Cute stuff
Well, quite. Lie to girls or we'll get angry. That little boy is clever.
Thanks to Nondisbeliever for the tweet alerting us to the cutest video ever! Want to show us stuff? Then follow us on Twitter!
Miss Cay
Anyone who spends any amount of time with me will know that there is a little space in my heart that will always be reserved for a good notebook.
Perhaps it is because I'm an old romantic at heart, or perhaps it's because me and Microsoft Word have a...strained relationship at best, but I've always found that I manage to put down all the stuff and nonsense I carry around in my head best when I have pen and paper to hand.
I'm not particularly fussy, either. I love the glittery spiral-bound notebook I bought at a car boot sale when I was twelve just as much as the fancy-pants Moleskine journal I cart around nowadays. And don't even get me started on typewriters. My Dad had to ban me from buying the things from junk shops and jumble sales when I was a Jack Kerouac-obsessed teenager because I kept messing up my bedroom carpet with the ink from the ribbons.
So, its not all that surprising that I've fallen in love with the rather wonderful blog Strikethru.
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Cute stuff
Anyone who knows me will be familiar with the larger than average bags I carry around principally for the purposes of carrying a massively clunky plastic PINK polaroid camera.. It has been bashed, had whiskey spilt on it, facepaint dripped on it, and taken up obscene amounts of luggage space travelling to, amongst other less exotic destinations, Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco, Philly, and New York. I've illustrated this entry with some of my favourite polasnaps of recent times. My room is also a shrine to these little world windows.
I have had a special place in my heart for the polaroid since I was first shown this 
livejournal community, Postmarks, which centres around the exchange of artfully-taken polaroid pictures with cryptic descriptions, sent in the post across America between a couple - you don't find out their relationship but they get pretty deep - then lovingly scanned for the world to see.There is no dialogue on the blog apart from these images, which is perhaps what makes it so captivating.
In 2003 I bought the above camera, from eBay, of course, which came free with a pair of pink sunglasses that predated last summer's Ray Ban revival substantially. I lost those glasses but touch wood, as yet I've kept a hold of the pink beast. Of course we were all despondent not so long ago when it was announced that Polaroid would no longer be making film, I still managed to find the stuff in my local branch of Boots. How long would stocks last, though?
In the meantime, the Young Future People use apps like the rather cute although infuratingly mac only Poladroid.net (mac only.. pfftshh) to 'polafy' their digital snaps. Cool, yes, but you can't stick those on your walls for shit!
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Louise Orcheston-Findlay
Minus IQ are the latest band to be spotted with personalised trainers. It seems everyone nowadays wants to be a bit different and highlight their indiviuality by customising their clothes or products. We had a dig around here at Jack HQ and found a great way to jump onto the customising band wagon without getting your fingers stuck together with glue or having to find a fairy liquid bottle! Kings of Neon.
Kings of Neon can put any logo or design onto a vast array of different trainer designs including run of the mill plimsolls, DCs and vans straight through to Doc Martins! We were pretty excited about this and sent off to get some Jack ones done, we are now eagerly awaiting the results and will report back as soon as they arrive! Since finding the site we have also spotted them on a number of trend conscious journalists including Luke Blackall of the London Paper and Zoe Griffin of the Sunday Mirror!
Louise Orcheston-Findlay
Hello
I m Lu. I ll be posting on Dollymix for the next few days. I am the editor of Who's Jack Magazine and one half of Raw Material ( the other half being Firgas Esack ).
Who's Jack is essentially a style magazine that looks at fashion, art, theatre, film, events, new clubs and restaurants, social comment and anything else going on in London that we think will of interest to our readers.
I can't wait to get blogging away and sharing with you all the great stuff that comes through to our eager ears and eyes on a daily basis.
Here is a little pick of bits that we have been loving so far this week.
- We got sent a great pair of customised trainers from Kings of Neonthese guys take almost any plimsolls and put whatever design you like on them. Perfect for personalized gifts
- This Vodka called Pinky is in the most beautiful bottle and should almost be left on your dressing table rather than in your drinks cabinet
- Fish Hoek, Pinotage Rose - a great pink treat for nights when white wine is too cold and red wine puts you to sleep
- Dangerous Dating - a great new dating site yet to launch but has been hotly tipped- hopefully more on this soon!
- Stuart Semple's collection of artist customized, limited edition T-shirts 
That's all for now, over and out.
Top 5
Ha ha ha. So you probably knew that Saturday 20th - tomorrow - is the last UK First Class posting date before Christmas.
Were you, like me, planning to do a rush job on your Christmas cards and fling them at a postbox sometime in the next 24 hours?
And did you, like me, not realise that today, 2,000 postal workers will close seven sorting offices as part of a postal strike?
Ha ha ha. Erm. Never mind! I have compiled a Top 5 charity ecard list!
So come with me over the jump and let's send our wishes of the season in a way that helps those less deserving than us, treats our planet with respect, and doesn't depend on the vagaries of the UK postal system....
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Laura Kidd
I have a big apology to make - I've already mentioned the C-word at least three times during my guest editorship and it's only day four. Anyone who knows me would probably be surprised that I'm paying Little Baby Jesus' birthday any attention at all, but what can I say? - there's something in the air this year, something rustic, something homely, something handmade.
If you're sick of buying mass-made plastic presents for your nieces and nephews, branded perfumes, boring socks and gift vouchers for your friends and hunting frantically for something that your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/fuck buddy will find even vaguely interesting, or even if you're just sick of giving all your Christmas money to THE MAN, I have the solutions for you. Read on after the ads:
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Laura Kidd
This much is obvious, but lately I've had more and more people asking me in-depth questions about dog ownership. I think it's an age thing - once you're over the quarter century hump, debts are paid off (except student loans - no-one includes those) and living arrangements become less hovel-esque, thoughts can turn to bringing a new little life in to the house.
If you're not ready for babymaking, the typical choice is cat or dog. People make much of being either a cat or a dog person, and the one you choose apparently says quite a lot about your personality. More after the jump...
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Cute stuff
As of ooooh, ten minutes ago, I got festive. I think it had something to do with the gingerbread latte, but deck the halls with holly and join me in a glass of eggnog, Christmas day is less than a month away. Yay!
Don't you all Bah! Humbug me just yet. I've got the best Christmas present in the world over the jump.
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