I’m not one for Valentine’s Day AT ALL… but when I saw these cute and fun V-Day foodie illustrations by my fabulous blogger friend, Mochachocolatarita (try saying that when you’ve had a few!), I knew I just had to share!
Rita has taken some much-loved matches-made-in-HK-food-heaven and turned them into very sweet, loved-up illustrations for Valentine’s Day. Forget cheesy giant teddy bears and half-dead bouquets of flowers… these pictures are much more fun!
Posted in Hong Kong, Pretty Things, Random
Tagged artists, cute, design, drawings, foodie, funny, Hong Kong, Hong Kong art, Hong Kong artists, Hong Kong food, illustrations, pictures, Pretty Things, Valentine's Day
I promised you more Chocolate Rain cuteness after my post on Hong Kong Creative Ecologies and whaddya know… it doesn’t just rain here but it pours!
The mall in Olympian City (yes, named after the Olympics) had a super-kawaii installation dedicated to Chocolate Rain and I couldn’t resist taking some photos, much to my boyfriend’s annoyance (‘You’re so local’).
I’m more used to shopping centres in the UK too depressing to even warrant a George A Romero-style zombie stampede but malls in HK are a totally different ball game. [Remember that awesome Lane Crawford installation in Pacific Place?]
What’s more, there are so many malls here that it’s a competitive game, especially during Christmas and other special occasions, where they all attempt to out-do each other with special decorations, performances, giveaways and exhibits – HK folk do love their photo opps, after all! Hence the Chocolate Rain one here, called Olympian City’s Easter Dream Brûlée.
I just love artist Prudence Mak’s distinctive patchwork style for Chocolate Rain – absolutely lovely and just that little bit quirky too – and I love that a locally-designed brand can challenge the cute character powerhouse that is Sanrio. But most of all, as you know, I just love pretty things! And this delivered pretty things in abundance.
The Fatina doll character was dressed in colourful costumes inspired by different ice-cream flavours whilst the centrepiece was a 30-foot banana boat. Overall, it felt like I’d wandered into a village straight from a fairytale!
Truly scrumptious!
Posted in Culture, Exhibitions, Hong Kong, Pretty Things
Tagged art, Chocolate Rain, cute, Easter Dream Brûlée, HK, Hong Kong, kawaii, malls, Olympian City, Olympic, Olympic City, photos, Pretty Things, Prudence Mak, shopping centres
A little something to celebrate National Day…
As a teacher with shall we say, “limited” artistic ability (what… you mean stick men aren’t good enough?), it was always a bit of a headache creating art where I could produce a decent enough sample for my kids to copy from in the first place. Drawing coloured dashes with pastels on black paper was pretty much the extent of my skill, but as fireworks on a night sky, it’s pretty effective and it’s probably my favourite artwork that my kids drew (especially as, in the time-honoured tradition of 5 year-olds, they were far more adept at getting paint on themselves rather than on the paper). So well done them.
And if you’re looking at these drawings thinking they look a bit much, think again. In Hong Kong, we let off fireworks for practically any day of the week ending in ‘Y’ and, far from youthful flamboyance, these are probably a fairly accurate depiction of one of our more restrained pyrotechnic displays! Chalk it up as another reason that I love living here.
Posted in Hong Kong, Pretty Things, Random
Tagged art, children's artwork, cute, fireworks, HK, Hong Kong, kids' artwork, National Day, pastels, pictures, Pretty Things, pyrotechnics, quirky stuff, teaching
With each tier based on a character from Toy Story, is this not the best cake ever?!
Oh OK… how about this one?
THE CLAW!!!
If they’re all a bit too big for you, how about this little fella instead?
And how adorable are those miniature alien figures in the back? Want!
Bet Maxim’s Devil Cake feels all sorts of inadequate now.
UPDATE: Confetti Celebration Cakes has now closed down. I believe it’s now been renamed Christina’s Creation Cakes and their Facebook is here.
Confetti Celebration Cakes, Shop 1.08, 1/F, The Style House, The Park Lane, 310 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay
Check out their website and Facebook for even more cool confectionary creations. Like Sesame Street cupcakes kind of cool.
Posted in Hong Kong, Pretty Things
Tagged cakes, confectionary, Confetti Celebration Cakes, cool, cupcakes, cute, Disney, F&B, HK, Hong Kong, little green alien, Pixar, Pretty Things, quirky stuff, Toy Story
I promised you more pretty things and here they are:
So pretty! I love the colourful cute designs on the body of the pens as well.
Again, from Ella, this time for a mere $6.9. Beauty plus functionality and the ability to tell if a typhoon’s brewing – what more could you ask for from a humble biro?!
Posted in Hong Kong, Pretty Things
Tagged biros, cute, Ella, HK, Hong Kong, novelty, pens, Pretty Things, quirky stuff, shopping, windmills
The second in my unplanned-but-inexplicably popular posts about cute novelty tweezers:
These are possibly even cuter than the last lot, again from Ella and again yours for the princely sum of just $10.
I go to Ella so much that they finally gave me a VIP card – and so much that my boyfriend constantly tries to steer me in a different direction when we approach the shop. More pretty things from Ella to come…
Posted in Hong Kong, Pretty Things
Tagged cute, Ella, HK, Hong Kong, novelty, Pretty Things, quirky stuff, shopping, tweezers
How cute are these novelty tweezers?!
These are exactly the sort of pretty little things that I love – and exactly the kind of pretty little things HK offers by the bucket-load!
Only HKD$10 from Ella (a great shop for spending hundreds of bucks on several other pretty cute things too – don’t say you weren’t warned).
Posted in Hong Kong, Pretty Things
Tagged cute, Ella, HK, Hong Kong, novelty, Pretty Things, quirky stuff, shopping, tweezers
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