(last summer, Okinawa)

Snappeee

Snapeee would have to be my favorite japanese app. is like Instagram on speed and steroids! You have same community feel as on Instagram, but you can decorate your images before uploading them. When you upload images, or “like” other peoples images you will earn points, and you can use these points to download more decorations for your pictures. Snapeee also have special events and contests you can enter your images into, and you can get quite a few likes and followers if your entry is accepted into the different contests. Snapeee is available for both iPhone and Android. Download it here.　Feel free to add me as well, here is my invitation code: 3B3JRW

Decoblend

Decoblend has two great features. One feature is that you can combine your photos into neat collages, and I find that these collages look a lot cleaner and neater than other apps offering the same thing. The other feature is that you can decorate your photos and collages in the same way as snappeee. the stamps are more limited than Snapeee, but it is still a couple of great stamps and frames worth using. You can get Decoblend for both iPhone and Android.

Girls Camera

Girls camera also have quite a few neat frames worth trying out. There is some sort of community where you can share “diary pages”, but personally I prefer snapeee and instagram. Still worth a download! iPhone and Android.

eyeフィット

I just wanted to mention the eyeフィット app really quickly at the end here. It doesn’t have much of an artistic value, it is simply an app to try on different contact lenses. The interface is in Japanese,  and if you like the lenses, there is a link to buy the contact lenses. I found this app for the iPhone, I am not sure if it exist for Android or not.

I barely touched my camera this fall when I was in Norway, but here is a selection of some snapshots taken while going for walks one of the rare day with good weather and a decent temperature.

I just wanted to recommend a tiny sushi-shop in Krakow, Youmiko sushi. Very homemade and handmade feeling, good service and laid back atmosphere. The menu changes after what they can get in fresh, and it is absolutely worth a visit if you are in Krakow and crave sushi. Polish people in the kitchen. The rice has a slightly sweet taste, and reminded me more of the rice you get served in certain parts of the Kansai region more than the slightly saltier rice you would normally get served in the Kanto area. The sweet taste of the rice went very well with some of their more original pieces, using jalapeño peppers to create a spicier taste. Recommended!

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Did I mention I was in Poland to visit friends back in… October? Beautiful weather and good, cheap food. Here are some pictures I had forgotten all about.

Look at what I received back in October from Japan. It seems kind of silly posting it so late (because I am already back in Japan), but I just wanted to show the tarako and mentaiko pasta sauces in particular. If you ever get across them in a Japanese super market, you should try them. Small fish eggs and seaweed for your pasta, the ultimate combination of Japanese and Italian cooking. The tarako has a mild flavor, and the mentaiko is a spicier version of tarako. Mmm!

I am so incredibly far behind posting images on this blog that I have no excuses. Here are some mobile pictures taken in October and November. I have a post coming up soon with descriptions of the apps I use, but for now; PhotoToaster for general editing and Snapeee for the bling. ♥

Just had to show a dinner I made ages ago! Homemade taco rice. Super yummy!

(Posting pictures I had forgotten about. The last days before I leave for someplace new is almost always forgotten.)