♥ ad infinitum.

Ikea’s new ‘MARHULT Decoration stickers’ look like internal organs.

AWESOME!!!

*desires*

Got conductive thread in your finger tips? GENIUS! And so much better than using sausages, SOUTH KOREA. xD

Audrey Kawasaki just posted about an “. Artists Help Japan .” on ebay and by the gods: SO MANY LOVELY and fabulous artists have submitted! Kelly Vivanco, Lorena Alvarez & obviously Audrey Kawasaki just to name my favourites :D

LOOK AT THE AUDREY KAWASAKI PIECE NOM NOM NOM! Hilariously (and expectedly) hers is already up over $100USD. NO ONE IS SHOCKED!

I have a whole mess of them on watch, we’ve already donated to the Japan appeal and I usually prefer to actually donate directly to a charity instead of purchasing something to help, BUT! OMG! I am so hoping to be able to afford one of them, or if not then I’ll be very pleased to help bump the prices up for Japan! GO GO!

The music might be SUPER annoying, but I love this stop motion amigurumi Rilakkuma building himself – though I think personally I might cry if I was making this and slowly unraveling the bits only to make them again xD Good thing he’s small!

The cat toy watching all of this with a rather bemused expression on his face is perhaps, however, my favourite. His back legs for sitting construction looks interesting, CLEARLY I will be trying this soon.

Jenji linked this to me, fantasizing about being able to have shelving solutions in her room. I look at it and go OMG JAVA HEAVENS! Look out, jaguars from above..! *gasp* Clearly another addition to our future ‘mythical’ home of fantasy and fiction.

You heard me, yarn.

Though I’ve been honing my knitting, crochet has become an obsessive great love and though I’ve known how to do it since my Mum taught me as a small child, and I’ve picked it up now and again throughout my life, this last year has been slowly filling more and more with yarn, so now our lounge room is also filling more and more with yarn. Consequently some really awesome opportunities have been thrown my way and I’ve jumped into the path of others.

One aforementioned opportunity of awesome (that I roped in a mess of my locally talented fabulous friends into)? The Knitting Nancy Dives In Knitting and Crochet Arts Exhibition for the 2011 Adelaide Fringe…

For which I designed a MESS of crazy crochet undersea beasties..! That’s right, in the newspaper article above, my Sperm Whale is front and centre! WOO! His companion, the bowl of petunias floats beside him in the exhibition, no doubt contemplating how he’s managed to be falling yet suspended for several weeks all at the same time.  My excessively excellent fiance asked if I could make a Sperm Whale and a Bowl of Petunias for the exhibition when I had said I had ‘whale plans’ and fueled by the POWER OF ADAMS! I complied.  The duo are two of my most faved items on Ravelry, and the offers to test crochet the pattern that I will hopefully have released in time for Towel Day have been coming thick and fast.

Now my flatmate and my man keep insisting I design a whole passel of Douglas Adams characters in crochet. I can’t say I’m wholly adverse to the idea… Though the subject of it periodically enrages my man as it brings back images of the Hitchhiker’s film and all its head under head equals two heads shenanigans. We don’t thank the creative team behind the film for THOSE fish..!

I designed a few other crazy fishy (or is that fishy? xD) beasts for the exhibition, ignored some patterns for others, and so many talented people have added their personal style to the undersea craziness. It runs until the the end of the fringe – March 13 2011. So if you’re in town, go check it out!*

*Alternatively you could wait till I go take photos of it and post individual shots of my own creatures so you can armchair exhibition-ize. But if you’re outside during the fringe you get to eat Chips in a Cup! Who doesn’t like Chips in a Cup?!

Lookit! I founds me an actually LOCAL cute print artist who is an artist that makes cute prints LOCALLY! My environmentally aware carbon footprint worried friends would be so proud. ^_^

Messagemark sellson Etsy, and has some super cute stuff, but of course they won me over with a blue moose. So much cooler than a blue moon, and wont ever leave you standing alone. Cause moose stand on the ground, towering over you and your personal space. Moons are in space.

Sometimes, song lyrics are dumb.

What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

Ah, OBB, sometimes you infuriate me with posts about weddings that are questionably ‘off beat’ but often you bring the WIN to my inbox!

Honestly, how freaken cute are these custom-made African and European Swallows, completely ecstatic about their coconut payload?

A lot of theaircastle‘s cake toppers are just a little TOO kitsch for my liking, and then some tread that awesome AWESOME line of just the right amount. Like the Mini Owls in Love. Magnifique!

PS: Mocha Monkey? He WILL make your day :D

Whilst spending the morning doing inspiration and cross referencing research for various and nefarious work purposes, I stumbled upon this list of
gorgeous covet-worthy vintage dresses at Adorevintage.com.

And then I saw this fish print dress.

Oh. MAN. Why so awesome, dress? How dare you not exist in my wardrobe!

Just goes to show that novelty doesn’t always have to be ~novelty~.