{"id":625,"date":"2010-10-08T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2010-11-02T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:37:39","slug":"because-i-can%e2%80%99t-go-anywhere-without-buying-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/because-i-can%e2%80%99t-go-anywhere-without-buying-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I can\u2019t go anywhere without buying something!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thank you to Rick and the team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websytz.com\">Websytz<\/a> for getting my technical issues sorted out!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I recently got back from a wonderful week in Boulder, Colorado. It was really nice spending time with my friends, catching up with people, and just enjoying what I&#8217;ve truly come to believe is my second home.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I had to make a visit to Janine at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagekimono.com\/\">Vintage Kimono Showroom<\/a>. I had no plans to buy anything, but she had one incredibly amazing haori and an obi that I&#8217;d admired the last time I was there, and somehow they magically ended up coming home with me. I also had the fortune of ordering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/history\/propaganda.html\">Wearing Propaganda &#8211; Textiles on the Home Front<\/a> and having it shipped to my best friend to save money, so that came home with me too. I&#8217;ll be doing a review soon. But I digress; onto the amazing stuff I bought.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pink bellflower hakata obi<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moonypics\/5062337305\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4147\/5062337305_a840a69a63.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moonypics\/5062336599\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/5062336599_9e02cdfb7a.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nI actually first found this obi <a href=\"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/birthday-splurging\/\">the last time I was there<\/a> but somehow talked myself out of it. When I saw that it was still waiting for me, I had to cave in. I love hakata of all kinds, but especially the sort that&#8217;s not geometric, because it&#8217;s so much less common.<\/p>\n<p><b>Eye-searingly awesome meisen spider kiku haori<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moonypics\/5062947022\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4107\/5062947022_4e235ac9d9.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moonypics\/5062945992\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4124\/5062945992_2fe1e1e8c5.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally have meisen that fits me! So yes, admittedly it&#8217;s a haori and not a kimono, but I don&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s vibrant, it&#8217;s tacky, it&#8217;s amazing, and I love it. I have no idea what I&#8217;m going to pair this one up with, but I really don&#8217;t care. I couldn&#8217;t let it escape my grubby little clutches.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d originally found a subtle purple and cream striped haori while at the showroom but when Janine brought this beauty out I just couldn&#8217;t say no. It&#8217;s not something I will ever find again, and I could not pass up the opportunity. The lining is also adorable, tiny little kokeshi dolls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moonypics\/5062944572\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4145\/5062944572_963cb5b213.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moonypics\/5062943712\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4087\/5062943712_f74425b586.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also came home to a box of goodies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimonoasobi.com\">Naomi<\/a>, so I&#8217;ll be sharing the contents of that soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Rick and the team at Websytz for getting my technical issues sorted out! I recently got back from a wonderful week in Boulder, Colorado. It was really nice spending time with my friends, catching up with people, and just enjoying what I&#8217;ve truly come to believe is\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/because-i-can%e2%80%99t-go-anywhere-without-buying-something\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11,6,161],"tags":[37,407,182,404,68,13,27],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catalogue","category-haori","category-obi","category-shopping","tag-hakata","tag-haori","tag-meisen","tag-obi","tag-orange","tag-pink","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}