The Artist and the Geek

Totts of Labouring over cakes

Any home baker worth his and her salt (salts? no that sounds disgusting) knows of Phoon Huat. I’ve been hearing good things about TOTT which is short for tools of the trade. During the labour day weekend, Sidah planned another family baking session so while fetching the girls, I managed to convince her to drive…
PL Renovation Progress: Day 124 & 125

For our blinds we chose to go with a friends recommendation. We had gone to the office on the 18th of April 2011 at Katong Shopping Centre and installation was done on the 29th. We installed 3 pieces of blinds in our living room, and single pieces for the 3 windows in the bedroom. In…
Knock, knock. Who’s there? My bedroom doors!

Today we finally got my bedroom doors installed. Yontat doors I must admit were very well priced and perhaps that is one reason why the installation took a long time. I made the trip down to Yontat on the 4th of April, door measurements were made on the 8th and they finally came down today…
Our Big Move

I finally got Sidah to move and leave Babbit behind (temporarily) by arranging movers from Helping Hands today. We were in quite a rush as usual. We had work in the morning and then we rushed back to Punggol to receive the delivery from Gnee Hong. We finally can sit comfortably at the island on…
A Bake Test? ‘Twas a piece of cake

One of the cousins had the sudden urge to learn how to bake and had approached Sidah for lessons. So Sidah offered the use of our kitchen and oven. The original plan was to make this Rainbow Cake like the one you can find here. Ambitious much? Sidah managed to convince her to try a…
Deals for IKEA friends

Updated : The IKEA friends deals have expired. There are some good deals for IKEA friends. If you are looking for home insurance coverage especially after all the renovations, NTUC Income has partnered with IKEA to offer complimentary (read: free) $50,000 coverage for 6 months. T&C apply. Click here for details. I think I will…
Don’t chair hate not having a place to sit?

If you’ve been following our blog, you should know that we have been on a hunt for the perfect bar stool for our kitchen. We did find one which we both agreed was perfect. Well almost perfect – save for the price and color. We were all tired out after a long day at work.…
Wewentshoppingat Iwannagohome and IKEA

On Sunday, Sidah and I took a drive down to Great World City to take a look as we were told that it’s a great place to (window)shop for stuff for the house. So after a wedding lunch we went down to take a look at Molecule – which was supposedly having a moving out…
PL Renovation Progress : Day 104

Today Classic Furniture finished off their part by installing the glass backsplash for my sink area. Even though their part is done, it’s now my turn to finish up the kitchen. I have about 20 odd days before my targetted completion date for the whole house and I need to finish off these last few…
PL Renovation Progress : Day 102

Last year we were at one of those IT shows at the Expo and had signed up for a Eubiq package that was close to $2000. Today we finally got around to getting the power strips installed. In the package, we received tracks totaling 3m, one track for the table top, one standing post and…