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Lucy Turner, aka Lucy Moose, is the maker behind stuffyourdoodles – 3d stuffed figures custom made to look exactly like your children’s doodles and drawings. She also makes other delightful things using state-of-the-ark technology: keyrings, russian dolls, bags, cushions – all are unique and hoofmade by moose herself from recycled materials. Individual and corporate commissions are welcome. Lucy Turner studied textiles at DJCA in Dundee and, after years travelling, working in the
This section of Avocado Sweet is dedicated to gathering together a list of all the creative and innovative talents in Fife. We hope it will become a contacts directory, a network and a source of creative inspiration and confidence for all involved. We will be building up the list over time so watch this space and do let us know of anyone you think we should include.
Genius lyrics and great accents here from legendary country partnership Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty.
Lonely or self-conscious when you are dining alone? No need to feel either ever again; there’s a restaurant in Japan that will seat a huge toy hippo opposite you so that you don’t have to be self-conscious about being on your own. Your rice is also hippo shaped in this Moomin themed restaurant – the animation character is hugely popular in Japan. In Amsterdam they’ve opened a restaurant specifically for
Let’s get the week off to a Gauloise smoking, sweater wearing, finger clicking start with the iconic dance scene from Jean Luc Godard’s 1964 Bande A Part (The Outsiders). Much imitated (by Quentin Tarrantino for one), the scene features Anna Karina, Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur dancing to John Lee Hooker’s Shake it Baby. It’s very very cool.
It’s Valentine’s Day and for anyone sick of the empty, headache inducing bubbles of Champagne and garish red of garage-bought roses, here’s a drop of the good stuff… Leaning Into The Afternoons Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames, its arms turning like a drowning man’s. I send out red signals across your absent
Something sweet and gentle for this Friday morning – a beautiful love song written by a 96 year old man for his wife of 75 years…
Californian artist Yumi Sakugawa‘s hit comic strip about friend love is now available as a book. A one-eyed formless protagonist reaches out to someone she feels is a perfect match as a friend in a story that is both touching and perceptive about connections in a technological age. Sakugawa, 29, says the book does come from an autobigraphical place, ‘I was a freshman in college when Facebook first came out.
The Poetry of Sex, an anthology, edited by Sophie Hannah is published by Penguin on 30 January. Not all the poems are about Daniel Craig, only two appear alongside poems by Catullus and Andrew Marvell’s 17th century plea To His Coy Mistress. Message by Wendy Cope, below, is a funny plea to her lover to hurry up and get on with it while they still have their own teeth. Pick up
Wishing you all a wonderful New Year when it comes with the delightful Margaret Whiting and the original version of a great 1947 New Year’s song. Here’s hoping 2014 brings lots of good things.
