Life As It Is Beautiful

Public holidays means I get a little breather from my usual commitments to do what I like doing. So during the recent Easter weekend, I eked...

I have never made pants before. Mainly because I hardly wear pants so I have never had the inclination to learn, and also because my sewing ...

The Lunar New Year is one of the biggest festivals for all ethnic Chinese around the world. At the top of the agenda is returning home for t...

Rushing to a meeting at 8.30 this morning, I jumped into a taxi and as it turned out of my office building driveway, it slammed directly int...

About a year ago, I tried making a Mad Men inspired dress. But since I was working from my own imagination, estimation, and way too many sho...

I still remember that taxi ride in Ghana clearly. It was around 8-9pm at night. We had dismissed our driver for the day when my boss got a c...

After a bewildering few days in Angola which you can read about here and here ,  I sat at the airport lounge in exhaustion, thinking about ...