It is funny how I have stopped doing certain crafts until my little girl now starts making them for her preschool projects. I have not handmade a card for more than a decade! The last handmade card I did was probably for my husband while we were courting. After that, life just got busier especially [...]

What is the one thing you would change about your home if you had a chance? Well for us, there are a million things, well that’s exaggerated of course, maybe about 10 things. The first to go would be our mailbox.   Being inexperienced as we were and first time home owners, we did what [...]

We were down at Clarendon Homes last weekend doing our usual looking around and dreaming the impossible. Actually they built several new display homes in that area since the last time we went so we thought we’d check it out.   At one of the houses, just as we were about to exit from it, [...]

They sure do brighten up a dull wall. I’ve only ever used such stickers in my little girl’s bedroom. Most of them had been ripped off by my curious little girl, sigh! I even bought glow in the dark puppy stickers for her and they received the same fate. Only a few are left on [...]

Whether it be Winter or Summer, we would usually turn on the reverse cycle air which means a larger electricity bill in these two seasons. For winter, we now try our best not to turn on the heating by wearing sufficient layers of warm clothes.   However, in summer, even opening all windows and doors [...]

I think when one looks at our kitchen cabinets, the first striking thing that will catch one’s attention are the cabinet handles which are white in colour against laminated brown wood stain cabinets.   Well we didn’t have many choices when choosing from the standard range back then and we thought we’d choose white so [...]

Finally found my missing crosstitch which I did more than 1.5 decade ago. It actually fell between some stuff in the closet and I accidentally found it while looking for some other missing items *LOL*   The size is approx. 2ft (W) x 1.5ft (H) and is the first ever crossstitch I have ever done. [...]

One thing we like to do when visiting display homes is to snap photos. With those perfect interior designs, beautiful paintings, furniture, feature walls and manicured gardens, they easily makes a good background for a family snapshot. Who needs a studio when you have access to such free “studios”?   However, be mindful that there [...]

The title sounds gross but it’s a fact. Yesterday I Googled for a solution on this. The most common recommended solution was to use some sort of acid based cleaning agents which I will try to avoid if possible.   I am ashamed that I have only begun cleaning the toilets well after DD turned [...]

Those who know me would know that I frequent display homes as if I have plans to buy another one. That is not the case at all. We just like looking at new homes for its furnishings, home designs, kitchens, flooring, etc and simply because most major display home villages are located close to our [...]

I always knew about filters for air conditioners but only recently became aware that even a certain type of heater or chimney requires a furnace filter. To be honest, we have not cleaned our filter for close to four years now. I know, it is bad and probably makes the system less efficient in emitting [...]

Yup that’s precisely what I’m itching to do lately but of course I wouldn’t be able to do so until a much longer time. It has been my dream to paint and draw a mural on a wall in my own home but when we finally got our own nest a bit over three years [...]

This evening we decided to take a stroll around our neighbourhood at about 8.30pm as it was nice and windy and oh well, since the lil one was still wide awake as usual.   We noticed about four houses in our block and behind, have already got their Christmas trees and light decorations up, all [...]

It is almost time to put up our Christmas tree; which reminds me, I need to get a small area rug for the base of our tree so that it doesn’t scratch the tiled floors.   Something that looks like the photo to the right would be ideal. Red and not too large. It will [...]

Age sure is catching up. Just ten minutes of stooping to pull some weeds from the garden bed already killed my old back, *ouch*. I hate weeds. I pulled them out in the hot afternoon while DD was napping. Otherwise, if with DD around, I’d be weeding and yelling “no”, “please don’t do that”, “it’s [...]