Cuppa Luck

Tea Set meets Scratch Card, for those of us who can't resist scratching off that silver surface.

Cuppa Luck is a concept design by Jo Westrop and it plays on the randomness of chance and the excitement people feel at playing scratch cards. Each piece of the tea set has an unknown pattern lurking beneath the silver scratch-off coating, which includes an eclectic mixture of patterns inspired by British culture.

Westrop's design work is based on escaping the confines of what she considers 'safe' minimalist design via the use of serendipity. Therefore if you're lucky, you end up with a design which you like on the tea sets actual surface, if you're unlucky, one you don't, and in the end everything is left up to fate.

Takes out the dilemma of choosing a pattern at least!

Off out to sweep up last nights snow. Please let this be the last for at least a little while.

Link - Jo Westrop

via - Urban Taster

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Listening: The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses

I Carry Your Heart With Me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

- EE Cummings

I saw this design for Capsule Letters on a random website I was linked too via another blog, called Poketo and it reminded me of that EE Cummings poem, I Carry Your Heart With Me. In all fairness, it also reminded me of Ted Noten's solid gold Wedding Pills but I prefer Cummings.

I wasn't the type of person to carry around photos of friends or deeply meaningful nicknack's when I was younger, unless you count a huge number of cinema tickets meaningful. But my friend Fe wrote out Max Ehrmann's Desiderata and Billy Connolly's alternative Desiderata for me when we were in second year of uni. I think it was because I'd never read them and I was a bit low at the time, but I folded them up, put them in my wallet and then got it stolen the following year. Gutted. I loved that purse and I loved that my friend had taken the time to hand write these HUGE poems for me. Anyway, the point is, I rewrote Ehrmann's version and stuck it in my new - distinctly suckier - purse and they're the only none currency/identification I do carry.

However, I'm really attracted to this design, partially because of my partiality for boxes and lockets and hiding things away, partly because of the novelty of the pill form. So like the poem in my purse, you open it up, read the content and feel a little better. It's not a pill to cure all ills, but it's a sweet placebo.

via - Poketo!

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Listening: Ryan Adams - Rescue Blues