Homemade DIY Christmas Craft For Kids

We made these fun things as a part of OB's Christmas homework.
Obviously, mommy had more fun than him :)

This one's made of used folder cut into shape and decorated with multicolor round stickers. The star is cut out of a clean menu from a restaurant.
OB had lots of fun adding the colorful baubles all over the tree.


These are made of used box and the remaining of the folder :)


The crown is made of the rest of the folder, decorated with the same stickers.

Simply attach rubber band at the back of the crown to fit any size comfortably.

Did you make anything this Christmas? Show me, show me.

My Boys Shop IKEA

My little dude gets this super fun traffic rug.

He absolutely loves it! He placed all his car toys & built little buildings using his lego. Great buy!

The bigger boy gets a bed table which we should be able to use for laptops, tablets, or breakfast in bed.

Loveee shopping at IKEA :)

Happy weekend, everyone!

Little Joys In Life - Wild Flowers

To all purple lovers out there. Life is better with flowers. Have a great week! 

Easy & Pretty Storage Necklace

I have a confession to make. I buy necklaces, I buy lots and lots of necklaces.
But I almost NEVER wear them.
One of the reasons is because they are all tangled together into a huge pile of monstrous mess and I hardly can see all of the necklaces that I have.

I saw this necklace storage solution a few times on Pinterest and thought that it is pretty cool, it works, and it's totally doable! So went ahead and did it.

This way, each necklace will have its own hook, the possibility of them getting tangled together is dramatically reduced, and I can look at all of them - it does NOT make choosing easier though :p


Plus, it makes use of my corridor and it looks pretty.


All I had to do was to purchase cheap kitchen railings and hooks from IKEA and get them installed.
This works like magic for me... maybe until I bought many more necklaces I don't need :)

DIY Repurposed Upcycled Home Decor & Toy - Happy World Environment Day

Some of the fun repurposed/upcycled things in our little home :)

Apart from not letting things go to waste, we adore the rustic aesthetics of repurposed things & doing these projects helps keeping our creative juices flowing too!

Our little king.

This is made of cardboard from a toy box with shredded & crunched brochure.

So easy & so fun.

The feature wall in our flat.

The most left is a map from Skyrim (SC's an avid gamer), crunched up and fitted into a cheap frame. We also use cutouts from old magazine, an old postcard, and accessories that I don't frequently wear anymore. They look great on the wall!



Magazine cutouts make really cute wall art :)

This is a super old & unused table lamp we found in SC's grandma's place in China.


We simply changed the bulb and use it.

Works perfectly & look oh-so-good!

My favorite. Kowloon Dairy milk glass bottles.

They are perfect for these water plants.

Happy World Environment Day!
Have a Repurpose Driven Life, & create, create, create.

Yummy Doodle on My Kitchen Blackboard

These are the things Baby Marcus consider Yummy Yummy ;)

Home Sweet Home

I found a vintage photo frame that's perfect for my door, drew a lil something on it & my home signage is done.

I wanted a message board at our workstation & finally filled it with our goals. You like?

A "keep calm & take a bath" with a little duckie & a post card of a Turkish princess for the bathroom.

Cheap & easy. Very me. Heheheh.
You like?

Flat Renovation Progress

We want our flat to be old skool and classic, and we want to achieve that with least possible amount of money ^_^

On the contrary to my previous flat, which was super colorful, this time I want it in more neutral colors.

Here are some details that I look forward to in the new flat. 

Bathroom hardware

Ceiling fan + light

Main door handle. I can't stand the rose gold "antique" finish, so we painted them black.

Open kitchen. Too bad there's no bar. There's going to be a TV resting against that half a wall. Too bad, but no choice :(

Bathroom floor. I've always wanted this since... forever!

Hong Kong old skool cafe floor tiles.

Faux exposed brick wall. We're gonna have this hand painted in white because the flat is gonna be too dark if we kept this color. Sad but no choice T_T

I'll post more updates later (remind me?), and here's more pics of the reno progress and the "before" pics.

New Flat - Before & Reno Progress

I am officially the worst life blogger ever.  I haven't been blogging much about my life despite so many things that had happened. One major one that has been taking a lot of our time and resources is the purchase of our new flat. We purchased it quite a while ago and we are currently in the process of renovating it. We pretty much had to remove everything and redo everything from scratch as it is quite an old flat. We are using SC's secondary school friend's design firm. They are super pro and have saved us a lot of headaches in terms of project management.

Here are some of the "before" pics:

SC's mom has also done a Chinese four-corner ceremony for us.
If you wanna check out more "before" pics, I've posted them on my facebook page

I'll post more renovation progress later ;)

Pretty in Pink

I am a sucker for pretty glass and porcelain containers...and look what I've bought!
The two glass containers are from Franc Franc, they were on sale!...and the heart shaped porcelain container with roses is from a random Hong Kong souvenir shop in one of those lanes of Central.
All cheap, they prettify my home (that's not even a word?) and they keep my rubbish... disorganized (as I forgot what I put in them) ^_^'

My Precious Bottles

Love these bottles so much...

From left to right, back row
Vintage inspired thermos I got from a local store for HK$40, spring water bottle from Bali, vitasoy bottle, Japanese marble soda bottle, sprite, cream soda, orange fanta and classic coke bottle, local milk bottle to keep my plants in...

Front row
Precious moments Christmas ornament (snow is my Chinese name), plastic martinelli apple juice, Christmas starbucks espresso cup, and a vintage ice cream glass

I wanna collect more classic bottles from places which are close to my heart. Next target, classic Teh Botol glass bottle.

Lil' sis, please bring me one from Indo...

Welcome to My Messy Flat

Some of my friends had been to my flat...most of them have seen my flat in its best behavior. Some of my blogging friends have seen my flat from some blog posts...
All cute, pristine and tidy.

But does my flat look like that every day?
Thank SC for stealing some shots of me doing an actual food photo shoot at home (he was in charge of holding a home made reflector, but he figured he could multi task).

Look at all that junk on my dining table!

Piles of unopened mails and old magazines...used cups, candies, snacks, water jugs, a week worth of laundry on my dining chairs, and who knows what's underneath that pile of crap.

:D

Just keeping it real, baby ;)

Glassware Haul

Every time I passed by Rapee Living, I couldn't resist to get in and gawk at beautiful homeware I can't afford. Luckily, this time I was in luck! Some gorgeousness were on SALE!

The Belle Fleurs vase = HK$30
The rustic looking jug = HK$30
The rustic looking ice cream cup = HK$10

I ignored SC's huge protests (what for? where to put? what for? you gotta throw some items before you buy these! blablabla...*ignored*), brought the goodies to the cashier, paid the HK$70 (oh my!) and took these babies home.

Love~

A Friendly Reminder for Myself - Blackboard Decor

My eyes and heart are always hungry, thus I overeat all the time.

I love having this blackboard to scribble "friendly" reminders for myself, and for this "season", it's "The eyes are wide but the stomach is narrow".

Both SC and I drew our own interpretation of this phrase and wrote it in English and Chinese. SC said my drawing sucks...fine! But I think his Chinese writing does too :P

My Red Red Red Entrance

Bright red wall which shocked most of my neighbors who had a chance to take a peek...
A brightly colored Balinese Rangda mask on the wall...

Opposite a bright and festive Balinese Barong...

Red filler flowers in a root beer bottle, red beads with a cute red tiger in a plastic Lan Kwai Fong festival plastic bottle...

Red, red, red and more red :)

Show me yours?

Cute Stuff You Find in Hong Kong's 7-11 - Hershey's Chocolates

Look what I've found during a random evening walk up the hill near my place...
Stopped by 7-11 and spotted this cuteness!
Probably some leftovers from Valentine's day, but who cares! I gotta have it!
Not a big fan of the chocolates, but love love LOVE this packaging.
Cutey cutenesses!

Decor the Holidays

Is it weird that I only started really decorating on Boxing day?
:D

It's because the Christmas & Bday bash I was hosting happened only on 27th :P

You've seen the tree.
I needed something for my walls, so here we go again...

Gift wrapping papers~

...a santa that I cut off from free newspaper :D

and some magazine/newspaper cut outs on framed plain paper.

Please please please get better wrapping paper than the one I used.

Christmas Plants

Christmas flowers in various sizes, priced as low as HK$10 per pot.
Red ones, pale green/yellow ones...or these glittery pink yellow ones...

Of course they dusted the glitter...

...or these super cute...are these mistletoe?
Update: thanks for the correction mirallesmichelle :)
These are called "Holly", people! They are very Christmassy eh?

tat's a whole lotta xmas kisses.

If want a fresh wreath...sure...

This one costs HK$230, and the fruits were already dropping.
Good luck with that.
I'm gonna go with a fake one :D