The motherload

Sometimes, if you're really lucky, you will have an amazing Aunt who not only pays for you to stay in one of Gion's best ryokans on your last trip abroad... she'll also remember your feverent love of Japanese Kitkats. I was lucky on both accounts and on Aunty C's trip home from Italy via Narita she pretty much scoured the entire airport for every Kitkat she could find. Which resulted in the above haul! (along with some Baci and an Agatha Ruiz De La Prada lipgloss... she knows me so well)
I scored NINE green tea/matcha Kitkats - I had just finished my stockpile so this was great timing. I also scored two plum soda, a bag of mini orange, two carrot & apple and a Tokyo limited edition box of koi-kinako (dark soybean)! Score!!
Jury is still out on the carrot and apple flavour... I've eaten plenty of green kitkats, but pastel orange? Not so much.

Don't say no to a mo

Just a reminder that Sunday is the first day of Movember so make sure your boyfriend/husband/dad/brother signs up and grows the mo to end all mo's to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and BeyondBlue. I'm going to make M grow the "connoisseur". And since I might have Mo-envy, then I might have to buy this very cool mustache on a stick from SomethingsHidingHere.

Nostalgia...

These very lovely little cardboard creations are made by Under The Stair Studio and can be bought on Etsy. They're quite Beatrix Potter-esque, don't you think? For me, they bring back memories of being a little girl reading pop-up books. Weren't they so fun?

Better than Iron Chef France any day... sorry Sakai!

Do yourself a HUGE favour - hurry over to Iron Chef Shellie's blog and drool over these absolutely beautiful cupcakes she made! I'm having palpatations just looking at them... (it's my inner fat-kid as my other half lovingly tells me...on a daily basis)

White chocolate + macadamia + buttons = lots of e love

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!

Being bored and trawling through blogs and online stores often pays off when you find something that you never knew existed. Like tonight, when I stumbled across Stone and Honey. Can you believe how beautiful these necklaces are? The colours are really vivid and since they are made from natural agate, you know that it is a one of a kind. Online shopping is so much more fun than studying

Stick em up!

Planning on having lots of bbq's with friends this summer? I know I am (just as soon as I buy a bbq).

Proving that you can make the most mundane object quirky and interesting, the Condiment Gun makes that old glass sauce bottle just look plain sad.

Aside from the obvious risks of putting this in the hands of a male (especially on a day when you're wearing your prettiest white cotton summer dress), I think it is too fun to resist.

Buy it at Opus Design.

A bird in the hand

So pretty for warm summer days. Acrylic "Hohloma Bird" brooches from A Skulk of Foxes.