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Been wanting to watch "Idiocracy" since I saw scenes from it on on a movie review programme on TV a few weeks ago. Those few scenes that were featured were really funny and pretty clever and had me wondering why Fox, the movie's distributor, held back on releasing it.So intrigue and curiousity made me make the boyfriend take it out of the video library this evening. It turned out to be witty-ly good and having Luke Wilson ("Boo!" to Owen) in it added loads of bonus points.I don't think it'll ever go on major release so get a copy from your friendly neighbourhood video store, grab some beer and pizzas and have a hilarious night in.
Saw "The Simpsons Movie" on Sunday. The boyfriend is a big fan - we would have gone on the opening night if he could help it and the moment we stepped out of the cinema, he was already going on about how he couldn't wait for the special DVD box set to come out so he can watch it over and over again for 'easter eggs' (little hidden gems of visual in-jokes/gags, in this case) that he might have missed at the first viewing. Nerd. Geek.My main reason for going along was to see the Springfield gang on the big screen - enlarged, huge, gigantic - and I didn't expect them to do very much more than they usually did on TV but I was pleasantly surprised along the way:-- Lisa's new boyfriend- Marge's cold-climate wardrobe (nothing like the recent Harper's Bazaar "The Simpsons Go To Paris with Linda Evangelista" fashion spread)- Homer's new "friend" and the song about him...I can go on but I shan't.It was great for a lazy Sunday afternoon if you don't want to tax your brains too much before facing work on Monday - what I would describe as "fluffy" - but I'm not saying that the movie is crap and has no merits. It is very well-scripted and brilliantly-animated (but of course!) and if you love "The Simpsons'"on TV, you would love the movie - 82 minutes of laugh-a-minute.
Added two more items to the "Do Not Make A Measured Move, Girl" range on Etsy over the weekend.The brooches previously listed have had hits but no sale made yet. Selling on Etsy is so different from selling on Ebay - no adrenaline rush from seeing the auction figures go up. But I think Etsy is a better platform for the range so I'll leave it there for a while.
Haven't been feeling very inspired lately, fashion-wise. I think it's because winter is coming to a close but it's not quite warm yet. Plus I've had as much fun as I could have had with my wardrobe this season that I've run out of ideas for further mixing-and-matching of pieces to create new and exciting ensembles. In other words, I'm bored!And there's nothing else left to buy because I've already bought them all - cropped swingy a-line jackets, trapeze trenchcoats, metallic-sheen anoraks, voluminous dresses, textured tights, cuddly chunky knits,...The spring/summer stuff will hit the stores within the week and I can't wait!
I want some drop-waist dresses like these Marc Jacobs ones. After wearing loads of 'volume' for the last few months, I think I'd like to have a little definition back in my clothes but not in a "body-con'" kinda way. I'm already eyeing a cute little acid limey-yellow number from Veronika Maine's new range. After a season of greys, I'm ready for some colour!
And I'd love some men-style lace-ups/oxfords/brogues on my feet. Saw a great pair on the Camper website but they are not in stores here yet. Pui!
I've finally listed my tape measure brooches on Etsy - "Your Place to Buy And Sell All Things Handmade".I love them and hope others would too.
I've wanted to take a photo of this mailbox by my bus stop for the longest time but I always seem to forget in the rush to get home.I think it's funny - the new and improved line.And, oh, the irony - the mailbox gets vandalised not by people actually sticking things on it but by someone removing bits from it.I'd like to challenge the person who did it to a game of Scrabble because I think he/she will have the 'eye' to make great words out of a pile of randomly-selected letters.
My limited edition Orla Kiely Cafe Creme wellies have finally arrived! On Thursday.It rained everyday after, for three days, and that meant that I got to wear them very often and almost immediately! It's been loads of fun planning my wardrobe around them boots, like I usually do with new and exciting purchases.I've been looking to buy a pair since summer, in preparation for a cold and wet winter, but have not had much luck because the first pair that I fell in love with was not available anywhere in shops, both real and 
virtual, and they were pretty hard to beat.These Hunters in Camel Tweed by Tamara Henriques! I've spent days trawling through leads on the Internet but had no luck. She had other beautiful pairs in her collection but I simply had to have them in Camel Tweed! I was about to give up, with winter ending soon and thus no need for a pair until year, when I suddenly got hit by a flash of "shopping intuition" to go look at the Orla Kiely site. I bought them immediately! The last thing a winter-hater like me would want is more cold and rainy days but I'm actually secretly hoping for more of them because my wellies now make them seem like fun.Photos from Orla Kiely and Tamara Henriques websites.
It was a night of many 'firsts' - our first Burt Bacharach concert ever, our first time in the main concert hall at The Opera House, the first concert that we've been to where we are not the oldest in the audience (well, there were a few older fans at Teenage Fanclub last year but not as old as the Burt crowd and not as many) and the first time I've been to a gig feeling really ill (the flu bug hit in the afternoon). A quick review: - Mr Bacharach is still a real cool cat at 79. (Swoon!) Extremely charasmatic, charming and endearing.- While his singers have what most would classify as 'good' voices, they didn't do anything for me - too commercially pitch-perfect, no 'character', boring, blah! And they sang for most of the night! Give me Cameron Diaz' out-of-tune karaoke-rendition of 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' in 'My Best Friend's Wedding' anyday!- Saving graces: Burt singing two of my favourite tunes - 'The Look of Love' and 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head' - in his sexy, raspy, like-talking voice; his on-stage banter and the guy who made the trumpet sound so beautiful.So a good time was not had by me. Being sick didn't help, I guess. Couldn't wait to get home to lie in bed and listen to Burt's tunes recorded by Dusty Springfield, Gene Pitney, The Stranglers, The Carpenters, The White Stripes...That's how I want to remember my evening with Burt Bacharach by.
I'm finally going to get to see Burt Bacharach play 'live' this evening! He was slated to play in February but had to postpone his tour because he broke his arm.But what's a few months when I've waited nearly a lifetime, having grown up listening to his tunes (and more) courtesy of my Uncle Elvis' record collection (not his real name but my nickname for him because of the quiff that he cultivated in his twenties and is still wearing with pride today with receding hairline and all). I'm wishin' and hopin' for a big sing-along session in the Opera House tonight.
My aunt has been going to the annual Craft Fair for years now - she's an avid knitter and loves looking at and purchasing the latest 'hot new looks' in the world of yarn. She inherited my grandma's craft-y genes while my mom got the cooking ones. I'd like to think, one generation down, the genes have decided to meet up again, in me.Anyway, I've never been to the fair so when it came around again this year (a few Saturdays ago), I decided to go have a nosey-around. It was pretty massive - loads and loads of stalls selling everything you'll ever need to make anything! I went with no set list of what I wanted to buy because I didn't know what to expect. But, of course, in such situations, the shopaholic in me took over. My bag was soon filled with not-exactly-useless things but just stuff that I don't need at the moment (like, do I really need more projects when I've still got loads of half-completed ones sitting in my craft box, or more material for those same unfinished pieces?).
Well, the paper pattern for this SangSang doll by Rosalie Quinlan and Melanie Hurlston, collectively known as Melly & Me, was a little hard to resist. It was a toss-up between SangSang and Freya (another doll by the girls), and SangSang won because I thought she's more a miniature me. Plus the helpful ladies, Kate and Lynn, at the Patchwork on Central Park stall, said SangSang is the easier doll to make between the two (which suited my need for instant gratification).This is the end-result - a one-arm SangSang. I came home from the fair all eager and excited and handstitched her face and her body the first night all in one go. Then, my interest waned, the very next day, right after I attached her left arm because she was starting to take shape and I could see how she 's going to look eventually without having to attach her other arm (the same poor-excuse-for-my-short-attention-span reasoning that I've used for the rest of the yet-to-be-completed projects in my craft box). I will, someday, give poor SangSang her other arm. Meanwhile, she just has to be patient.
There were other things at the fair that didn't need 'self-assembly' but they weren't for sale. Like this super-vintage girl's dress from the 1920s (I think). It was part of the exhibition by The Cavalcade of History and Fashion Inc. celebrating their 45th anniversary and their full collection of pwetty dwesses can be viewed here.It was a day of sensory-overload but I'm already looking forward to the fair next year.
Having grown up in Asia, I never thought I'd ever need a hot water bottle. But this has been one of the coldest (and wettest!) winter out of the four that I've had to put up with here so the moment I saw Walter (we like giving human names to inanimate objects around the apartment) at Plenty, a homeware store that stocks some fine stuff, I grabbed him.
You'd think, in a land with the four seasons, that it'd be easy finding a hot water bottle with a cover that's equivalent to a dress or a sweater or a sweater dress that you would wear but there are not too many options out there.
I'm glad I found my Walter. Love him for keeping me warm in the dreaded winter cold. If he's good, I might just make him a new 'sweater' next year.
Been wanting to watch "Idiocracy" since I saw scenes from it on on a movie review programme on TV a few weeks ago. Those few scenes that were featured were really funny and pretty clever and had me wondering why Fox, the movie's distributor, held back on releasing it.
Bit of A Blur by Alex James
