A pick me up Monday

It's Tuesday but it feels like Monday. I usually don't like heart shapes or cut out words, it feels a bit corny but somehow these alphabet containers just take the cake. Maybe because I know how hard it is to actualise utilise shallow containers, what on earth does one put in them- sweets, nuts? Seems so chinese new year, thus the chocolate-coated strawberries are brilliant. One of those things that are a bit of a bother to make in real life but a lovely treat for weddings. I love how fat these ones in the picture are and perfectly drizzled with white chocolate.


Everytime I see a photo like this, I dream of a cupcake and silver dragees. I'm incurable.


The cutest favour table- boxes of lily bulbs or a succulent. Lovely for fresh college grads and newly weds, probably not so great for the aunties.

I want to....

Live in a place where I can wear these (and just these) comfortably in the day.

Halfway across the world

Hello, I love you. We even almost have the same name. I looked through your website and I think I fell in love at least five times, in the depths of a yuppie soul that I never even knew I had. You have room recipes- what a delightful concept! Would you like to come and live with me in Singapore?

And this is why...

Sometimes I feel like I would like to be a guy.

(I suppose I should qualify, on reflection, that I mean a WASP-Y guy, like Alec Baldwin or Matthew MaConaughy. Just to make my cigar, socked moccasins, leather thongs or baby blue shirts look better)

Of course, my husband makes all the above look TERRIFIC (except the socked moccasins, which are really a very hard look to pull off). Happy Birthday Z!

Flower power cake

In a way, I'm a bit sad that my Saturday flower-modelling classes are over, it was such a nice way to spend time, with a few like-minded girls, doing something crafty and pretty on an afternoon. More proof that I wouldn't really miss corporate work!

This is just to satisfy my need to bake something pretty (which crops up maybe once every week and a half and is only mildly satisfied by throwing hundreds and thousands over smooth peaks of icing).

The first is the cake my friend made for the class finale. Isn't it a beaut? The second picture is how I could picture that cake in a party line-up, kind of juxtaposed again greens and pinks, like those awesome peony-in-a-mason-jar-s. (The actual cake from the dessert table, is sort of a geometrical teaser, cut from flower cutters but not actually made into flowers!)

Aren't the latter pictures yummy? Both the cakes and the natural flowers, which just can't be beat!

INvitations

You wouldn't think, would you, that half a year after getting married, I would still be perusing wedding invitation cards? As a caveat, these are really all types of cards (and you know what a stationary junkie I am) from a website that I have watched grow from strength to strength. It's called Minted.com. They standardise and take away the fuss of designing invitations, while bringing you fresh designs.

Like Apple apps, they invite designs from independant designers and just about anyone through their 'design challenges', then hold public voting on the designs. This way, they keep their product looking fresh, they get great feedback on the sellability of the product and they have a lot of low-cost, high-margin designed product.

If I had one wedding-related crusade, I think it would be for Singaporean hotels to update their invitation cards or at least, offer couples a range of simple but modern and elegant designs. Singapore is a printing hub, you would be amazed at how cheap printing is here, yet, we have possibly the ugliest and the least imaginative wedding cards known to ... asian men. I know it's so-called tradition to receive a granulated maroon red carboard foldover with a large gold Xi embossed on the front but really, I fail to see why it's at all desirable. Like tea ceremonies and big, late banquets, I'm sure China will break with this custom before we do.

White, still, at the end

There is something to be said about white bouquets, non?