Just charming. (2)

More charmlicious goodies. All in our Etsy shop and they'll be at the next Kraftbomb (Oct 26th) too if you like what you see!

Being on paper.

We made it onto paper twice this past month and I've finally got round to.. show off! hehe.

The new World Sweet World magazine is out in full force and Kimberlee from Anemone did an great write up about bloggers in NZ which she kindly involved us in. One of our owls made a full page in the article which was nice and Kimberlee also created that magnificant image to head the article. Thanks Kimberlee!

And secondly, the Cardboard Box zine was launched at the past Kraftbomb, I think I mentioned it earlier but here are some pictures of the zine and the our lucky placement on the blog review page along side Look Book, thanks Jess!


Hope your enjoying the new week xx

The little look sees Paul Paper.

Camilla Engman

My good friend Jess, over at The Little Look See, just did a post about the 'Could Be Me' project by Paul Paper and friends. It is most definitely worth a look. This one (above) is my favourite from the bunch. Actually make that two favourites (see below).


Tom Edwards

Nikki McClure says VOTE.

I really like Nikki McClure's work. Particulary this vote poster, relevant in many ways at the moment. But what I like the most about it is that the person in the rain looks to me like the could be a man or a woman, which is what I think makes this poster so clever. The posters are limited edition and silk screened onto woodboards.

Nikki's work is for sale on buyolympia and below are some of my other favourites from her.

That special feeling.

I've got a whole list of things that I've been meaning to blog about lately, I just haven't had the time to sit down and do them properly. So I'm going to tick one off the list today finally!

A week or so ago, Heleen from Ruby in the Dust (an incredibly talented doll maker/textile crafter), awarded our blog a blog award. We were suitably chuffed , thank you Heleen! So now it is our turn to pass the award on to 5 other blogs we enjoy (I agree with Heleen on quality not quantity, the original award asks for 8!).

Here is the text that goes with the award (a very rough translation!) and below it the 5 blogs we would like to pass the award onto.

'To translate the gift from Portuguese to English, it means:"This blog invests and believes, the proximity" [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]". They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate? Thenlet's try to give more attention to them!

So with this prize I must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must do the same thing and put this text in their blog.'

Simply Olive

Swonderful

Little Ruby and the Sea

The Little Look See

Helga and her Holga (only one post down but I'm loving it already!)

All incredibly talented ladies doing their thing.

Rosette Lounge photographed by Milkaway

Abandoned.

I know this might sound naive but I never really thought there was abandoned cities around the world, sure there is in movies and Ancient ones, yes of course. But I didn't think their was anything from mine, my parents or even grandparents life time. Turns out I was rather wrong. After reading Helga and her Holga's post on a abandoned theme park in Korea and being suprised that the theme park had not been destroyed after 30 years of closure, I did a little research into abandoned structures.

And as it turns out there is a lot! This site is great if you'd like to mooch through them all, but below are my particular favourites and a blurb about each one taken from the Web Urbanist site.

'Rumors abound regarding this legendary abandoned pod city (aka ‘UFO town’) of San Zhi, Taiwan, which was supposedly built by the government of Taipei to be a luxury resort for expensive holidays on the water. Built in the 1970s or early 1980s the modularity of the designs has raised retroactive suspicions that perhaps these stacks were intended to be built vertically over time. Theories on the abandonment of this massively strange undertaken range from poor insulation in a difficult climate, the dissolution of business partnerships, the failure of a regional real estate bubble or even that so many workers died during construction that the place was abandoned as - unable to be destroyed out of a cultural taboo on interfering with the homes of spirits and lost souls. '

'Gunkanjima, Japan. Once known for having one of the highest population densities in the world (1.4 people per square meter) “Battleship Island” is now completely deserted. Known today as “Ghost Island,” this strange place stands out from other hundreds of abandoned Japanese islands for its massive concrete sea walls and omnipresent and ominous concrete architecture. Some people have snuck onto the to take photographs and explore.'

'Varosha, Cyprus. Photographing this city, fenced off by the Turkish military in 1974, is forbidden. These images show a rare glimpse inside of this eerie ghost town. The area was once home to thousands of Greek Cypriots who have been denied for decades the right to return to their homes. The photographer who took these images nearly lost his camera to a military patrol, and the slanted angles are a result of shooting from his side when he could.'

Abandoned Submarine Base. Balakava is a small town on the Black Sea Coast that was once the secret home to a Soviet nuclear submarine base. People with resident family members were not even allowed to visit the town without special dispensation from the government. Today, all of the submarines are gone but the base remains remarkably intact and can be visited by urban explorers from around the world.

Charming.

We got our hands on some super sweet charms this week and I whipped them into necklaces over the weekend. There's a bit of a food and travel theme (two things we love!) plus some extras.

I am hoping to pop a small bunch on Etsy this week and but am keeping a good few aside for the next Kraftbomb. Hope ya'll think they are just as cute as we do!