kawaii!

specially for all you TPL "lovers!"


sorry, my kate spade box has no brown ribbon. i couldn't be arsed to put it back on just for this photo. and especially not for you childish lot.

mock me all you want! pfffffffft!!!

my black katie skirt

i wore my black katie skirt last thursday! and i received so many compliments for it!


once again i forgot my pearls! argh!

it's super comfy, and unlike some skirts that tend to ride up while you walk or move around too much, the Katie skirt hangs obediently on the waist and stays in place nicely. also, i wore the skirt for a huge part of the day - i did not change into my work clothes - and was very pleased to see that it did not get wrinkled at all, considering all the movements throughout the day.

i paired it with my yellow mango top and my yellow quinn, instead of going for orange. i think yellow looks better! and speaking of yellow, my yellow katie skirt is in the works! i can't wait to receive it!

shades of orange (iv)

this dress is definitely going to be one of my favorites from now on! i love how it hangs and how the skirt flares out. many of my colleagues complimented the dress and commented i looked like a stepford wife! lol! and the shade of orange is just beautiful too.


i was undecided between my five points camille and the wellesley quinn, but decided on the latter. something about the yellow just gives the outfit an extra oomph! and i finished the look with my nude primark heels.

the back of the dress is worthy of so many ooohs and aaaahs! but of course, it's not too appropriate for work, so i had paired it with my green cardi. it actually looked good - the combination of green and orange! i never would have thought! but dang, i wished i had taken a picture of me with the green cardi on!


i wonder how many more days of celebrating orange are left...and most importantly, i wonder what the next color-of-the-month will be! i'm praying hard it will be blue, so i won't have to shop for outfits for a while at least! lol! i have tons of blue!

shades of orange (III)

finally, my orange asos buys have arrived, and i can now get into the swing of kate spade's orange crush! i love this tangerine shift dress so much! it's very flattering and feels really comfortable to the skin.


i added a turquoise brooch to give the get-up a color twist...i've always thought orange goes perfectly with turquoise! my only bummer about this photo is that i had forgotten about my pearls, and only realised it much, much later. i had worn it to work, but i change into workwear everyday before class starts because class activities can get mighty messy with the little ones, so when i had changed back into my outfit at the end of the day, i had forgotten about the pearls. oh well!

my gorgeous katie skirts

readers of my blog would be familiar with the name "sandee" - my dearest friend from the US who has been such an angel and always ready to help me get my kate spade obsessions from the website. but did you know sandee is also a real talent at designing and making clothes as well? yes, she is!

if you've been to her blog, you'll know that sandee designs and makes really gorgeous skirts that she has labelled the "katie skirt". she has them in really beautiful colors!

i recently ordered two for myself, and they arrived on friday! i ordered the green and the black, because she has the most gorgeous shade of green (very alike the kate spade green!) and black because it will work so amazingly well with any color-of-the-month kate spade is celebrating!

here are my gorgeous katie skirts!


the pretty cards and stickers that came with my exciting parcel!

love the tagline!

my black katie skirt


my green katie skirt


detailed stitching at the waistband


invisible zip at the back


soft and silky grey satin lining

the skirt is so detailed and nicely done that even the waistband seams on the inside are lined, and she also has her own tag sewn on!



i haven't had the chance to put them on and style them yet, but i really, really want you to see how beautiful the katie skirt is when worn. here is my dearest friend sandee with her beautiful creation - the katie skirt - and impeccable styling skills. i always love the outfits she put together!



i'm loving the skirt so much, i want to order another one, this time in yellow! and as you can see in this picture, you can add on a belt on the skirt too for a more stylish finish!


i can't wait to style my katie skirts! even the husband said they're really pretty. if you would like to own one (or more!) of sandee's remarkable creations, head on over to sandee's blog and etsy shop to order your own katie skirt! she has also introduced a new gingham range!

welcome, hardware zone lowlifes!

while going thru my blogstats, i found proof that too much time on ones' hands turn people into lowlifes. check this out:

Lowlifes getting together

for my US readers, TPL, or Tin Pei Ling, is a member of parliament here who is at the receiving end of a lot of hatred from Singaporeans, and she has received a lot of flak over a picture of her posing with a kate spade box. google it, and you'll know the story. hey, don't ask me why. singaporeans people can be impossible and pick over the slightest thing once they have formed an (unfavorable) impression of you. she could have been hugging an LV box and then LV would be ridiculed too.

well, just bad luck (and mine, too, obviously) she had her arms around a kate spade box. a lot of singaporeans have cried bloody murder and swore to never buy kate spade again since the photo. how bloody childish right? but hey, that leaves more for you and i, and other kate spade lovers.

anyway, back to the story. i was looking at my blog stats and wondering what on earth on hardware zone could possibly direct so many visitors here. and that is when i discovered the thread above. isn't it pathetic how lame some people can be? and ridiculous? it's not enough to hate that TPL character, but they have to drag me - an innocent kate spade lover - into the mess as well?

look at them hiding behind their avatars and userids, making fun of others just to make themselves feel good and worthy.

but hey! i must thank the master of the lowlife lot, dqwong, because thanks to his honestly pathetic and pitiful attempt to poke fun at me, i now have tons of visitors coming this way!

my mothers' day present!

sorry it took me so long to post this! mothers' day was over a week ago! but it's nearing the end of the school term here, and i've been really busy at work!

so aaaaaaaanyway, here are photos of my mothers' day present from the husband!







he got me the classic noel triangular duffel since we'll be going for a short holiday to hongkong in June. that's in about twenty days time! it's a really short trip for only about three days, because we're only checking out the Disneyland there and then heading back. we won't have time to shop (boo hoo!) because of the strict itinerary we have to follow, but i'm gonna try to squeeze some time to pop by the kate spade store there!

i didn't want an excessively big luggage bag, because we are just gonna be away for three days, and this duffel bag is just of the perfect size. not overly big, yet huge enough to store all my stuff and the little man's that we will need over our short holiday. i'm gonna send my classic noel sky gabel baby bag for cleaning, so i can use that for the trip too, and i'll have matching bags! *beams*

taking too long!

sigh...the orange garb i've ordered from asos still hasn't arrived! what has arrived instead is the lot i ordered just before:





i hope they reach me before the orange "month" is over!

space for everything

i'm loving this IKEA ad! i'm sure a lot of us can relate! lol!

watch it!!

well, it sure brought a chuckle when i first saw it on telly!

kate spade...then and now.

i'm sure, many of you, when scouring online for that elusive kate spade bag you are doing your darnest to get your hands on, may stumble upon a few that will make you do a double-take, or wonder out loud if kate spade really did make such a bag. it's interesting to see how kate spade has evolved from the late nineties to what it is today. you'd be surprised that one of the oldest kate spade bags may just be the real deal though it looks like a fake!

take a look at these ones!


i'm sure many of you would have been quick to dismiss these two as fakes, but you'd be shocked to know they are genuine kate spades from the pre-1999 collections. how different are kate spade handbags these days from then, huh?

a lot of work goes into collating all of kate spade collections from the late 20th century to the mid-21st, (believe me, i tried!) and for that, props will have to be given to kat for putting together a website (http://ihatecounterfeitbags.info) that contains unbelievably useful and interesting information for every kate spade fan.

her website lists all the never-been-seen kate spade bags for all recent kate spade fans, also absolutely handy tips on kate spade fakes and how to identify them, plus images of the ksny logo past and present.

check out her site "i hate counterfeit bags info" and you'd agree with me, she's absolutely amazing. her in-depth and profound knowledge of all bags kate spade is....WOW! have fun reading up on her site, it's always good to know more about our favorite label, and always interesting to see how it has evolved over the years!

shades of orange (iI)

my husband brought me to the kate spade store today to get me my belated Mothers' Day present, and you will not believe this - i couldn't find ANYTHING i liked! NOTHING! i even walked round the store FIVE times just to be sure! i'm actually quite bummed. the product range was disappointing. there were a lot of the black bags...and the old barrow street annabel range as well as the older seersucker patent ones. the rest of the (very limited) newer range i didn't fancy at all!

they didn't have the mott street fisher in tangerine, nor do they have the splodge dot seraphine. well, they did have the victoria falls madeline, but the price tag was a bit much here. not justifiable for a teeny Mothers' Day present! that one calls for an anniversary or birthday or something! lol!

so i walked out of there empty handed...and very, very bummed. BUT. i'm not one to not have a back-up plan, so i managed to get something else instead to make up for the failed shopping trip. IT WILL BE REVEALED SOON!

meanwhile, here's what i wore today!



as i'm still waiting for all my orange dresses and tops to arrive from asos, the only dash of orange i can afford till then is from my tangerine five points camille! the dress is from asos, and heels from URS Inc.

i hope to have more "live colorfully" posts once i stock up on my orange gear!

shades of orange (i)

this is about the only orange dress i have to get me by the month that kate spade is celebrating the color orange! well, i do have two orange tops from topshop and zara, but they're older than my son, (haha!) so i'm not going to count them. but its okay! i reckon the orange dresses and tops i ordered from asos should arrive soon!

anyhoo, the dress i'm wearing above is from the label "embre" at robinsons, and the shoes, are very very VERY similar to the kate spade colin but i got mine from a local shoe store here (Charles&Keith) for less than SGD50!

i have no idea what to call the orange posts this month. it's so difficult to think of one! i settled for "shades of orange" because there's persimmon...tangerine...tangelo...pumpkin....and many more! so "shades of orange" it shall be!

and till my asos order arrives, i'll be out of orange!

orange i glad there's asos!

as y'all already know, we're celebrating the color orange for the next month! i only have got one orange dress and two orange tops! orange is such a bright and cheery hue, i don't know why i don;t have more of this color. thankfully for asos, though, i could add more of this happy hue into my wardrobe!







i hope they all arrive soon, and will fit me well!

going green! (III)

yesterday we brought the little one to a playdate at one of our friends'...who live in the neighbourhood we'll be moving in to! yes, we'll be moving out of my in-laws' (finally!) and into a place of our own! the place is nearly finish, we're just waiting to collect our apartment keys, so yesterday on the way to the playdate we stopped by to look at our flat and apartment, which was just two HDB blocks away!

right now, my in-law's place is a house in Thomson, and though i love the neighbourhood, and we'll be moving to a smaller 4-room apartment, nothing beats being on your own and having your own place. i'm sure many will know what i mean! i'm so excited, can't you tell? lol!

because we didn't have the keys yet, we could only take pictures of the exterior, but just being there, touching the gate of our apartment and my mailbox, was thrilling enough!




BUT. this is a "going green" post, so here's the something green i had on yesterday!