It's the A level period and I should be studying. But mmmm haha everybody needs a break in a while. And I've recently discovered the joys of Taobao shopping. Taobao shopping contains a bit of tedious admin as while the stuff from Taobao is mostly relatively cheap, shipping is not. And I use an external spree service to ship for what must probably be cheaper (I don't know for sure but I believe my mother when she says so). 65daigou is super efficient and also very easy to use their service. Taobao shopping was a bit of uncharted territory initially but since my family's first batch of haul arrived safely in Singapore, I think it works. Haha. One of the things I decided to buy was a pincushion because I felt sad always sticking my pins into... sponge. We all had the same box of pins with a piece of sponge affixed onto the cover when we first learnt sewing in Secondary 1 but I've decided to move on. :) I bought two pincushions... because I couldn't decide a...
Exams are overrrrr! Because I had nobody to celebrate it with, I had to do celebrate with myself instead! :) Haha ah well. I've been itching to start on a new sewing project after the last backpack , but didn't have any materials so I decided to head down to Chinatown to get some :D It was my first time going to Chinatown to get stuff instead of being a fake-tourist because I only found out about the hidden textile businesses there recently. And woah did it not disappoint at all (after searching around for close to two hours -_-). The shop keepers are all very friendly and the cloth is cheaper than spotlight haha (which is the whole point.) Originally I had intended to get some cloth to sew a zippered pouch but I ended up just picking the patterns I liked and buying 1 metre of each. And forgot about getting those zips. The next time I go, I need a better strategy haha. All of them were about $5 - $6 per metre which is quite reasonable I would say. The quality is also ...