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Butterfly totem 蝶に伝わった私のエネジー

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I hope you had a great July 4th weekend! I was at Bass Lake during the day with bunch of friends. I haven't been there since the last August. We cut the traffic with motorcycle and got to the place pretty quick! We hiked for 2 miles going through some tree tunnels and got to the water finally! We jumped in with our inflatable tubes and floats. (so cute to see big kids who ride Harley) The water was so warm but my underwater camera was not really good for the muggy water :( When we were hanging out floating, a butterfly landed on my leg, suddenly. It was rare to see it on me and I was told to search for the butterfly totem and I did when I got home. I was shocked to read what it was. The butterfly symbolizes a personal transformation, changes in your life. This is exactly what I want and going through to make it happen right now. I'm launching a fundraising campaign called Underwater Healer, About Face. About Face means to change the attitudes, views and turn things around 180 degrees. It's for the cancer survivors but also for myself. I'm looking to change something big! Butterfly sensed that energy on my scaled legs :) http://www.spiritanimal.info/butterfly-spirit-animal/ I had such a wonderful...

Underwater Healer Project – About Face

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I had a fantastic underwater portrait session for underwater healer project this weekend. I'm launching a fundraising campaign in July 10th! Details coming soon! Bernadette Leno flew down from Vancouver, Canada on Friday night. We contacted each other only one week ahead to plan everything and fortunately, everything worked out!! I was so excited to meet her and curious to find out who she was because she had never been to SF and met me before! She must be an awesome gal and she was! I felt so happy to meet her! She was only here for 36 hours and I hope she enjoyed her portrait session and stay in SF. She did such an amazing job in the water yesterday. It was about 100F in Walnut creek (thank you, Dina, Adam, Cassi, Juni and Tagboat!) and we forgot to put a sunscreen until we finished the session...... She got some farmer's tan as a souvenir. You can check her out here! 先週末に アンダーウォーターヒーラープロジェクトのため バンクーバー、カナダから バーナデットさんが飛んできて下さいました。一週間ほど前にビデオ チャットで会って企画をしただけなので、二人とも出会ったときは少し緊張しましたが、意気投合して 水中写真撮影を知り合いのプールをかりでする事ができ...

Getting ready for tomorrow night

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I got some metal samples few weeks ago. I decided on one out of 4 kinds. I hope it would look great on all the images... Still haven't seen the finals but I will find out tomorrow night at the gallery!!! I'm giving away yokai magnets for your kitchen. Please come by and say herro- :) 161 Erie Street, SF at Roll Up...

May 31, 2013 at Roll Up Gallery, Public Works!

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I'm SO happy to be a part of water theme show at Roll Up Gallery on Friday the 31st! I don't have any details yet from the organizer but I'll follow up once I find out. I'll be showing my first 3 collections of Yokai series (Japanese monsters) along Japanese folklore. Why Yokai in the water? Movement of the water, the lighting and the expression depict the creepy mood to me. I'll be printing on aluminums. Hope to see you there! One of my close friends who is a super Yokai freak would be editing the folklores. http://publicsf.com/gallery...

Before and after series

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It is so nice to see my clients after they give births! I remember them being pregnant last year and it's been a year already! They are so happy to welcome a little new member and still looking fabulous! I would love to keep in touch with all of my clients forever. Thank you so much for thinking of inviting me to the one year old birthday...