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5/12(土)レオニダスワークショップ★ブライス用スコティッシュ帽を作りましょう！
＊日時：2012年5月12日（土）
＊時間：12:30〜17:00頃まで
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「スコティッシュ帽」
英国製のウールフェルトを使って「グレンガリー(Glengarry)」と呼ばれる伝統的なスコティッシュ帽を作りましょう。
この帽子は大きなポンポン、グログランの花飾り、そして後ろに下げたベルベットリボンでデコレーションされています。
デザインはシンプルですが、伝統的な形を作り出すために、ギャザーを寄せたりプレスしたりする、ちょっとした手間が必要です。

※ミシンを使用しますが、先生が分かりやすく教えていただけるので、初心者の方もぜひお越し下さい！
※英語に自身が無い方も大丈夫！通訳としてモモリータさんが教えてくださいます。
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5/13(日)レオニダスワークショップ★ブライス用ワンピースを作りましょう！
＊日時：2012年 5月13日（日）
＊時間：12:30〜17:00頃まで
＊定員：7人
＊参加費：9000円（税込）
＊持ち物：撮影用にネオブライスをお持ちください。

「ワンピース」
コードと金のビーズ、ツイルリボンと英国のアンティークレースで飾ったヴィクトリアン アーミー ドレスを作りましょう。コードの細部は手縫いを必要としますが、それ以外は単純な基本的なドレスですので、デコレーションに時間をかけることができると思います。

※ミシンを使用しますが、先生が分かりやすく教えていただけるので、ぜひ初心者の方もお越し下さい！
※英語に自身が無い方も大丈夫！通訳としてモモリータさんが教えてくださいます。
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来週の金曜日に Junie Moon 代官山で５：００時ぐらいから、「真夜中のサーカス」のオップニングパーティーをします。東京に居たら、遊びにきて下さい！＾＾

We are throwing a little party for the opening of our exhibition “Midnight circus” with Momolita-san this Friday May 11th in Junie Moon Daikanyama from around 5:00pm onwards. If you are in Tokyo please come along!

Momolita × Leo 「真夜中のサーカス」展
期間　2012.05.08（火）～2012.06.03（日）
場所　Junie Moon (代官山)
　　　東京都渋谷区猿楽町4-3 鈴円代官山ビル1F
　　　tel 03-3496-0740

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「真夜中のサーカス」
外は真っ暗 ビロードみたいな
空がゆっくり落ちてきて
ゆるり ゆらりら ゆらりらゆらり
遠い昔の遠い国から
楽しい悲しいリズムにのって
揺れるブランコ 跳ねる猛獣
ひゅるりひゅるりらひゅるりらひゅるり
いつでもあるよ ここにあるよ
あの日皆がサーカス小屋に
起き忘れてきたノルタルジア
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おひさしぶり〜！
本当にしばらくですね。実は今年はすこし大変で時間がぜんぜnありませんでした。でもいいニュースです！来週からモモリータさんとサーカスのテーマの展覧会があります。東京にいたら、ぜひ来てみて下さい。それから５月１２日と５月１３日にJunie Moonで僕のワークショップがあります。かわいい帽子とドレスを作りましょう。後でデータを教えます。

Long time no see! It’s been a tough year. But some great news is from next week Momolita and I have a circus themed exhibition at Junie Moon Daikanyama. We named it “Midnight circus”. It will run for about a month so if you are in Tokyo, please check it out! We have brought beautiful antique toys from London to accompany the exhibition and sell. I will also be having two workshops on the 12th and 13th of the month at the gallery. We will be making a hat and a dress. I’ll be posting the info later!

Christmas break is finally upon us! Though we only get 3 weeks, as opposed to every other course in the UK that gets a whole month. Meh. But I can finally sleep and do stuff without this feeling of dread or guilt. I slept for 12 hours last night. I want to bake lots of bread and caked and have dinner parties and watch a million films and catch up with anime and get back to doll work. I hate not having time to do anything creative, it IS all I live for and when it’s taken away from me everything feels so wrong.

今日から、冬休みが始まります。＾＾やっと、よく寝ることや楽しいことができます。色々なパンを作ったり、アニメを見たり、友達に会ったり、人形の洋服を作ったりしたいです。勉強してばかりいるのは本当につまらないです。T＿T　でも、冬休み中、一所懸命がんばって、今まで習った漢字をよく覚えるようになるつもりです。留学試験は２月の予定です！こわいな〜。

My new favourite thing in life is baking bread. I absolutely LOVE bread and eat ridiculous amounts of it and ever since I moved to the UK I’ve been thoroughly disappointed with its quality over here.

A while ago I bought myself a bread machine and was baking a loaf every other day. Eventually, I started taking the dough out to shape and bake in the oven so that it looked prettier, and soon I ditched the machine all together. For a few weeks now I’ve been perusing a bunch of blogs of incredibly talented bakers around the world and picking up techniques and recipes.

My attempts, for a complete novice, have been pretty encouraging! I use flour from various grains, so far apart from wheat I’ve tried spelt, rye, barley and kamut and I like to put seeds in like chia, sunflower, pumpkin or linseed resulting in very nice, very healthy loaves. I even found an incredible oak smoked malted flour at Waitrose, you can just imagine from the name what it tastes like.

But the queen of all bread is no other than PAIN AU LEVAIN of course, aka sourdough. This bread does not use commercial yeast, it’s made taking advantage of the yeasts that reside naturally on the grain. But these yeasts have to first be cultivated. I had been thoroughly horrified with how complicated the instructions were for the thing, and I set off to make one without really fully understanding what I was getting myself into. To my surprise however, it worked out perfectly and now I can proudly present to you Blobby-chan, my 100% hydration starter!

Making pain au levain is no easy business and certainly not a quick one. Normally you will feed your starter with flour and leave it for 12 hours, then feed it again and leave it for 12-24 hours, then make the dough, knead, ferment, knead, ferment, shape, let rise, bake. This can take up to even 4 days if you’re feeling adventurous. My first loaf was a bit ugly but tasted so good I couldn’t be happier.

The next one was prettier, with a better, more open crumb. What every sourdough baker is after is huge, evenly distributed holes in their loaves. I’ll get there eventually!

My prettiest loaf yet was this soda bread.

I haven’t been baking only bread though. Here’s a banana cake.

And some cinnamon rolls, proved and ready for baking.

Baking has become some sort of therapy for me now, I can’t describe the sheer JOY I feel every time I take a new loaf out of the oven. Blobby-chan is like my pet now, she lives in the fridge and I feed her every other day. I always have some dough fermenting that will need a fold from time to time, and it’s always (ALWAYS) amazingly fun to watch it double in size. I could go on and on. I wish I had some baking friends!

Bjork’s Biophilia has been postponed until next month because, as she explained in a recent press release, some of the songs grew in the period she played it live in Manchester and she felt she had to rework it. I love that she takes decisions like this. The original version has of course already leaked. It’s very beautiful, very very minimal, some songs just have one instrument, but it feels very heavy. I think it’s a piece of work that is best enjoyed live as it was originally conceived, you need to watch the instruments they invented for it, watch the visuals, and even Bjork in that insane wig – the whole thing is a performance piece, not just an album. It’s good to have Bjork back because Volta was a truly dreadful album that I want to erase from my memory.

For the new version of the album she worked with Leila, that is one of my favourite Bjork collaborators. The original version of Where is the line that they did together and was never released is one of m y most favourite Bjork songs ever. So I hope to have a bit of that dirtier sound in Biophilia too.

björk: moon from Björk on Vimeo.

Throw in together some gorgeous models, deliberately bad dancing and a hideous rap song and you have this little masterpiece.

Lately I’ve gotten really into BBC period dramas, they’re so incredibly well made, sometimes better than high budget feature films. I’m always taken by the beautifully lit and photographed shots of interiors, which really make me quite sad as I’ll probably never be able to live in anything like that.

It also seems that every period BBC drama has at least one scene filmed around the corner from where I live, on a street full of gorgeous Georgian silkweavers’ town houses, especially 4 Princelet Street which is used exclusively for filming and photoshoots.

I have been obsessed with this house since I moved into this neighbourhood 3 years ago, and sometimes could take a peak inside through the windows when film crews were around. Then I found its website and had a full look at the gorgeously preserved 15 rooms and I can honestly say I haven’t seen a place more beautiful. Some nights I drunkenly pass outside and touch the door and have a little cry. T_T

This area was all derelict 15 years ago, literally walls and roofs and floors falling apart, but the houses have since been purchased and restored and are now unbelievably expensive. Two have been recently sold for 1,5 million pounds, and another was for sale at 6,5 million. I’ll never have that kind of money! But the charm of a 300 year old house, with wooden paneling on the walls, creaky staircases, hidden private gardens and skylights…is simply unsurpassed.

I’m really looking forward to this film, it looks incredibly beautiful, like my dream world (minus the ghost). I’m thinking of going to see the West End play too.

この映画、本当に楽しみにしています。ぼくの夢の世界のように見えます。