All Things Kawaii Blog

Digital magazine Parasol has a new Craft issue out this week, and it’s all about kawaii. There are interviews with kawaii crafters, templates and instructions on making your own cute things, links to cute sites, and plenty more.

The issue sells for $2.50, which includes a PDF and additional files.

Fruity Cuties is a site offering “cute comedy with kawaii fruit cartoons,” with corny jokes and cute images of your favorite fruits, plus the occasional vegetable thrown in for good measure. Check out the cartoons, buy a t-shirt, or download a free wallpaper for your desktop.

PaperGlitter is a unique, kawaii store on Etsy that sells printable items you can download and make. There are stationery sets, collage/sticker pages, crafts, and other lovely things. You can also find some free downloads on Flickr.

A good friend of mine recently returned from a trip to Paris, and brought me back the sweetest notepad featuring Choco’Miss, a pink-eared bunny-like character who apparently loves chocolate.

Lo and behold, there’s a full Choco’Miss web site — all in French — with recipes, cute wallpapers and games, as well as a shop with stationery and sweet treats to buy.

J’adore le chocolat!

Readymech offers a small, but wonderfully designed selection of printable paper craft toys. Most of them are of strange creatures, but there are people as well, like the Japanese girl shown.

Origami Papers is a small selection of printable origami-style papers that can be used for making your own folded paper creations. There’s also an active origami community on the site, an origami instruction database, and related photos from Flickr.

Paper Crafts Maniacs is a Japanese site offering free downloads of printable papercrafts, featuring teddy bears and sushi. Just print, cut out, and fold to make your own paper toy.

Japanese company Fancy Fukuya specializes in super sweet animal characters, like the bunny-food Usa Dango, or the hamster series of Moru Moru San. Check out cute illustrations and photos of the characters and character goods, especially on the Usa Dango blog.

Lunaii lets you create a custom avatar — or download premade ones — as well as play dress-up games and print out coloring pages of some of their characters. You can also download free doll bases if you want to make your own pixel creations.

Wishing a very Happy New Year to you and yours!

You can find printable versions of this image, as well as printable stationery and lovely desktop wallpapers at Muryou Sozai.