North Londoners please move on to the next post - nothing for you to see here. shoo shoo - go away now.

FRANK'S IS MOTHER LICKIN' OPENING TOMORROW NIGHT. THANK CHRIST.

GET IN. GET UP THERE AND DRINK UP.

http://www.frankscafe.org.uk/

A wonderful wonderland week in the life of...

I've been back at wonderlandwpa freelancing and loving it, back in Drink Shop Do, back in Tesco for my lunch and back on the supertrain through the INCREDIBLE new St. Pancras.

Great week - great working coming out of the studio and loads of lovely fun with my ladies in between all the hard work. I must say - I did make myself feel very at home back in my old desk!

Had a dance with some strangers today, popped in for 10 mins to Drink Shop Dance for a quick LUNCHTIME DISCO shimmy and it was really good, well it is only next door after all- it was certainly better than sitting at my desk (see above).

Scott Hove presents : CAKELAND

Along comes Scott Hove - finally answering that age old question 'what would Mr Kipling and H.R Geigers love child be like?' . Everything is made out of cake in cake world, (funny that) but with a few added surprise elements - false teeth, hair, nails...basically anything sharp and scary. It's my parents 30th wedding anniversary in a few weeks, I'll keep it in mind when I think of a cake for them! website madness here

OH MY GOD - SARDINE FESTIVAL!

Wow - dreams obviously DO come true. I've just been sent information that there is an annual Sardine Festival in Portugal... Book me a flight baby!
And my friend Clare informs me that Louboutin himself is now designing SARDINE SHOES - yes! everyone's going sardine mad....
****newest tins pictured at bottom of post - courtesy of my boyfriend gawd bless 'im' *****

The sun is bloody finally out - ice cream time!

Landor have only gone and done the whole entire lot of this work (below). Bardot is a new US ice cream brand aimed at the luxury end of the market available in a few unusual flavours (see their cool website). They're about £5 each - wowzers. Love it. Want one. Want a store in the UK too. Yum.

For argument's sake this is oil & water.

It's not oil and water but the principal is the same. It's actually called Ferrofluid which I believe is some sort of magnetic solution. Well I read it and took the essence because sheesh they do like to go on about their work these artist. Cutting through the waffle this oily liquid, which when injected with bright watercolours and magnetised somehow - goes mental! See - good thing I decided against being an art teacher. 

 

This weeks Collosal Art pics.

Flickr set here for Diana Beltram Herrera's paper cut birds and animals - exquisite.

Giant fish sculptures on beach in Rio.

Supermundane - top all round lovely bloke and amazeballs artist.

I was fortunate enough to meet Supermundane at a recent Notinhouse talk and he's a great man indeed - he's now doing an exhibition at Kemistry for the next week or so. Really lovely prints are available to buy and back catalogue copies of his Anorak kids magazine.

the greatest treehouse EVER!

Ladies - try to contain your excitement.

Have you seen this advert? Apparently there are a lot of complaints - excellent.

Fire & Knives did it first.

Spotted this Master Card ad and was aghast at the blatant copy, and lazy copying too - at least turn the angle and change the colours sheesh!.

Ultimate night in drinking game

S.H.R.I.M.P.Y.S is finally open... I LOVE KINGS CROSS!

Bistrotheque's sister restaurant in King's Cross has opened it's doors and is now taking bookings.
I'm fully sucked in to all the hype, hands up I admit it. If it's anything as tasty and lovely as Bistro' then I can't wait to go. Stylist mag this week proclaimed it 'Coolest place in Britain' which may be a tad excessive. Have they not been to Peckham yet? Ra ha, If I weren' crying I'd laugh ;)
Evening Standard was a little more in depth with their review - here are the snippets I can be bothered to copy and paste. If you're in a rush then just read the words that I've made bigger it should be just enough to give you the idea. Yes, fashion twats and soft shell crab burgers. Yum my perfect dinner it seems.
King's Cross is full of wonders these days: The Filling Station, though, takes the biscuit. Where a singularly grubby petrol station used to be there’s a ghostly new structure of scalloped, translucent fibreglass abstractly copying the lines of an American gas stop From the road, you can’t tell what, if anything, it contains.

Flack and Waddington were fashion designers before becoming entrepreneurial restaurateurs in changing bits of the East End

People wandering in to investigate it soon start to smile. On Saturday evening, in that lovely light and heat, as the sun set, with the yellow flag irises in the canal glowing, a coot busying about, partying canal boats passing, it seemed an enchanted corner. 

The food is a fry-up, a stylised fry-up,  incorporating lots of buzzy Peruvian and Mexican ingredients (chipotle, chimichurri, humita, chicharron —massive teeth-snapping pork scratchings), but a fry-up nonetheless: diner food in excelsis.

starters include tuna tostada, ceviche with plantains and a sweetcorn chowder. Soft-shell crab burger (£16) is a monster signature dish — a whole slightly crunchy crab with its legs sticking out over the bun, 

Shrimpy’s is already rammed with desperate early-adopters. Fashiontossers, I think they’re called? I have never been in a place where people eyed each other up so much, almost insanely anxious to check out who else had got in. Who could they have all been? On Saturday, they included a guy in a shorty romper suit and a 6ft 7in lady with a microskirt, a blonde crop and ever so muscular arms. Such an addition to the gaiety of nations. Shrimpy’s couldn’t be more committed to that. A lovely place where there was nothing good before.

The King’s Cross Filling Station, Goods Way, N1 (020 8880 6111, shrimpys.co.uk). Open daily 11am-10.30pm (11pm Fri and Sat). Around £100/£120 for two.

an albino for you.

Hello anonymous commenter. This Albino section is just for you. It's actually brought a tear to my eye - after a quick google on 'albino hotel' which resulted in no joy I noticed some realted searches and these TOP QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT ALBINO'S top albino questions WHICH are Hilarious. please also enjoy this selection of albinos. I've stuck to animals because the people are just too strange.

absolutely brilliant waste of time.

This website is ridiculous. 
You'll have to click on the link to have a go. 
In a nutshell it's...no actually, 
Just try it. http://www.pointerpointer.com/

race for life. (and to get away from dogs.)

My friends Clare, Sara and I have been on and off training for the last few months to run the Hampstead Heath Race for Life - which is only 5k and was scoffed at by many boys we know as being a mere walk in the erm - park but it was tough. I was running for people in my family and especially my friend Sam Cocozza and his family who have recently been affected by cancer.

Here he is in the shower - this picture conveniently appeared on facebook today just in time for this post and to begin circulating in the web! ha. Bit generous with the foam hey? ;)
While jogging along nicely a mad dog came running over the field and attacked us girls it was pretty scary and the reason I managed to do the run in 33 mins - I was really just legging it from the dog! If anyone would like to donate some money the website is still open and if you simply click here you'll be taken straight to it....
thank you everyone who sponsored me.
http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/jessicawright0