Washi Tape Decorating

Ever since reading the Hello Sandwich blog I've become really obsessed with Japanese washi tape (as well as getting very nostalgic about Japan, I want to go back there!). Washi tape is so easy to use, it tears beautifully, comes in a large rainbow of colours and patterns and it doesn't leave a messy glue mark when you peel it off a surface. It's like magic!

Last week I went into Mt Lawley to one of my favourite shops Zakka Box and bought some flowery tape. Then in the city I was in the Art Gallery gift shop and they had tape too! So I got a stack of the orange ones. The pink pattered ones in the above photo I bought a long time ago from Kikki.k (another well frequented shop). Unfortunately they don't seem to do tapes anymore :( And the black ones are from the Art Gallery gift shop from a year or so ago.


I wanted new holders for my pens and remembered seeing some nice ones in Bunnings (their craft section is pretty awesome). At first I thought to paint them then I had the wonderful idea of decorating them with my washi tape! And ta-da~, this is the result. I first varnished the surface to make sure the tape would stick then I used a craft knife to trim the edges flush. The great thing is, when I get tired of it I can just change the tape! Next time I might try cutting shapes from the tape and make some patterns...I will need more tape :D

Hello 2012

Like last year, we spent new year's eve burning through sparklers and being silly in the back yard. And then we had a ball doing jumping photos, trying to emulate Yowa Yowa Camera (although nowhere near as awesome as her, do take a look she's amazing).



I think 2011 was a little quieter than 2010. It was still a good year and I had fun...
+ With my friends we started the Montage Collective and did not 1, but 4 pop-up shops!
+ I got to watch Gemma Ward in her first play "The Ugly One", she is so stunning.
+ A friend had an engagement party which was actually a wedding! Apparently everyone had figured it out...not me, I was completely duped.
+ Went to Hong Kong in May for a week, love it there so much.
+ Got accepted into the On The Wall exhibition at the Sydney Finders Keepers.
+ Did my very first Upmarket in November!

Last year I made a lot of promises for 2011 which I unfortunately didn't keep. It's always like that with new years resolutions. You make them with the best of intentions, you do fine for a few weeks, at best a couple of months, then they just fall to the side and get consumed by the larger things in life. So for this year I won't promise anything except one thing:

I'm going to be positive.

I am quite a pessimist and sometimes I'll convince myself that things are so so bad that I'll never get out. It's an awful way of thinking and I'm trying to change it so I can stop being sad and just be happy with the present. So hopefully by the time it's 2013 I'll do a post about how happy I was in 2012? Only time will tell :) xoxo

Instagram

I got an Ipod Touch for Christmas and have been downloading apps like mad! Instagram was of course one of the first to be downloaded. There are so many cat photos on there I'm in heaven! If you want to see my cat photos (and eventually other non-cat related photos) have a look here or follow me @eevamargita xx

P.S. Any other apps worth downloading?

I hope you all have an amazing day and get to eat until you need to unbutton that top button hehe xoxoxo

Oliver Jeffers

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Another one of my heroes, alongside Shaun Tan. Oliver Jeffers draws the best penguins and you can learn to draw one by clicking this link.

On the Wall

Just a quick post to let you know I'm part of the On the Wall Exhibition at the Sydney Finders Keepers market!

I'm sad I won't get to personally see it, but if any of my readers live in Sydney go have a look!

Shop is Live!

My official online store is now live and ready! My etsy shop has also been updated if you would rather shop there.

At the moment there is a selection of cards, brooches, hairclips and the 2012 calendar. No jewellery is up yet, I'm saving it all for upmarket but once that's done I'll put it up online :)