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I have been deep, deep, deep in cleaning mode. I’ve finally fully tackled our heebie-jeebies-inducing\u00a0utility room and I’m almost done with the rest of the basement. The next step is going through the monstrosity that I call my fabric stash. It’s grown quite a lot in the last couple of years, and I’ve hauled most of\u00a0the bins upstairs to go through them and mercilessly purge. The Marie Kondo method is firmly entrenched, and I’ve been asking myself “Does this spark joy?” in rapid fire. I was very good about leaving the photos toward the end of the basement cleaning because once I start going through them, I’m a lost cause. That photo up there is from one of the around-the-globe trips my parents liked to take us kids on. I was about 4 and my brother was 3. Check out how I’m sporting and thoroughly rocking\u00a0the knee-high socks. My mom made everything we’re wearing, except for the socks and shoes. I love how faded and oxidized the photo is.\u00a0She\u00a0had scrawled “Toledo” in Japanese on the back and I remember how my mom always had a small 35mm film camera with her\u00a0(Olympus brand maybe? I’ll have to ask her – unlike me she has recall powers akin to a Clark’s Nutcracker). “Kochi mit\u00e9! Kochi!” Look this way! This way!\u00a0My brother usually ignored her, but I obliged. We don’t seem to be pleased that we’re\u00a0in spectacular Spain. I also found one of my favorite photos of K when she was about 2: She only had about 8 teeth at this time, and now she looks so grown-up and different and just lost three baby teeth in quick succession so she only has three more to go. The tidal wave of time is really hitting me. Note: I did not make any of these clothes. Back then, I could barely thread my sewing machine. And she was about the same age here: One of the few photos we have together since I’m always the one snapping the pix. We went to a photo booth at the Seattle Center and\u00a0we never quite figured out where to look.\u00a0Ah, memories. Before I knew it, hours had passed while I perused photos and no sewing was done.\u00a0Perhaps I’ll get around to the Hampshire Trousers this week! P.S. Speaking of cleaning, I’m going to attempt some organizing and sprucing up of this little blog over the next few weeks so things may start to look funky and postings may get a little sporadic as I wrestle with WordPress. Fingers crossed that I don’t do any permanent damage!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14862"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14876,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions\/14876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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