Motto: when you’ve nothing of your own to show, show somebody else’s work!

Where I live, people aren’t shy about sticking up ads for bands, share houses etc. Periodicaly, the council tears them done again, hence this piece of street art. (And, as you may have guessed, I’ve got my hands on a camera that’s more than a 0.5 megapix phone!!!)

I’ve often been facinated by slight decay, bad printing and rust. At one stage, I was thinking of a series of serious artworks about rust … you never know, I may get round to it one of these days.

I posted some of my collection of Vietnamese plasticware to Craftapalooza’s cookie cutter show off group. Strictly speaking not cookie cutters, more like cookie stamps. I imagine they’d be used to decorate the Vietnamese version of moon cakes, but don’t really know. Anyone?
Yes, I love, love, love Marrickville too.

Anyhow, got me thinking that I actually have 2 moulds for Japanese sweets, bought in the Nishiki market in Kyoto, from Aritsugu. Also a hairclip bought from Takashimaya and 2 koi hairpins from a craftshop … Yuemiya? We went to Tokyo, Kyoto and Berlin for our honeymoon. The first big trip overseas for both of us (now we wanna go back ;D).

I’d love to be able to make hairclips like that … maybe one day. Funny, I bought 2 books (1, 2) on making Japanese sweets ’cause they were so yummy, knowing I’d never learn Japanese but thinking that maybe sometime with lots of patience and a dictionary I might be able to figure out the pictures. Well, guess who’s learning Japanese 101 next semester as a detour in her IT networking degree? That’s right, me!!

P.S. I didn’t realise I’d be able to find a website for Aritsugu – I was just trying to spellcheck!