Christmas Jumper Blog

Next up was a trip to Hackney Wick's art festival, Hackney Wicked.

We headed for the private view of "I am Braziliality" at a rather wonderful and fancy industrial unit/restaurant/gallery space (did we mention we were in East London?) called Forman's Smokehouse.

We weren't fully prepared for this. There was a lot of art on the walls wih some particularly good photography by Azul Serra, Bruno Figueiredo, Daniella Baptista and Rafaela Miranda Rocha.

Even better still was the Brazilian contemporary dancing going on amongst everything by Everaldo Pereira and Douglas Dance.

HOWEVER.

Look what someone's done to a deer! This is no way to treat such beautiful creatures.

Lots of fun - cardboard and religious deer. By Edgar de Camargo. £800.

It's nice to see deer being used, but we're not sure about the Barbie pink. We do think it shows once again like our first adventure that we're bang on trend with our Rudolph designs for our Christmas jumpers!

Deer designs are popular all year round.

We've been having a little look around what's meant to be the trendiest part of the whole of the country: East London.

We liked what we saw. Because it turns out that what we're making up in Leeds is bang on trend.

The trend is animal prints. Not Eastenders leopard skin print, but little silhouettes of animals. We'd read about this in a Guardian article and were pleasantly surprised to see that it is actually out there on the streets.

The birds are out at Appletree Boutique, Spitalfields

And the bunnies too.

It all goes to show that the Christmas jumpers Babs is sewing together on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales is as cool and as trendy as what's going on in London. (And better made.)

But that was only part of the adventure. Read the next blog to find out what happened at the Brazilian fusion exhibition held in a fish warehouse in Hackney Wick. We're not even joking.