A4: The Paper Convention is here

It's the final countdown for the Paper Convention Team. It's sooo close, I can smell the paper in the air. I hear, that the workshops are booking up fast, and the Benja Harney installation is going to be colourful and a real show of his skills as a master papercraftsman.

Book in for the opening night party here.
Lock the dates in your diary 31st May - 5th June.
Here's a little taste of very first event by the brilliant Trial & Error.

Bookmarked Lately

It's funny the things you save and collect. This is some of the imagery I starred in my google reader, or saved to my inspiration folder.

My fav is the a giant xiao long bao (chinese stock dumpling) with own built-in-straw, and the Indiana Jones Gif, man-o-man I could watch this all day.

Hope they inspire you, make you laugh or make you start saving images yourself.

Gifs + Photobooth = Friday Funday

A little something something to take you into the weekend.
My motto in life at the moment and a love of animated gifs.
Tagline courtesy of canon.

Wishing the house was like this

Organising and time-management is my strong point (if it's not in the house). Remembering things isn't a problem, the mind is like a bank. Filed, dated and in alphabetical order. This blog has got us intrigued. There's something so nice about seeing things in organised-order, colour-order or just a-bit-of-symmetry.

It's got us a little hooked, making us want to reorganise and maintain the house just like this. But, alas if only there were NO children or space issues, things could be like this. For now, we can get out neat-kicks from things organised neatly.

The only Lady in Melbourne-town

If you haven't heard of Lady Melbourne, then listen up. She's apart of Australia's blogging elite, yep, its now her full-time job. What? Huh? Are you serious? YES, YES, YES.

And why we love her here at 31stHQ?

She gives us an insight into her love of fashion, beauty tips, vintage finds AND even blogging tips. She  taste-tested spirulina just for the hell-of-it and shows us her best budget finds for the season. So, tune in. I've been hooking into her skin-tips and have to say - they work! The proof is in the pudding.

Glued to the royal wedding

Well, did you catch it? I definitely did, sped home so I didn't miss a thing. Dominos pizza in hand, vino in the other. Glued to the screen, ahhhh the trees in Westminster Abbey and THAT dress. It was deceptively simple, traditional and above all fit-like-a-glove something not easy to do - at all. Showing off Kate Katherine's teeny-tiny waist.

I was in royal love... BUT since Will & Kate are now officially the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, and Kate not longer Kate, but Princess Katherine. The orginal Kate still rocks my world.

schwood you or wouldn't you?

Here's my dirty little secret. Well, for those of you that know me, already know - I'm a bandit for some thick-rimmed nerd glasses. The nerdier the better in my mind, picture girl with large glasses doin' the running man, nerds needn't be quiet - I say!

I've been eye-ing these off for a while ever since I caught sight of them in Capsule, a wee wooden shop in Westfield Sydney. And alas, even tried to find them in the land of the U-S-of-A, but failed. Instead choosing to down many a cocktail, stroll aimlesssly around Central Park and eat bacon donuts *sigh*.

So with the dollar so high (nearly 1.10 oh yeah) , and the help of hop.shop.go, I'm seriously considering these nerd slash sunglasses with super polarised lenses, because *cough cough* the sun is soooo strong these days... hey, I'm hoping to keep these puppies in the bag for that blimp of sunshine, that seems to POP up now and again.

So schwood I do it? Tell me, too much or right on?!
(Adele I can hear you going yes! Just do it sister!)

Worming around the bookstore

The 5 day weekend was bliss - wasn't it?! If only it was every week... Here's to dreaming.

I often go into bookstores, and just wonder around and see what catches my attention, I don't discriminate, self help, cooking, design or business - they all turn into a blur and I just look for a good cover that hopefully will be a little pot of gold I choose to buy and take home. These are a few that caught my attention.

How do you choose a good book? Do you judge a good book by the cover? 

Happy Hump Day

A little something to get your short week going. We've got to give it to him, the boy can move... Just wait til he bends over.

Left us truly speechless here at 31stHQ. View the video here

What we'll be getting up to this long weekend

Here's a few ideas for your upcoming easter long weekend. We've got a whole heap of baking, brunching and blogging planned over the next five days mixed with a little two up, just for fun! (and as the resident yellow, gambling is built into the blood).

Now, get your eggs on and get the baking and brunching done in one go. Move-over chocolate, we're going gourmet. This recipe will start off the long weekend with a b-a-n-g. Here's the receipe, from la tartine gourmande. Give it a go, so you're not chocolated out.

For the blogging, I'll be getting some fresh new posts up on my-little-foodie-side-project, the gook. There's some more posts to show and tell you about the magnificent Osaka alongside some amayzing food experiences from my last trip to New York. Alongside, lots of my own gooky recipes as well.

Curly wurly

CD Rach is a funny chook. This week she marvelled us with her beauty regime whilst multi-tasking at the same time - on a pitch of course!

Then ta-da. Curly wurly unravelled her locks and went off with Adele to present some winning concepts. Yep, it's been a great week here at 31stHQ. We've won a B.I.G. new client *cheers all round*

Trend: Paper and craft step out of the box

Paper artist and engineer, Benja Harney is incredible with making paper look, well, H.O.T.

More than H.O.T he makes it look amazingly sophisticated, intriguing and makes us see paper more than just something we scribble on, scrunch up or toss to one another. It is that basic material we take for granted and forget its true potential.

We are in awe of his self taught talent and we're sure you've seen his work around in print, tv and in stores. One to keep an eye on.

The wings are my pick, so simple but work so well as a window display. Paper may be an avenue you want to explore for your next campaign, window display, cover image, print ad, pop-up book, paper set - the options are endless...

My obsession with...

It's pretty clear that we luuurrrveee stripes at 31stHQ, we not only live and breathe them as our uniform (black isn't the designer uniform!) but, we use them as inspiration for our work. Here's a little collection of stripes we've collected lately as inspiration.

And, let it be known that stripes come in so many varieties... here's proof, No. 5 is our fav - by far!