Polkaros Pop Up + Drom Class

I know I know there was no post for a while. I was telling to myself perhaps no one was reading so how about a stop. I usually don't get excited over many things but this time just looking from Polkaros's blog is making me excited and looking forward to Polkaros Pop Up in Singapore.

Earlier on I was telling (or more like nagging) my friend Rehana that she must visit Polkaros Summer Pop Up at Sugar Town (Japan) and I must go if I am in Tokyo. Eventually Rehana didn't make it there but she sent me a postcard that make me even regretted not able to make it. Thanks to The Little Drom Store being one of my favourites, Ros came to Singapore !

Ps: Sorry for the weird size of the photos as all are taken by my iphone 6

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Polkaros hand crafted pots, clay brooches, tenugui, bags, and zines together with the adorable pompoms are so hard to give it a miss. I can still remember I have a copy of her zine with the tote bag not used on my shelve. This time I am not prepare to give the pot a miss this time even though my favourite was taken and most of them in store already have an owner :D

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Drom class started in the cozy little treehouse of The Little Drom Store. What could be more therapeutical to sit down and paint on a raining night. With my best creativity I sketch a Teru teru bozu (てるてる坊主), Kokeshi, Bikini girl and lastly one that i could only sketch some parts here and there but not the facial expression.

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All my classmate did very well with many good ideas and their pots are all so amazingly cute. Thank you Ros and Antoinette for giving me lots of idea and I guess I must be the worst in class. I painted without any sketches and at the end of the class, my piece turned out to be "Mr. Postman" or actually I wanted it to be a mailbox.

Given the fact that I have not much talent in drawing and painting, I eventually graduated from the class. I have much fun during the 2 hours Drom Class :)

The classes have ended but the pop up will still be on till 30 November so do drop by if you keen on getting some cute stuffs as Christmas gifts.

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Do you still remember my earlier blog post about Not A Retail Shop // NÓNG ? Transitional___ by Shophouse & Co is a traveling creative platform that brings life to various spaces around the city and this time being part of the new initiative, online store Naiise set up its pop-up retail at 115A King George Avenue added more fun to the hardware stores in the Lavender area.

Besides able to browse through the assortment of lifestyle goods, there are also food tasting session by the various artisanal food makers such as the jam I have recently bought from GSH Conserves. There are also workshops conducted by Tyrwhitt General Company and pop-up coffee bar by Bettr Barista Coffee Academy .

I visited them on a weekday afternoon so that are not too much activities going on, however the weekend activities sounds too good to miss, still not too late to head down with one more weekend before they are close on 22nd June.


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115A King George's Avenue
Singapore

Colors Monday【MT Expo Singapore】

I know I took too long to post but better than none. The MT Expo held in July last year was the first time in Singapore and everything was about MT Tapes there. I went twice since it was so fun with workshops and hands on DIY with free usage of MT Tapes. A total of 5 Singapore limited edition tapes made debut at this rare event and of course they were off the shelves very soon. I am always happy to see new products from MT and love the Scandinavia series collaborated with Olle Eksell, Bengt & Lotta and Lisa Larson. How I wish there would be more collaboration!

Since many limited edition mt tapes that were not for sale and only available for exchange when you play with the gachapon coin machine so it was super addictive. Even though the event have ended here but there are always some MT event somewhere, so in case you are MT fans and planning for a holiday, do check out their website if there are any up coming event.


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Bloesem Class - ABC's of Calligraphy

I have been follow Bloesem blog by Irene Hoofs for quite a while and even though she have opened the little dutch shop in Tiong Bahru estate, I did have the chance to visit. Someday I am so happy when I noticed that they kicked off their very first Bloesem Classes with Calligraphy by Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls, I didn't take long to sign up since I been wanting to learn for the longest time.

The Bloesem creative and retail space was simply awesome, with so many curated selection of products from around the world. I immediately set my eyes on the hand woven pillows, Fine Little Day's  posters, little quotes jar and Skandinavisk scented candles.

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We started to class with brief introduction and everyone was given a set of the personalized kit that consists of a bottle of ink, a pointed tip pen, a special Maybelle-designed practise book and my favourite of all have to be the special pen and ink holder made personally by Maybelle's husband.

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I love how Maybelle demonstrated the basic strokes / curves, uppercase and lowercase, she make it seems so easy. She was very encouraging and when I found it hard to write letter like "I", "J" and "O" she was very patient to show me again and again. I adore the strokes and curves but I am not too good in controlling my pen. My three hours session passed by so fast and I realized the success of writing good calligraphy is to keep practising and lots of patience.

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I hardly get to attend class whereby there are continuous supply of food from cookies to cake to Nasi Lemak lunch and coffee to tea and even prosecco are provided. The class here is fun and relaxing and the best part have to be the supply of yummylicious food and wonderful space.

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This was the gorgeous writing by Maybelle and she was kind enough to write for everyone. I have a good class experience and is definitely worth the time and money. Keep up the good job Bloesem and I can't wait to attend Lisette Scheers screen printing class this Sunday to learn the art of screen printing beautiful prints and patterns onto fabric.

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