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My wrapped wire necklace made it to the front of Madeit! (pardon the pun hehe)

Madeit

I found out about The Cupcake Project through Frankie and knew I just had to be part of it! The Cupcake Project is a fun little art project started by Felicity who is a graphic designer, crafty person and of course cupcake lover! She started it because she believed that everyone has creativity within them and who doesn't love cupcakes? You can submit a picture of a doodle, drawing, plush...it's just up to your imagination.

Here's my little felt cupcake pouches I submitted for the project -

Cupcakes

Have a look at all the delicious creations here!

Suga*N*Spice is turning the big 1 today and to celebrate an awesome year we're having a buy one get one free sale over at our Madeit store! Just fill your cart up and wait for a revised invoice to be sent too you. It's that easy! (Please note that second item must be of equal or lesser value. If purchasing more than two items, the free items will be the lesser of the items selected)

It's our birthday :D

Thanks for supporting Suga*N*Spice and happy shopping!

I recently discovered the world of lomography and after buying a few lomo cameras to get started I've gotta say I'm totally hooked! I love snapshot photography and the thrill of not knowing how your photos will turn out. It could super saturated, seeping with colour or just blurry. The effects are endless and hard to describe, actually half the time I'm not sure if my camera is even working. But that just adds to the fun and the results are definitely worth it. It brings back memories of my first 35mm camera. The chunky plastic casing..winding the film.. Remember those days guys? ;)

Anyway I'd thought I'd share some of my fave lomo cameras with you :)

Diana

The Diana, my very first lomo camera! Love the plastic lens and there is even a small aperture for pinhole images. You can also take panaromic shots and the images made by this baby are just dreamy.

Oktomat

The Oktomat takes 8 continuous frames and instantly turns your shot into a memorable story. Perfect for catching those action shots and unexpected surprises.

Holga CMY

The Holga is famous for its misty, soft vignetted images and its definitely one uber cool camera and the special CMYK version is even better! A colour wheel tints your images with either blue, red, yellow or clear gels and did I mention its one damn good looking camera?

Fuji Instax

This mini bundle of fun is one of the instant cameras available form  the lomography range. The Fuji Instax Mini 25 is cute as a button and only the size of a wallet and has a sweet self shoot mirror, which is just fab for those self portrait moments [Don't try to deny it, I know you all do it ;) ]

Colorsplash

Moose

Our friends over at Moose are turning two today! To celebrate this wonderful occasion they're offering all shoppers 15% the store wide from 10th - 15th July! All you have to do is subscribe to their mailing list any time this week to receive the discount code. Then you can shop shop away!

If you haven't visited Moose it is an on-line shop, which stocks some of the best Aussie and international artists and designers, with new talent added regularly there is something for absolutely everyone!

Made On The Left Markets

Made on the Left is the brainchild of some very talented artists and designers from Western Australia that met through Etsy. Their goal is to help nurture and support designers and provide the latest info and happenings in the West Australian creative scene. It's really great to see a site dedicated to the Aussies on the 'left'. Who said the Perth design scene was boring?

Made on the Left will be having their first ever markets this Saturday 12th July at the Hyde Park Hotel, from 11am to 4pm. There will be a showcase of some fab wares from jewellery, art, clothing and heaps more! For more information check out the site here.

The Sugarcube Society is an Etsy shop, which all the items in the shop are donated from artists and designers. It is run by Melody, whose son was diagnosed with type one diabetes a few years ago. All proceeds from the sale of items are donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

If you would like to donate items to sell in the Sugarcube Society Etsy shop, you can contact handmade.luck@ yahoo.com. Or have a look at the goodies in the shop here.

Thanks Vegan Alternative Perth for featuring Suga*N*Spice in their on-line mag! Hugs all round :D

Vegan Alternative

FreeRice is a wonderful initiative, in which by playing a simple vocabulary game you could be helping to feed people in some of the poorest nations. For every word you get right 20 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations World Food Program by the site's sponsors. The program aims to provide English vocabulary to everyone for free and to help end world hunger by donating rice to hungry people for free. Since the site began over 38 billion grains of rice have been donated to the program! Skip over to the site to have a go now!

Oh and the site does warn that by playing the game it may make you smarter...

FreeRice