Artfool Site

Check out this pretty neat site called Artfool. I like the earthy colour scheme and squarish texture.

Great Interior Shots

By Ditte Isager spotted on Ohjoy. His food and travel shots are as picturesque as well. Clockwise from top left:

1. Royal for Vogue Living. Pretty plates, subtle vertical-striped walls and rustic tables.

2. Jackpot. I love blue and white combos. Especially with indigo, in this case.

3. Marie Antoinette for Domino Magazine. There's something very quaint about this piece. Although we have no need of a luxurious fireplace, we can still have that pretty console in midnight blue.

4. Kjærholm. I love hidden rooms! Reminds me of Moby's hidden bathroom, as shown on MTV Cribs.

M.C. Escher

Was at Ohjoy where she mentioned spotting some lovely tiles and patio stones that reminded her of M.C. Escher. I'm a big fan of his art. Here's a sample from his official website.

Clockwise from top left. Scanno, 1956. Ascending and Descending. Waterfall, one of my favourites. And Sky & Water I Woodcut. "M.C. Escher became fascinated by the regular Division of the Plane, when he first visited the Alhambra, a fourteen century Moorish castle in Granada, Spain in 1922." So am I, but i'm terrible with perspective drawing.

It's A Butterfly

Spotted this on my way to work and happened to have me camera with me. Just your regular neighbourhood butterfly resting on a lily leaf.

Monday evening treat

Took home some leftovers from the potluck. The following day finished the cold satay for a mid-day snack. For dinner, refried 3 potato cutlets and prepared otah omelette. Monday however, still had 3 pieces of otah, so tried my hand in making it into a pasta dish. Finished the rest of the diced tomatoes, added Italian herbs as usual, and threw in plenty of celery and a sausage. Celery was cooked for very long to make sure it was soft. And this is the result, before mixing it up. Otah still taste like otah, haha! But i wouldn't want otah in a cream-based pasta.

Corn Beef Potato Cutlets

I made Corn beef Potato Cutlets last Saturday for Christus Dominus Choir Easter Potluck.

Steps: 1 - Boil potatoes till soft. 2 - Mash all potatoes, condiments and corn beef together. 3 - Roll them into the size of flattened golf ball. 4 - Coat with flour to prevent sticking to one another. 5 - Gladwrap and chill overnight.

This is the first batch. Then i change the oil. The one in the foreground and the one at the bottom, centre, are the right colours. I qced the rest, dusting off the charred bits with kitchen paper. Tried one, a bit plain, but can taste the herbs, not too overpowering.

This is the second batch. The colour is much better overall, didn't had to qc much. This one just had the right amount of salt and pepper. Quite a success I would say :)

A house should be a home

Check out these clean, simple and family-friendly interiors from Victoria Hagan. Now if only HDB has such high ceilings. Read an interview with the designer here.

Strorybook Part II

I missed the Storybook series by Le Sportsac. But this year we have the Enchanted series!

Can I have one in the form of a small sling bag please? Maybe Shaun will get me one!

Fatherhood Can Change A Man

This is my friend's site, 5 years ago. He did it for his final year project. Fast forward to 1 year into marriage and 6 months into pregnancy...

We get Winnie The Pooh! And the screen can change its background to different Winnie The Pooh images. Pretty scary what fatherhood can do to a man.

Pretty Sunday

It is my first time stepping into OLPS since Maudy Thursday. OLPS likes to hang banners on either side of the crucifix especially when the occasion calls for it. And since it is Easter season, I had the delight to view these pretty posters. My fellow parishioners must have noticed I wasn't here for Easter, as I took photos of these posters to share with you. The message really warmed my heart, a great way to start celebrating Sunday Mass.

My sister surprised us with Black Pepper Chicken and Honey-glazed Chicken yesterday for dinner. However, thirteen of us could not finish the 3 whole chickens, so we kept some leftovers. Bearing this in mind, I went to buy "traffic-light" capsicums (green, yellow and red) among the bunny veggies and other groceries. Then I reached home, famished and whipped this up in less than 30 mins: tomato-based linguine with (leftover) chicken and yellow capsicum. This photo was taken before mixing it up, scrumptious!

La Tarte Tropezienne

In the spur of a moment, my friend and I decided to meet up at Bugis! It being Friday evening, and both of us had dinner waiting for us at home, we went ulu-cafe hunting at National Library and found this not-so-ex wan on L3.

She had an apple cheese cake and I had a Tropezienne. La Tarte Tropezienne is simply a big sugared brioche bread cut in two and filled with a ton of English cream and lined with raspberry milk. Both our first time trying it, it was surprisingly really light! The apple cheese cake was a little dry and hardly cheesy. I finished mine while she was just halfway into hers. Plain black tea to wash it all down. Plus, plenty of chit-chat. A great start for the weekend!

Inspiring Wedding Dresses

From MarthaStewart.com's Weddings. Clockwise from top left:

Ristarose Couture
If it's a garden wedding, dressed up with a pretty diamante cross pendant and dangly earrings.

Carolina Herrera
Love the bead pattern on this one. Princess needs a ballroom, pair up a diamond choker with a tiara. And heels! Looks very trippable.

Claire Pettibone
Looks very very feminine, 'cos of all the lace. Definitely need air-con atmosphere for this one. Will probably look good with a veil.

Vera Wang
Very Irish to me, can walk down the aisle with The Chieftains in the background. Flowers in my hair sorta thing; garden wedding. And I dun need to worry abt my tummy showing. There's a store in The Link Wedding: Lower Lobby, Shangri-La Hotel - Singapore, Orange Grove Road 258350, 65-6235-4648; Bridal, Fragrance, Silver & Gifts, Footwear and Dresses.

My version of Isaac Brown's Monster

You guys follow Mr Brown's blog? Anyway, a few weeks ago, he posted some monster drawings done by his son, Isaac. And just today, he posted a coloured version of it by Singaporean artist, Torei. But it looked more cute than scary. So I went into photoshop and did some colouring of my own. I dun think Isaac intended those 4 strokes to be legs.

Jacspotting

I was just wondering if there was gonna be an IDN Design Edge this year, so popped over to their site to take a look...and found this image. I was actually wondering wtf is he doing...in the end I thought his work was crap and squeezed myself outta there.

There's an entire gallery, they even had one of Maharishi. I think Yen is in the 4th Entrance pic, but can't remember if she wore purple that day and carried a grey designer clutch bag.

Brings back memories...plus i met quite a few of my ex-classmates and ex-school mates.

For the love of pretty things

Ever since i've made a career-switch (sort of), something pretty seems to be missing from my daily life. Hence, this blog is gonna be about the prettiest thing I discover or create for the week. To be posted on Sundays, so come visit again this coming Sunday. Expect pretty things, pretty people, pretty animals or just simply pretty pictures :) If I find more time, I'll try to post more often.