Hina Matsuri is on March 3rd and is known as Doll Festival or Girls' Day in English. Families with young girls put out the doll sets on March 3rd and then they must put them away within a set amount of time or the girl will marry late. Some doll sets are very simple, consisting of only two dolls, while other can have many, many dolls. Shimogamo ( Read more... )

Usually I make Teddy peanut blossom cookies (with the Dove Promise Hearts!) for Valentine's Day, but seeing as I have only a toaster oven (and Hershey Kisses are worth their weight in GOLD here), I had to come up with another plan. So, I dipped Oreos and pretzels for Valentine's Day. I also bought him a DS game and some chocolate covered ( Read more... )