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	<description>Stories and Inspirations</description>
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		<title>Want to be a Monkey King</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2010/06/06/want-to-be-a-monkey-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Journey to the west]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journey to the west is a popular Chinese tale.  It is an adventure story of Monkey King  protecting a monk on a long journey to India for Buddhist sutras.
Monkey King  has many special skills,  including transforming himself into 72 different people, animals, or objects; traveling thousands of miles in a flip of his cloud; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunset Magazine</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2010/03/28/sunset-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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It seems like we get almost more soliciting phone calls than regular business ones on daily basis.  When Andrea Gomez, a photographer from Sunset magazine, called my cell phone while we were at a trade show in Atlanta, I was a bit skeptical.  With bad cell phone reception, the conversation for the photo-shoot appointment was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purse Hanger</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2010/01/18/purse-hanger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purse hangers was ordered for the holiday season last summer.  Although they don&#8217;t qualify as completely &#8220;Asian style&#8221;, but I thought they be useful holiday presents for the ladies who have everything (like my mom).
We display the hangers by the cash register since they needed some show and tell to the customers.  They were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Autumn Festival</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/10/01/mid-autumn-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mid-Autumn Festival is one of three major holidays in the Chinese culture.  The other two been Chinese New Year and Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival).
Mid-Autumn Festival is on 15th of the 8th month in the Lunar calendar.  This means that the moon is always round and full on this holiday.  Therefore, many of the traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Keiko</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/09/05/meeting-keiko/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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At the New York show a few weeks ago, I met Mrs. Keiko Iida, a Japanese fabric designer, who drawn up beautiful patterns for bags, hair pieces, tassels and home accessories. Her bold colored designs in traditional patterns make everything looked cheerfully luxurious ~ Japanese style.
Our store already carries a small line of her product from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Glory</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/08/31/morning-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[asagao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a fence full of morning glory flowers driving to work on Lincoln a few weeks ago.  They caught my eye because I thought they only come in dark purple, pink and white colors and have never seen them in this light and almost shinny blue.  They reminded me of the time spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something about Tea</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/08/03/something-about-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Tea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dragon well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green tea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matcha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sencha]]></category>
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I say that I have been drinking tea since three years old.  The truth is, I don&#8217;t remember the first time I had tea, but 3 should be pretty close.  As long as I can remember, mom always makes a pot of Green or Oolong tea after lunch and dinner.  Tea and sweet seasonal tropical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus Pond</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/07/22/lotus-pond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[pod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We were at Atlanta attending the Gift and Furnishing show last week.  Thanks to the sometimes mysterious directions given by the GPS, we missed a few turns driving through residential roads and made a unexpected discovery &#8230; a lotus pond in the front yard of an older ranch style house.
The owner charges $3 to fish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Arrangement</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/06/29/little-arrangement/</link>
		<comments>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/06/29/little-arrangement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[flower arrangement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have been doing ikebana flower arrangements to show off the use of kenzen (Japanese floral frogs) in the store. After completing the arrangement last week, I have one Lily blossom left.
One flower can be just as pretty, I thought to myself. 
Out of all the vases in the store, I chose a large double [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is where we start</title>
		<link>http://t-trove.com/blog/2009/06/09/this-is-where-we-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so excited that T-Trove got its own blog!
I feel there is almost always something to say about everything in the store, and just not really sure where to start or if people are interested to listen while they are focused on shopping.  
There is a lot to say about the Asian culture [...]]]></description>
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