Hello Sandwich Craft TV

Hello Sandwiches,

This Saturday I will be doing a paper craft workshop via skype at Sydney's Finders Keepers Markets! Sydney Sandwiches I hope you can come along!

There will be paper craft workshops all day including Paper Making Workshops by Dear Plastic. And the lovely Lisa from Lox + Savvy will be launching The Paper Convention. If you love paper, you won't want to miss this! You can read more about the workshops here.

I will also be launching my little Hello Sandwich Craft TV at the Finders Keepers Paper Convention Workshop. Here is a sneak preview of episode one. (Please don't tease my Aussie accent!)




FINDERS KEEPERS WORKSHOP TIMETABLE


Friday 3 December

7pm – 9pm “Drop in” and make some paper from milk cartons



Saturday 4 December

10am – Christmas paper chain making with Lox+Savvy

11am – Flower bomb / mobile making with Dear Plastic

12pm – Milk carton paper making with Dear Plastic

1pm – Hello Sandwich zine-making and creative gift wrapping workshop

2pm – Christmas tree cone making

3pm – Milk carton paper making with Dear Plastic

4pm – Paper snowflake making



Happy Crafty Weekend lovelies.

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

Hakone in Autumn

Hello Sandwiches, I took a little day trip to Hakone and visited the open air museum on Sunday. Oooo Hakone is so beautiful, especially in autumn. If you have the chance I can highly recommend visiting. It's well worth the short two hour Odakyu line Romance car train ride from Shinjuku. Another weekend highlight was making my very first imovie. ha ha.



If you're in need of a bit of a screen break / work break / procrastination please have a little peek at the Hello Sandwich Hakone video. It's about 4:30 minutes long and has some lovely music from Make it Easy blog.



P.S. How cute is this font I spied at the open air museum (Gem!)

xoxo

Tokyo Cafe in Frankie Magazine's SPACES

This is a little story I produced and photographed on Hattifnatt cafe for Frankie Magazine's SPACES mook. It's one of my favourite cafes in Tokyo, I hope you can visit one day and sit in the little tree house.

xoxo

If you like metallic hologram foil...

...you might like my new business cards. It's a little bit razzle dazzle but I couldn't resist having them foiled in metallic hologram. I think this came from years of wishing for metallic foil on the masthead of VOGUE Living. I had them printed over at Goldcraft in Sydney's Marrickville. Those guys are the best! Take all your foiling needs to them.

I knew cards were quite the rage here in Japan, but I had no idea just how important it was to have one of your own. They are handed out at almost every occasion involving two people meeting.

So if you are moving to Japan, here is my recommended list of actions:

Get Alien registration card
Get Bank Account
Get Mobile phone
Get Business cards
Get Apartment

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

代々木公園の秋 (Yoyogi Park in Autumn)

I took these pics on my run in Yoyogi Park this morning. The colours in Tokyo are just stunning in autumn and it's so lovely running with the fresh autumn air. I always feel so lucky to live in this incredible city.



There were so many leaves I could hardly make out the jogging path!

Happy Weekend Sandwiches. I'm going to my very first nabe party at my friends house. What are you doing this weekend?

xoxo

Keeping Warm in Tokyo

It seemed like only a few weeks ago the weather theme in LoFT was 'keeping cool'. I stocked up on Magicool neck scarfs and even bought one for Mama-sando's puppy Schnaupi! But all of a sudden LoFT has released a winter catalogue. Think plaid, warm slippers, hot water bottles and donabe.




(Speaking of donabe - how cute is the softbank donabe set!)

It's 8 degrees here in Tokyo today - but I'm not complaining. You see, that's the thing about winter in Tokyo, keeping warm is just so cute! There is enough well designed bath salt packaging to keep you warm with a different design for a couple of months! My lovely friend Yuming has taken the hard work out of selecting which bath salts are right for you over here.

And how adorable are these character heated hokkairo packs!





Um, in case they were not cute enough already, they're also scented! The ones above are strawberry and grapefruit. You can also place the heated packs in these sweet covers.

Now how could you be upset with the weather with a strawberry scented bear in your pocket?

Stay warm sandwiches!

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

しまねこ軒 (Shimanekoken) My favourite bento in Tokyo!

Looking for a bento in Tokyo? Allow me to introduce me to しまねこ軒 (Shimanekoken), my favourite bento shop in Tokyo!

Lunch today was at しまねこ軒 (Shimanekoken) with my lovely talented friends Mogu Takahashi and Isabelle Boinot. Mogu's friend actually owns this little Kichijoji treasure!

Today, two super cute Japanese girls (one covering her odango with the prettiest floral scarf) were cooking up delicious fresh bento goodies. Despite it's hidden away location, these delicious goodies didn't last long and I saw the girls change over the chalk board and signage to reflect the sold out + freshly cooked food whilst I was enjoying lunch. Mogu, Isabelle and I tasted a few of the osozai dishes and they were all amazing - full of flavour and tasted スーパー homemade. All of the food here is colourful, delicious and healthy and a bento box will only set you back ¥640!

If you have time one day, please pop in and pick up a bento and enjoy it in the sun at Inokashira koen. What better way to finish off a ride along Kandagawa! If you do pop on over, make sure you warm up with a cup of tea - you'll be pleasantly surprised with the large selection of gorgeously designed tea bags, all presented in the sweetest timber box. I can't recommend しまねこ軒 enough!






And in case it wasn't enough of a treat to visit しまねこ軒, later in the afternoon, over a sweet treat, Isabelle shared with us her new Tokyo Sketch book. I was so surprised to see Hello Sandwich had made it onto her gorgeous sketch pages! *speechless* Be sure to pick up a copy of Isabelle's Sumimasen Tokyo Book, and peek at her Tokyo photo collections over at Tokyo Sugoi. She is one clever cookie!

xoxo