烏山 緑道 (Karasuyama Nature Walk)

Another lovely afternoon spent with nature, this time for a jog along the Karasuyama Nature Walk. Gracie and I often have fun spotting the different art tiles along the path. And those super neat colourful spring gardens - waou!

Happy Weekend Sandwiches! I hope you can enjoy some lovely nature this weekend.

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みどりの日 (Greenery Day)

A lovely picnic on みどりの日 (Greenery Day) in beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen. Sandwiches, hot green tea, reading books in the sunshine, watching kawaii kids throw balls and roll down grass hills, so many colourful leisure sheets, people taking photos of flowers, afternoon naps on the grass relaxing with sounds of chatter and laughter. This is one of the prettiest parks ever.

Crafternoon

Ros carved a beautiful stripe stamp for us after we inspired by a similar stamp in a craft book.





Thank you Ros for these two pics (above).



This little tree came from the most beautiful tote bag my talented friend Gracie decorated at a Tupera Tupera workshop. Gracies was 1000 times cuter.



Yesterday Ros and I spent a lovely Golden Week crafternoon in Yoyogi Koen. It was so relaxing and inspiring combining our craft materials and setting up a mini craft studio at a park table. Ros brought some cute muji calico bags, felt stickers, markers, screen printing paints and a stamp carving set. And I brought some paper craft materials, stamping set, and a collection of craft books for inspiration. We chatted about life in Tokyo, craft and blogging while we decorated tote bags, envelopes and cards and for a couple of hours we relaxed and enjoyed the fact that being in a park is one of the safest places to be in the event of an earthquake.


Poor Ros cut her self on the stamp carving tool but is now recovering. We discovered yet another use for mt tape :)

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Tokyo with Instagram

The little Tokyo Potted Garden I walk past every day.



水.



Sweet little house in Jiyugaoka.



View from Hello Sandwich headquarters.



A gorgeous pale blue house front I walk past everyday.



代々木公園。



Spring spotted along the nature walk. So pretty!



View from the 東横線。



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アイスコーヒー

I always love taking photos, but lately I've been even more inspired to go snap happy with the Instagram iphone app. I can't believe it's taken me this long to download it. It's so lovely to share and view photos with my lovely twitter friends. Come along and follow Hello Sandwich Instagram and let's enjoy taking photos together!




A cute little badge for Tohoku.



On another note, is there anything mt tape can't do?! I was inspired by this to paint my nails with diagonal patterns and what better way to mask the line than mt tape.


Happy Golden Week lovelies.

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Yoshitomo Nara Sake

Wa~! I found Yoshitomo Nara sake in Shimokitazawa today! The glass bottle turns into a cute little Yoshitomo Nara drinking glass once finished. Adorable no?



Actually, I bought this sake bottle this week too. To be honest, I don't love sake but I desperately needed this pretty bottle for my mini-me vase collection.



In other drink inspired news...Polka dots and multi-coloured type? You got me there.





My lovely friend Elo, after hearing that some of my favourite glasses smashed in the recent quakes, picked up these glasses for me from a local retro homewares shop. They were wrapped in Japanese newspaper and left at my apartment door over the weekend. I just love the pattern - multi-coloured polka dots and triangles. Thanks Elo!

I've also since done some DIY quake-proofing on my glass cupboard with some push pins and gross grain.

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Perimeter Books

The lovely Justine, together with her partner, has just opened her amazeballs Melbourne bookshop - Perimeter Books. I wish I could visit. From the look of the website they have oh so many beautiful books.

I'm so thrilled that the Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine is stocked there.

Be sure to pop in if you're in Melbourne or have fun shopping online!

Perimeter Books
748 High Street
Thornbury, Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
3071

P.S. The Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping zine is back online at the Hello Sandwich Online Shop. Get into it!



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P.P.S. I went here for lunch today - it's my Tokyo answer to MadMex. Tokyo burrito lovers, be sure to head on over.

The Selby x Casa Brutus

Um, not sure if I could think of a better collaboration! Todd Selby x Casa Brutus! say. no. more.

A selection of international interiors shot by Todd Selby complete with iconic illustrations and hand written notes.

Be sure not to miss this issue!

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