The smell of old books – if only they could bottle that in a perfume! I still remember where I inhaled the strongest smell of sepia I’ve ever encountered. It was at my college library’s mezzanine floor. The upper and lower floors of our library catered to academicians and serious commerce students. Unknown to me, in a makeshift floor betwixt, lay a lost world tucked away from well-thumbed curriculum guides. Its only connection to the …[Read more]
Shikha Lamba is a Hong Kong based mumpreneur who has been featured on Secondsguru as an expert at upcycling and reinventing old, often forgotten jewellery [Shikha Lamba: The jewellery transformer]. What we inadvertently missed mentioning in our cover story on Shikha is the adorable movement started by her, aptly called, “The Piggy Bank club”. So what is the Piggy Bank Club, Hong Kong? It’s a recycling activity club with a social purpose whose members meet …[Read more]
After the inevitable Christmas shopping spree, despite best efforts to carry my own shopping bags, I ended up with a fair number of plastic bags – and quite a few of them (I hate to admit) good looking! So I decided to make the best of it and apply my learning from the Upcycling Plastic workshop by theKANG! It is fun, easy and quick to transform crinkly carriers into bright trinkets. And what better timing …[Read more]
If you’ve renovated your house, you’ve felt that disbelief – that confused annoyance of seeing old hardware gutted out and thrown – even if it looks sturdy! – in favor of new shiny pipes and silky smooth wires. Seriously, does everything have to be thrown, you ask the contractor, and hear mumbo jumbo about new technology and old rust and hygiene and even (in a whisper) cheapskate. Unfortunately, we cannot advice you on how to …[Read more]
