Japanese Crochet Cakes

Cake, cake and more cake. Especially when they are these super cute knitted, crochet, beaded cake delights, one more slice please. They are so intricately made, adorned with sparkling or frosted beads, buttons, that makes the cakes look as good as real. Our favourite pâtisserie discovered to date, on tumblr by illustrator Sekonya. This is cake heaven for cake lovers. 

Not only cakes are available on this Tumblr site, doughnuts, pies, parfait and Japanese desserts such as wagashi and kakigori too. 

Pie is 3.14 and more

It's clearly pie weather. Brr.... and with the new pie emoji we simply couldn't resist the temptation of not doing a blog post on pie.

Via Instagram we came across these beautiful pie designs via instagram account LokoKitchen. It's beautifully in many ways, the lines, the stacking, the colours, the geometrics to a certain extent that remind of us of spirographs. Definitely more yum and fun than what a normal 3.14 pie circle will have. Delish! Fancy some pie?

Spur Magazine おやつ部

Arigatōgozaimashita to Spur Magazine in Japan. Thank you for featuring our special editions of Japanese pencils and a lovely write up about your visit to the “Pencil Bar” at Loft Ginza in Tokyo on your blog, we are truly grateful どうもありがとうございました. 

If you enjoy fashion, yummy food and Japanese culture check out Spur Magazine which has both an online and print magazine. 

If like us, you love cakes, pastries and snacks,  you will have to check our their food photos 🍰 , *warning* it will make you go very very very hungry 🤤. SPUR Magazine has even set up a SPUR snack section hashtag "#Spurおやつ部" on Instagram, ultra cute right?

Check it out, some of our favourite snacks include:

12 Days of Christmas

This is the first year that we have designed a Christmas Card collection. Bon voyage! 👋🎅🏻 We snail mailed our Santa Christmas cards off and remembered an old collection of illustrated Christmas stamps we had.

This stamp collection is based on the lyrics of the Christmas carol “12 Days of Christmas”. The stamp collection included the illustrations of Five Golden Rings, Four Calling birds, Three French Hens, Two turtle doves, and of course a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

For more than 50 years, the Royal Mail releases stamps to celebrate festivities and events in the UK. Just last week, the Christmas stamps for this year have been released. (Yay!) In addition to stamps that have artwork featuring Madonna and Child, there are two stamps, a first class stamp that features Santa and his sleigh and a second class stamp that features a Snowman family.

Both of these stamps were illustrated by two children, selected from a national competition with over 200,000 entries. It’s a set of really cute illustrated stamps. They could be found on the Royal Mail website. We love them. It is only the 4th time in Royal Mail’s 500 year history that children had designed Christmas stamps. We have just picked up some this afternoon for our Christmas post 🎅🏻🎄💌📮-

Plants on Pink

Despite the trends and abundance of millennial pink around the Internet, there is just something pretty and warming about the colour combination of plants matched up with different shades of pink backgrounds. The Instagram account by Lotte Van Baalen magically captures just this, and aptly named Plants on Pink .

Cardboard British Biscuits

Biscuits are always on our minds, especially during elevenses, when biscuits are dunked in a hot drink. Mark O'Brien a cardboard craftsman based in Manchester crafts amazing objects out of cardboard as props for theatres, shop displays etc. The objects he has created included shoes, robots, post boxes. Our favourite, however, are definitely these signature British biscuits including Custard Cream, Pink Wafer, Digestive, Party Ring, Bourbon cream - not dunkable but definitely adorable.

All Day Breakfast

Lazy Autumn Sunday has us craving for warm cooked brunch. We love discovering brunch places on a weekend enjoying breakfast and reading the papers. This brings us back fond memories in Tokyo 🇯🇵 when we head to “World Breakfast All Day” in Shibuya, Tokyo not far from Omotesandō, 表参道.

This little cute spot not only is the decor delectable. The shelfie, displays of packaging, menu and graphics are fun, eclectic, full of retro vibes and nostalgias; featuring breakfasts from different parts of the world. It’s a feast for the belly and eyes. We always have a soft spot for a fryup, the smell of bacon and eggs.

We think the term “All Day Breakfast” is greatly apt as we can really have breakfast food all day! 😋🍳🥓🍞☕️.

PS. If you are a paper crafts lover, they have published a book on origami breakfasts too 🙋🏻‍♀️❤️📔✂️

A shelfie of packaging delights  

Soul satisfying working kitchen with retro vibes

Royal baking powder brings back on nostalgic memories

Cute product graphics descriptions blurb on breakfast condiments and ingredients from around the world  

Origami paper breakfast  

Full English Breakfast - Eggs, Baked Beans, Fried Bread, Sausages, Tomatoes and Hash Brown

The address is as follows:

World Breakfast All Day

3-1-23-1F Jingumae

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Christmas Baubles Illustration

These vintage Christmas baubles from London based illustrator May Van Millingen definitely kickstarts the Christmas cheers for us as we prepare for the season. The characters, the colours, the details, the pen and ink strokes definitely strokes of genius. In addition, if you are a foodie like us, check out May's other illustrations, they are delicious.