Tattly: Temporary Tattoos for Design Minded Kids & Kids-at-Heart

When I heard of tattly a few months ago I dismissed it at first. Temporary tattoos to me are the ones you get free with Japanese chewing gum & they are for kids (even as a kid I hated them).

But I read on: Tattly was started by Tina Roth Eisenberg (swiss miss!) out of her frustration that temporary children tattoos are often hideous looking. Think Clip Art gone Tattoo. She was ready to put designy, cool, typographic tattoos on her daughter’s arm. Tattly was born.

When you have such an all-star line up of designers submitting designs, there’s not much that can go wrong. Yay for a fun-loving design community that was in for the ride.

Tattly has designer temporary tattoos by so many great artists including two I really like Julia Rothman & Mark Johns.

Though I love getting tattooed for real (with a needle, you know) I find myself loving the idea of temporary tattoos. They're fun! A new one every week. :)

Check out their super fun promo video-

During November & December they ran a limited period subscription offer- You pay $60 (+$15 international shipping) & you a tin every month (for six months) with the latest tattly designs. I found it kind of steep especially since I was broke but I liked the designs & the idea of getting a new tin full of these pretty things every month so I just couldn't resist.

Yesterday my first tattlys arrived! I was slightly sad that the tin was beaten up, but oh well, Indian post truly sucks.

I love each & every one of them (except maybe the scribbles). Can't wait to use these & see what I get next month.

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Vinyl Love ♥

So this is something I happened to splurge on a few months ago...

I ordered them from a dealer in London, that's how I was able to get my hands on Tears For Fears, David Bowie & Pet Shop Boys. No chance ever of getting them locally. Also they were the first records I ever bought, it was very exciting for me. They were rather expensive but worth it- even though their all vintage from the 80s they're practically mint.

Also I have two of these (with the exact same cover art) on CD as well (from my dad's collection, also from the 80s) : Tears For Fears - Songs from the Big Chair & Neil Diamond - Moods.

I now have a lot more records (maybe about thirty, I haven't counted). Bought some from a local guy & bought the rest from a man in New Zealand, he knew I liked Tears For Fears so he included an extra EP of theirs.

I now have all the Tears For Fears albums on vinyl except their last one, released in 2004 so it didn't come out on vinyl. And I'm glad I had the good sense to pick up David Bowie's best of compilations as well, this was before I liked him as much as I do now.

Music remains very important to me. Though I do listen to some modern music sporadically (I was a huge hip hop fan in my early teens) I happen to dislike almost all music being made now. I do love certain genres & certain era... 80's synthpop, 70's glamrock, some classic rock & a little folk. It's kind of like the Chris Lowe (one half of Pet Shop Boys) quote I have at the bottom of my blog- "I don't like country & western. I don't like rock music, I don't like rockability or rock & roll particularly. I don't like much, really, do I? But what I do like, I love passionately."

We have family we're close to in Bandra. They have neighbors who they dislike, because these neighbors trouble them by blaring music very loudly at almost all times of the day, unmindful of aged or kids that will be disturbed. Still every time I visit this family I love their neighbors a little more just for their kickass taste in music (also they have a great sound system, I can definitely tell). I was just there earlier today & the neighbors were playing The Police, Spandau Ballet, The Eagles, and many more. And when we were leaving our relatives' house today, I told my mom I would marry into that house. Yes, I told my mom I would be willing to indulge in a custom I don't particularly care for, into a house where I don't know anyone. That is how crazy excited I get when I find someone with similar taste in music as me (which is rare).

Now all that remains is to get an awesome turntable. And speakers. And a table/stand that houses the turntable & the records. *sigh*

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Instagram - Gifts, Baking, Trees & a Birthday! ♨

Some pretty random instagram from this month-
Strawberry & mint conserve on fruit bread & cardamon flavored milk for breakfast; A cup of hot tea in the college canteen.

Maltesers & Gummy Worms, just two of the huge amount of chocolate & candy my parents bought me from Auckland.

The Cold Water locket arrived. Love how it was packed! Also aren't these hello panda biscuit packs the cutest? So kawaii! ♥

Shalotka is the Russian counterpart of Apple Pie. It's very simple & pretty healthy. I baked it for the first time following this recipe. It's somewhat more of a pudding than a pie, but pretty yummy nonetheless.
 
Silhouetted Trees.

It was my Dad's birthday & my parent's wedding anniversary on the 20th. We woke up late, then gorged on cake, went to the mall for loads of shopping, donuts & fried chicken.

I'm @magali_c on instagram. If you use it come say hi. :)

Love,


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