It’s been awhile since we’ve posted anything on OIP favourites Kozyndan, but these Gelaskins with their artwork has just been spotted!

To remind you:

“Kozyndan are Los Angeles-based mad scientists. They are working on a secret formula for controlled nuclear fusion and are creating a line of edible chickens. For fun, they like to take long, deep breaths and dip their heads into bowls of raspberry jelly and lemon curd. They live indoors and don’t paint on walls. The couple also moonlights as freelance illustrators.”

Check out Kozyndan on GelaSkins.com

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Like the timing of this post, the world’s most expensive Christmas trees may not have come at the right time.

Nevertheless, the Ginza Tanaka jewelry shop in Japan showcased a gold and diamond Christmas tree worth £1 million. Weighing in at 21 kilograms, the tree is adorned with more than 240 jewels, including diamond baubles and strings of pearls.

At $1.8 million is the diamond-covered Christmas tree adorned with 400 diamonds, seen at the Takashimaya department store chain in China last year. The tree was actually a small tower of preserved roses with a teddy bear. It stood 40 centimeters high and was festooned with around 100 carats of diamonds from Southern Africa and Australia.

Bring on the new year.

Via Born Rich

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A pair of giant pandas sent as a gift from the mainland to Taiwan arrived on the island last week in the latest sign of rapidly improving relations across the Straits.

The four-year old pandas - Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan - touched down at Taipei Taoyuan airport after a three-hour flight from Chengdu in Sichuan, with island residents watching spellbound as the journey unfolded live on local television.

Via China Daily

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Craftzine’s Flickr pool contains all sorts of sushi related photos. This is some knitted sushi!

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PingMag talks to photographer Masato Seto, who has been photographing women at their betel nut stands in Taiwan.

Betel nuts are seeds from the Areca palm tree, about the size of quail eggs. The seeds are split in half, spread with lime and pepper, and wrapped in betel leaves. They are then chewed like gum. They excrete a red juice when sucked on that gives a buzz.

Read more on PingMag

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The blog Craftstylish suggests creating paperless origami with fusible interfacing..

How to Make Paperless Origami

Via Craftzine

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The new W hotel in Hong Kong - the first to open in China - looks like a super nice, luxurious place if you got the dollars.

It opened in Hong Kong in late October and is part of a 92-story waterfront skyscraper, the Cullinan Complex. It features 393 rooms with high-tech amenities, a Bliss Spa, and a vertigo-inducing swimming pool on the 73rd floor with dazzling views of Victoria Harbour.

See more on Pop Wuping

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Ever wondered how to make your own tofu? You can find out how on the blog U-Handbag. Tastes better than store-bought tofu apparently and I guess you won’t risk ruining it with careless transportation in shopping bags..

Make your own Tofu

Via Craftzine

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