Home Renovation

It's been a long time since I updated my blog as I was busy with my home renovation. 

We got our BTO 4-room flat few months back but were on a very tight budget to work with since I just finished my PT studies and my hubby just started his PT studies as well. Recently, we worked our finances and decided to get going with the renovations after so many months.

We had a chance encounter with the contractor a few months back when we were "checking out the defects" of our flat. The contractor was from Coos design and concepts and he approached us when we were opening our letterbox. 

We, on the other hand were looking for a contractor since some of the IDs that we have viewed were either too costly (~S$40K) or the quality was not up to our standard. Having shifted 6-7 times in a quarter-century, my uncle was always the one that did my home renovations but.... he was no longer in the business anymore.

The concept for my home is that I wanted to come home with a bright and colourful home aka POP. 

Colours usually brighten my mood~

So starting with the home tour: 

Living Room

With POP in mind, we choose a bright colour for the living room...

Pre-reno look

Partition added to split the living and dining room

Colours added: Sassy Pink

In the day

Aircon added above the beam for space saving

Study Room: Cornfield yellow

Spare Room: Green

Lights for all the rooms from Lightings.com.sg


Kitchen

Pre-reno look

A lowered dish strainer for easy access

Hope you got some inspiration for your house as well. Thanks for reading~

Simpsons Family Paper Craft

I have been playing this game recently on my HTC one XL.

The Simpsons Tapped OUT

It has amazing graphics and the colour is brilliant!

The games starts with Homer playing an iPad while at work and blow up the whole Springfield town!

Homer playing his iPad

The objective of this game is to rebuild the neighbourhood that Homer Simpsons once lived in and bring the non-existent humans (The Simpsons, Neighbours, Food Joints etc.) back to life.

A really lame beginning but what the heck... it was interesting idea nonetheless!

Riding on my Quest~ I found a few templates for my Simpsons family at Cubeecraft....

Homer Simpson

Marge Simpson

Bart Simpsons

Lisa Simpsons

Maggi Simpsons

Here comes the real deal~the Simpsons Couple!!!

*Update: I finally had some time to do up the whole Simpsons family today!

You can realise that the Maggie Simpson (baby) is significantly smaller than the rest of the Simpsons family and in fact was also the easiest to piece together - due to the lesser number of parts to assemble =)

I will end this post with a merchandise that caught my eye the other day at *scape~

Adorable bobbing head Homer and Marge Simpson!!!! ****SCREAMSSSS*****

If you have any questions or think that there are other crafts that you would like me to try out, please leave me a comment below. Cheerios!

Hope you had a great weekend!!

How to murder a Minion

Recently, I and my hubby celebrated our first year Wedding Anniversary.

I ordered from my friend, Janelle, founder of Jnelle and Jacques, a cake. 

I showed her a sample of the cake I wanted, an absolutely adorable minion cake!

I very much left it to her creativity to figure out how the cake will be done. 

and this is the outcome!!

My hubby had guessed that it is a 3D couple.. probably those you see on the wedding cakes...

unboxing in progress

Imagine his surprise when he opened the box!! He absolutely LOVES Minions~!!

Revealing the minion hair...

Minion with a nose?!?!

Murdering of the minion

If you asked me, the minion looks pretty dead by now.... hahaha~

My hubby has already dug the nose part out.... oMmmNommonomm~~~

Brain surgery of the little minion

A piece of the brain

Murder complete

Throughout the process, it was honestly, quite heart aching to dissect the minion. =(

The cake was delicious!! The cake was layered and coated with chocolate ganache and covered with fondant. There were chunks of orange chocolate in the cake which is comparable in texture to eating Ben and Jerry's Phish food. 

Very refreshing ~

BUT, I somehow regretted choosing chocolate cake as the innards. Should have chosen red velvet cake to give it some life! That said, maybe minions has chocolate brown blood. 

Shrugs~ =p

My other friend, Charlene, also suggested that if it was a chocolate lava cake, it would be more life-like! 

What a great idea! wahahahha~

As a whole, though there were some flaws on the minion (i.e. the nose, the suspender's position), me and my hubby had a great time enjoying, admiring and discussing on the dissection and how the cake should have been made for more "life" even few days after the celebrations.

If you would like to have your own customised cake done, you may contact 

Janelle from Jnelle and Jacques. 

Cheerios!!

See and Be Seen 2013

I recently joined an event called Seen and Be Seen 2013. It is an event to raise awareness of the importance of visibility and safety for cyclist at night. 

I and my hubby signed up for the 84 km cycle in hopes of getting the finisher tee, though we didn't really train at all... hahaha~

We went prepared with our gear: water, lights, helmet, ass guard and bicycle coin pouch.

The registration started at 6.30pm and the event flagged off at about 8pm. 

It went on quite well for the first 42km and the fatigue started to set in on the 50+km. I started to  taste the ketone in my mouth. Ketones are said to be elevated in blood after fasting and in starvation (low sugar in blood). And because I rushed over from the hen's party, there wasn't exactly enough time for me to fuel up and I had 2 slices of chocolate bread for the "carbo loading" before I cycled.

At about 60km or so, we stopped by a petrol kiosk to fuel up on nutrients with h20 and mars/snickers. It wasn't the most ideal snack during a race but at least it did the work to allow me to go on and made it till the end~


This is my second cycling event, first (25km). 
I'm a proud owner of a 84km Finisher Tee!! Yipee~~

Now~ time to rest my tired legs~~

Here are some tips on safe cycling the event webpage:

To understand more about this event/ safe cycling. Visit Seen and Be Seen Facebook page. 

Hen's Party 2nd March 2013

Just last month, I post on a preparation for my friend's Hen's Party. See post. 

Let me give you guys an update ~
There will be some XXX photos. So you have been warned...
If you are offended by my post, TOO BAD, what do you expect?! It's a hen's party!

Ok~ on to the details!

The cake

This was one of the many photos I showed Janelle, the founder of Jnelle and Jacques and she decided to use this as a reference.

This was the cake that she made!! Absolutely hilarious!!! And the bride-to-be loves it (up to interpretations=P)!

The bride to be was given a few stunts...

SCARY~~~~ 

Also, in my previous post, I also had a few photo outcome that I wanted to achieve at the end of the party.

These are the results~

Hen's prison shots
in Colour~

and in Sepia~

Though I had to leave early because of the Seen and Be Seen event, I had a great time there!!!

Thanks for reading~!

Pucca Paper Craft

In my recent trip to Shanghai in Jan 2013, I've got myself 2 Pucca handbags

 So.... I was thinking~ why not make a make a Pucca- Garu couple??!?!

I used to play this Pucca "scissor-paper-stone" game on PC when I was younger and could spend lots of time just playing it!

Looks fun isn't it?!??!

Anyway.....

I downloaded the Pucca- Garu template from DeviantArt..

Pucca

Garu

I got down to making my dolls. And this is my final product~

That's when I thought.... HEY it looks too plain!!!!

And I decided to make a shadow box from scratch.

I had a subscription with Bellabox and I kept their boxes as they are really sturdy and pretty~ and wrapped them in craft paper.

And I placed my Pucca-Garu Couple inside~ 

LOVE IT SOOOO MUCH~!!

You can read about the dos and don't when making cubeecrafts here.

If you have any comments/ suggestions on my next craft, please leave me a message below. Thanks for reading!