Giant Plastic Insects!

I love ‘em!!!

Whiplash girls ride again!

Those of you who were shopping at Liquorice-Allosaurs this Christmas may remember my alternative Christmas decorations. Well, a customer who had been browsing the product archives asked if I might not revive the design in the form of brooches – of course I jumped at the chance! They are wooden with sturdy glittery polyclay wings and completely handpainted.

These lovely ladies are available now – and I will be making necklaces in a similar vein so keep your eyes peeled….


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Amsterdam

So at the beginning of this month I was lucky enough to do a little travelling. Check out my pics from Amsterdam!

Bikes are everywhere, I wish I’d done a whole photo essay on the cheerfullness of a city that travels by bike. People cycle about with big buckets full of kids, furniture, the weekly shopping and each other while chatting on their mobile phones and missing one another by millimetres. I never saw anything even approaching an accident though. If the first thing you can remember is being scooted along on the front of your parents bike, your sense of speed and balance must be phenomenal.

It’s hard to get across just how ridiculously pretty the whole place is

Almost chocolate box sweet and yet quirky, with quite and edge.

The window of a completely bonkers shop. The window shopping was divine; alas as we had spent all our money on the trip its-self, window shopping was all it could be. However with window shopping this good it’s hard to complain.

It ranged from kitsch…

…to rather more expensive kitsch…

…to mind bendingly kitsch…

…to the downright terrifying!

I took this in our favorite bar, during the week it’s pretty quiet but from Thursday onwards it’s packed and super friendly. The landlord is really smiley and has the best handlebar mustache ever. I was to shy to photograph him, so check out the lager and the weird lock winding mechanisms you can see out of the window.

Hot chocolate with a neat gin chaser? That’ll be Pat Allosaur’s order then!

Winter Wonderland!

Today it SNOWED!!!!! For those of you who live in naturally snowy lands this may not seem like a big deal, but here in London it certainly is. It wasn’t just me who bunked off work to go sledging either, seems like the whole of north London turned out to this hill for some fun.

Here’s the view as we approach the hill to Alexandra Palace, it was snowing really thickly! Lots of schools had to close for the day because teachers couldn’t get into work, so there were kids snowballing everywhere

These kids made a snowball so big and heavy that they couldn’t move it any more.

Sledging from the top of the hill

Alexandra Palace in the snow

It was gorgeous, I took so many pictures it was hard to decide which to post. We had a lot of fun sliding down the hill on tea trays, bits of wood and stuff, got absolutely soaking but who cares, we had a blast!

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