too sweet to eat

I have a major thing for old typewriters and one of the things I miss most here in the UK is my gorgeous old portable, currently in storage in my auntie's basement. Love letters, poems, and even to-do lists, they all just look cooler when manually punched out in faded ink.

Four years ago, a couple of art school grads set up the most incredible stationary-ish shop on Main Street: the Regional Assembly. New mom Christina actually tipped me off to this - the store hosts a monthly letter writing club - complete with paper and vintage typewriters for use, free of charge. It just keeps getting better! They also have a gallery devoted to handmade/self published books. So let's add this up: a shop full of my favourite things (letterpressed cards + vintage office supplies like file cabinets and CANCELLED stamps + buttons + self published literature + closet sized reading room) that's situated on my favourite street, in my favourite city. If you added in a shelf full of Persephone books, I might walk in one day and think I had died and found my way to heaven.

but anyway, all this to say, when I set my eyes upon this typewriter cake at Design*Sponge this morning I was pretty sure that it was the COOLEST THING EVER. And when I read on to learn that it was created in honour of the Regional Assembly of Text's fourth birthday, I was convinced.