nevermind the gap

Visit the Curator to read my latest article about my love affair with the London bus!

too sweet to eat

I have a major thing for old typewriters and one of the things I miss most here in the UK is my gorgeous old portable, currently in storage in my auntie's basement. Love letters, poems, and even to-do lists, they all just look cooler when manually punched out in faded ink.

Four years ago, a couple of art school grads set up the most incredible stationary-ish shop on Main Street: the Regional Assembly. New mom Christina actually tipped me off to this - the store hosts a monthly letter writing club - complete with paper and vintage typewriters for use, free of charge. It just keeps getting better! They also have a gallery devoted to handmade/self published books. So let's add this up: a shop full of my favourite things (letterpressed cards + vintage office supplies like file cabinets and CANCELLED stamps + buttons + self published literature + closet sized reading room) that's situated on my favourite street, in my favourite city. If you added in a shelf full of Persephone books, I might walk in one day and think I had died and found my way to heaven.

but anyway, all this to say, when I set my eyes upon this typewriter cake at Design*Sponge this morning I was pretty sure that it was the COOLEST THING EVER. And when I read on to learn that it was created in honour of the Regional Assembly of Text's fourth birthday, I was convinced.

more first aid kit

Last night i was reluctant to go out to the pub after a viewing of the latest Almodovar flick (i was sleepy, okay!), but I gotta admit I was grateful that hubby dragged me along once we spotted a promo poster for swedish darlings First Aid Kit who are gracing our very own Jericho Tavern next month.

In honour of my excitement for this event, another video:

introducing...

after much fiddling and too little web design savvy, I'm nonetheless pleased to introduce frontlawncreative.com!

... for all your copywriting / editing / project management needs.

I'm in business over here! Managing to fill much of my work week with various projects, but always happy for more.

Drop me a note and I'll send you a quote. (it rhymes.)

chapel preview

I keep promising a tour of our new place, but the kitchen just never stays clean long enough to photograph it! Here's a little preview of a favourite reading nook, and our scandalous open-concept bed/dressing/bath room :)

another invasion

Spotting tiled Space Invaders is one of my favourite Euro pastimes. No trip to Paris or east London is complete without at least a few sightings. Thus I'm quite pleased that the little pixellated aliens have expanded their reach in London. Can't wait to start spotting the newcomers.

*POSTSCRIPT* In response to Claire's question, "What are these?": It's just street art, like graffiti, created by a guy who goes by the moniker, Invader. The little space invaders are inspired by the 70s/80s video game called, of course, Space Invaders. Think pac-man era, very pixelated video games. i think my friend Christopher had this on his Atari when we were little :) Anyway, Invader posts his work in cities all over the world. Read more about it here.