So Shabby Chic

I was researching for designs for my website. I was tittering on vintage and somehow, the long crossed to shabby chic.

Now, here are stores carrying shabby chic pretty items and I just so love them. However I just can't put my money on them to buy them home because my house is filled to the brim with odds and ends.

Than.. dear hubby said its so simple to do shabby chic, all you have to do is to paint your furniture off white, put some decal or flowers stickers on them, and the inhouse furniture than become shabby chic items... does it make sense? I don't know.. I can't see myself painting my furniture white and putting stickers on them.... some how, I just can't imagine how the furniture will turn out looking.

So what prompted to write was my heart is in my throat as I research more and found so many artists, so many people just having or doing shabby chic.

Here is one.. www.treasuredheirlooms.net I just so love the room Cathy Scalise is in.. so dreamy.. so pretty.. This is definitely a room I don't want to get out of and would love to work in.

Ok for now.. I'm going away to browse these lovely sites.. get inspired, eye candy, day dream.. whatever.. I just can't have enough of them...

Incredible Urge...

I don't know why I start a blog for which I can't keep. It's been 6 months past and I've not blog in anything. Where have I been?

Well, I think of my blog now and than. While I drive, while packing things to mail, while in the shower, everything else except not in front of the computer. Because there were just so much else to do.

But this morning, I have this incredible urge to blog..but WHAT!?.. Random thoughts, doesn't mean you have to say something clever or wise.

If anybody sees the way I work, they'll know that I multi-task. I'll be switching between many screens, doing bit of this and that.

Woo hoo... my feedbacks have hit 4000!! Now... I'm aiming for 5000 and it seems a long way off but nevertheless, I'll get there.

Now... I got distracted again.. as always. I've been busy buying new products which means new photos to take and new listings to do.

Meantime, I'm also listing items in my website www.awesomecraftsstore.com Its been around for as long as I dare admit but only recent months, I get my act together and begin to work on it on a more constant manner. Helps when I've got the programmer and designer. I also have target a date to launch it. So I must get to it as soon as I can..

So do stay tune, if you'll like to add me to your blog, please contact me.

25 November 2008

Two things happened on 25 November.

Thing no. 1 - 14 years ago, John and I were legally married in the Registry of Marriage, Singapore.

Thing no. 2 - 14 years later, we found ourselves on bikes, no helmets, rushing to the Suvarnabhumi Airport , Bangkok Thailand, to catch our Air Asia flight due to depart at 6pm (Thailand time) back to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Story of recent event was, we went to the supplier whose office is near the airport. Enroute, we saw massive jams on flyovers leading to the airport. Not knowing what the problem was, our hazzled guess was perhaps some accidents. So we told the engineer repeatedly we had to go to the airport earlier though the office is just 15 mins drive away. The engineer not wanting to stress us further or himself, agreed to send us, at 4.15pm? However, we just couldn't get close enough to the airport to walk. Infact, the car has to make a u-turn on the one way road flyover.

The best and only choice was to ride on motorbikes (called moto-cyc). One each. Me on one, John and another for our luggage.

We ride on bikes with no helmets. I was shaking my head and thinking for all the insurance we bought, we took bikes with no helmets and put our life at risk to catch the damn flight. Fortunately we did, because the airport was reportedly taken over from 7+ pm on that fateful day. We left on the 6pm flight... phew...

Going round the south gate to the airport. Roads leading to North gate were already closed.

The heros who took us to the airport.

12 / 12 / 2008

To the chinese, today seems like a really nice day, due to the date - 12 / 12 - direct translate from cantonese is - easy easy.....

In the olden times, or not so olden times ago, a mother will give a red packet with 12 dollars inserted in it (in any currency), to a child on their first day of school, work or whatever new endeavour this person takes on and the 12 dollars simply translate to 'easy start / smooth sailing' and all things good with this new endeavour..

Now.. perhaps I should just give myself a red packet with RM12 enclosed and than let me see what's the endeavour I'm going to start with.. oh.. yah.. get down to clearing out the piles and piles of papers everywhere in the house...

What makes me smile ?

Funny I would post on a topic like this. There are of course little things, scene, impromptu situation that makes me smile but that was all unconscious act.

Now specifically what made me smile (just a few minutes ago) was to find another person, bearing the same name and what more 'surname' as me. Ok, to make it easier, 'Yeow' is not really a common surname in Singapore (where I'm hailed from) and to find someone with same name and surname (here I go again), is better than hitting the 10billion jackpot (fortunately I don't buy these heart stopping stuff - what if you miss just a digit ?!) and than to read an entry of this 'Wendy Yeow' in her blog (namesake found in my namesake) about the false lashes and I thought, hey been there, done that. These lashes were way irritating and they made my eyes tear. Now, if I were peering into the eyes of my prey, that would have been spot-on but the only pair of eyes that I peer into were my own, when I checked to see how pretty my eyes looked with those lashes, all I saw was irritation and discomfort. The lashes did not last more than a week and that crap about removing with vaseline, hah ! I lost more lashes than I put on.

How time flies...

Indeed. I didn't realise I have not been blogging since September and it felt like yesterday I last did.

I'm not much of a blogger, time just flies by and there is just insufficient hours in a day to complete what I have to. But I do not ask for more hours in a day, I'll just be spending it on more work, perhaps ironing clothes (that has been hanging there for days - I dare not say weeks) , fussing over the stocks, looking through what I have and not. Wish they just fly out the windows, just like days and hours do.

Click and it's gone !

I was working on my 'About Me' page, putting the words into a proper border template and than .. wham ka bang..... I hit some back buttons and to discover, what I have been doing for the last 30mins disappeared into thin air.. WHIFF and it's gone.

I had to re-do, I just won't let it off and as a result, this plain setting without the template. I'll get to it asap. There are lots to do. Lots of ideas to dish out, from my bag of tricks? No.. no tricks.. just rewards... stay very tune.