i love my books

I can properly showcase them now :) I am still unpacking a lot of them.


the shelves were designed to match my shoe cabinet. one of them was broken upon delivery and must be returned. i plan to put the DVD machines and shinanegans on that broken shelf.


after receiving my vanity mirror the first thought that crossed my head was "wow, now i can do makeup on my vanity! first time in .... 4 years!"

don't have to treasure-hunt no more

special delivery today:


now i can find my shoes without digging through bags. (un)fortunately, the shoe cabinet's movable boards are a bit too low in my opinion, my sky-high heels have problems and have to adjust the shelves a bit.

i finally have a chair in my shoebox as well:


i love the button detail:

"you'll eat phad thai all the time?" - G

i bought these dishes at a designer shop the other day. according to G, a lot of Thai restaurants use them. ah well. they were fairly inexpensive, the plates were $6 each, the salad bowls $13.5/$15 a pop. the two bowls i borrowed from my aunt are from Ikea.

fanny mentioned about my sponges, yes i have super cute sponges!

don't be fooled by the cute bird, she's powerful.

i'm cheap, and i rarely use chopsticks. so when my aunt gave me these wedding favours tonight:


i took birdie for a spin and scrubbed off their name and dates.

working out the details.

Long weekend means drawing up and finalizing most of the furniture (after copious amounts of alcohol and partying). In particular:

The doors are drawn. They took a while and I've adjusted some curves.

I've also designed some nice shelves (!)

They will mount on my wall like this:


Other furniture are finalized as well. They will be painted a distressed cream colour.

shoe cabinet.

i think i will knock this off for my shoes. I like how the fabric conceal my babies.

Apparently, my stilettos are sexy enough to command a total stranger to want to take them off for me.