30 May 09
Sarah dropped off this wonderful jar of cookies (almost all gone now) this afternoon. You can see what she was up to all day on her blog! I get extra tingly when friends acknowledge my boyfriend, he loved them cookies Sarah, the jar’s on his table. If anyone should open a brick-and-mortar store, it’s this lady. Her attention to detail shames mine a million times over.
I’m having a working-weekend this week but at the rate i’m going… i need a four-day-weekend! It’s so hard to get in the mood i tell ya. Well i’m leaving you with some links in the meantime!
• Antipodean (am a huge fan!) is having their annual sale so head down to Holland Village
• I’ve only started reading camp comfort for two weeks now but i love love love the blog so so so much
• If you’re in West Hollywood, let’s trade places because i’d die to see this Barack Obama exhibition
• Lastly, I don’t know how many of you readers are boys. My boyfriend developed SUBERNOVA, a project management software for freelancers. I say it’s a boy thing because most girls like their moleskine + post its + to-do lists. I’m using SUBERNOVA myself right now and it’s so useful for my work-work plus he’s gotten a lot of wonderful feedback which is incredible, am so proud of his work. I thought perhaps i could reach a different group of people through my blog, spread the word that such a tool exists for freelancers!
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11 Feb 09
Yes i have been gone! Gone nowhere simply stumbled out of the habit to be posting. That aside, I wanted to say i’ve got new prints in my etsy store. Good night now, i’ll be back tomorrow with some photos!
Peaches and gnomes on bright white or textured paper, 8″ x 10″.
| Tags: 8 x 10 prints, gnomes, peaches and gnomes
13 Dec 08
Yay you read that right. The store opens on Sunday at Vivocity but i was lucky enough to get a preview of the store this evening. Yknow what these Ogilvy people do (the organisers) – they build up anticipation so well. The store location wasn’t stated on the invite and so the bloggers met at a carpark to be greeted by “an exhibition crew of SUVs” that would take us there. That was a little something something i appreciated.
Some of the SUVs. There was apparently one car for each blogger (about 12 of us i think) so it was a pretty cool thing to witness. A whole line of tall cars – crew gang club scary!
He’s “Big Bear” and his ride was the biggest and tallest and i was a little sad cos he didn’t hear me when i said i wanted to take his, and someone with a louder voice got it instead – haha. I get terribly awkward and shy at these things, meeting a bunch of strangers and such.
So the store is on the first level of Vivocity, and this is what it looks like from the front of the store.
Those are cushions made to resemble rocks!
This is the wind chamber for customers to try on Gortex jackets so you know it really works and keeps you warm. The screen there allows you to monitor your body temperature. I thought this box was smart! Definitely one of the popular aspects of the store.
Something i wanted to purchase, it’s a video camera of sorts. But no one seemed to be buying anything so i’ll come back next time! And a few other things i’d want for my home.
This is a first in Asia, the only other store is in London. The bigwigs of NatGeo (the man above is one of them, he’s a funny one!) shared quite a bit on the concept of the store. Go there, be inspired, be edutained (they kept using that word and i thought it was hilarious) about our life earth environment. They made it easy to do with the interior of the store. It feels like home, only 100x bigger and with very very cool things. There’s alot more to look at but i was pretty much drawn to the ‘old gentlemen’s club’ parts of the store so my pictures only say so much.
Oh! and he shared something, he mentioned NatGeoFood which is a site you can get tips/info on food from all around the world!
Thank you Pat, Tania and Brian!
| Tags: media preview, national geographic store singapore, ogilvy digital influence team, vivocity
26 Nov 08
So i used a random number picker to be fair, alot of your comments really grabbed me, oh! i had such a good time reading them. Thanks guys!! I hope to do another one for Christmas but that all depends on my workload.
Well i caved in and picked two people instead of one cos one felt measly and pathetic. Yue and Emily L., you should have an email sitting in your inbox from me! As for the very nice people who said they’d check out my etsy store, oh i wish i had it all going my way… i was aiming to put the prints up for sale before announcing the winners so everything works out for everyone but i haven’t! I will give a shout out once i do, thanks for being supportive, really! And to Soon Lee for being so cute too.
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23 Nov 08
Alas, my prints are ready for sale! And before i put them in my etsy store, i’m want to do a giveaway contest!
This week’s “It’s Been One Week” will be about you. Tell me what is the best thing that happened to you all week! Leave a comment below and i will randomly pick one winner in the next few days. The lucky person will find a set of these prints in your mailbox, anywhere you are in the world, i will be most happy to mail them to you.
A little about the prints: The top left one is titled Susie Salmon, followed by Joe Fox, Cat Stevens and Peter Rabbit. Since i worked on these, the idea behind it seems so obvious but that’s just me being annoying. (Hint: the italicized words) Each print features a fictional character or real-life person and why them? Because they have an animal as part of their name. So you put two and two together and viola! I hand-carved each animal stamp and handprinted each piece. Each print is 5×7″ and i hope you like them.
| Tags: 5x7 prints, giveaway contest, printed silhouettes
