Every quarter, Secondsguru sits together with the Piggy Bank Club – a very serious, focused brigade of little kids – to talk about recycling over a craft activity. We talk about ways to be green in our day today life – easy but impact-ful stuff like separating recyclables, or, how to best dry up after washing hands [inspiration here]. Then we do the most looked-forward-to segment, fashioning piggy banks out of trash which the children use …[Read more]
I love tea. I enjoy trying new flavours. And there are some exotics ones out there these days- my recent discoveries being Lychee White Peony by Or Tea and Coffee Mate Tea by Ette. Strangely, caffeine doesn’t bother me (not yet), so I am good with a cuppa any time of the day. My friends and family know that and as a result, I tend to have fascinating options of tea in my home at any given point in time. Every …[Read more]
I had the absolute pleasure of attending an upcycling workshop aptly titled “Restyle your wardrobe” with Agatha lee, the founder of Agy Textile Artist , last Saturday, the 13th of August, 2016. Agatha (Agy) worked as a policy maker at the National Environment Agency(NEA) in Singapore for over 10 years before finding her calling in upcycling of textile waste. She is also the co-founder of Connected threads Asia , a platform that aims to promote sustainable fashion in the region. In her avatar …[Read more]
This week’s post comes from a globe-trotting couple who’ve supported Secondsguru from the get-go and we are delighted to welcome them back in our sunny city! Priya and Push are budding D-I-Y craft enthusiasts, who have mastered their craftsmanship in crafting witty puns and providing light entertainment to their friends, when they are not busy earning a living at Carlsberg and SpacesGenie respectively. So it’s finally official, we’ve moved with bag and baggage from Hong …[Read more]
