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Tips & Tricks Transform old junk jewellery into stylish home decor pieces

Don't discard old junk jewelry - transform it into stylish home decor!

You don’t have to be a craftster to execute these ridiculously easy ways of reusing your old junk jewelry! With vintage and retro ruling the home decor wave, it makes perfect sense to use fashion statements from your past as style statements in your house. Here are my favourite four repurposing ideas, all tried and tested: Pendants from the yesteryears? How charming! Once upon a time, Madonna wore hoops, and I wore hoops and all …[Read more]

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Don’t chute! Recycle electronic waste responsibly

Reuse them, resell them, upcycle them.,.. but don’t chute them! Electronic waste is toxic. If you want to discard old mobile phones / laptops / wires / etc, the National Environment Agency [NEA] has a ready reckoner of drop-off bins in Singapore. The city is comprehensively covered – Starhub alone has 214 RENEW bins at 166 locations around the city. From Mountbatten (especially this weekend – see Panasonic’s Heartland Programme details) to Tampines, River valley …[Read more]

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EcoTravel Old gets glamorous in Siem Reap

EcoTravel | Old gets glamorous in Siem Reap | From soda can tabs to old rubber tyres, plastic bags to old newspapers, upcycled products can be readily found in the street markets and boutiques. Some tips for shoppers and upcycling enthusiasts in the city.

As you start traveling through the tourist hotspots of South East Asia, at some point you’re bound to get that niggling suspicion, then a certainly, that the “handicrafts” you are buying are getting crafted by the hands in China. How is it that street stalls from Phuket to Bali sell the same ware as Chinatown in Singapore, you wonder? And when you see the same batik-print Sarong far out in Janpath, New Delhi, then you …[Read more]

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EcoTravel White Magic at Nikoi

The first thing that struck me when our boat touched the sand bank of Nikoi Island was disbelief. Here I was, merely half an hour on a boat ride from Bintan, but the grey seas from the beginning of my journey had nothing in common with the palette of waters I now gently rocked over. I was surrounded by sparkling greens in the midst of deep blues, the colors calmly revealing live corals hidden beneath. …[Read more]