The One with the Cat Leash Attempt

Pink Cuckoo

My house has orange, green yellow and all colours available in the primary spectrum.
What it lacks is pink. I love this pink cuckoo clock !

Laura Amiss

You'll see some changes to the house soon.

All thanks to Laura Amiss

Oh Happy Home

Can't believe it's been almost a year since we got married and shifted into our new home.
We've heard horror stories unimaginable relating to the burden of living independently and the added stress of financial responsibilities coupled with living with each others' habits & quirks.
Fortunately for us, we've settled in comfortably and none of negative things had occured to make us regret our decision.

Honestly, we've had such fun over the months that its been like two teenagers living together - doing crazy stuff. It was wild decorating the house, thinking of new projects to do and adding new things to our home.

Its like playing The Sims really, only much more fun :)

Anyways, being a big fan of bold colours and graphic arts, we've recently mounted more frames to our walls and are pretty happy with the results.





I bought these fabrics and wooden stretchers from Ikea separately.



Finally mounted the Marimekko fabric I bought from ReproDepot at the dining area.
Guess where I got it stretched ? At a corner art/framing shop right next to my own home!





I fell in love with this paper hot air balloon and bought it for our guest room. Saw it in a quaint Japanese-inspired little stationary shop @ Jurong Point, of all places!
If only this paper hot air balloon is fire resistent ! I'd add a bulb and get it to light up all pretty !

Red Ring of Death

I think we just lost it.

Our ability to stay sane in a moment of crisis just got thrown out of the window because… we just bought A NEW XBOX TO REPLACE THE OLD ONE IN LESS THAN AN HOUR APART.WTF.
First the Red Ring of Death had to happen. In BOB (Brothers of the Box)-speak that means your xbox just went ape-shit and 99.99% chances are you won’t be able to continue on your pirate quest in The Secret of Monkey Island.

Next come the frustration, hair pulling and other assorted groveling by the TV console while the husband insists on his mcGuyer-y rescue mission for the 15379,9812th time.

After a couple of unsuccessful tweaking followed by ten or twenty violent hammering using the base of the screw driver, I just had to say it :

“Hausbern, let’s go get a new one” (In all seriousness, too, if I may add.)

So there we went, holding hands and merrily skipping away to JP. In the act of complete ignorance, we went up to gadget store and coyly asked the attendant if the latest version comes with the ‘Jasper’ unit. In less than a second, we walked out of the store with a nifty little plastic bag.

The impact hit us much much later. We just bloddy forked out $339 without a moments’ pause; as if the XBOX is a precious commodity that requires immediate replacement upon extensive wear - like how you would a fridge or a washing machine.

Even Meep’s sleep wasn’t interrupted. He woke up to the usual sound of the video game sound blaring and simply plonk himself next to the speaker unit.

Like Superman

Meep’s a wondercarpet.

That’s a new term I’ll gladly dole out for a furry creature that basically does nothing but eat sleep poop and functions as your basic feet warmer.

Somehow for reasons known only to him, my infamously sloth-like cat doesn’t behave like how a cat normally would.

Let me illustrate this point :

• Throw a ball at Meep, he will look at the moving object, twitches his whiskers..and go back to sleep
• Call his name and he will shift his body ever-so-slightly, blinks at you once…and go back to sleep
• Point a laser pen his way, he will bat with his furry paw ONCE and that’s it.

I even experimented by placing a tissue on his head

…and, it manage to remain there for a whole 20mins.


I’m lucky if he manage to even throw a glance my way cause he seems SO uninterested in anything that goes on around him.

But I love him still. Because he gives out the sweetest meow ever when he wants food or company and will look at you with the largest doe-eyes that can make you melt.

He still stinks though, as I’ve can’t give him a bath because of his flea meds.
But he makes a good cuddly pal even though he smells a lot like tuna.

Meet Meep the Cat

*Edit* Meep’s a stray cat we adopted from a local pound last Friday. He’s an adorable unneutered 1-year old exotic shorthair who can possibly be the most sweetest & most docile animal I’ve ever met. He’s a little shy right now, preferring to hide in the small corners under the sofa - coming out only eat and/or poop. It’s only been 3 days but we love him to bits! He enjoys being petted but is still not trusting enough to remain still for a good long cuddle. We’ll be sending him to the vet in about a month’s time to be neutered and for his 2nd booster shot. Hopefully by then, this flat-faced feline will be comfortable being part of our family

More in our Flickr.

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Wood Letterings

The Amy Butler fabric I bought from Etsy's finally up. It took a while to have them stretched because we couldn't find a suitable-sized stretcher. In the end, we sourced Ikea for the 12" x 12" wooden picture frames - took out the glass and used that instead !

Wooden letterings were purchased separately from Spotlight. It cost me a pretty penny but I'm pretty happy with the results.

P/S I realised later on Daiso sold similar wood letterings, albeit in smaller size.

The Last Supper

Sometimes the few minutes of quality time during late night supper is worth the hours we spend apart during his 12hr shift.

Last night, it was medium-sized piece of steak with black pepper sauce. And the topic was on bass guitars, ryan reynolds and maw.

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Pop Art Wall Icons

Our Lovely Families

Inspired

Patchwork Textile

I love the use of patchwork fabrics to colour up a room, not to mention, very bohemian chic.
It’s hard to find colourful patchwork quilts here in Sg though, and one might have to order it from etsy.







Letters

I’ve been playing with the idea of buying wood letterings to be mounted on walls and shelves for as long as I can remember.
I just haven’t gotten round to buying and spray-painting them.

More ideas here

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Technicolor Dreamcoat

Warhol-inspired Posters for Wardah and her bf.








I find that images from posters and photos add a touch of colour
and personality to any room. Pop-art posters like this one is so simple to do and yet once you have it printed on a large canvas, it makes a huge difference to your decor.

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Sun Smells Real Loud in the Eastern Bedroom

I slept a little late last night, staying up with the husband to put up some of the stuff we purchased from Ikea and to work on the crafty small things for the décor.

I designed & printed some posters inspired by the Typography posters sold at ridiculous prices online. I’d do some stenciling too, if I had the time.







The wall decals are up too, but I thought it made the room too kiddy and husband remarked that it looked like a nursery. We’ll think of some other things to replace it with, some other day.




We have finally gotten the time to stretch those Amy Butler fabrics I bought online 5 months ago. We're pretty proud of these since we took alot of pains finding resources on the most affordable stretcher we could find as we paid $120 just for the huge one in our dining area.

For this size, husband did this on his own using $5 Riba frames found in IKEA and it worked just fine.








Yes, we even painted the mirror shelf because the white laminates had gotten yucky.





Shades in the room, like finally.




Now all it needs is a cute blue rug, a pouffe stool/Eames rocking chair, side table, a chest, a throw, tons of cushions and a floor lamp.

Whew all that work, and we’re not even sleeping in this room.

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The One-Eyed Dork

{ Line Art }



{ Finished Poster/Wallpaper }






I love my husband.

Partly because he's at home, hard at work on all the frames & blinds that I've requested for him to fix up and...mainly, because he thinks of the best things to write and is my one and only muse for all the nifty design projects that I work on.

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Keep Calm Posters

The don’t panic posters I ordered online arrived last week and in all my excitement to click on the check out button, I realized now that I’d made a mistake in one order. One of the posters I wanted was not the one that I ordered so now I’m short with one b.w poster for the guest room. Gaah.

Anyway in my frenzied quest to purchase a replacement, I came across this website.
It has tons of those ‘Keep Calm’ posters that I can be seen everywhere in the Flickr home series these days.

The posters are a tad more expensive, I guess because they’re using better quality materials and print.

Anyways, hit jump to check out the range.

http://www.keepcalmgallery.com/

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Home Rejuvenation

we went to ikea last sun to pick up a couple of items that's been on our home to-do list since like, oh forever ?

i can get all excited when it comes to decorating and will go all out to make sure that i get the look/design that i want ( i know, very hitler of me, but i cant help it) but my flashes of inspirations and gungho-ness are sometimes just that - flashes. like a semangat dua menet that comes when i see something online and get all excited about and then died away as soon as i get lazy-arsed or too busy.

anyways, our house was pending a couple of things to be done. some are pretty obvious things, like the wall that lacks paint for example or posters or picture frames that have yet to be hung. it came down to a point whereby we started making excuses like 'oh we meant to have it like that' or 'we thought it looked better this way' and stopped at that.

i woke up one day and realised the procrastination has to stopped at one point and we need pull our socks up. Especially since me & dil have spent like a huge chunk of our salary on items that have yet to find a permanet place in our house.

so now we are getting started on the guest room. For a start.

now let's see if we'll ever move on the next room sometime this year.

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Cat-Fight

Kud’s kimora-lee-diva attitude just shot up 500% when Naz & family came by our house yesterday. She strutted around with her nose and butt high up in the air, sniffing other people toes and clawing or running away when they tried to touch her.


She jumped onto bookcases, jumped onto the dinner table and almost-jump out the open balcony because she’s bored or stark raving mad. And when she’s done, she’ll sits on her throne (our Panton chair) like Her Majestic Queen of Scot-frickin-land waiting to bat at anyone who comes near her.


I had to resort to grabbing her furry little hide and putting her in her cage where she will behave better but being a Queen of Melodramatics, she started meowing and purring and stretching out her furry feline paws asking to be released. She got her way naturally despite my resolve to ignore her fake pitiful cries because Aidil couldn’t stand it and released the bolt.

She was pissed at me because I swear she scoffed and gave me the wonky eye treatment as she walked passed me. I mentally shook my fist at her and it became a battle of sorts between me and that bratty hairball. She gave me the icy treatment and I gave her a double shot of that by ignoring her.

She won naturally, because eventually I had to throw a paper ball at her ‘cos she jumped on the dinner table again.


I swear if I speak cat talk, I would say ‘meow meow meooow meow OK’ which basically means ‘wake up your bloddy attitude, pull up your socks and go frickin find a job’.

No. Yes. No, mostly it will mean ‘please clean up your own litter’ and then I will give her the wonky eye in ten quick succession to state my point.

Grrr, I love that silly psycho bitch.

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kuddles

kuddles is getting along perfectly with her new temp-family. she was intially wary and nervous around us, even biting and scratching our hands when we tried to pet her. slowly, the icy facade melts away as she's now following me wherever i go and purrs whenever we stroke or cuddle her. she's a belle - a hi-class princess that doesnt take too kindly with stranger, eats with the tiniest bite and only when the food is not too stale or too cold. she has a massive amount of hyper energy though. she'll purr insistently and circles around my feet when she wants to play. Even after i stop playing with her, she'll zip around the house like a canonball in her own pretend-hunting moment and playfully attack my ankles and running away to hide to get me to play with her again. tiring, but really adorable..

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Cat-Literature

I bought more posters because i got caught up with the spray painting frenzy and decided that we needed more wall-decor in the homey. If martha stewart was to have a may december affair with neil buchanan and miraculously spawned an asian child with lesser-artistic fingers and an oversized credit card bills, that'll be me. books and art. my only 2 vices. I barely have any nice clothes any more because I'll spend all my salary on things that can't even be taken out of the house. yes cos i'm sick like that.

weekend was funnn.. it was just me and hausbern. and it was rare to be able to spend so much time alone together, driving each other up the wall (in a good way). went to vivo sat night and blew a hundred on books and then spent the rest of sunday lounging on the couch just reading and watching lano & woodley.

on a side note, we'll be cat-sitting for my nadia's little kitty as my aunt & their family will be going to scotland in april. im a little freaked out cos ive never lived in the same house with a feline creature before, albeit temporarily. but excited too cos gah, it does get lonely sometimes. plus, it'll be a hoot to watch dil call out its name (it's name is Cuddles) & i prolly break out in laughter and tears because i could never imagine such a cutesy word be uttered frm the im-a-man-boy lips of his.. and, dear, pls promise, no seaweed this time.

The Breakfast Club

Despite the falter of my body immune system of late, I barely had enough rest over the weekend.

It was well-spent but tiring nevertheless.
On the downside, hausbern became the next victim of the Unnamed Virus, a nasty bacteria that hits the blood vessels in your head causing a freaking prolonged headache that makes you almost nauseas. Of course, if that alone isn’t enough, it comes with a side serving of body chills, constant snot-laden nose and occasional fever. Therefore, its goes without saying that he spent Sunday afternoon holed up in the room clutching his head and crouching over in pain.

While tending to his food and needs, I was running everywhere else because as usual, my relatives had picked the perfect time to come over for our now-almost-regular family meet-up. Anyway it was a celebration of the March birthdays as well as a visit to see my grandmother who was in Sg. We wanted to dine out initially but as usual, nenek wasn’t keen. So back at my house for home-cooked food it was, apparently.

Oh ! and lest I forgot, my kitchen was not spared from our recent gadget-centric insanity because we bought a smoothie maker !
Because of the recent health fiasco I’ve concluded that we’ve haven’t had enough vitamins and nutrients in our diets. We barely have any vegetables at home and all fruits stuffed in our fridge will eventually turn to brown mush. The only solution to the horrifying diet debacle is to indulge ourselves with delicious fruit smoothies and eventually keep all the evil viruses at bay !
(Of course, an occasional chocolate-vanilla milkshake liquid diet wouldn’t hurt either. :S)

We didn’t spent much time mulling over the different models ‘cos we just wanted one that’s easy to use , has high voltage and good blades that could crush ice.

We settled on Kenwood Smoothie Concert because of its nifty little dispenser tap
It comes with a recipe book, too so we'll let you know the outcome of our upcoming hi-fibre diet.