Time to recycle the old calendars! 2015 was a watershed year for Secondsguru – it gave me and Lara some of our busiest, longest, craziest, and even the most disorienting instructive days! We now look forward to a 2016 where we can turn all that we learned – from the people we met, the experiences we had, and the sites we surfed 😉 – into fodder for this blog. Wishing you all a Happy New …[Read more]
In September 2015, Secondsguru launched the #Under50Dollars Challenge, our creative twist to #SG50, to commemorate the 50th birth-year of Singapore. It was devised for our readers to appreciate the inherent value of things used and old. If you have a good eye, enjoy upcycling… and have some dollars in the pocket, you too can join in and take up the challenge! We are loving the enthusiasm our readers have shown. Kudos to recycling, reusing and reducing waste! Glad to see so …[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]
Calling all in Singapore to look into their kitchen cabinets! Do you have food items that you won’t be using anytime soon, or in fact never? Perhaps you over-bought at the supermarket attracted by a discount, and the food packets will expire soon? Maybe some biscuits and cakes that were gifted to you, but you don’t fancy the flavour? Any excess canned food, chips, etc that you would like to clear out of your cabinets? …[Read more]