love this package of miscellaneous kimono fabrics i received from mika days back. She asked me what i wanted from japan but i had no idea and she ended up getting me the most perfect thing. Have always love a few couple of random things put together as a gift. Makes it feels like there's alot to discover..like a treasure box of plentiful eye candy buffet. :) It briefly reminds me of a birthday gift i got from jim years ago - an old tin with a picture of a little blonde girl imprinted on it, containing buttons and some sewing miscellaneous.
From a flea store, Jim wanted to purchase the little vintage tin container without the bundle of threads, buttons and fabric miscellaneous pieces inside but the storekeeper asked him to 'take the whole thing' ...
Anyway, they both didnt end up using the single button for something else 'someday'...... I did. :)
i thought the tin felt like a piece of someone else's memory. A habit track of someone who threw a couple of her belongings away during a spring clean. someone who used to keep all her nicknacks into that tin box thinking she'll probably use one of that single button someday for something. i imagined the previous owner's either a young girl with blonde hair like the one imprinted on the tin living in a rather messy room like how she housed the content in the tin or a bag lady who sewn and kept every little something in cookie tins here and there until she lost track of how many tins she had.
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