SINGAPORE - CHINATOWN

Today we flew from KL to Singapore. This was my 7th trip to Singapore, so I must love it. We stayed with my dear school friend from Melbourne who now lives in Singapore. Our first night was spent in Chinatown which is an interesting place to wander around. There is a bit of junk for sale, but I was still able to find many lovely things.

I bought a selection of sample sized purfumes, mainly for the bottles.

There are plenty of shops like the one above, selling replica Chinese antiques and nick nacks.

This store was particularly lovely.

Lots of quirky pieces of artwork.

I selected this one.

A pretty lantern in my favourite colour.

An unusual tea pot for my collection.

Remember these from the 70's? I bought one for nostaligic reasons.

Singapore Girl doll.

There are lots of delicious food options in Chinatown too. We ate from a hawker stall, which you just can't beat for price and flavour.

KUALA LUMPUR - ODDS AND ENDS

A pretty jewellery box from Jadi Batik
This cute tiffin carrier contains lots of yummy chocolates - from KL airport.

I've been longing to find this kokeshi - bought from Isetan stationery department at Suria.

MALAYSIAN LIFESTYLE MAGAZINES

Here are a few magazines I purchased in KL, containing many beautiful photos.
How stunning is this garden?

I bought this for the Paris article.....I can dream can't I??

I want to live here.

I may steal a few ideas from these.

KUALA LUMPUR SHOPPING GUIDE - 4- PAVILLION MALL

Directly across the road from the Marriott is the Pavillion mall, which is a huge and very stylish shopping centre. It houses all the high end fashion names, but also lots of more affordable shops, such as Gap and Forever 21. On the ground floor, there is the wonderful gastronimically delightlful "Food Republic" food court, which offers every cusine under the sun, including my favourites, Toast Box for Kaya toast and Beard Papa, a Japanese cream puff outlet. I tried the satay in a cup twice because I loved it so much.
Everything here looked so yummy, but there are only so many meals per day. Eating out is so cheap in Malaysia.

Forever 21 had some great buys and even some in my size! I wish we had this store in Australia. We ended up buying quite a bit of clothing and jewellery here.

Kawaii snack

Hilarious Alice in Wonderland display.

I bought this funky canvas from "Oriental Art", and also the Peranakan cup below. They sold lots of other beautiful objet d'art, but most were too heavy to take home.

We found a shop selling all Japanese products - mainly nick nacks and cosmetics. There was also a Sasa cosmetic shop, and the Watson Pharmacy also sold Japanese Kate and Shiseido make up, which are my favourites.
I also bought loads of clothes from Gap, most of which I got at 1/2 price. I would definitely recommend this mall as a very enjoyable place to shop and eat.

KUALA LUMPUR SHOPPING GUIDE - 3- JADI BATIK

Batik handkerchief.

Batik photo frame

Wooden carvings in frames.

Batik fabric.

Songket.

Silk paintings.

On our second and last day in KL, my son contracted the mandatory bout of food poisoning, so a few of our planned trips had to be cancelled. Luckily, there was a very nice doctor in the Pavillion mall across the road from our hotel who treated my son successfully. In between bouts of vomitting, we managed to still go shopping. I wanted to go to the Craft Complex, but our taxi driver said that "Jadi Batik" was a better place to shop for souvenirs, and without me agreeing, the next thing I knew, we were at Jadi Batik! As the driver was waiting for me with the meter running, I had to shop fast. There were lots of lovely things to buy, but I didn't have the time to really browse. Anyway, you can see that I did purchase some beautiful fabric and silk batik paintings. As I was happy with my lot, we didn't end up going to the Craft Complex, so I'll save that for next time.

DECO SWEETS CONTAINERS & AMIGURUMI RILAKKUMA

I made these deco sweet containers for family and friends in Malaysia and Singapore.

They are very therapeutic to make. I stocked up on clay and sparkly things in Singapore for future projects. I also bought a couple of new deco books, which I will be featuring soon.

These were given to my cousin's two little girls.