Christmas = The act of LOVE

I thought that the Christmas holidays were joy-filled due to planning and having the "perfect" holidays with family and friends. But only after i need to be hospitalize during this Christmas I found that the holidays purest joy is only found in God.

Christmas isn't primarily about spending time with loved ones, decorating our trees and homes, singing Christmas carols, baking, or watching Christmas specials on TV...Christmas in the purest form is about our Savior who left the glory of Heaven so that He could become human to save our very souls...just so He could have an exclusive, intimate relationship with us!

To leave all of the glory and adoration of Heaven—sheer perfection, joy, and wholeness with 24/7 adoration of angels—to create a special holiday called Christmas, so we could freely come to Him and have access to a close relationship with Him, completely blows my mind! This causes me to want to focus on the true Christmas story, the beautiful Christmas story that offers incredible hope! And it causes me to want to love and encourage others in the ways He loves and encourages me.

When I think of the true meaning of Christmas, it beckons me to spend the Christmas season seeking after God's heart, celebrating the joy that is available through Him, and being more aware of who I can share His love to and with and try to remember to lovingly give to others during the holidays, through offering around me the gifts of love, encouragement, special memories, and chocolates♡

I'm preparing these sweet gifts to the nurses in my hospital, it's a little plastic bag filled with chocolates, christmas messages and a bundle of JOY.
I gave one already to one of the nurse that not gonna be around in christmas day and she is so much happy and touched, even tho for me it's just a small gift, but looking at her reaction i'm realize how much important to show others love even from a small action like this, it could means alot for them. And i'm thanksfull that GOD bless me so much that i could bless another peoples around me even in my limitation.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

PS: Special thanks to IVY and JADE who helped me preparing these gifts.

Vintage Picnic TABI X AIRI

So happy today finally i could completed one of my bucket list, it's always been my dream to have a proper picnic with a theme like this,
Thanks to Ayie (airi) who helped me to achieved that＾＾
I guess this is what it called true FRIEND.

Sunday 20 September 2015 which is actually just last night, we suddenly came up with the idea to do a picnic in Ohori Park, it actually started when we were talking about blogging at the Seattle Best Coffee in Hakata last night after church, and my friend Ayie wanted to start her own blog by asking my help as she know that i kinda into a blog, so we planned that the day after she gonna come over my apartment to make it easier for me to teach her about blogging., and as a thankful gift she wanted to bring me meal to eat in my apartment ｔｈａｔ day, but i told her that i would love to have sweets, snacks or sandwhich instead, which then bring us to the idea of picnic.

it was such a random plan yet fun, so later that night i end up staying late thinking of the theme i wanted for our picnic, and did a lot of research in google about picnic themes, until i decided that i want a vintage picnic.

for me, to create a vintage look is pretty easy because i have my room full of vintage decoration, and in order to make our vintage picnic happen, i just need to bring some stuff from my room to the outside, lol.

and luckily my apartment is pretty close to the Ohori Park, we just need to cross the street, so we didn't have much problem to transfer those stuff to the location by our self without any rides, like literally just by our hands... or any body parts that could, which is a little bit embarrassing walking in front of all the peoples in the park by being attached of all these things in our body, hahaha. glad we made it tho.

We spent like 3 hours chillin and listening music while we enjoying our lunch with some sandwich, onigiri bento, mochi dango, strawberry roll cake, pocky, chips, almond and other snacks that we bought from LAWSON, it's funny how we choose all the food/snack that have a cute packaging, and we actually bought a little bit too much for just the two of us, we couldn't eat everything and end up leaving some food left unopened.

  

so i think until here my blog today, i just want to say that it was soooo much fun to explore your creativity and made all your imagination happen, so even tho it just came from a small idea, don't be hesitate and lazy and let your brilliant idea just stuck in your deepest brain storage, sometimes you just need to go out from your comfort zone.

Thankyou For Reading.

TABI X AIRI project.

© 2015

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*Spoiler
in the end of the day i lost my lantern.....  the strong wind made my lantern rolling in to the lake! (T____T)