{Turn Photos Into Embroidered Photo Portraits – DIY Craft Tutorial}-Hope everyone is swell! I’ve not been blogging much lately due to crazy commitments in freelance writing and I’m on the verge of finishing a manuscript I’ve been working on for years!June has also been a mad, mad month of birthdays in my family and we’ve […]
Easy DIY Make Over For Boring Light Switches I recently gave one drab-looking light switch the ultimate makeover. As the wildly successful de-cluttering book ‘Spark Joy’ by Marie Kondo puts it, when an object in our home no longer sparks joy any longer, it’s high time to ditch it. Well, I took Kondo’s ruthless advice […]
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Growing up in Asia meant advent calendars weren’t as popular as a Christmas tradition like they are in the West. I don’t think I truly appreciated their significance until I moved to Oz, had children of my own and subsequently began this beautiful ancient tradition in my own family at Christmas time. Unlike the days […]
I do love flags as I do banners but I love, love, love most of all, bunting in its full festive happy glory! Oh those colourful triangular little flags hanging and stretching across from point to point like a smile, billowing and beckoning in the breeze on a clear summer’s day. What a happy scene […]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin What did I say about the crazy weather here. We’ve gone from arctic last week to desert heat wave mode at a blazing 35 degrees today! It’s still spring in here? What’s summer going to be! I reckon it’s now dangerous even to collect the mail outside by the lawn […]
I love and have somewhat of a little obsession with boards. Chopping boards and paddle boards for my kitchen, cork boards and magnetic boards in every room in my house. But instead of using them to pin reminders and notices, I always seem to manage to turn most of them into mood boards—and on these […]
While cocooned at home like an oversized baby bundled and swathed under layers of fleece with one too many steaming cups of lemon-ginger-honey tea, I decided it was time to get up and make. Yes I’m nursing what you’d call the winter flu, but the inner me who can never sit still or do nothing, […]
Thanks to TYPO, which happens to be one of my favourite retail stores, the whole world is suddenly finding itself lusting after retro light boxes—easily one of this year’s most sought after ‘trending’ homewares. I wanted one for a while and had first coveted them way back at a few of my favourite vintage shops […]
There are some childhood fantasies that never cease. Like living amongst the fluffy white clouds. Or travelling the world via hot air balloon, in my fantasy of Jules Verne’s ‘Around The World In 80 Days’, one of my favourite classic books of all time. Interestingly, unlike the film or book cover illustrations—I don’t recall the […]
