Coloring days

We decided to color the living room of the guest house(Genzaemon studio). So, my piano was covered with wall paper so that it won't get any paint.

源左衛門スタジオのリビングです。ペンキを塗る前の下準備として、家具を動かし、ピアノを壁紙でくるみました。


Making the yellow Kyoka and I want for this room took long. Adding white and black little by little to yellow made these different shades. To be honest, I had difficulty seeing the differences in them. As Kyoka works as a professional artist, she has much more refined eyes I guess.

この部屋のイメージは前からイエローと決めていたのですが、なかなかイメージ通りの色を作るのが大変でした。私には違いが分からないぐらいまで、微調整をしてくれたきょうかさんのおかげで、「そう、この色の感じ！」という色ができました。


Finally we chose the yellow we want, but the color looked slightly diffrent on the wall! So, we added a little bit of more black and were satisfied with the color.

早速壁に塗ってみると…あれれ、ちょっと黄色が派手すぎちゃう、ということでまたもや色の調合へ。紙と壁とで色の出方って随分と変わるものなんだ、と勉強になりました。


This is the result. Now the room has peaceful atmosphere.Oh, I still have to color the edge.

結果はこちら。まだ縁周りを塗っていませんが、真っ白だった時よりも部屋の雰囲気が優しくなりました。


On the second floor, I keep my Montessori 3-6 materials. I already opened half of the material boxes arrived from USA. It's so exciting and nice to touch the materials again! It's almost like seeing the best friends whom I haven't met for a while. At the end of this month, I'll handle a small group of mother and child to introduce Montessori education to them.
I'm very happy that I finally can start my Montessori project so soon. Since I came back to Japan, I've been helping organizing the farm a lot so that my husband can run it by himself. Also I feel the family culture of Gen's mother, Gen and I has been developing, which means each of us cooperates to run the family and finds one's rhythm to live together comfortably. Keeping the balance of farm projects, family and my projects has been and will be the most important issue to me and so far I think I did great!

２階には、モンテッソーリの教具がずらり。まだこれでも半分しか開封していません。というのも、教具に触るのが楽しすぎ、またドイツでのコース、幼稚園、色々な事が思い出され、教具を片手に感慨にひたることもしばしばなのです。
日本に帰国して以来、農場の仕事、家庭、自分のプロジェクトと半年間バランスを取りながら進んで来ましたが、ようやく、そしていよいよ！モンテッソーリの時期到来。今後もバランスを取りながら、自分のペースで進んでいこうと思っています。