年賀状 (Nengajō - New Year Cards)

Hello Sandwiches!

I hope you had a gorgeous Christmas. My first Tokyo Christmas was lots of fun and we even had a little Christmas party at Hello Sandwich HQ. Lots of food, mulled wine, Christmas carols, and no Tokyo Christmas would be complete without a tacky Christmas Cake. (Okay I caved in after last minute Christmas shopping in Shinjuku on Christmas eve listening to 'クリースマスケーキいかがでしょうか？’at every corner!). But now it's on to the next big exciting day - New Years Day.

Japan has so many lovely New Year traditions. I'm a little late (they are meant to be in the post before 25th December to arrive by 01/01) but I've just finished designing my (year of the rabbit) 年賀状 (New Year Cards). This year I used a super cute MdN mook to design the cards.



The mook came complete with a CD-rom of all the cute elements any Japanese-wanna-be girl (Hello Sandwich) would ever need to create a card that looks like it just stepped out of a puri kura print club machine! Think tapes, ribbons, bows and cute handwriting style fonts. This mook is worth every cent.







For the time poor, or those who are not as comfortable using the computer, the mook also comes complete with a large range of pre-made cards to simply print out.









There are lots of free printables online (for example here and here) that you could crop and play around with to make your card. Or you could stock up on a collection of BNN pattern books. Either way, I'm sure you will have a lot of fun making your own 年賀状.

Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo

Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine in Inside Out Magazine

Some lovely Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine support from my super kind friends at Inside Out magazine. See more on the Inside Out Magazine Blog.

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Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine Launch!

Sandwiches!

This is a little sneak peak at something I've been working on lately. My new zine!

The Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine is filled with 64 pages of inspiration and how-to guides to make any present look super cute!

You can purchase the hard copy version here for delivery in January. All hard copy orders received before Christmas will also receive a free PDF so you can use these little wrapping tips to pretty up your Christmas presents. Or you can also purchase the PDF copy online here.

Be quick to buy your copy to avoid being a sad little Sandwich :( The Hello Sandwich Tokyo Guide Hard Copy sold out :(

I hope you will enjoy the Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine!

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

Tokyo Design Week Report for Inside Out Magazine

Hello Sandwiches,

This is the little Tokyo Design Week report Grace Lee and I produced for Inside Out Magazine's Jan/Feb issue. It's in the new issue which goes on sale today!

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More Hello Sandwich Craft TV

Hello Sandwiches! Happy Weekend!

This little video was launched today at my Skype craft workshop at the Finders Keepers + The Paper Convention Festival. It's a little tutorial to show you how you can make your own super cute confetti bow. I hope you like it!



More tips like this will be in my Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine coming super soon to Hello Sandwich Online Shop.

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

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!)

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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.

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