Bottle cap gardening in Japan

In a new twist on recycling and upcycling, Merry Project, have launched the Merry Farming Kit, priced at JPY 158. The kit includes a tablet of compressed, dry soil designed to fit a standard plastic bottle cap, and seeds for planting up. Then all that's required is to plant up and add a little water and wait for your very own mini garden to spring up. Super fun!

Spotted on: Springwise

Natural Silhouettes

I've been really fascinated by the outlines and shapes that trees form against the sky recently. This winter-battered tree at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire really appealed to me. It was a freezing day and the sky was cruel, the tree looked like it's resolve was about to break and I pitied it.

Just off Tottenham Court Road. Not much to say, it just appealed and reminded me of all the light effects I saw in Shanghai. Glad to see London is embracing architectural lighting.

Window art

Spot the difference? I don't know whether this window was bricked up due to the window tax a couple of hundred years ago, but I love what they've done!

Rainy morning bath in Bevin Court

Pretty architecture feature down Euston way

What is a horrendously dull civic building is made a little more magical by LEDs impregnated into the walls.