With Mothers' Day looming, here's a year round treat for Mum...create a cosy nook for her to unwind whenever she wants to, surrounded by her favourite things.

Pick a spot in the home where you think she'll love. Relocate the armchair that I suspect has been rooted in its place for like a decade ( I can never understand this ). Find an occasional table or in the absence of one, repurpose a stool for the task. Once you have the table in place,gather her favourite things together creating a vignette.

Get creative! The picture holder you see is actually an old fork. I've bent the tines using needle-nose pliers.  How you wish to curl the tines is entirely up to you....just make sure you don't use Mum's precious cutlery! She can prop little notes or cards on it as I have or use it to hold her recipe card when she makes your favourite dish!

If you're using a lamp with an old shade, why not give it a fresh look? Vacuum the shade  using the upholstery attachment, then glue on trim at the rims. Double sided tape would do just as well. I've chosen a beaded fringe (from Spotlight at Plaza Singapura) and topped that with gimp.

Finally, to pull the whole look together add in a couple of coordinating cushions for Mum to snuggle up with a book or her hobby.....

So go forth, be inspired!

(Wish to create your own cushion for Mum but can't sew? Do visit the onSponge SHOP to find out more!)

   As parents we expect alot from our kids. I'm no exception....good grades a must. I was like a fiend when Nicholas was in Primary school. I remember the first test results he brought home. All excited and happy, this bespectacled kid waving his test paper like crazy. However, it fell short of my expectations but like a good Mummy, I pulled a wide plastic grin and said, 'That's VERY good!' Muack!

I had been working on a tissue box cover as part of a commission recently. As straightforward as that may seem, I was stumped for ideas. It wasn't about the how-to but more of the desired look I needed to achieve. Two days on and I still had no ideas....this was pathetic to say the least!

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I’ve come up with 4 pretty simple projects that would make great gifts. So now that the major festivities are over, set aside a weekend for yourself (maybe even invite a few close friends) and try your hand at these projects.

LOOKING at the old stuff with new eyes, that's the theme this time. It's easy to throw stuff away amid the spring cleaning frenzy. Out with the old, in with the new. But maybe, all that's needed is repurposing and relocating the things or furniture you have.
 
From the store room to the kitchen

Go green...in colour!

I've decided this year that I'll go green with my gift wrapping. In this context, I present a few examples of ideas that I hope will inspire you to give it a try! Using recycled materials doesn't have to be the ubiquitous twine and brown paper. I'd like to show you how to glam it up this gift giving season without having to spend a bomb on gift wrap. Best of all everything you need may well be right under your roof, the limits being your own imagination. Be inspired!

HI! I'm Angelina, homemaker and mum to a wonderful 13 year old son.  Aside from the house chores and the usual mum stuff, I'm always thinking of ways to improve my home - be it adding shelves to reorganize my cupboards, sewing a new set of covers for the throw cushions (hence setting a whole new look) or updating a favourite chair by sawing it (yes, I'm a regular Jill of all trades!) to more pleasing proportions and reupholstering it.