ilovesweetwaffles.com presents

I Love Sweet Waffles

A growing collection of kawaii-tech creatures — part toy, part machine, part something else entirely. One day, perhaps, collectable sculptures. For now: a bestiary in progress.

Sweet Waffles — a glossy white kawaii-tech creature with button eyes, enthroned among red, blue and yellow orb machines

No. 001

Sweet Waffles

The one who started it all. Porcelain-white, endlessly patient, enthroned at the centre of a humming orb-machine congregation.

Arty — a dark bat-winged kawaii-tech creature with red eyes, perched on a candle-lit altar

No. 002

Arty

Sweet Waffles' shadowy counterpart. Keeps the candles lit, the little skulls in order, and his own counsel.

Douglas — a black and white panda creature with a striped unicorn horn, among cereal-covered towers on pink

No. 003

Douglas

Grew a horn one morning and has said nothing about it since. Presides over a landscape of sugar-frosted towers.

Soo — a white cat creature with blue eyes, orange stripes and a tall antenna, in a pastel city

No. 004

Soo

Receives something on that antenna. Won't say what. Stands very still in a city built to her scale.

Simon — a white bear creature with pink cheeks and a striped belly, surrounded by candy machines on bright blue

No. 005

Simon

Rosy-cheeked, striped, and permanently delighted. Wears a sprinkle-crowned tower on his head like it's nothing.

Hans — a white panda creature with three black eyes and a striped body, on a blue and yellow throne

No. 006

Hans

Three eyes, one expression. Sits very straight on a throne that seems to have been built around him rather than for him.

Hartley — a white lynx-like creature with red eyes and black markings, seated on a plinth against orange

No. 007

Hartley

Red-eyed and formal, with the pinstripes of someone who takes the whole business extremely seriously.

Alan — a white and black cat creature with orange eyes, crowned by a striped hot-air balloon, flanked by silver towers

No. 008

Alan

Crowned by a balloon he did not ask for and cannot remove. The silver towers are, apparently, his.

Sophie — a white rabbit creature with blue ears and ornate blue robes, enthroned in a cathedral of flowers

No. 009

Sophie

Enthroned in a cathedral of flowers, robed and unimpressed. The most ceremonial of the lot, and she knows it.

About this project

This is a personal playground — a place to collect strange, friendly, slightly unsettling creatures as they come into being. Sweet Waffles arrived first; the others keep turning up. No shop, no product, just fun. If they ever become real sculptures, you read it here first.