The Seed Holder Book. This magical little book is crafted from recycled corrugated cardboard and designed to hold pongamia tree seeds and a story about the need to plant trees. It’s a beautiful feeling holding this feathery light book and knowing that you’re holding future trees. It’s a better feeling when the first leaf peeks out at you a few weeks later. Created for Tulika Publishers by Vinod Lal Heera Eshwer.

The Memory Box for children. Handmade and personalised to hold little objects that are close to your heart, or your kids’. Lovely thought from the lovely folk at Elephants Remember.

Loptop bags. Spelt so because they are not laptop bags. They’re round but they’re still used to store your laptop, in quite a comfy, colourful way. Good thing, we think, is that at least you’re not going to look like a 9 to 5 exec on your lunchbreak if you carry this one around with you. From Warmly Designs.

Cardamom. From the Rainforest. We love the label the most. Postage-stamp shaped and delivered to you fresh and fragrant, straight from the rainforest. The copy makes you feel special. And the squiggly art makes you feel like you’ve received it from a little kid sitting in the forest doing this especially for you. We call him Vinod Lal Heera Eshwer :)

The no-fuss, no-wastage, smart book wrap. What we liked about this one is that the gentleman in the picture has used the program schedule of the Jaipur Lit Fest (where he is) to wrap his notebook. Via, Wearabout.

Jackson National Integration Party Tissues. Tissues that illustrated on its pack that the whole of India - Punjabis, Maharashtrians, Parsees, Goans and all - should party together for national integration and use Jackson tissues to daintily brush off any samosa crumbs.

Last spotted at Patel Stores, Bandra. But available nationally for integration, we hope. 

Via Pii friend, Purvi. 

Stylish wrapping paper and droolicious stationery from New York-based designer, Nasha Mehta, on view now.

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There’s always a flipside to too much alcohol, no not the hangover, but yes, the bottles.

We love our bottles. The weirder the shape, the more we love it. The Old Monk bottles are a particular favourite, not just for its contents, but think about it, isn’t it like the Ambassador car of bottles? A funny, round and strangely funky shape. We suggest you paint the Old Monk bottle yourself to find out exactly what we’re talking about. Here are a couple of things we did.

 

 Painted Beer Bottles

 All you’ll need is a beer bottle (we used Kingfisher, Mr Mallya needs us right now), some white acrylic paint and a brush.

 Make abstract patterns like we did or paint anything you like.

 

Here’s a tip:

 If its been a while since you held a brush, use a crayon to mark your drawing on the bottle.

 

The Technicolor winter bottle

 

 

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