Attention chocoholics! Chocogram is launching. A yummy and sweet approach to communication – brilliant! From August 25, you will be able to send little messages to your lucky loved ones in delicious Belgium chocolate. Order online here! Deliveries Australia-wide and in most cases the very next day. Prices start from AU$15. |
| Is your blog looking a little pallid, a little in need of guidance, a little lonely? Like it needs a cast of super cool friends to tell it what day it is? Introducing The Human Calendar, a nifty little widget you can download here, that represents different days of the year with friendly human faces all looking at each other Brady Bunch-style. We don’t know why people do things like this, but we’re sure glad they do. |
Look at these cute little tea towels. Each is strewn with baby dear and words of wisdom, made out of hemp and organic cotton, and silk-screened by hand in lovely Perth by a lady called Fatty DeMonsey. Only problem: are the too cute to use? Or are we totally happy drowning Bambi in dishwashing water? . |
Get spick and span with an environmental plan! B_E_E home cleaning products have shrewdly and consciously created Beauty Engineered for Ever, a great little mishmash of nature, science and beauty. Creating Australian eco-warrior, design-savvy products, it’s no wonder awards have been sparkling B_E_E’s way. Quirky? Tick. Eco-friendly? Tick. Hot packaging? Tick. Yay – all the dirty work has been done for us. |
I’ve been travelling between Brisbane and Melbourne a lot recently, and everywhere I go it seems people want to have the same conversation: what’s happening to Fitzroy/ Collingwood/ Fortitude Valley/ West End? With lovely, grungy Fitzroy apparently the new target for multi-storey apartment developers and the Valley strangely overrun by chain stores and rum and coke drinkers, it’s maybe time to reflect on the importance of having a little slice of city living that Starbucks can’t reach – a home for artists and activists and people who want to do things outside the norm. This article is written by one of my favourite journalists, Christopher Hitchens, on the importance of Bohemia in places like New York’s West Village. Well worth a read. |
Here’s something to love without irony. Save the Pink Bathrooms does exactly what it says on the label, agitating for the preservation of vintage pink bathrooms everywhere. There’s even a tip sheet on renovation and colour matching. Drool, drool. |
This is a bit clever. Brisbane-based eco ladies EnviroTrend have come up with these super re-usable gift bags made of the same stuff as the green shoppers that get thrown in the back of the car every time you’re off to Coles. Each bag comes with a blank gift card and a black satin ribbon to secure it together, so no sticky tape or paper required. We just want to know how many times one of these babies can get re-gifted before they’re demoted to shopping duties. They’re $12.75 for a pack of two at www.envirotrend.com.au |
It’s no secret I have a strange passion for men with beards, so when a friend emailed me this site for the World Beard Championships, I was quite chuffed. Happily, the next championship event is not till March 23 in Anchorage, Alaska, so I still have time to save up and fly over there to check out the facial hair on display. With award categories like ‘Hungarian Moustache’, ‘Natural Goatee’ and ‘Freestyle Beard’, it’s sure to be an extremely hairy affair. (PS – Don’t go thinking these are just any old beard championships. The website strongly states that only ‘legal aids’ like wax and hairspray are allowed by contestants. The use of artificial hair colour, hair extensions, false hair, or any form of hair pins is prohibited. I wonder if they all have to submit to testing like in the Olympics?) |
Happy New Years! We’re all feeling a little fragile today but between bouts of moaning and the semi-conscious watching of bad television, we’re still taking the time to make a few resolutions for the new year. This time, we’re tossing up between virtuous (‘eight hours of sleep a night’), realistic (‘don’t pick up any new bad habits – we have enough already’) and fanciful (‘make like Van Halen and refuse to eat brown M&Ms for 12 months’). We haven’t settled on anything yet – best ask us when the pain subsides. Until then, enjoy the bright shiny new year. Hello, 2009. |
Everything’s coming up “yay” for Obama at the moment. Being the news junkie that I am, I got up early and watched the whole thing on TV and, in between the pomp and circumstance, one of the networks had a little fluff piece on Obama merchandise. I spotted these tees in the background and got a little bit of “yay” myself. People are so clever and rad sometimes, you know? |
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