04.01.10
Posted in Bento Box, Event at 9:31 am by jflairhomestyles
It’s already April and our first debut at the Cherry Blossom Festival on Saturday, April 10 is approaching fast! We will be in the “Ginza Marketplace” of the festival, which is between Pennsylvania Avenue & Constitution Avenue and between 14th street and 10th street. Our tent will be at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue NW & 13 1/2 St NW on the Freedom Plaza side.
According to the festival website, they had about 140,000 people last year. We really don’t know what to expect from this big event, but we’re excited about being a part of the festival!! We’re always appreciative of people who enjoy the Japanese culture, food, and gift items.
We cannot bring everything from our website as the space is very limited, but we’ll do our best and bring as many as we can. Items we’ll be showing include bento (of course…), tea sets, soap, sushi sets, artwork, home decors, bags & purses, stationery, and many more gift items. Some of our new items will be available only at the festival, so make sure to come early and grab them if you see anything you like! Everything is first come first serve!! Also, even though there are some ATM machines somewhere, don’t forget to bring some cash! You know when so many people are around, it takes much longer to do a simple task…. The event will go on rain or shine, but let’s hope that it will be a nice day!
See you guys soon!!
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02.22.10
Posted in Event, Japanese Gift, shinzi katoh at 3:31 pm by jflairhomestyles
We’re so excited to let you all know that we’ve been accepted to participate in the 50th annual Cherry Blossom Festival in DC this year!! The festival is the biggest Japanese festival on the East Coast and we’re very lucky to be a part of the event! Below is the detailed information about it:
Date: Saturday, 4/10/2010
Time: 11am~6pm
Place: Ginza Market Place section of the festival (Pennsylvania Ave NW between 10th & 13 1/2th Streets, and on 12th street NW, between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC).
We’ve been preparing for this festival, but now we know this is a “go”, we’re speeding up our orders for the event. We cannot offer everything from our store, but we’ll try to bring as many items as possible from our non-craft items.
We’ve found a talented Japanese lady who lives here in NC and makes amazingly beautiful bags! This is a must see!! We’ll introduce some of her items as well as other new items. We ordered new bento boxes and bags from our popular Shinzi Katoh collection from Japan, but not sure if they’ll arrive here on time as they’ll be coming via boat… If not, you can always shop from our website!
Other items are tea pots, kitchenware, home decor items. We suggest that you come early for this event as there will be tons of people! And also, if you see something, just grab them! In the past, we had many people came back to our booth after looking around and asked us “Did you already sell_____?”. Everything is first come first serve!!
See you all there!
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01.23.10
Posted in Event, Japanese Gift, drawing at 4:09 pm by jflairhomestyles
To thank you for your support, J Flair is offering a $25 coupon code to a lucky winner on Valentine’s Day! We’ll randomly pick a winner from our Facebook Fans and announce a winner on 2/14/2010. If you want to be considered, just become our FAN now!!
The coupon code can only be used from our online stores (www.jflair.com or www.jflairhomestyles.com). It doesn’t have any cash value and cannot be redeemed for cash. It cannot also be used with other offers. The coupon code is valid through 12/31/10.
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09.28.09
Posted in Event, drawing at 3:28 pm by jflairhomestyles
Thank you all for entering the drawing for the $50 Target gift card – about 95 people participated in the drawing.
And the lucky winner is…..
—-Wanda Diaz from Atlanta, GA !!!— CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The winner has a week to claim and give us a shipping address. If we don’t hear from the winner by 10am on Monday, 10/5/2009, we’ll select a different winner.
Thank you again for participating!
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09.24.09
Posted in Event, Japanese Gift at 3:00 pm by jflairhomestyles
Thank you for coming to our booth at the JapanFest in Atlanta. We were told that about 16,000 people attended the festival this year. It was great to see everyone and get great feedback! It’s always nice to interact with customers.
Thank you also for participating in the drawing. We’ll be announcing a winner on Monday, September the 28th!!
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09.11.09
Posted in Event at 7:15 pm by jflairhomestyles
We will be attending the JapanFest in Atlanta, GA. The event will be held at the Gwinnett Convention Center. It starts at 10am on Saturday on 9/19/09 and ends at 5pm on Sunday 9/20/09.
It seems like there will be a lot more vendors this year than what we had last year. If you’re interested in Japanese food, culture, anime or products, this event is the place to be! I recommend that you get there early to experience as much as you can in one day.
We’ll have another drawing during the festival, so make sure to stop by our booth. We hope to see you there!
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08.12.09
Posted in Event, gift idea at 2:09 am by jflairhomestyles
As you know, we had a drawing for a $50 Target gift certificate during the Bon Odori Festival on Saturday, August 1st. We picked a winner randomly on 8/10/09 as planned and the lucky winner is……..
——–Kehlee Walsh from Charlotte, NC !!!——– CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The winner has a week from the notice email we sent out on 8/10/09 to claim the win and give us a shipping address. If we don’t hear from the winner by 10am on Monday, 8/17/2009, we’ll select a different winner.
Thank you all for participating!
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08.02.09
Posted in Culture, Event at 3:40 pm by jflairhomestyles
What a day! We came back late night night from the Japanese festival in Charlotte. It was just a 5 and a half hour event, but it was a full busy, busy day for us from leaving at 6 AM. Thank you very much for coming to our booth. We really enjoyed interacting with our customers and hearing great feedback. I couldn’t leave our booth until at the very end and I got to catch the last few minutes of Japanese Taiko performance which was incredible.
Sorry that we haven’t been able to to show all the new products on our site, but we’ll upload everything as soon as we can! It’s been crazy here….
Remember, for those who entered the drawing at the event, we’ll announce a winner of a $50 Target gift certificate next Monday, 8/10/09. Stay tuned!
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07.25.09
Posted in Event, New Products at 5:05 pm by jflairhomestyles
On Saturday, August 1st, we’ll be attending a Japanese festival, BonOdori, at the Wachovia Atrium in Charlotte, NC. It’s a one-day event from 11am-4:30pm. They’ll have a lot of Japanese food, drinks, dance, raffles, creative workshops, gift items and more.
We’ve been ordering a lot of new items from various vendors these past a couple of months. We have anything from cute stationery to Japanese traditional dishware, and many new items will be introduced at the event.
We hope to see you there, but if you cannot make it, no problem. We’ll be attending another Japanese festival in Atlanta in September. Stay tuned for more information.
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Posted in Culture, Event, Trend at 5:00 pm by jflairhomestyles
We’d never thought that we would be going to an event like Otakon in Baltimore, MD, but we did. We didn’t attend as a vendor, but a visitor this time, and we had a fun! We wanted to check things out and see what the biggest East Coast Anime show was all about.
We were there for only a day and a half, thinking that that would be a plenty of time to browse things through. But it was not that case. I wished we’d arrived there from the very beginning and got to see more of it.
In order to explore the anime world, we decided to take a couple of seminars. One of them was called “Cover Your Bases.” It was an overview of the most important Anime that we should watch before we could call ourselves true anime fans. I could recognize only 10% of what they were talking about just because I used to watch some of the shows on TV as a child. Every time the panel introduced a new title, people would applaud. Everybody in the room was interested and excited about what the panels had to say about each anime. Clearly, we have a lot to learn. I do watch Japanese dramas sometimes, but that’s because it’s easy to hear my own language when my brain is dead after a long day. But for non-Japanese people to watch those shows with subtitles, they would have to have a special interest in the language or culture. Apparently, there are lots of fans out there for Japanese entertainment. From what we learned, there’s a lot of variety in anime and a bit of something for everyone.
It’s so nice to see people reacting the way they were to parts of the Japanese culture. I think they get into Anime or drama first and then Cosplay or kimono. Then the Japanese language, food and culture….
However that works, I do appreciate when people show an interest towards Japan. When I realized how much more Japan has to offer after attending this event, I was very proud to be Japanese.
We were tired after our crammed schedules, but it was refreshing to see a different world that we’d never experienced before. When we come back as a vendor next year, we should have a better understanding of the culture of anime.
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