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The realm of hand crafted board games has been enjoyed for thousands of years by both men and women. Board Games are social and provide for intelligent and entertaining get-togethers.

But, Board Games of the sort I have in mind are not only designed for enjoyable play, but were also born to be put on Display. This month, we feature three that deserve special mention for their quality and their beauty, as well as their enduring popularity.

The first comes from Jepara, Indonesia as is called Congklak or Dakon. Caongklak is the National Game of Java and Jepara is a world renowned centre for beautiful wood carved furniture and home decor. This Dakon Dragon is made of Mahogany and is around 90cm long. The Game is particularly popular among women and is also used as an instrument for teaching maths.

It is hand painted and hand carved in Jepara and is a common social game played in cafes and streets throughout Indonesia and looks lovely as a centre piece.

The Second Traditional Game is Solitaire. This Wooden Solitaire is hand carved from Pallisandre in Madagascar. In addition to the delightful craftsmanship, the Solitaire is studded with real large semi precious gems as marbles; jade, onyx, pink quartz and amethyst crystal – to mention a few.

Finally a truly unique Chess Set for Display and a wonderful Gift Idea. This Chess Set is hand carved in Ecquador from Tagua or vegetable ivory.

The Tagua is a date palm that grows only in small areas down the west

coast of South America. It is as hard as marble, as smooth as ivory and feels almost like white Chocolate.

Tagua is a highly prized and environmentally friendly alternative to ivory, is harvested only as the large date seeds fall to the ground. The carvings of this hand made Chess Set depict Beautiful Galapagos marine life.

David Trounce
Games from Everywhere

NSW, Australia.

Greenbo planter is the easy solution to transform houses, apartment balconies, offices, shopping malls or any space with railings into a more alive, fresh and contemporary environment.

Greenbo planter is absolutely be the easy way to enrich balcony into more alive, fresh and fashionable. Ideal for growing plants/flowers in an urban environment such as houses, apartment balcony, office space, malls space or any space with railing which need some colours.

Greenbo comes in eight different colours and made of a high quality polypropylene material, with increased strength and drop resistance, contain UV ingredient which protect against sun and weather damages (ensuring its color last for years), contains a built-in draining solutions, has two removable, cleanable, and replaceable trays. It’s nice to enrich if you would create green balcony home office design inspiration.

This Fair Trade, hand crafted coffee table and game represents two things. It represents the artistry and utility that these skilled workers are able to produce and it reflects two of their national pastimes: Morabaraba and Bao.

Bao is a tradition count and capture game in Africa. The heavy ebony wood is cut and carved by hand on one side to create pits and designs which reflect local life and scenery. The game pieces are local seeds or beeds. The object in this two player strategy game commonly called Mancala is to capture your opponents pieces by landing in his pits.

Flip the board and you have Morabaraba. Morabaraba is a sort of a Nine Men’s Morris, only we would call their Morabaraba, Twelve Men’s Morris. The object is to remove your opponents pieces by jumping them. Two very simple but clever strategy games that reflect social culture in Malawi.

The piece is not only practical it is truly elegant. The wood is polished and smooth, the artwork is crystal clear and the finished product is truly unique.

If your looking for that talking piece to beat all talking pieces in your living room this may be it.

David Trounce

Games from Everywhere

Classic. Clever. Beautiful.

NSW, Australia.

Mylights are personalized children’s night lights. Visit our website and use our unique designer tool to create a night light which illuminates your childs name. Logon onto www.mylight.com.au and choose from a range of colours and fonts.

The idea to create Mylight came to us after our Son was born, we needed a nightlight and we wanted to personalize the light to match in with his nursery décor.

A night light was important to us as we needed to have a small source of light present in the room so that we could see what we were doing during night feeds and changes. We did not want to turn the light on as we felt this would be a disturbance to our baby.

After creating an amazing personalized night light which illuminated Noah’s name we knew we were onto a winner. These lights look amazing!

We were lucky enough to have a wonderful friend, who agreed to build our website for us the way we wanted it.

He has created a unique designer tool, which enables you to view your chosen name in various colours and fonts, so you can visualize your creation before you purchase it.

Our product is a fantastic way to personalize any nursery.