かき氷＋高円寺
What a lovely day! We started with Ghost かき氷 and metallic star ribbon かき氷 at our exhibition at Nidi Gallery. Perfect for the super hot weather today.
Then Luke and I met up with Megumi-chan and made a 'free paper' together in a Koenji cafe.
Super cute Megumi-chan!
A few Hello Sandwich style shots around Koenji...
And a trip into my favourite cafe in Koenji.
And お好み焼き＋生ビール to finish off the day~! 楽しかった！
And お好み焼き＋生ビール to finish off the day~! 楽しかった！
I hope you had a lovely creative day.
Love Sandwich
xoxo
Exhibitions and Workshops!
Gorgeous unique uniforms worn by Shibaura House staff at the Hello Sandwich + Shibaura House workshop!
Today was such a lovely creative day! We had the Hello Sandwich x Shibaura House Handmade Notebook Workshop where participants handmade notebooks and used some Sandwich print outs to decorate their books.
Today was such a lovely creative day! We had the Hello Sandwich x Shibaura House Handmade Notebook Workshop where participants handmade notebooks and used some Sandwich print outs to decorate their books.
And earlier, it was installation day at Nidi Gallery! So much fun! Lovely chatting in Japanese, Bisaji-san playing with a cute hand made balloon ball, beautiful natural light streaming in, my cute friend Gracie setting up an 'Australian' summer drawing installation complete with Coopers Green bottle...! So nice!
The day was dotted with iced lattes with my super cool friend Luke from art school in Sydney who arrived in Tokyo this morning. The sweetheart came everywhere with me today and helped me install and set up at the workshop...all after a sleepless overnight flight. Yasashiiiii!
Sandwich Wall
Stamp Obsession!
Sandwiches! Lately I have such an obsession with rubber stamps! I can't stop buying them! (@Lee Tran Lam does this sound familiar?) When my work day is over I treat myself to making envelopes from scrap paper and decorating them with stamps. Sometimes this takes me to 4am when the sun is starting to come up and I can hear the newspaper delivery motorbike arrive. Oops!
d-bros seal sheet
I was at the Japan Immigration office in Shinagawa recently renewing my working holiday visa and Udagawa-san mentioned there was a great shop 'e-cute' inside the JR station. So I popped upstairs to 'e-cute' to find the d-bros stamp station!!! Oh My! They sell seals (that's stickers for us non Japanese type), various size envelopes, and other assorted paper products which you can have fun stamping away at the giant d-bros stamping station. They have a selection of simple designs such as dots, stripes and typography and also some cute sketch-like illustrations like the profile of the girl and puppy dog seen above. The pre-inked d-bros stamp station has both red and black stamps and they are constantly adding new stamps to the series. If you're planning a trip to Tokyo, and love stamps, then it might be worth a trip out to Shinagawa! It's a great way to pass the time if you're waiting for your Shinkansen too. Oh I wish I could go somewhere on a Shinkansen again soon...
Anyway, I made these seals! You can't really see in this pic, but it's a seal sheet which has many oval and scalloped edged shape seals which I'm so excited to use.
D-bros in Station image from D-bros website
Hope you're having a happy week Sandwiches.
I'm installing my works for the exhibition at Nidi Gallery tomorrow then I have the Hello Sandwich Handmade Notebook workshop at Shibaura House. Plus my friend from art school arrives for his holiday in Tokyo tomorrow morning. Exciting day!
What are you up to this week?
Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo
Package from Mama Sando!
Oooo! This amazing box from my amazing Mama Sando arrived today! Isn't she so gorgeous! She sent these supplies for the craft workshops so when we start making jewellery / fabric pieces we can use these beautiful supplies!
Thank you Mama Sando!
Read Mama Sando's blog here or visit Mama Sando's website here. And she's on twitter too! What a hip Mama :)
Love Sandwich
xoxo
Exhibition at Nidi Gallery
I'll have some new drawings in this little group exhibition at Nidi Gallery in Shibuya.
Also in the show are these super cute artists:
Grace Lee
Mogu Takahashi
SWEETCH／笠尾美絵
山崎美帆
It's on from the 7th-16th July.
12:00 - 20:00
There will be a cute snow cone event and mini market! And I'll also have a little craft workshop.
Hope you can come!
Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo