Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

Madame Mitchell is made nervous by the roll of a dice. She finds that the type of parlour games where pennies change hands attract all manner of unseemly raconteurs and rapscallions. She prefers to play a nice game – perhaps canasta, gin rummy or even *ahem* old maid. Imagine how delighted she was to find needlework and backgammon combined in this set by Jonathan Adler?

Madame Dent‘s game of choice is Double Texas Hold’em. She knows when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. She even knows when to walk away.

www.jonathanadler.com

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Imagine my surprise when I found out that my favourite one-of-a-kind high school English teacher from days of yore has hidden talents. She makes these one-of-a-kind Diddums dolls. She’s also a singer, which I didn’t know. Singing, stitching, Shakespeare – what a combination.

www.diddums.com.au

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Ball and Skittle opens in two days. It is very exciting. The mesdames have had the great fortune of designing for good friend, supermum and energiser bunny Clara Jane and look forward to toasting the arrival of her brand new store for children. Ball and Skittle will sell thoughtful wares of whimsy for curious lads and lassies – sourcing children’s toy, gift and home wares that are good for imaginations, good for growing bodies, good for the environment and good for the future happiness of the world.

Opening Thursday May 6th, with three days of play – oodles of activites for kids including fire engine rides, face painting, balloons, sweet treats and prizes with funds raised going to the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Help Ball and Skittle raise a Starlight Wish for a seriously ill child. Details of the Our Wish for Starlight Event can be found here.

Ball and Skittle Emporium for Children
Shop 19, The Mezz Shopping Centre
148 Scarborough Beach Road, Mt Hawthorn, Western Australia
www.ballandskittle.com.au

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Isn’t she? This is Ursa the Bear. I like bears, better than Goldilocks anyhow. I’ll never understand how that binge-eating, narcoleptic, petty thief got to be the heroine of the story. Designer David Weeks clearly prefers bears too.

areaware.com

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Mademoiselle Michelle just mentioned the Sylvanians and I’ve had a total flashback to the 80′s. My sister and I had the Thistlethorn Family and the Timbertop Family, along with the house where the lights really worked. Apparently they are collectors items now, if only we had kept them.

www.sylvanianfamilies.com

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First Muji make the ridiculously adorable London in a Bag blocks, then House Industries make Girard alphabet and Eames House blocks, and now Pen Pencil Stencil has made these crazy cool Kokeshi blocks for us to play with. What’s my age again?

www.penpencilstencil.com

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As you know, Mitchell & Dent are cat people, so we’re not too concerned if buying this Muttropolis play toy for your dog makes him look a little silly.

www.muttropolis.com

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Why would you seek calm seas when you can make waves? See? See what I did there? Aren’t we deep (tee hee) here at Mitchell & Dent? Set sail over to Cartoon Monster from Portland to see this wee little crank-handled automata.

Cartoon Monster on Etsy

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We’re fans of  ReForm School‘s online shop here, but it is thanks to the eagle-eyed Irene at M&D’s favourite blog Bloesem, that we found their Pen Pal Club. Send your name and address details to rollcall@reformschoolrules and you can correspond snail-mail style with folks all over the world. The cutest of cute ideas. What’s a stamp, again?

www.reformschoolrules.com

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