image by: Design Love Fest Lately i've been thinking a lot about where i want this blog to go. I know i want it to continue to grow, but i'm still unsure as to the direction. I would love to turn Inspiration.Sparks into more of a travel blog, but let's be honest we don't really travel that often. I keep coming back to lifestyle blog, whi[...]
Golden Week is a huge deal here in Japan, mostly because it is the longest vacation period of the year for most Japanese workers. The week consists of 7 major holidays, starting with the Emperor's Birthday and ending with Kodomo No Hi (こどもの日) or Children's Day. You can tell Golden Week is coming up when the beautiful Koi Carp Streamers or Koin[...]
I finally crossed a big activity off my Okinawa Bucket List, biking on Ie island with friends. We woke up super early and made it to Motobu Port for the 9am ferry to Ie-jima. The plan was to rent scooters and ride around the island, but of course sometimes things don't go as planned. Apparently we needed reservations to rent scooters especially during pe[...]
I partnered with Kassie of Mr. & Mrs. O to giveaway some fun Okinawa items!! She is PCS-ing soon and wanted to share some of her favorite Okinawan goodies with one lucky winner. Like what you see? Enter to win below. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I often mention how my bestie, Kacey, and I always go on adv[...]
I recently started using hashtags on Instagram to put some of my pictures into categories and easily access them. One of the hashtags i created is #thingsilooveaboutjapan, where i share some of my absolute favorite things about japan with my followers. I do a lot of this on the blog, but i really wanted to start a little something special on Instagram. H[...]
Last December we embarked on our first International trip (outside of Japan), we explored Taiwan for 5 days on Christmas week. We took the MRT, saw Panda's, ate steamed dumplings and drank Milk Boba tea, shopped at the Nightmarkets, released a sky lanterns, ate sooo much street food, rode an incredibly high gondola and more! It was a great trip and i wan[...]