{"id":3113,"date":"2016-09-23T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2018-11-25T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:48:57","slug":"feeling-little-crabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/feeling-little-crabby\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling a little Crabby…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long week! I was called in to work for two extra days, and as much as I love my job everyone has a limit before the start getting a bit crabby, right? Thankfully today I was able to stay home and work on some things that didn’t require leaving the house, so when time came to take a little break I decided to use that time productively and work with an obi I got recently and had no idea what to do with.<\/p>\n

Naomi<\/a> found this obi on Yahoo Japan literally years ago, and it had been sitting in a box ever since, following her around as she moved. She finally found the time to mail it to me and man, was it ever worth the wait. I love crustacean motifs, and this obi is no exception. It’s a gorgeous old chuuya obi with crabs and lobsters on the purple side. The other side is more “normal”, featuring a design of flowers and drums on solid black. It’s a nice bonus, to be certain, but this obi really is all about the pinchy sea creatures! It’s in rough shape, and the design placement is very odd, which makes it hard to tie. Eventually I’m going to turn it into a reversible tsuke-obi but until then I figured I could find a way to make it work on the mannequin.<\/p>\n\n\t\t