Creepy Creatures.

Just found this little book on Amazon, these little creatures are a crochet dream for me. But must wait until I'm home.

The monkey and the Day of the Dead character are so great, can't wait to see what else lies within it's pages (besides ninjas, zombies and robots of course).

The cyclone.

Another little note about our Brooklyn day in New York, one of my favourite days can you tell? After sufficiently exploring the Brooklyn area we continued on the train down to Coney Island. There we rode the rollercoaster of death, an absolute must do if you are in the area. The cyclone is one of the oldest rollercoasters in the world, built in 1927, and believe me it looks like it hasn't had any work on it since then.

I was (and I'm not exaggerating) frightened for my life on that ride, and I swear the coaster got air at certain points on the track, but it was exhilarating and I'm proud to now be able to say 'I survived the Coney Island Cyclone'.

A visit to Etsy.

The same day we venture to Brooklyn to the flea we stopped by the Etsy headquarters. Just a small little building with Etsy curtains in the top windows.


My own little pilgrimage.

Brooklyn Flea.

While we were in New York, we set aside a whole day to spend across the bridge in Brooklyn and it's surrounding areas. We spent most of the day at the Brooklyn Flea!

It takes place every weekend in two locations, every Saturday in Fort Greene (10am-5pm), and every Sunday in DUMBO (11am-6pm). It was a Saturday so we headed off to the flea at Fort Greene. The day was absolutely scorching and the flea was everything I had always thought it was, there was a mix of vintage stalls, retro, art, craft, jewellery and incredible food. A definate must see for anyone with a heart for such goodness like my own.

I was happy to score an old Diane von Furstenburg dress for a bargain, a silver terradactyl ring and drank countless bottles of limonata (it was so ridiculously hot) to keep us going. Two hours of so later we ventured out to discover the rest of what the other side of the bridge has to off. A lot.


The flea.

Rosie browsing the stalls.

My limonata with it's can cap on.




The dress, with grey dress underneath, it was a windy day!

The teletubbies do science.

When we were visiting San Francisco, I took a trip one morning to the California Academy of Sciences. I only had a hurried 45 minutes in the Academy unfortunately but I could have spent hours there. Everything in this place was so interesting, even the way the building was made is mind blowing (the walls are insulated with recycled denim products!) and I particulary loved my trip up the elevator to the roof top. Their real live living roof looks like something out of the teletubbies.

Here are a few of my pictures from the morning.

The roof from way below.

The roof from above.

A boy named Lucas.

A friend of ours, Lucas, seems to have a dab hand at photographing bugs. Look at that bug flying through the air! It's caught in a spiders web but it took me a long time to figure that out, perhaps I'm just a bit slow, but I thought it was water spraying upwards from his mighty leap.

We met Lucas while staying with one of his friends, Jean, in Brasil. He is a biology student from Rio de Janeiro and I really think he should somehow mix his photography & his biology in someway in the future, Lucas for National Geographic perhaps. Check his flickr account out if you think so too.

We love your pictures Lucas!

It's worth the look even just to see some of the incredible bugs they have lurking around their country, they give the weta a run for it's money! He also has some really great pictures of Brasilian landscapes rolling around on there too.

Hope all are well! x

The best tour on a budget.

Something I forgot to mention about Buenos Aires. If your travelling to or are in Buenos Aires I really recommend this wee walking tour. The tours are run by a group of young Buenos Aires lovers who grew up in the city.

One of our friends recommended the tour to us so we dragged ourselves out of bed our first day and did it. It's a free tour, (they do several, we did the morning city tour) the guys work from tips so however you felt about the tour or whatever you can afford that's what you pay. Our guide, Gaston, was brilliant, and we managed to chat to him about other things we might be interested in the city, he recommended an great bar that we went to that night.

The tour took about 2 and half hours and we learnt so much about the city, plus it gave us our bearings for the rest of our time there. We were both a little hesistant about how good a 'free' tour could be and it definitely exceeded our expectations in everyway.

Good luck with the future guys, from two very happy customers.

Our tour group.