Winged Wheel

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Hello Sandwiches!

If you like beautiful stationery and letterpress items you won't want to miss popping into Winged Wheel in Omotesando. They have so many beautiful letterpress items for every occasion and my favourite product is their beautiful lined envelopes.

If you're in New York you can also catch them at the New York Gift Fair at booth #1770. Be sure to say hello to Rumi-chan, she is just lovely!

Winged Wheel also hosts invitation only industry workshops. At a recent workshop we made some vintage book files using brown envelopes and collage materials. You could try making one yourself from a vintage hardcover book and your favourite envelopes. They are perfect for filing receipts!


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Hello Sandwich 'It's Dots!' Wrapping Paper

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Hello Sandwiches!

Can you believe it's almost Christmas! Waou! With this in mind I made some wrapping paper :)

I'm not one for red and green Christmas themes...but instead prefer jazzing up my favourite colours with gold and silver. 'It's Dots!' Wrapping Paper is great not only for Christmas but for any present all year long. You can also cut up this paper to make gift tags! Or even have fun covering a book Japanese style with this 'It's Dots!' paper.

Hello Sandwich 'It's Dots!' paper can be purchased online here.

For other Gift Wrapping ideas head to the Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine available in PDF version for $10!

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Hello Sandwich
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mt expo 2011

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Sandwiches!

I couldn't resist taking more photos of the expo when I went back in daylight. I hope you enjoy seeing them!


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Super cute mt bike!

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Cuties making craft from mt tape in the autumn sun!

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mt mizutama windows!

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Cutest sign ever!

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Remember how I said that the opening party was so busy that not everyone was able to pay for the tapes they wanted...well these are the customer bags!!! waou!

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The mt tape custom size cutting machine.

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Uncut mt tape rolls!


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Assorted size mt tape rolls.

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The mt shop stocked full of new designs!

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The beautiful new Mina Perhonen tapes!

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Special Tohoku tape.

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LOVE these grid tapes.


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The new mt book!!!

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The limited edition special tapes that come with the new book.

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Book cover and bookmark from mt tape.

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Check out this movie star style parking for my mamachari! ha ha!

Don't forget that the expo is on until November 8th if you're in Tokyo to check it out!


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Hello Sandwich in Tokyo Bookshops

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Some Japanese craft books that I was lucky enough to be included in!


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It was just incredible today to walk into Libro Shibuya, Sanseido Shimokitazawa and Shimokitazawa Village Vanguard and see our new wrapping book sitting next to another book I'm on the cover of! This book was on the shelves too! It was such an honour, too, to be on the same shelves as my lovely and amazingly talented friends Udagawa-san, Killigraph-san and Yuzuko-san! You will love Yuzuko-san's new embroidery book too! It's the one on the right with the little smiley face. It's amazing!

Kawaii Wrapping Materials Book Giveaway

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Sandwiches! It's here!
The Japanese craft book I made with two other authors is on sale in a few days! You may have seen the sneak peek video of behing the scenes making.
I'm so excited I can finally tell you all about it.


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I worked with an incredible bunch of people. Tachibana-san, Killigraph-san, Shimizu-san, Kyou-san (she has designed patterns for mt tape!) and Boco-chan. Together we made かわいいラッピング素材BOOK.

It' s a book filled with all the cute materials you need to make cute wrapping and comes with a CD-rom with templates for envelopes and boxes of all shapes and sizes made by Killigraph-san. The templates all fit to an A4 sheet of paper so it's super easy to print and if you'd like to make them bigger you can easily enlarge on a photocopier.

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The CD-rom also has heaps (some aussie slang) of beautiful patterns designed by Kyou-san so you can print out your templates with patterns. And I made a collection of collages that you could print out on your templates too. One of the collages is a scatter of my craft pom poms and another is a little arrangement of flowers from my local Ozeki supermarket in Shimokitazwa. I thought it could be cute to see these printed on an envelope or mini box.

All of the patterns you see in these pictures (plus many more) are provided as image files on the CD-rom. Together we also made heaps of labels, stickers, seals and sticker strips so that you can print out on sticky back label paper and have fun decorating your packaging! There are hours of fun in this one book!


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As I was making the wrapping for the photoshoots I took photographs of the steps and work in progress. These are all shown in the book so even if you can't read Japanese, it's very easy to follow the how-to-make instructions.

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Our book goes on sale on 13th October. If you would like a copy you can order one online here.

AND. I would LOVE to giveaway a copy to a lovely Hello Sandwich reader. All you have to do is leave a comment below and I will draw a winner on Thursday 20th October!


Update: Thank you all so much for entering the giveaway and for your super kind words! The giveaway is now closed.


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Hello Sandwich
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かわいいお店、世界でひとつの雑貨さがし。

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Hello Sandwiches.

かわいいお店、世界でひとつの雑貨さがし is a lovely new book featuring super cute zakka and handmade shops in Tokyo (and a few in Kamakura and Yokohama). The book also presents six shops who share with us an original zakka item perfect for any gift giving occasion. The book is perfect for anyone who is interested in zakka shops in Tokyo.

AND...the book features a few profiles on handmade creators!

Do you remember when they came to my mini-me Shimokitazawa apartment for the shoot? Well, I was asked to show the readers a little craft project so I made a little decorated wax paper envelope.

These envelopes are perfect for showcasing super cute patterned stationery. I made the envelopes by chopping up some kitchen wax paper sandwich bags, using an envelope template to trace the shape, sealing with some fluoro mt tape (my tape glue didn't stick so well on the wax paper so mt tape came to the rescue) and then finally decorating with some original labels, mt tape and seals.

I hope you will have fun making some yourself. It can be addictive!

This book is on sale here in Japan October 6th. And you can pick up your copy online here.

Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo