The future of the sparrow

These beauties are some of the exciting new things I picked up in my travels, some of which (hopefully!) you'll be seeing on Mr Sparrow's shelves in the future. The top photo is a collection of antique keys I picked up at the Mauerpark flea markets in Berlin, which I'm planning on making into necklaces...I already have a few underway. The concertina photo album is by Bindewerk (whose journals and photo albums I sell at Mr Sparrow) and is from KaDaWe - I just couldn't resist its pretty floral cover and I'm particularly preoccupied with this sort of photo album at the moment. The third photo is a little "Matchstick Garden" - OK, probably not something I should have brought in from overseas but you can buy them here so I figured it's ok! I've been meaning to get these in at Mr Sparrow for a while and bought this as a reminder. Each little "match" contains seeds and you tear them off and plant them in the ground. The photo under that is something I'm very excited about - it's called "Stadtlicht" (city light) and is by German company dekoop. They come in a range of cities (Paris, New York, London, Amsterdam, Zurich and of course a whole range of German cities - surprise, surprise I bought Berlin) and are basically a stainless steel cut-out of the city's skyline inside a paper cylinder. In the middle sits a tealight so when you light it up you get a beautiful flickering silhouette of the city. It seems to me to be a sort of hybrid between the paper tealight shades I have in the shop and Lumen shadow projectors. I definitely want to try to sell these at Mr Sparrow so stay tuned on that one. Below that is some cute stationery from UK company Sukie, which you've probably seen around a bit, but I do really like it and have been thinking Mr Sparrow needs something like this. Below that is some packing tape that I thought was so beautiful I couldn't resist it, but it was insanely expensive! And aren't the tealight shades in the bottom pic just beautiful? They're a different brand to the ones I have at the shop (which are by Raumgestalt) but I particularly liked the way these ones looked so classic and old-fashioned, while still being a modern object.