Mosaics in interior design

(Note: This post was written yesterday when Blogger was down)

Today has been a rather productive day for me. Been pushing around a Step 1-2-3 tutorial for the blog and finally I got around to doing it. Just two more frames to grout and and that's it! Can't wait to share it with you once it's done :) So I'm taking a short break now (and we know how "short" my breaks go...) with my Old Town coffee and Jacob biscuits and started surfdaydreaming (you know, surfing the net while day-dreaming).

If before I have been dreaming of french windows and clean, airy workspaces, today I am dreaming of a new home furnished with high-end interior design using what else, mosaics! Take a walk with me as I go through this house I'm dreaming of...


Firstly, wouldn't it be great to wake up to the birds chirping and the sun shining on... a textured mosaic backdrop?

It does make  you feel like royalty, doesn't it?

Now, on to the kitchen. I've always had a weakness for white built-in cabinets for the kitchen so this marble mosaic wall with white cabinets just hits straight to the mark.

So bright and airy. Love that it looks out into a garden.

Or what about something out of the ordinary?

Can you say "tropical paradise"? 

Another pet love - a window over the kitchen sink.

Besides the kitchen, I think the next most important personal space is the bathroom. And I'm just loving this minimalist design using ceramic mosaic tiles. I've never been a fan of dark walls but this just works - it feels like I can pull a mattress in and sleep on the tiled floor!

Can you feel the warm love? :)

Oh, be still, my beating heart.

View the designers' links here:
DecoDIR
Posterous
House Design Buzz

It's official!

Weehoo! It's official! Signed, sealed and delivered - bring it on Urbanscapes! Come visit our booth where we'll be having lots of fun items on display and for sale. Will be revealing a little bit more each day on what to expect so stay tuned!

Also, we'll be sharing the booth with a lovely and very talented lady named Jenny. Check out her Etsy stores here and here! I guarantee that you will be amazed! More reason to come visit us this 16th of July!

Of spaces in between

So lately I've been alternating between the study room, the dining table, the living room table, the kitchen table and the guest room, leaving a trail of chaos everywhere I go. And now, I have officially ran out of spaces to work! My vice is that I start on so many projects at the same time, much to the dismay of my husband. I truly believe that behind every crafter is a very patient husband.

While taking a short break, I thought I'd dream up my own airy workspace to add on to my ever-growing "when I grow up" list. Looks like I'm not the only one in the blogosphere looking to improve their work condition. Nest of posies wrote a post on how she transformed her workspace rather economically. I have to say though it looks like a lot of work, it did turn out beautiful! I especially love her Inspirational Board which she literally made from trash!

Nest of Posies' Inspirational Board

Another blogger and crafter, wrote a post on how she recreates her craft room when she moved into a new (and really beautiful) house. Her previous craft room was in the basement and then she moved into the attic in her new house! Oh, how I wish we have attics and basements in our houses, although for Asians that might be a nest for horror stories :P In that post she also introduced some books to help, I can't help it but ordered this on Amazon (and resulted in an 1-hour side-track of books under Craft & Hobbies, yikes!):

Ordered from Amazon!

Another blogger invited other crafty people to show their workspaces and another toured the blogosphere and chose her favourites. This was my favourite: 

In love with white wooden furniture and French windows.

Ok, now I'm inspired to work harder (and clean up a little...). Till then, may your creative spaces be always airy and clean.

The road to Urbanscapes

And so, as I have alluded to in an earlier post, Square Art is now slotted as one of the vendors for Klue Magazine's Urbanscapes event. This year it's going to be held in Padang Astaka, next to near good ol' A&W in PJ and they are expecting about 12,000 people that day! And boy, have we been busy since the announcement!

Here is what's on our drawing board (pieces of scrap paper/used envelopes, really):

1. Budget - Very, very important. ROI is everything, baby.
2. Booth design - Been checking out other people's booth designs and also reading tips from Etsy. How to make a great impact without making an impact on our pockets? Ideas still rolling around my head on this.
3. How to sell - Our selling strength has always been on the displays that scream "Hey you, mosaic art is not hard at all! You can do it too!". We're going to try to showing more of these samples that day.
4. Freebies/Giveaways? - Now, this IS still the drawing board, but it'll be great to have some nice things to giveaway to nice patrons to our booth. What do you think? Would it make you come visit our booth that way? :D
5. And a whole gazillion of other things...

Now, have we gotten you excited enough to join this event come 16th July? :)

Part of the display making its debut during Urbanscapes.

A progress in work = work-in-progress

Today I sent a SOS tweet out for some motivation. It is certainly not easy to keep on at a goal and stay motivated throughout. You just have to wonder sometimes, how some people (usually the successful ones) manage to stay pumped up; the party-the-whole-night and the earliest-to-arrive-FRESH-in-the-office ones that we so like to hate. Methinks it just boils down to one word: Determination. And today, I am determined to finally finish a welcome page for Square Art! (timestamp noted)

On another note, I just got great news that Square Art has been selected to be one of Urbanscapes' vendor for next month's art festival - until I saw their vendor rate. Would definitely have to give this some deep, deep thought. Although Square Art has been making its appearances and doing well in craft fairs so far, there are many other avenues that I am also considering. Will definitely share some news about that soon - another WIP. Oh my, I better heed the wisdom of not starting so many things that I cannot finish!

Will you be going to Urbanscapes this 16th of July?