Fabric Selections Charts for Item Customising - Dots Fabrics

Dots Fabrics #01

Please choose from these Dots Fabrics Charts #01 & #02 for your Bag/Purse/Pouch/Item Exterior or Other Items like Hair Accessories, Kanzashi Flowers or you can choose from the Standard Fabric Charts #01 - 10. Choose your Lining Fabric from the Plain Fabrics charts. Fabric Codes are listed below every Fabric Pic. Do note that your selected fabric may be out of stock or insufficient for your selected item as I stock only a small quantity of every fabric and may have used part or all to sew items. Please choose a 2nd and/or 3rd choice of fabrics.

Fabric Selections Charts for Item Customising - Premium Fabrics

Premium Fabrics #01

Premium Fabrics #02

These are Premium Fabrics for selection. Choose your Lining Fabric from the Plain Fabrics charts. Fabric Codes are listed below every Fabric Pic. There will be extra charge for Premium Fabric selection, fees depending on item design. Do note that your selected fabric may be out of stock or insufficient for your selected item as I stock only a small quantity of every fabric and may have used part or all to sew items. Please choose a 2nd and/or 3rd choice of fabrics.

Fabric Selections Charts for Item Customising - Exterior Standard Fabrics

Standard Fabrics #01

Standard Fabrics #02

Standard Fabrics #03

Standard Fabrics #04

Standard Fabrics #05

Standard Fabrics #06

Standard Fabrics #07

Standard Fabrics #08

Standard Fabrics #09

Standard Fabrics #10

Please choose from these Standard Fabrics Charts #01 - #10 for your Bag/Purse/Pouch/Item Exterior or Other Items like Hair Accessories, Kanzashi Flowers. Choose your Lining Fabric from the Plain Fabrics charts. Fabric Codes are listed below every Fabric Pic. Do note that your selected fabric may be out of stock or insufficient for your selected item as I stock only a small quantity of every fabric and may have used part or all to sew items. Please choose a 2nd and/or 3rd choice of fabrics.

More Hair Accessories!

More Hair Accessories! This time - Hairties or Hair Elastics! These are fabric-covered Buttons made into hairties.

New! iPhone Sleeves

HP01-001

HP01-005

HP01-004

HP01-003

HP01-002

I came up with some iPhone Sleeves since I'm intending to get a iPhone to replace my ailing Nokia. For extra protection, these are lined and interfaced with wadding on both exterior and lining fabrics so they are very well padded... I think it will bounce off the floor if dropped but hey, don't try at home or anywhere...

They come in cotton and linen fabrics from USA, Japan etc... More sleeves in corduroy coming up for those of you who prefer a plain sleeve and not patterned sleeves.

These 5" x 2.875" high and wide (laid flat) sleeves will fit iTouch and other phones or gadgets similar or smaller in dimensions. When measuring your phone or gadget, do add the thickness to the height and and width to get the accurate dimensions.

Email if you want a sleeve to fit your phone or gadget snugly. Price, Shipping & Payment : Singapore Orders : SGD15 + Free Singapore Shipping (Bank Transfer only) International Orders : USD10 + International Shipping USD4 (Paypal)

New Items! Kanzashi Flower Accessories!

After much experimenting, I've managed to improve my crafting speed and have decided to make Kanzashi Flower Accessories. Not to mention the fact that my daughter loves to fold the petals and she's really quite fast and accurate in her folding though I usually have to refold at times on the side (she's only 7! I do not have the heart to tell her I have to refold)

What is Kanzashi? Well, the actual full name is Kanzashi Tsumami but everyone calls them Kanzashi for short instead. It is the traditional Japanese art of fabric folding into petals and forming into flowers. Recently, new techniques & styles of folding have been invented and introduced. Besides flowers, you can find insects like butterflies, bugs formed using traditional Kanzashi or Kanzashi styled petals.

Our new items are made with both traditional and my own invented styles of petal folding. You'll find brooches - perfect for adorning that bag of yours or even pinning that slipping scarf, hair accessories like barrettes, bobby pins, alligator clips, pony elastics, stretchy headbands for kids & adults, adjustable rings for any ring size and earrings. I use fabrics like cotton, silks, lame, corduroy, leatherette, etc. These items are available here, etsy and at Sunflower SG.

You can view individual pics of the Kanzashi Flowers at Barangshop at Facebook

Edited : Flowers come in 4 sizes (approximate) : XL=7.2 to 7.5cm, L=6 to 6.3cm, M=4.7 to 5cm, S=4cm, XS=3 to 3.5cm

We are at Sunflower SG!

Hi everyone! I'm so glad to announce that we are now available at Sunflower SG, #B1-12A City Square Mall! Do note that only our Barangshop inhouse Handmade label - Eggyimp, is available there. You'll find our Eggyimp's Card Wallets, Purse, Pouches etc, as well as other accesories like brooches, hair accessories and jewellery.


*** Sunflower Sg has ceased operations. You can see us at Red Dot Design Museum's MAAD! We are there almost every month. *** Updated 24 Mar 2012

We are on Facebook!

My apologies for not updating the blog, I've been updating my Barangshop's Facebook page instead. I try to update both as regularly as I can.

Do check us out at :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Barangshop/113044928727179?v=wall&ref=ts

Bridal/Wedding Corsages & Boutonnieres Available

Yup, we are designing and crafting yummilicious bridal/wedding corsages & boutonnieres. More designs will be coming up. Also available - georgeous wedding pens!

Boutonniere #01
A Combination of Purple Blue & White flowers, Pearl Wire Wand, Butterfly on white & Pink Ribbon

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Boutonniere #02
A Combination of Purple Blue & White flowers, Silver, Pink & Lilac Ribbons

Food Singapore - A Guide

I've been asked questions about Singapore - what & where to eat, play, sleep. So, here goes. In this section it's all about food, food, food. Where to eat, what to eat and how to eat. First, a list of some of the most popular, beloved food (hawker food is one of the best food in Singapore), not in order of preference though, just as it comes to mind.

• Hainanese Chicken Rice - White(Poached) or Roasted(Yummy!!!) Chicken Meat Portions with Flavoured 'Oiled' Rice, topped with cucumber slices. Chicken rice chilli sauce is an highly adviced must-dip. You choose the parts you want like breast meat, thigh meat, drumstick, chicken wings etc.

• Laksa - thick beehoon 'rice noodles' in a distinctive spicy laksa curry gravy, topped with cockles, beansprouts, 'taupok' slices-tofu puffs, maybe fishcake slices/boiled egg and most importantly, chopped laksa leaves. You can ask for yellow hokkien oiled noodles which is easier to eat since it's not as slippery as thick beehoon. It all depends on your own preference.

• WanTon Mee (Small Dumpling & Barbeque Meat Noodles) and Shui Jiao Mian(Shrimp Dumpling Noodles) - Both are almost always sold together since the noodles, sauce, gravy and soup are the same. Wanton Mee - small wrapped minced pork dumplings with Char Siew(sliced barbequed pork), green vegetables and 'mee gia'(skinny egg noodles). Shui Jiao Mian(Shrimp Dumpling Noodles) - semicircle shaped minced pork, minced water chestnut, prawn dumpling, green vegetables and 'mee kia'(skinny noodles). 'Mee Gia' can be changed to 'Mee Pok'-a flat egg noodle. These 2 noodles may be sold as soup noodles(noodles in soup) or dry(noodles in sauce-Chiili or Soya sauce or Tomato Ketchup). A small bowl of soup comes with the dry version. Some stalls may have their wantons fried.

• Cai Tao Kueh(Fried Carrot Cake) - Stir-fried steamed carrot/turnip strips in rice pudding cake with Cai Por(Preserved Radish), egg. Can be fried 'White' or 'Black'(in black sweet sauce). Fried with or without Chilli. Some versions come with prawns too.

• Char Kway Tiao - Fried Kway Tiao or Fried Flat Wide Rice Noodles. Comes fried with egg, cockles(we have a love affair with cockles or 'hum' as we locals call them), with or without chilli

• Roast Meat Rice - the roast meat stall offers a selection of roast meat dishes like Char Siew Rice, Siew Yoke Rice(Roasted Belly Meat Rice), Roast Duck (Choose your preferred meat parts), Pai Gu(Barbeque Pork Ribs), Roast Sausage, etc. You can choose to have a mix of all the meats to try. The meats are sliced and place on top of white rice and drizzled with gravy. Comes with specially prepared chiili sauce that you can dip in.

• Char Hae Mee (Fried Prawn Hokkien Mee) - a yellow hokkien noodle mixed with some beehoon, fried then braised in a special broth, comes with pork slices and prawns. Do note that they use oil from deep fried pork lard and some of the older hawkers might add pieces of fried pork lard as traditionally, they come with the dish. Health-conscious people might shudder but, truly, hawker food tastes best the traditional way, and in this dish, I always aks for more 'Zhu You Zha' or more fried pork lard. Hahaha...

• Hae Mee / Xia Mian (Prawn Mee) - yellow hokkien noodles with vegetables and prawns, it comes either in prawn soup or dry with/without chilli sauce. Not to be confused with Char Hae Mee. A small bowl of soup comes with the dry version. Do not miss the soup. - it's absolutely heavenly. It's prepared with the main ingredients of pork bones, prawns. Some versions of prawn mee may offer prawns with pork ribs too.

Well, that's all for now. I'm getting hungry with the all the describing of food. I've got to work on the new purse patterns - all 6 of them are stuck either at the sample/sewing/photo-taking or illustration parts. Next food post will be WHERE to eat them - 'cos there are plenty of hawker stalls but some truly are masters at their craft. So long for now. I'll try to come up with pics of the food.