recycled paper […]
Helen of Show Your Workings has a tutorial and PDF pattern on how to sew this stylish Japanese knot bag. [ via Whip Up ]
These hair hats are made by Japanese artist Nagi Noda out of human hair, made to look like various animals. They’re very arresting, in my opinion. Via Monochrom (Thanks, Matt!) Related: My Hair Barbie
