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Original cover of the book

It didn’t took me long to “transform” the cover since it’s a simple design. I bought a set of scrapbooking materials and picked out a few items to be used for the cover. The entire process is basically just gluing and sticking the decorations and letters so it took me about 30 minutes to do that! The flowers look kind of girlish, hopefully he wouldn’t mind. This is how the new cover looks like. What do you think?

I bought the materials from Papermarket at Raffles City. Speaking of Papermarket, I went with James yesterday and I find it weird that even though both of us bought approximately the same value of goods, he got the VIP card while I don’t. I checked out their website about the VIP cards and it’s only given to customers with accumulated purchases of SGD 300 and above. Both James and I had only spend SGD 40+ each and it’s our first purchases so the question is, why does he have the card and I don’t? I don’t really need the card to be honest but I just find it weird. The only reason I can think of is because the female cashier has a preference towards male customers. Is it because she thinks he’s tall and handsome and hence the special privilege or is it just a genuine mistake?

Materials from Paper Market

I made use of these stickles which are basically glitters with glue, fabric flowers, ribbons, alphabets stickers, scrapbooking papers and a piece of rainbow artwork made from polymer clay. The rainbow was made a long time ago when I was still playing around with polymer clays. I love the glittery stickles because they make anything look great! It glitters a shade of rainbow under the light. Absolutely gorgeous! I’ll definitely be investing in more of these when I’m making my own cards in the future.

Diamond Stickles - SGD 5.90

Fabric flowers and buttons - SGD 12.90

American Crafts Page Kit Backyard - SGD 22.90

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I made the wallpaper above during one of my study breaks. These wallpapers can be found in the resources section and if you want to send some love over during Valentine’s, you can buy the prints over at deviantART.

While working on the wallpaper yesterday, I was thinking of things associated with the occasion. Things and words like hearts, love, balloons, teddy bears and the colours red and pink. I cannot figure out the connections between teddy bears, balloons and love. Does everyone who is in love owns a teddy? Or maybe they always held on to balloons when visiting theme parks? The latter is always the case in Korean dramas. When the protagonist fall out of love, they will usually be shown letting go of the balloon and the poor balloon will fly away. It reminds me of a scene in Princess Hours.

I can understand balloons during Birthdays but why Valentine’s? Are balloons considered sweet things for ladies? Balloons are sometimes also used to signify freedom thus explaining the release of the balloon. Releasing a balloon may also meant that the protagonist is letting go of the relationship. Am I wrong to think that it’s an inverse relationship with love?

My teddy bear

Teddy bears again reminds me of scenes in Princess Hours whereby the male lead gave a teddy bear to the female lead or the bear is a representation of one of the leads and they fell in love. Why bears? Pandas are adorable as well and most robots are cute. However most of the time, bears especially teddy ones are used. Why do you think that’s the case? What makes teddy bears so special?

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My pretties from Soap n Sorbet

For the n^th time, I succumbed to temptation and ordered the famous Steam Creams and Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm. I have read really good reviews about the multi-purpose steam creams which can be use on the face, hands and body. Besides that, it comes in the most adorable packaging. I ordered one of the limited edition Steam Cream Cute as a Bunny Gift Set which contains the Porky Rabbit and Grace tin designs. I kept the rabbit tin and gave the other one to my sister for her birthday. Thumbs up to Soap ‘n Sorbet for their wonderful packaging and efficient delivery! My orders arrived via registered postage nicely sealed and packed in a sturdy box 2 days after I had placed my orders. Everything was bubble-wrapped carefully and they also included 2 samples of their perfumes and hand creams.

Steam Cream Cute as a Bunny Gift Set

My first reaction when I opened the tin was “Woo, that looks like whipped cream!”. The texture is pretty runny and white, exactly like whipped cream. I am not sure if I would want to bring this out. Even though it’s in a screw lid tin, the cream might spilled if I opened it right after removing it from my bag since the texture is very runny. However, I am quite sure it would not spill if the lid is screwed tightly.

According to the small leaflet that comes with the order, the fragrance is from a combination of essential oils. There are subtle scent of lavender oil. It’s not that I dislike lavender but the combination of other essential oil makes the smell a bit too funky after application. The fragrance of the steam cream is light and refreshing when it is in the tin though. I am not sure why the scent would change after application. I wouldn’t say I’m too bothered by the scent because it certainly won’t be interfering with my perfume.

The steam cream

This cream is non greasy in nature which is a plus point¹. It gets absorb in less than a minute. I often have problems with greasy creams because they take ages to be absorb and when I apply them on my hand, it makes my keyboard oily. I think I wouldn’t have any problem with this one. Moisturising factor is good as my hands no longer feel tight and wrinkly just after one application. I applied it on both my hands and legs after a bathe and it gives a soft “satin-like” finish. I understand where all the raves are coming from now. This is good! I think it’s not going to be long before I finish up the entire tin.

Applying the steam cream on my hand

Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm

Rosewater lip balm

I decided to get the Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm after I trashed my A’Kin lip balm after it expired last month. There are many flavours for the lip balm and I choose rosewater mainly because I love the smell of roses. I have to rave about how beautiful the packaging of this lip balm is. Absolute gorgeous! I intended to keep the box and display it on my desk. =D The lip balm smells like a combination of rose and milk which isn’t overpowering.

It’s a clear balm which leaves a slight sheen² after application and there was no sticky feeling at all. A few hours later, I noticed softer lips and the lines on my lips aren’t as obvious as before in spite of the fact that they are still visible. It’s not a bad lip balm, a rather good one in fact. I would love to try a minty one in the future.

Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm

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2. It doesn’t make your lips look glossy

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(Right to left) Iris and I

Mr Chewy and I

I had a rather enjoyable Valentine’s this year although we only went out for dinner at Bobby’s. It was my first time having dinner there. Chewy and I met up with Iris and Ming Ngam at CHIJMES¹. It’s been a really long time since the four of us went out together. Each of us are busy with our own life mainly school, work and for the guys, National Service. We took around 3.5 hours to finish our dinner. Most of the time was spend waiting and talking. I think there’s too much customers such that the waiters kept forgetting about our orders. We waited nearly an hour for the dessert and reminded them for around 3 to 4 times before our desserts were served. I was afraid that the taste and quality of the food might be compromised since that’s always the case when it’s a special day due to the large number of customers. The food was surprisingly good despite the long waiting time. It’s a plus point that the location and ambience was good, it was in CHIJMES so I didn’t expect anything less.

My present to Mr Chewy

Blue Roses

I gave a panda notebook and a huge box of chocolates to Mr Chewy for his Valentine’s gift. There’s about 40 over different chocolates in it, I think if he eat 1 a day, it can last him for about 1.5 to 2 months. I’m going to make my own chocolates next time! After 4 years of waiting, I finally got blue roses from Mr Chewy. It’s always hard to get blue roses for Valentine’s Day. I’m really surprised that he managed to order it this year. I love you Chewy! Maybe white lilies next year? Hint Hint. I love white lilies as well. I don’t mind them on my 21st birthday. Are you reading this Mr Chewy?

Handmade Photo Frame

To your right is the card I’ve drawn for Mr Chewy. I had to admit the colouring was poor. I’m going to learn to colour after my final exams. It looks like it was drawn by a 5 year old kid. :cry: Apart from the flowers, I have gotten a handmade photo frame from him as well. Ignore the bluetacks, they look tacky but cute at the same time. His bluetacks concept certainly gave me a shock. It’s rare to see a DIY frame full of bluetacks. See, I told you he’s “special”. The photo in the frame was actually taken when we went Malaysia last December. It was a good choice as that is one of my favourite as well. Although it was just a simple dinner, I really enjoyed it today. Thanks Chewy for giving me time to study at home in the afternoon. I really appreciate the understanding you gave me during my exams period. I know I get cranky easily at this time of the year due to Missy being a “exams revision procrastinator”.

I’m putting all the images in thumbnails now for posts with more than 3 images. Just click on them to see the full size images, I think that will help to cut down some loading time? Off topic but I just installed the Fluency Admin 2.0 for my WordPress platform and I love it! The WordPress dashboard loads so much faster now and it cuts down on all the unnecessary clicks to get to a certain page. The design is also much nicer than the default one. Check it out if you haven’t, it really loads much faster.

1. CHIJMES is a historic building complex in Singapore, which began life as a Catholic convent known as the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) and convent quarters known as Caldwell House. The complex is located at Victoria Street in the Downtown Core, within Singapore’s central business district.

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