I don’t know Tobias Wong personally but I certainly followed his designs for a long time – like this Sun jar that i saw at Apartment Therapy a few years ago – while looking for diets for quick weight loss.  Tobias Wong was only 35 – too young to die in my opinion and no [...]

I never had green thumbs and even when i needed to re pot the plants at the store – i asked the in-laws to help.  I grew up watching my grandfather trimmed bonzai and know how expensive they are and we never touched them when we were kids.  But you see this spring the spouse [...]

I found this very pretty antique victorian vanity mirror online and thought about buying it to match with my vanity table.  Amidst all my anti aging product this i thought should give my table a splash of color and also something to leave to my grand-daughter when I am older.  I love the porcelain finished [...]

Pull out kitchen tap is nothing new but I haven’t seen them around here but after my bariatric surgery i’m going to look out for one because it is so much more convenient to have one in the kitchen sink when the in-law who stays overnight every now and then loves to wash her hair [...]

I’ve always liked to incorporate some of my asian cultural into our home for the sake of our kids because I’ve always wanted to make sure that they know about our grand history behind where I was born.   So I’m inclined to decorate my house with lacquer silkscreens of the lucky fishes or even blossoms.  [...]

Who doesn’t love their lemon right? even in the winter, we need our ice lemon tea and what better way to have your own lemon from your own home. Wait a minute – I hear you saying – yes, we do have long winters here and winter is terribly wicked.  But I need my lemon [...]

While the rest of the world is celebrating Valentine with flowers, i’m helping my best friend with her  Las Vegas job search . why? because she is moving away for she found her love online.  Well, lets get back to my Valentine in my household – while the rest gets flowers like the above, i [...]

My grandmother who used sleeping aid used to own one of this and when i was a kid, I used to think it was so cool to see her writing to her pen pals on this antique writing table.  When i grew older, I hope i would inherit this for my own home but I [...]

During the 80s these were very popular in the homes of relatives – they were not cheap – i think at a few hundred dollars.  I saw it on sale online and the seller was asking for $895!!  vintage it is.. because she claimed it was from the 60s – and i cannot agree more [...]

As you all know – aiming to have more asian influence at home is my goal -not only to teach my children how about my ancestors but also to let them know they are half Asian as well.   My spouse’s  business plan consultant had the same taste as I have even though he is not [...]