Spins & Needles Hits Up Europe in September!

European Tour - Fall 2011

Have you heard? Tell all your friends: Spins & Needles is hitting up Europe this September!

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Holiday Sites and Sounds: Part 4 – Shopping

The last of my photos during the Christmas week. Were you brave enough to head out to the malls yesterday on Boxing Day? Here’s photos I took of some glittery window displays along Oxford Street in London a couple years ago.  Enjoy and see you in 2010!

Holiday Sites and Sounds: Part 4 – Shopping

Holiday Sites and Sounds: Part 1 – Lights

Last year (before I actively started blogging), I was lucky enough to spend the days before Christmas in London, UK, Copenhagen and Stockholm. It may be nostalgia, it may be novelty, but there’s something exciting about being in a European city during the holiday season.

First up, the fabulous light [...]

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Knitting, Gritting and the Fourth Plinth in London

Performances at Traflagar Square near the Fourth Plinth. In celebration of Antony Gormley’s One & Other Project (via Deadly Knitshade’s Flickr stream)

In line with last Thursday’s royal theme, I thought I’d share some upcoming, really innovative [...]

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Keep Crafty and Carry On

Inspired by those Keep Calm and Carry on posters that are popping up in so many house tours, I thought it would be neat to do a varation using some of the Spins & Needles slogans. Particularly since the [...]

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Tango Tutorial at London’s Spitalfields Market

Oh how I miss Spitalfields Market! It’s always buzzing with things to do from – having lived right beside it last year, there was never a shortage of activities ranging from visiting food and jewelery stalls, checking out animals at [...]

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The Coming of Altermodern: Is This What You Call Post-Postmodernity?

Tate Britain has a new exhibition for the Tate Triennial called “Altermodern”. It declares that “postmodernism is coming to an end, and we are experiencing the emergence of a global altermodernity”. It’s on from February 3rd to April 26th in London.

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