Home@Stirling - Goodbye

we sold our place and are moving out of Stirling today.

Goodbye to our 1st home and all the wonderful memories we had.

Home@Stirling - Merry Christmas Everyone!

I don't usually post myself much on butterpaperstudio but hey it's Christmas! 

Happy Holidays everyone...may your Christmas be jolly and with much love to spread around and shared with your loved ones.

for Year 2017, we do apologise if we have crossed anyone's path. If I didn't give you a smile, do forgive me cos I have 3 kids to attend too and most of the time, I'm not in my right mind...lol

And for the coming year 2018, we hope to do better and bring more smiles to all our homeowners.

cheers!

xoxo

velle

Home@Stirling - Christmas Eve

click here for my Christmas dinner prep!

Home@Stirling - Christmas Decorations

i'm still moving my christmas decorations around the house.

in the mood of being fickle-minded.

Home@Stirling - obsessed with clouds (cushion)

fly away into the sky...

Late night supper - SPAM fries

hello!
TGIF!!! i know this is irrelevant to what we are doing at butterpaperstudio but just wanna share with everyone on my latest supper love - SPAM fries or luncheon meat fries.
LOL....i'm not sure what overcame me but probably i saw someone's instagram's photo of spam fries at a local cafe and spurred me into making some on my own. So without hesitation, i went to the nearest NTUC that evening and bought a can of Maling Luncheon meat and air fried it that night whilst all 3 kiddos were zzz-ing.

it was soooo simple! Just have to cut the spam into rectangular strips like the above photo and put them into the air fryer for about 20 mins, tossing them at every 4min interval at 180 degrees. No preheating of air fryer is required.

and OMG, looks quite ugly but turns out really nice. crispy on the outside and so soft and moist on the insides. especially if you have cut your strips thicker.

try it and let me know if you enjoyed it just as me and hubs!!!
we washed it all down with a can of Guinness stout draught which was delish. of course we shared a can lah.

xoxo
velle

Back from Ikea

Just came back from ikea and look what I bought? Super love my new woven basket! Now this has become my favorite spot of the home.

Home@Stirling - OSB Panels up!

This morning as early as 10am, hubs went down to the shop to collect his OSB panels. Guess he can't wait to start his little project. He finished installing all the OSB panels about noon time. And now it's just leaving the door to finish up the room.

peek into the small and little spare room of ours. But it's good enough to put a chest of drawers and a single mattress. I think for a month's stay, it would do plus this room has it's own air conditioning too!

Home@Stirling - Spare Room framing system is up!

hubs went down to IKEA to get some wood strips to start the framing works of our spare room. It got it done within the afternoon after thinking about it for a few days and sketching up the framing system. I can tell that he is quite excited over his little project.

 Here's how it looks from our dining area, looking to the spare room.

 subframe supports at the ceiling area

As the wood stripes from IKEA were not long enough, hubs had to join some strips to make the whole framing system to the soffit of the ceiling.

 Jules is happily jumping in and out of the make-shift room now. 

He's just as excited about this new room as his father.

tomorrow the panels will be up! 

stay tuned.

can't wait to see how our little spare room will turn out.

xoxo

velle

Home@Stirling - Shifting our dining table to make room for another room!

future planning space

 Yes we are in another home makeover again.

Just like what hubs' friends who visit us once or twice a year, they always say that our home is forever changing! We are in the midst of a transition period. Once our baby arrives, the confinement nanny will have to shift to our helper's room which means our helper has no where to sleep unless we put a bunk bed in the room. However we both decided to give our helper another room on her own so that she can have enough rest in the night without the baby disturbing her and also to let her have her own privacy.

So the dining table has to go! Anyway it's not that we are throwing away our dining table, just making some minor adjustments in our little 3 room flat. So we have cleared our dining table and dining chairs.

James in the "moving" mood, shifting his little chairs around the house while hubs and my helper are shifting the dining table and chairs.

stay tune for more of our home improvement works!

Home@Stirling - Plants

it's the weekend again and we have some sun after so many days of rain in the month of November. I love rainy days as it can get real hot in Sunny Singapore. However there are times like this when my indoor plants are needing some good sunlight to boost their energies!

so i'm sunning my plants out in the deck now.

Home@Stirling - This Year's Christmas Decorations are up!

call me a kiasu but i love putting up christmas decorations up early especially when the next Lunar New Year is arriving so early.

have you started putting up your christmas decorations yet? if not, i think ikea has started selling their already!

xoxo

velle

Home@Stirling - Artificial Terrarium - Velle's lazy plant

I remembered one of my client bought a terrarium and call it the "lazy man's plant" because you only need to spray water once a month. hah!
Guess what. This artificial terrarium is Velle's lazy plant!!! It totally needs no watering and caring at all. Don't even need to put it in a shady or with moderate daylight area. You can even store it in the wardrobe or cupboard when you get tired of it.

I was at Daiso Vivocity on Friday for dinner and I happened to chance upon these cute plastic animals which the shop was selling. Sharing is caring...so here are where I bought all my stuff to do an artificial terrarium.

bag full of pebbles - daiso
artifical cactus - daiso
animals - daiso
glass jar - ikea


my son Jules loves it to bits and insisted that this to be put next to his bed. crazy. I'm just going to place it above my cupboard....

Home@Stirling - New plants cactus and indoor plant

Marks & Spencer occasionally has sale on their delicious cookies. So i bought 3 different types (chocolate digestives, ginger snaps and almond butter) for $9.90 which i happily store them in my cookie jar and left it in our office for hubs to munch.

Saturday we went to ikea and got ourselves a cacti and indoor plant. Jules had brought back a jar of soil from kindy and we have left it on our table for the longest time. We decided that it was time to either - throw the damn jar away so that we have one less thing sitting idlying away on our table, or to carry out a terrarium project.

alas, we did the latter.

so now we have one more plant to look after, hopefully not kill.

xoxo
velle

Home@Stirling - Home made cookies

Jules helped me to make the cookies! 

As a 'reward' for going to school, I promised Jules that we can make cookies together this weekend and he has been looking forward to this day!!! Although most of the work was done by me but he helped to melt the butter and sift the flour. It was a quick but enjoyable bonding experience we both had. Cookies baked real fast like 15mins and the prep time is approx 15mins too! So in half an hour I had 2 trays of freshly hot baked cookies from the oven.

So parents! When are u gg to bake some with your kids?? If I can find the time... So can u!

xoxo

velle

Home@Stirling - New Living Room Wall Shelf

loving our new wall shelf!

And just in time for the Lunar New Year.

hubs always wanted a wall shelf instead of our old bookshelf that drops to the floor. Now with the new wall hung shelf, we can shift our sofa all the way to the back and gain more space between the tv and the sofa.

Home@Stirling - plumen light bulb

Finally I bought one for myself!!!
Hee hee...

Home@Stirling - Decorating in Red!

flowers from IKEA 

 Peach blossom flowers from Daiso

Big Red Peony Flower from Chinatown 

Red Paper Cuttings from Chinatown and photoframe from IKEA 

Home@Stirling - New Sliding Glass door

YES!

finally our office is completed with the new glass sliding door. So we can turn on our air conditioning and keep the cool air within the office space. Just in time for our christmas party!!!

Here are some photos of our small office to share with everyone! Enjoy!

xoxo
velle