Kawaii Kitchen Week – Shinzi Katoh
Shinzi Katoh has been illustrating picture books since the early 70’s. He still maintains that vintage style, which I like very much. After working as chief designer for a stationery company, he designed goods incorporating ceramic, wood, melamine, glass, towel, … Continue reading Kawaii Kitchen Week – Shinzi Katoh
Kawaii Kitchen Week – Prime Nakamura
Since there’s a day and week for nearly everything I thought why not make up a special event? So this week it’s Kawaii Kitchen week on Kao-ani ^^. I’ll show you my favourite Japanese kitchenware brands and during the weekend … Continue reading Kawaii Kitchen Week – Prime Nakamura
Kawaii Halloween DIY Crafts
With Halloween just around the corner I’ve collected some kawaii Halloween treats and crafts that you can make. Cute Halloween chocolate cupcake toppers by Next to Nicx Kawaii Little Ghost Cookies by Make Me Cake Me Cute Halloween Pumpkin Balloons … Continue reading Kawaii Halloween DIY Crafts
Kawaii Illustration Tutorials
About a year ago I started using Illustrator. It takes a little while to get used to, but it’s a great way to create kawaii characters. Here are some tutorials that I’d like to try and wanted to share with … Continue reading Kawaii Illustration Tutorials
Throwback Thursday: Barunson
Sorry for the lack of updates this week (>_<). We planned a little renovation of our house, to finally make it winter proof. As usual with these sort of things it took a little longer than expected and there were … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Barunson
Throwback Thursday: Deery Lou
Deery-Lou from Sanrio made his first appearance in 2002. Despite the fact that he looks like a deer in the headlights (pun intended) and has only got about 4 different poses, I adored the fawn at the time. Probably because … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Deery Lou
Halloween with Sanrio – Cookies and Wallpaper
Sanrio Celebrates Halloween with the happy halloween festival in Puroland Japan. There are lots of activities, including a Halloween Parade and Hello Kitty dressing up as a monster/vampire. But what got my attention where the nice Halloween sweets, being served … Continue reading Halloween with Sanrio – Cookies and Wallpaper
Throwback Thursday: Pucca
I think that I first heard of Pucca around 2003, the simple lines and cute drawings of this Chinese girl instantly won me over. When merchandise of Pucca arrived in the Netherlands, I just had to get a bag, postcards, … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Pucca
Cute & Kawaii Tumblr Blogs – Part 2
I published the first set of Cute Tumblr recommendations in April and recently Andrea mentioned the Little Miss Paintbrush Tumblr (thank you ^_^).
So I thought it might be nice to show you some other Tumblr blogs. Continue reading Cute & Kawaii Tumblr Blogs – Part 2
Sanrio food character contest
Currently Sanrio Japan is keeping a cute food character contest. Each visitor can choose five out of the twenty characters to vote on. The most popular character -which will be announced in December- might even become a real Sanrio product … Continue reading Sanrio food character contest
Throwback Thursday: Yum Pop
Remember the cute characters from Yum Pop? Designer Noel Tolentino first drew Funny Bunny in the mid-’90s for a line of stationery as an artistic exercise in minimum lines. Other characters joined Funny Bunny and in 2000 Yum Pop was extablished by Cosmic … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Yum Pop
Happy Street
Happy Street is a cute game that has been around for a year. Somehow I missed it’s release, until a friend recently brought the game to my attention. Ever since the closing of Pet Society I’ve been avoiding online games … Continue reading Happy Street
Lucky Paper Stars Tutorial
On one of the previous websites of kao-ani.com I had posted a Paper Stars Origami Tutorial. The instructions were written in an itsy bitsy tiny pixel font, since that was all the rage back then. Luckily I still had Little … Continue reading Lucky Paper Stars Tutorial
Kawaii Jewelry update
Sorry for the lack of posts recently! I can be quite a hermit, but I actually had a busy social life this last month (O_o) I’ve also been crafting new jewelry for the shop 🙂 Below you can see some … Continue reading Kawaii Jewelry update
Pimp Your Container
Metin and I went sightseeing in Ghent last week and really enjoyed ourselves. We had a taste of Belgian beer, wafels and visited a castle. Actually the castle was more about weapons and the torture devices during the Middle Ages, … Continue reading Pimp Your Container
Show and Tell
I thought it would be nice to give regular readers of kao-ani.com a little spotlight. Especially since I really enjoy reading your comments and occasional e-mails. That’s what keeps me going in updating regularly! If your website isn’t mentioned this … Continue reading Show and Tell
Seri Norica
Seri Norica has been working as illustrator and character designer since 2004. She has illustrated various media books, advertisements and games. One of her latest projects was Astro Baby, designed after Astro Boy. Sadly there’s not much else I know … Continue reading Seri Norica
Animal Donuts from Japan
These Japanese Animal donuts are sugary sweet. They are the creation of a woman named Ikumi Nakao, who developed them while working at a bakery in Kansai called Floresta. When Ikumi posted pictures of her creations on Twitter they soon … Continue reading Animal Donuts from Japan
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