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GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Brisbane and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
New Kid shoes
Good shoes, like a good man are hard to find. Both need to be just the right fit and it helps when they can take you for a wild spin on the dance floor. Ladies, let me introduce you to New Kid: charming shoes handmade in Italy by one smashing Rachel Beagley.
I speak from experience when I say it was love at first sight with my New Kid ‘Mathcore' dreamboats.
Zero Selon's Fadwatch #3: Ant Farm
Ant farms (or formicariums, if your dad is a scientist) are not new. They are, however, on the cusp of being shit-hot right now. The enduring appeal of the ant farm is proven by the ongoing popularity of the (now irrelevant) George Orwell novel of the same name.
An ant farm is simply a sand-filled vivarium with glass on either side so you can clearly observe your prisoners.
Ghost Gum jewellery
Hair is an anomaly, when you think about it. Grown on your head, it's a prized mane of beauty and health. But in your soup, it's on par with fingernails and band-aids - something foreign and gross.
That is, until local lass Jessyca Hutchens takes said hair from someone else's head (that is, not literally - via a supplier) and weaves it together with silk, leather and silver into ethereal neckpieces, earrings and tassels.
Zero Selon's Fadwatch #2: Crazybandz
I got my hands on some Crazybandz today! These are so popular in NYC right now; public schools are working on a district-wide ban. I have been hunting these puppies all over Asia, like grenades hunt the cast of Jersey Shore. I finally found them at Freedom House in Chiang Mai, a school for orphans and hill tribe kids from around the Northern Thai region.
Matina Amanita Autumn Winter 2010
If unicorns were to have tiny, gem-encrusted jewellery boxes, they'd probably be full-to-overflowing with Matina Amanita's latest range of stardusted neckpieces, spacerock rings, and earrings draping straight from heaven itself.
And, if Princess Unicorn, living in a miniature palace off the Moonlight Express, were to paw through and sigh, 'Oh, what bit of whimsy shall I ice myself with today? This bedevilled black pearl number? This charming likeness of cousin Raziele-le-le? This darling rose ring?.
Soap Controllers
Have you got a girlfriend who always hassles you to do stuff besides play video games? Does she ask you to do crazy things like 'show her some affection'? 'Wash the dishes'? Or (sharp intake of breath) even wash yourself?
If you'd like these requests to end in a manner that doesn't involve your lovely girlfriend yanking the power cord from the console and beating you with it, consider getting a hold of one of Third Drawer Down's video game controller soaps.
CB I Hate Perfume
Of all the senses associated with the human body, the sense of smell is my favourite. Always has been. So much so that my parents (upon my request) actually gave me a bottle of Brut 33 for my eighth birthday. It was on this fateful day that I first realised that we, as humans, generally smell bad.
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