I didn't travel out of Singapore during June Holidays. I seemed fine on the first week as I was working on my work studio and clearing the mess and dirt carpenters had left behind after removing some partition built by the previous owner. By second week, I started to feel 'hollow' and weak whenever I saw people with luggage waiting for taxi and when I saw Bus service 858 (that is the express bus to the airport). So many times have I wavered and checked flights to go to BKK and HKG. End of the story is I sticked to my plan and did not go on a holiday.
If you can't figure what's the big deal, you need to know the type of person I am. I work 5 months (24/7 and up to 10 hours a day) without taking any leave just so that I can have at least 2 week of vacation overseas. I seized every opportunity to get out of Singapore - to refresh, to recharge.
I used the money saved for vacation to order stocks. So far, I have bought 4 new and 1 pre-owned hat blocks, ordered bales of veiling, sinamay fabrics from England and alencon lace and vintage millinery flowers from USA. I am now only short of petersham ribbon and snow white sinamay which is out of stock.
These are what I have bought.
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| Velvet Millinery Roses |
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| Peacock feathers that are bleached and dyed |
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Pastel and printed sinamay fabric
Sinamay fiber comes from the abaca plant, native to the Phillipines, which is a variety of the banana plant and abaca fiber is extracted from this. When woven the material makes a gauzy lightweight natural material with a strawlike appearance. The UK company that sells these Sinamay fabrics sourced the hand-woven fabric from plantations and villages that benefits directly from the sales of these fabrics. Colours are dyed in UK. |
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| Large box of arrow quills and dyed pheasant feathers. |
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| Love the colours! |
All these is to get ready for Christmas. What? So early? I teach full-time, and since school starts this week, I have not done any sewing. I have a class test coming up and a common test to be submitted for vetting on 1 August. Then theory and practical exam to be set by early September. I am down as time keeper/holding officer for oral exam and I dread the numerous meetings coming up to discuss the school holistic health report. There are more tasks to be done but I don't want to think about it. If I do not start making hats, I will not have enough stocks to do a long week of bazaar. I want to save more money as I am planning to take no-pay leave in July-August next year.
I am happy that the Garden by the Bay is ready. The person who designed this is pure genius. Singapore has been building new structures, 2 casino, universal studio theme park but none as awe-inspiring yet so beautiful as the Garden by the Bay. I can't wait to see it myself when the weather is cooler. Here some pictures I got from dailymail many week ago. I leave them to you to see and if you are planning a visit to Singapore, this is not to be missed.
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| These man-made trees are fitted with solar panels, hanging gardens and rainwater catches and will be used to display plants from across the globe |
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| My favourite photo |
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| On the left is Marina Bay Sands, it's a deluxe hotel with a casino. The boat structure on the top floor is the sky garden. Another awesome place to visit - I mean the sky garden, not casino |
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