東京の秋 (Autumn in Tokyo)

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Today was such a lovely day! I went to Studio Ghibli with my friend and met Totoro! Afterwards we drank the cutest coffee ever at Hattifnatt Kichijoji. If you click here, you can watch a 360degrees tour of the cafe. I usually sit upstairs in the loft tree house. It's so pretty looking out beyond the mini Tokyo potted garden in the window. And one of the best things about the loft is you get to order through an intercom system. Needless to say you get pretty good at Japanese pretty fast if you sit upstairs. There is no pointing to the menu up in this little Tokyo tree house!

Lately it's been getting pretty crisp here in Tokyo. My first winter living in Tokyo is just around the corner. I felt the chill in the air today when getting off the Keio Inokashira sen at Kichijoji. Suddenly my cravings for Hiyashi chuka have been replaced with cravings for Ramen and Udon. I wonder how long I can go without turning my air con or heated toto toilet seat on! がんばってエボーちゃん! When I first arrived in Tokyo it was so hot I couldn't bare to stand over the gas stove top, but now I love to simmer things for hours just so I can get warm by the stove. Although I've been holidaying in Tokyo in it's coldest month February almost every year for the last ten years, imagining living here through an entire winter is sending me into a slight panic! Shops are filling up with heated blankets and kotatsu and I feel like I should stock up now while I can still go outside, before it starts snowing like last year and then hibernate in my mini-me Hello Sandwich HQ until March! Secretly though, I am pretty excited!!! I secretly love wearing Hokkairo packs and drinking hot green tea and I am very much looking forward to...

...Buying my very first kotatsu! (more kotatsu pics over at いいね、これ).
...Snuggling under the kotatsu and watching Japanese Drama on MySoju.
...Hosting my first Nabe party under said kotatsu.

And so, while it's still possible to leave the house without a fluffy-lined Muji flammable jacket (or two) this is my suggested things-to-do-in-Tokyo-list for this weekend!

Opening Friday night: Misaki Kawai's exhibition at Tokyo Opera City. (I have had an art crush on her ever since this). Let's just hope I don't get all star struck and speechless like when I met Yoshitomo Nara!

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(All images via Misaki Kawai Studio)



Tupera Tupera craft workshop on Sunday at Momiji Ichi Autumn Markets. It's going to be so much fun! Oh yes it is.

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(Tupera Tupera Image via Momiji Ichi Markets)


Workshop Information:

当日の参加も可能ですので、ぜひいらしてみてください。
■日時/10月24日(日)
10:30~14:00/まちづくりタイム!
(当日参加の方は何時からでも参加できますが、最終の受付は13時です)
14:00~15:00/絵の具乾かしタイム!(休憩)
15:00~ /パレード!!(もみじ市のラストを飾る大パレードです)




P.S. I was on J-Wave radio here in Tokyo yesterday speaking the teeniest tiniest bit of Japanese. Thank you so much J-Wave and Mariko Mizuami for including me in this special 'foreigner's perspective on Tokyo' feature. You can read about my favourite place in Tokyo on the J-wave blog (also pasted here below):

今週のFIND TOMORROWは4日連続のSpecial Edition。
『異邦人たちのTOKYOガイド』

異邦人、つまり、東京に暮らす外国人たちによる、東京ガイド。
オーストラリア、シドニーからやって来た、グラフィックデザイナー、エディターのエボニー・ビジズさん。
現在は、デザイン関連の仕事をしながら、東京の生活からインスパイアされた“出来事やモノ”を綴った『ハローサンドイッチ』という名前のWEBマガジンとZINE(ジン)を自ら発信しています。

Ebony Bizys
エボニーさんがエディターのとってもCUTEなWEBマガジン『ハロー サンドイッチ』はこちら


<My inspiration from Tokyo>
何もかもが、とっても新鮮!スーパーマーケットに行くことも、私にとっては興味深い旅なの。お店の中を歩き回って、カラフルな値札に目を奪われたり。あと、店員さんの言う、「ポイントカードはお持ちですか?」とか。そんな日常の一瞬一瞬すべてが、発見で、刺激的なの!

<My Favorite Area in Tokyo>
下北沢は、可愛いカフェとか、個性的な本屋さん、ライブハウスとか楽しいお店が沢山あって好き。実際、住んでいるし(笑)。いっつもママチャリに乗って、シモキタ・クルージングしているの学生や若い人が多いから、外国人たちにフレンドリーな街ね。

<My Hang out Spot in Tokyo>
大好きなカフェがひとつあって、『モアカフェ』というんだけど、古い家をリノベーションしたカフェで、とってもシモキタっぽい。奥まったところにあって、私のリラックス・スポットね。



Happy Tokyo Autumn Sandwiches!

Love Love
Sando
xoxo

10 Tokyo photos on 10/10/10

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Hello Sandwiches.

I took off on my mamachari (again) and rode around Koenji, Nakano and Shimokitazawa to take these ten Tokyo photos as part of Victoria Hannan's exciting 1010 project.


Victoria explains the project:

10 photographers. 10 photos each. All taken on 10/10/10.
A single day represented in 100 photographs.
No special occasion, no big event, just the essence of daily life captured through ten lenses.
The 1010 project was devised as an antidote to everything in modern life always having to be bigger, better, louder and brighter than what’s been before.
It’s an opportunity to slow down and appreciate the simple, everyday things that make life beautiful.



Pop on over to the 1010 project site to explore these lovely photos. My dear blog pal Pia Jane Bijkerk also took part in this project and her photographs are, as always, absolutely stunning.

Thank you very much Victoria for including me in this project!

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo


P.S. This girl is half my age but check out her photos! oh my lady gaga! I need a new camera desperately! Mum and Dad I hope you are reading! Hello Christmas Present! (>_<)

サンドJ-WAVE Radio Interview!

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Sandwiches! I am still pinching myself a little in disbelief but somehow I was lucky enough to be interviewed today for the Rendez-vous show on Japanese radio station J-WAVE! It was soooo much fun and J-WAVE's Roppongi offices have the most lovely view!

My interview will air on Wednesday 20th October at 15:30! If you promise not to tease my Aussie accent and terrible Nihongo please listen online at Radiko.jp.

Tokyo Zine Picnic

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The Zine Picnic in Yoyogi Koen has been moved to Monday because of this Tokyo rain!

[Zine Picnic] is a picnic for self-publishing lovers.
Let’s relax and have a great time gathering, sharing and exchanging zines with a cup of coffee and homemade sweets under the blue sky.Your best zines and dishes are most welcome!We recommend you to bring your own cup and leisure seat.Of course, you can just drop by to say hello to us.


ZinePicnicはzineをはじめとしたセルフパブリッシング好きのためのピクニックです。
集まったzineの閲覧、販売、zine同士の交換、自作の料理やお菓子との交換など、自由にコミュニケーションをとりながら青空の下でゆっくり過ごしましょう!!

11:00 - 17:00 Monday 11th October. I hope you can come along!

For updates please follow Zine Picnic on twitter.

See some pics from the last Zine Picnic here.

We Craft This City

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Hello Sandwich Craft Wall

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Hello Sandwiches.

What a lovely creative and crafty place Sydney has been these past few weeks! Here are a few pictures from the exhibitions and workshops I've been involved in lately. It's been so much fun!

One of the exhibitions, We Craft This City at Sydney's Object Gallery opened today and continues until 10th October so if you are in the area please pop in. They have free crafternoon and crafting powerhour workshops running throughout the week. You can even make one of these amazing vessels from plastic bags.

Thank you so much everyone for coming along to my papercraft workshop today. It was so lovely to create with you! And going to the Sydney screening of 'Making it Handmade' this evening was such a lovely way to end a creative crafty day! Pip you are amazing and I loved you in the documentary.

I also popped into The Papermill while I've been in Sydney where you can now buy my Tokyo Guide Zine and a whole bunch of other super cute zines. And isn't the new Gaffa Gallery location just amazing! Oooo if you are planning a trip to Sydney these are two places not to miss! Well Sandwiches, I'm off back to Tokyo next week so until then I'll be drinking enough Flat whites and eating enough mexican food to keep me going until my next Sydney trip.

Happy Weekend!

xoxo

Object Gallery Show, Masters of Fine Art Exhibition and three Craft Workshops in Sydney!

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Hello Sandwiches!

I am back in Sydney for two weeks for two exhibitions I'm in and three craft workshops I'm hosting! It's going to be so much fun and if you're in Sydney pretty please do come along and say hello!

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How cute is this little gallery? They even had a cooking class the night I installed my show!

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THURS 23RD SEPT
KALEIDOSCOPE GALLERY MASTERS OF FINE ART GRADUATION EXHIBITION

This exhibition is my Masters of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition. It would be lovely if you could come along and see my drawings, paintings, pop up books and animation and celebrate my graduation with me!

Opening Party TONIGHT!!!
Come along and have a glass of wine and say Hello Sandwich!
Thursday 23rd September
6pm-9pm

Exhibition continues until Wednesday 29th September

Kaleidoscope Gallery
84 William Street
Paddington NSW





SAT 25TH SEPT
HELLO SANDWICH AND LOX + SAVVY ZINE MAKING AND PAPER WORKSHOP


Come along and have fun making cute little zines with Lox+Savvy and me! Materials provided but please also bring along a pair of scissors and some of your favourite paper pieces to add to your zine.

You will be using the most beautiful fine paper provided courtesy of the very generous K.W. Doggett Fine Paper.

Saturday 25th September
1pm-2:30

Kaleidoscope Gallery
84 William Street
Paddington

Entry $5

Limited Spaces so please RSVP to hellosandwichblog@gmail.com



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SUN 26TH SEPT
HYDE PARK
ArtPark CRAFTERNOON

Come along to the Hello Sandwich Paper Craft Workshop and relax while being creative in Sydney's lovely Hyde Park!

Sunday 26th September
10.45am – 3pm

Hyde Park North (near the fountain)





SAT 2ND OCT
OBJECT GALLERY 'WE CRAFT THIS CITY' EXHIBITION


Oooo I am so excited to be in the
We Craft This City exhibition! For one week, Object Gallery will become a live workshop and making space occupied by creative individuals and collectives. Produced by Kate Ford, We Craft This City is a celebration of DIY culture, weaving together craft process and social commentary. An intensive making period will mark the beginning of this gallery occupation, and you are invited to contribute to the outcome. Donate materials, learn and share skills, make and be merry.

Here is the little Hello Sandwich Craft Wall blurb:

Ebony Bizys’ ‘Hello Sandwich Craft Wall’ is a display of the various forms of craft Bizys engages in. The craft wall combines gift wrapping, artworks, paper craft, zines, paintings, drawings, Japanese mt washi tape illustrations, found objects, Japanese tanabata paper craft elements and collage.

The objects included in the ‘Hello Sandwich Craft Wall’ have been selected for their crafty and visual appeal. These items aim to showcase the various forms of current art and craft popular now. Many of the items were found in Tokyo where Bizys currently lives. The interesting part is the way in which all of the craft forms and found objects connect and relate to each other once combined in a ‘Craft Wall’ installation. In a way, it is like a visual map of the creative objects that inspire and inform Bizys’ creative world.

Bizys is interested in finding beauty in, a crafty use for, otherwise overlooked everyday objects. The ‘Hello Sandwich Craft Wall’ includes gift wrapping bows constructed out of kitchen cleaning sponges, collage works constructed from cardboard boxes, and various other craft items constructed from found objects. You might also spy a pattered paper chopstick holder sitting along side a drawing of the same chopstick holder.


Saturday 2 October – Sunday 10 October


Object Gallery
Main Gallery
417 Bourke Street
Surry Hills


Opening Workshop Day!
Hello Sandwich Papercraft workshop

Saturday 2nd October
11:30 - 1pm
Other lovely crafty workshops continue until 5pm. If you like craft, I promise you'll love this show!




It would be so lovely to meet some of you my lovely Hello Sandwich readers and I hope to see you at one or all of these events!

Follow my Twitter for updates and reminders!

Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo