We the tweemees have the glamorous advantage of living next to a japanese food supplies store.
Since I decided that my new passion would be learning japanese (yeah, please laugh at me and my genki-des-ka),
I walk in there at least once a week, looking for something little and fun and then try to bring up all my guts to have
a japanese conversation about how much I´d have to pay and wishing them a nice day.
I haven´t made it yet. Too nervous and all discouraged when the shop assistant talks to me in german before I have even started my attempt.

I love japanese products. Little illustrations everywhere, everything talks or has a face.

So as we stumbled upon the pancake package, that showed a smiling bowl with smirking eggs and happy flour, I wanted it,
no matter how it tasted or despite the fact that the content was mere flour, sugar and baking powder.
Gimme that laughing pancake!

Making them was very easy, just pour one medium egg, 100 ccl milk and one sachet of the powder into a (hopefully smiling) bowl
and mix it up.

Then heat a pan (without oil), take a ladle and put the mixture into the pan.

Wait for about 20-30 seconds, then turn it around.
After another 15-20 seconds take it out and try to eat it as hot as you can with some chocolate cream or honey or syrup on it.

Om nom nom!

Soon to be found in the tweemee house are things for our playground.

First comes Takara Tomy´s Air Guitar Pro.

Ok, so for you pro musicians out there: I know, there is no point having this, when you can play guitar.

Or?  I say: my fingers are too short to play an F-chord and the experience of strumming with my head
or going maniac in the living room with air guitar just seems worth a try.
I can´t wait to destroy my bed, jumping berserk to Foo Fighters.
“YEAAAH, DON´T LET IT GO TO WASTE. I LOVE IT BUT I HATE THE TASTE!!!”
*strumm strumm strumm crash bed broke*

To distract me from losing our sleeping place (“Honey, look, I just HAD to do this!
And btw, YOU were the one who ordered the guitar in the fist palce!” ) we got ourselves two new digital pets.
You all for sure remember the Tamagotchi? And the Furby?
We found the inbetween! The Rocobo! (not Robocop, we have no intend to get ourselves blown up!)

The sad thing about the Tamagotchi back then was, that it was trapped in its egg.
You could not interact with it because you could not touch it. The Tamagotchi was mere pixels.
I liked it when I was a child, but I think I will enjoy this much more.
The Rocobo moves!

And the Furby? Simply annoying.

it would certainly be around autum this year. Like in september. Why?
Dude, check this out, it is far to good to be true:
http://www.giftshow.co.jp/english/70tigs/

The 70th Gift Show?! How come we´ve been missing this for so long?
A gift show. Nothing else but pleasant little (and big) things to charm you and others.
So you think this is about pens and rubbers?
Meeeeeep. Wrong.

I think we should all take a trip.
First work 3 years to afford the flight and the gift stuff, but then…
How about you?

Tomorrow I will be at the metalab (www.metalab.at) , pimping up the bike of a friend and preparing it for spring.
In general you can find Ms. Baltazar´s Laboratory every second thursday and it is especially and ONLY FOR GIRLS!!!
http://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/blogDE/

There are things to be learned, like laser cutting, silk screen printing, processing or anything else that you are interested in.
You wanna join up with me? Plz contact!

I found some really inspiring photographers the last days and I would love to share them with you

Della Bass
She’s an Australian photographer and lives in New York. She mainly shoots fashion and some travel and portraiture. Her work is full of color and life, I love it!
www.dellabass.com

Norbert Kniat
a Vienna based fashion photographer for international clients.
www.kniat.de -  (website done by myfriendfromberlin.com. also interesting inspirations there )

Anders Bergh
has been working as independent photographer since 1993, with his own studio in Copenhagen. He also worked with several international brands and advertising agencies. I really love his style and cleanliness. Hard contrasts, full HDR power – check it out yourself at:
bergh.dk

Lyndon Wade
is a NYC based commercial photographer, who shoots for world’s most famous ad agencies. Great colors & compositions ideas!
lyndonwade.com

A little shop in the 3rd district of Vienna with lots of accessoires, gifts and well-designed home-stuff. We got in touch with the people there and took some photos of some products with our macro lens. The lightning was low (like in every store) but enough for some good shots:

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if you want to get in touch with this lovely two-person crew check out:
www.samtundsonders.co.at