Making Time

Here’s a handy little list… Craftophile’s romaji for searching Japanese crafts. This is useful if your computer can’t read Japanese characters. The author has chosen some words that are Japanese, but written in roman letters and also words that started out in English, were translated to Japanese and re-written in roman letters. (Romanized borrowed words). On a Japanese site, if you searched for “mascot” you will get a very different result than masukotto. This is helpful if you can’t copy and paste certain kana/kanji words.

Of course if your computer can read あみぐるみ you’ll get even more mileage than “amigurumi”. Google dug up 351,000 for amigurumi and 531,000 for あみぐるみ.

Another great resource is Make Write’s downloadable document for help on searching for Japanese craft terms.

*heather gets up and shakes bits of yarn off her lap, makes a big yawn and stretches*

wow i haven’t blogged in a while! it was a nice break from being online. i think i was blogging a little too much, and i must have run out of things to say. well… it was refreshing getting away.

but now i want to dust off this old blog and get her back up again. just needs a lick of paint and a little oil- but she’ll be good as new soon.