Have you ever wondered what it is like to shop for crafts in Okinawa, Japan. Well let me enlighten you!
The lovely @seireinxo invited me to take a little trip down to one of the larger craft supply stores on the island. While the drive was long and full of obnoxious traffic, the company was great.
Craft stores here hardly resemble anything like Michaels/Hobby Lobby/JoAnns in the States. There are no large spacious warehouses filled with copious amounts of craft notions. Here stores are small and few. But some of them can be pure goldmines. Rainbow house, the one we adventured too, was mostly stocked with fabric and sewing notions. They had a tiny section of yarn to coo over, but yarn here is expensive and the skeins are very small.
I was more thrilled by the Sanrio themed fabrics, and even a few Lolita inspired prints. I had a hard time passing up all the Hello Kitty and a My Melody prints. Then I stumbled on all the Alice in Wonderland themed items, and I almost went a tiny bit crazy.
I settled on the things I actually needed: thread and beads for cross stitch and a few notions for my Alice purse, zipper, lining fabric and strap. Things I couldn’t pass up were the Little Twin Star pre-quilted fabric, and the Gudetama patch.
All in all a good haul. I also now know I will be planning a Sanrio themed quilt before I leave island.