fiwee

So you may have heard of the ‘Insert Coin Here’ exhibit curated by Nella Themelios and Kim Brockett during the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival last month. Basically there were 2 vending machines that moved weekly around the Melbourne CBD containing limited edition balls of fashion art by various Melbourne based artists.

This is so my kind of thing, so naturally I had to save up my $2 coins and go get my balls quick smart, because they were heavily in demand and sold out very fast!! I went on the first day, a Sunday morning of the third week at ‘Alice Euphemia’ on Flinders Lane. To my sadness when I got there at 11am…the shop was closed!!! Noooooooooooo.


After eating breakfast at Flinders Lane, I ventured hopefully back to the shop and HOORAH, it was open!!!! And there they were, the two glorious vending machines filled with balls!!! I was a little excited, it was my mission to get Dawn Tan’s ‘Mountain Tea’.


First I managed to score a gorgeous little ‘Pocket Garden’ book by Kyoko Imazu:


I also received a few other little treasures including Sharon Margaret’s ‘Lightbulb brooch’ and ‘A Little Breakfast’ pin by Simon MacEwan How lucky am I!:



But no mountain tea bag We left to go shopping for a camera bag for Dan’s Nikon, where he ended up buying a cool crumpler bag for his precious camera! But all I could think of was balls and mountain tea! I had to go back and give it one last try. I don’t know if it was just meant to be or Dan’s luck, but somehow he put in $2 and out came…
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………DAWN TAN’S MOUNTAIN TEA!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is a tea bag with a mountain brooch inside, such a neat & sweet idea:



I had to immediately twitter Dawn as soon as I got home:
@paperkites omg! I can’t believe i managed to get your ‘mountain tea bag’ at Alice today amongst a few others!! Hehee I’m so lucky!
@fiwee3 HAHA.. Gosh! You got one of my mountain tea brooches! You can take it out from the tea bag and wear it.. Hehe
@paperkites oh! It looked pretty in the teabag, i didn’t know! A mountain brooch – Too CUTE! Such a nice idea

Oh little balls of art, what joy you bring to fiwee and thank you Danny for your ultimate luck x