One of our Kokeshi Designs customers, Alison, sent us these beautiful pictures from her October 28, 2008 wedding. She used the Sayonara doll, Style 1 White as a guest book. She also purchased the fabulous Special Edition Wedding Set that she displayed by her cake. Thanks Alison for letting Kokeshi Designs be part of your wedding!

“We had our wedding on the 18th of October and everything went so well. I’ve attached a picutre of the wedding couple we used by the cake. It was such a huge hit that even the cake girl has asked for your details and she put our wedding on her website as her favorite for the month.” ~Alison

The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual two-week event that celebrates springtime in Washington, DC as well as the 1912 gift of the cherry blossom trees and the friendship between the people of the United States and Japan. Kokeshi Designs is going to be there!!  Naomi and I are so excited to have a booth at the 49th Annual Sakura Matsuri-Japanese Street Festival.  The Street Festival will be on Saturday April 4, 2009 from 11 am – 6 pm and it’s free!  We’ll have a variety of our kokeshi dolls there including the Kokeshi Nativity Sets and many cherry blossom kokeshi dolls. Kokeshi Designs will be located at the Ginza Marketplace around 12th & Pennslvania.

The festival has something for everyone~Japanese products and arts and crafts, traditional music and dancing, taiko drums and great food.  You can check out all the details on their website at: www.nationalcherryblossom.org   

It is going to be a great day as the peak blooming period of the trees has been forecast from April 3-April 9. Naomi and I look forward to seeing you there! We’ll be in pink shirts, of course!  ~Sharon