So fun to hand pick things for the shop. Recently, I went to a secret warehouse to pick up more plastic ‘teapots’. This is an item we have continuously carried throughout the years. From West Africa – not for tea, rather for holding water to rinse your hands off. Such a bold decorative piece or fun for a pretend tea-party. You may also click on the image to see it highlighted in the animation Mumbleboy did for Plastica years ago. Enjoy!

African Plastic Teapots

Mittens & Gloves by Monika Mueller-Kroll

Mittens & Gloves are two sister cats who live in

the hills of Mount Washington overlooking downtown

Los Angeles. We were roommates for a while. They came

with the house I moved into in 1999. I never paid

rent to them, but I fed them and we spent many hours

together lounging around the house, looking for shade

in the hot Los Angeles summers. Mittens and Gloves

sweetened my afternoons, expressing an entire emotional

world with their little furry bodies. I couldn’t stop

watching them, observing them, and one day I grabbed a

black marking pen and started to sketch them. No sooner

had I started one drawing, Mittens and Gloves would

yawn or stretch, clean their fur or walk across the

room to eat again. Every time they moved I felt

compelled to start another drawing and then another

and another. I found myself trying to capture each

new pose. You hold a selection of these drawings in

your hands. I’ve left Los Angeles and no longer live

with Mittens and Gloves. This book is an homage to

my furry friends.

Monika Müller-Kroll

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