drying time

CRAFT FINDS OF THE WEEK

What do a bunch of old teatowels have to do with a week about cardboard we hear you ask? Well dear readers, it may be a tenuous link but given the show of the week is being held at the headquarters of the worlds only offical teatowelologist, we thought these vintage dryers were the perfect craft finds of the week. We must however include a spoiler warning for a couple of friends still waiting on their christmas booty... the lady rose and miss penpen look away NOW!

so yes it's an irish linen rose for a rose and a some puppies for miss penpen, and ladies we promise a delivery of the real thing by the end of this week .

chairman of the board

show of the week
Long time fans of Third Drawer Down were over the moon at the hot news that founder Abigail Crompton had opened a new gallery in the the heart of St Kilda. It can sometimes seem like an epic journey for us northerners to 'cross the river' but well worth it to catch the final week of Zara Wood's (aka Woody) show Works on Cardboard. This London based illustrator/artist has the enviable talent of combining raw material with absolute poetry creating scary little scenes that are at once playful and sinister. It's not to be missed. We're braving peak hour Punt Road to feel the salty sea breeze on our pasty faces and bask in the joy that is assemblage!

Third Drawer Down Gallery is at 52 Robe St, St Kilda
and is only open Thursday- Friday 1-6 and Saturday 11-4 (pencil it in!)

Sneaker Pimp

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Back in the day Simon Wood sported a fetching mix of gazelles, vans and connies as he pumped out the student newspaper at RMIT engaging in dubious activities in the bromide room and as el presidente of the SRC championed the right to protest against HECS increases (yes in the dark ages we didn't pay to go to university it was FREE!!) Who could have guessed back then that young idealistic young man harboured a secret addiction that would soon consume him.

There are many peeps today who now boast large unwieldy collections of sneakers, started way back when they was shorties, and some big name hip-hoppers have been known to engage local builders to add whole annexes their homes in order to house said collections. It's a disease, we've all had it here at hml and can still be found waxing nostalgically about our first pair of onitsuka tigers or Adidas super modifieds with the big shell toe, even now the youngest member of hml is deliberating over the next addition to her collection of chucks. Simon (aka Woody)decided to marry his journalistic skills with his addiction and created SNEAKER FREAKER magazine, and let's face it every community needs a voice... What started as a small underground publication has grown into an international phenomenon sold in 25 countries and all this out of dodgy old smith street....

the website ain't half bad neither.

walk the plank O.G

CRAFT FIND OF THE WEEK

While away in sunny Queensland over the holiday break one hml editor found time to trawl the local op shops in search of some quality craft. and boy did she find it! while there was a collection of the usual wooden pineapple bowls, landscape tapestry pictures, ceramic horses, aprons, 70's mugs and bead bags, the best find was this ancient pirate toy.

Resplendent in his stripey shirt (a perennial hml favourite) and sporting a truly inspired co-ordinating neck and head scarf we realised what dapper chaps Pirates were. Now Johnny Depp may have famously said that pirates were the original rock stars, but we at hml will take it one step step further we say not just rock stars but the original hip-hoppin gangsters... which begs the question, if pirates had a choice, what kind of sneakers would they be sportin?

Down there for Dancing

SHOW OF THE WEEK Sneakers:Classics to Customs

Until the Craft year kicks into gear hml is catching up with shows,films,cafes and shops that we just never get time for. Being kids of the 70's we always had a passion for our Dunlop Volleys and later got to step it up a notch with the Converse Allstars that went oh so well with our BMX tbars (well maybe in our dreams) and now with a second generation sneaker freak in the hml team we will no doubt get a kick out of this 300 odd collection on show at the NGV. Sweatshop politics, consumerism and free trade issues are pushed to the back of our guilty hearts as we salivate over Phillipe Stark's Pumas and Mark Newson's Nikes. lush stylin, purty colours, and sub culture street cred make the sneaker the ubiquitous definition of cool.
So brush off those Air Jordans (or in our case banana yellow Chucks) and check it out

show runs til July - plenty of time.

ngv.vic.gov.au

wigstock

I MADE IT MYSELF
yes it really is marie antoinette week here at HML, but this is nothing new. we've long been fans of overly large periwigs filled with birds, flowers, even pet monkeys on the odd occasion and with this in mind it was time to give you a little "coiffure sans redoute".
These high hair haridens have been drawn by beck... and remember, the bigger the hair, the closer to god.

I want candy

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!

Turns out that the lovely Marie never did say 'Let them eat cake!' but she sure did love the stuff. As we do here at hml (as you can tell by our somewhat flexible waistlines and a strong desire for corsetry). those of you who have indulged in the film this week will know doubt have the montage of towering pastries, multi layered cream concoctions and the always divine petit fours burnt into that part of the cerebral cortex that makes one swoon at the faint whiff of caramel.

You will no doubt have been inspired, if not to partake in high tea at the Windsor Hotel, to brush off the baking tins and make some sweeties you can consume whilst chambermaids fan you and show you more shoes.

Follow the link to Epicurious.com for some delightful petit fours recipes oooooh la la