A Bump and Bummer

Well Dear Readers out there,

 
The long absence of silence and non responsiveness is due to too many DIY hobbies (all thanks to pinterest) sickness and work stress. I am currently 6mths pregnant and the  freedom to catch up on current interest.


I now have more time to devout on my blog. After 3 weeks of trying to catch up with social media updates I realize I am so behind in the social media updates. I have come across all this interesting ideas on blogs which have truly been an inspiration. I will turn to Marc and Angel website to cheer myself up when I feel down and lousy. 

I use to love checking out The Simply Luxurious Life but sadly I no longer get any satisfaction out of reading from her blog. Although that is not to say that it's not good. Far from it, she still dishes out all the fantastic stuff but I suppose my priority have changed. But I still visit her blog from time to time for gems such as 33 ways to find inspiration & Why not...refrain from judging.

Signing Off,

Sandi

Adore and Abhor # 1

I thought it would be fun starting a series of "Adore and Abhor". Sometimes there are things you just love 'n' then there are the things you absolutely cannot stand. Then there are stuff that sort of falls in between 'bleh' and 'meh'. 

Bleh: Purple Glitter Gelish French Manicure

Anyway, I recently did my first gelish french manicure and I have to say bleh to the color I choose. Purple looks good on the sample and that's the problem, it should stay on the sample and not on the nails. Coz it sort of make me feel like I have been poison and it's showing on my nails. I am really in between on this one. I think the Pink Color would have look more pleasant instead.

Oh how I adore these cute miniature stamps. They are the cutest little matchbox stamps I have ever come across. While shopping in Takashimaya, I came across these little cuties and could not resist the temptation to buy them even though I have no idea what to do with them. Later on I thought they would look really cute on homemade design greeting cards or personal name cards. Tada and behold these DIY Cards.

Personal cards to new friends or gift cards.

Signing off,
Sandi

My Sweet Yellow Rose

My garden is putting out beautiful sweet smelling roses hopefully they would start to bloom in time for Christmas.

Signing off,

Sandi

Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.1

An Old Chanel No.5 perfume bottle

Its my mum’s present from a handsome young American. During her time, it is unheard of to be associated with “gui loh” aka white ghost aka white foreigner. On that faithful day, there was the “gui loh” trying to pursue my mum with flowers, guitar, sound speaker (because when ask what it was she want, she blurted out guitar set) and the faithful small sample of Old Channel No.5 came along with it. My father happened to be there on business deals and hence took notice of her. Well he pursued her rentlessly for 6 months before she agreed to marry him. End of story.

While scrying around her drawer looking for the “Treasures of untold beauty” aka vintage necklace to the eye of a 7 years old pirate that would match my ridiculous outfit of black skirt on top of the head with a scarf for an eye patch, I found this innocent looking white box in her drawer. Loh and behold, the Chanel No.5 in a 5ml bottle in original packaging not opened still sealed. The pirate then didn’t understand the significance until much later, preferring the vintage necklace.

Zipping back to 2011,
I have heard so much hype about Chanel No.5 and when I went to try them out at the Chanel counter, they stink heaven high. Not at all what I thought it would be, the dreamy powdery scent that Marilyn Monroe wore to bed with nothing else on her heavenly body. I bet to my last dollar had Marilyn been alive, she would have pulverized the whole bottle in comparison to the modern perfumes and the story of Chanel No.5 would be no more than an innovative idea of the past.

Curiosity could not keep me away from the bottle and I finally did the unthinkable. I open it. I want to relive the moment of the golden days where everyone is so taken with Chanel No.5. Where whisper of the name would cause quiver in the knickers. The delicious feeling that overcame them at the mention of that name. The feeling that the perfume can evoke, is like weeds to artist, marajauna to poets, the dreamy hullucination and inspiration that one can gather from it.

Not.

I suppose to be fair it must have been a revolutionary idea back then to use synthetic materials to compose a perfume. It is innocuous at best, but to give it the legend it held, I thought it’s a bit far fetch at this point. It started out with a bang of adehydic floral with powdery notes and a hint of something sour (could be due to oxidation). Well it definitely smells like my grandma. Towards the end, the dry down notes remind me of strawberry shortcake dolls, the 90’s dose everything including toys with synthetic fragrance mantra, mayhaps more elegant.

November

My garden rose
What once was rended, now aligned

To swiftly flourish as blooms mature

This is pathetic.

It has been so long since I last Update(10months since) and here I am back again to post. I finally settle down into a comfortable rhythm in my life and can finally sit down to pin my thoughts here again.

I am blessed with a new husband and his family addition in my life.

Life in this place in time is good to me and what more can I ask for than to pen it down here to remind me again when I need a good kick and reminder.

Its the time of the year to start reflecting if I have been a good little girl. Lets see what I have done this year

1) Got legally married in Febuary

2) Quite my job in June

3) Found a new job in July

4) Threw a traditional chinese dinner in September

5) Officially become AC's Wife both legally and traditionally, in name and in presence.

Now this is where it gets more interesting

6) Started a garden in his house, so exciting, growing more fragrant plants and exotic looking vegetable and fruits.

7) Help out my sister with her charity birthday party

8) Looking into natural aromatheraphy and natural perfumery.

9) Tincturing all kind of spices and homegrown flora.

10) Learning and experimenting with essential oils, homemade absolute, candles, serum and the likes.

Plans for next year

Holidaying in Burma, Thailand, Turkey and Oman(hopefully)

Tons of Fragrant Projects for the upcoming year

Signing up for courses of natural perfumery offline

Designing desserts and drinks to use with some of my organic essential oils.

I have so many projects lining up next year I can't wait.

Little Musing on a Lazy Afternoon.

(The Unexpected)

Its been four months since I last update this site. Was busy preparing for the next phase of my life. My Solemnization Day.

I always wonder if I will ever be married off, being a tomboy and a sloppy dreamer. Life as it is has been wonderful to me. I meet a man who wants me as his partner for life. I think this is a very big commitment and it didn't really hit me till I was reading a mock vow with the appointed solemnizer. As I was reading I could feel the tears in my eyes ready to fall and it was only a mock up. What would happen on that actual day when we are ready to sign and legalize ourselves to each other?

Of course its not all romance and sweet nothing, we have our fair shares of ups and downs. How does one know if we are marrying "The One"? Or if there was ever such a person called "The One". I think I had my "The One" but he is not the man I am marrying. The man I am marrying is "The Unexpected". Life is so full of little surprises. And seriously I would rather have the unexpected than oh so boring "The One".