Cheap, cheerful and pretty cool – these Audrey Hepburn greetings cards.
Five in a set, each featuring a different image of the screen legend and complete with envelopes. The cards measure 5.75 inches x 4.5 inches and have no message inside – so you just add your own.
Available from the Monkey Do Collective, a pack retails for $8 (around £4).
Find out more at the Monkey Do Collective website
Artist John Clark has come up with what can only be described as a novel idea for his art!
For his “All Books Should Have Pictures” series, he takes the pages of mystery novels as the canvas for his drawings of modern day femme fatales, Lolitas and other sultry ladies.
Drawn in black, key phrases and words are left exposed, giving each piece its title. The results are a blend of film noir aesthetics, pulp fiction and the darker edges of pop art.
Original illustrations vary in cost from $36 to $60 (approximately £18-£30) or prints for around $10 (£5). They are, of course, all paperback book size. He also does watercolours and paintings which are more expensive.
His full collection can be found on his Etsy shop.
Gallery shops are coming up with increasingly novel ways to get visitors to part with their cash, as these Surreal Sweets prove.
Left over from the recent Dali and Film series which finished at the Tate Modern earlier this month, each piece of candy rock is decorated with a famous surrealist image, including lobsters, lips and of course, eyes.
Not sure they look that appetising but at £4 a bag, they might make an amusing gift.
Buy online at the Tate website.
Few of us still get our milk delivered in traditional bottles, but you can store yours in one with a twist – the Milkii.
Not quite the traditional bottle, this design by Kathleen Hills is a bone china container with two spouts, both of which can be resealed with the included foil tops of various colours or red plastic lids. Capacity, as you would expect, is a pint.
Available in traditional white or with a black glaze finish, you can pick one up from the newly-launched Ochigo online store for £24.95.
Find out more at the Ochigo website
Got more money than taste and want to show it off? You need to get yourself some Hoon street jewellery.
Hoon is actually an offshoot of long-established and highly-regarded jeweller Arthus-Bertrand, trying its hand at bling with items as diverse as trains, gun chambers, the DJ deck above and the ghetto blaster below. Both are made of silver, covered with a gold layer and with an 80cm chain.
And if you want to purchase, you can pick up the deck at around £182 and the ghetto blaster for around £219.
Find out more at the Caliroots website
Is “The Empire Strikes Back” the best Star Wars film? Quite probably. It certainly has the most memorable line in the series, perhaps one of the most famous lines in modern cinema.
Graphic designer, Rob Longworth, has made Darth Vaders’ immortal words to Luke Skywalker into a screenprint and a pretty stylish one at that. Originally designed for the film magazine Little White Lies, it has been turned into a limited edition print, entitled ‘I Am Your Father’. Restricted to just 25 copies, each one is numbered and signed by the artist. They cost £40 to UK customers and a little more for overseas buyers and are available from the Little White Lies website.
Apologies if this has ruined the plot of the film for anyone, but it was released 20-something years ago, so you really should have seen it by now.
