Dandi Blog

A very dear friend of the Dandi team, artist Richard Byers is having an exhibition tonight at the Gaffa Gallery in Sydney. He is showing a selection of recent works made somewhere between Brisbane, Berlin & Tokyo in the last 3 years, including hand drawn silkscreen prints, timber and paper sculptures, audiovisual works and ink drawings on folded paper. All works are reasonably priced so come along and pick up a beautiful artwork for your home.

Envelopes - Richard Byers - ink, line, video and sound

Opening Thursday February 9, 6-8pm, 
Gaffa Gallery, 281 Clarence St. Sydney
exhibition runs till the 21st February

http://envelopes.richardbyers.tk

This rug from Jonathan Adler. Natural Jute + Crochet type weave = YUM!!! 

We discovered Little Jane St at the Magnolia Square markets and loved their ranged of ceramic herb garden tags and magnets, as well as their gorgeous gift cards and tags.

Image from Little Jane St Blog - she takes some great pics

Mindi and Leezar both picked up some tags to add some cuteness to their herbs!

Hopefully it helps them grow better... or maybe better watering habits would help...

Mindi was the lucky recipient of a very special housewarming present from the rest of the Dandi ladies when they came over for some dumplings a few weekends ago.

These gorgeous butter knives are still in their original silk lined case and what is even more special is that the card from the gift giver is still attached!

The card reads: "To Muriel, with love and all good wishes, from Mabel - 25/12/1925

Pretty special huh?!

As we mentioned last week, the Dandi ladies visited Magnolia Square

and did a spot of shopping. One of our favourites was the La Rarastand.

The Dandi girls were already familiar with La Rara (aka Lara Raymond) and couldn't help but buy up lots of her gorgeous handmade cards. You can pick up your own copies at her etsy store - she offers FREE postage!

Such a cute stand (and stand holder!) with so many yummy things to buy!

All the Dandi girls couldn't walk past this gorgeous tea cup card.

Multiple copies were purchased

Caroline was particularly enamored with this design, its so sweet, she

had to buy two copies so she could keep one and give one away!

Here are some pictures from the very cool exhibition Once Upon, which Manny was invited to be a part of. The exhibition was put on by the online community Leeloo, who support emerging designers and artists.

Once Upon featured the work of 40 Artists who were each given a fairytale to interprete in their style. Manny was given Rapunzel and the above image is her interpretation of this wonderful story.

Manny standing next to her precious illustration, we are so proud!

It was great to see how all the artists conveyed their particular tale, and for us to feel a bit childlike again and reminisce some forgotton stories. Manny's work is on the bottom row, second from the right.

The crowd at the opening night. It was a really good turn out, it got very hot it there!

The Dandi chicks, we are uber avant garde!

Very often in life, a change is as good as a holiday, and with this in mind Caroline and Mindi decided to spice up their living spaces with some yummy new cushions from Pad.

We first spotted Pad over a year ago and have been loving their gear ever since. The current collection features an awesome range of colours including fresh green, sapphire and ash grey and the quality of fabric is the very best - durable and snuggly at the same time.

Its fair to say we went a little crazy and our living rooms could now double as Pad showrooms, but the end result breathes new life and inspiration into our worlds and that is what is most important, right?

You can find Pad cushions at the following stores in Sydney:
Magnolia Home and Gift, Shop 6-9/ 19 Bungan St Mona Vale NSW 2103
Essentials or Home, 112 Cronulla St, Cronulla NSW 2230
or at Oz Design Stores nationally