All the photos on this post were taken with my iPod Touch 4. Some of them were taken with VOSCO CAM, a photo app, which is excellent and I am in love with.
The above elephant painting is m… Read more
Expat Family Living With Style
FREEDOM TREE was mentioned as one of the emerging hot shops in Bandra in western Mumbai on T Magazine, The New York Times Style Magazine in April 2014. Freedom Tree is, indeed, a shop … Read more
My oldest daughter wanted to have her own room, so when we moved to Mumbai, we decided to let her have it and my younger two, my another daughter and son, share a room.
Since we live in a f… Read more
My husband and I hosted a holiday party at the end of last year, 2013, for the local staff who work in his office in Mumbai, India. We had about 30 guests who came. This gathering was hel… Read more
I believe that we all are influenced and inspired by what surrounds us and what we see on a daily basis. I love seeing how expats in different c… Read more
I am a bit late for Wednesday post. I don’t know where my time goes…
Here are the photos of our bathrooms in our apartment in Mumbai for my Wednesday Wall2Wall interior.… Read more
It was time to change the graphic design on my chalkboard wall again. I wish I am talented to come up with my own, but alas, I am not. I copied the design I found on Pretty Clever Tumblr pa… Read more
Our bed in the master bedroom used to look the same as the one in our guest bedroom.
I had the headboard removed. Then, the wall above the bed used to be decorated with fabric covered fr… Read more
All the furniture and even the rug in this room were provided by my husband’s office. The lamps and decorative pieces are ours. When we go overseas, we usually live in a furnis… Read more
I am lucky to have friends who show me cool places to check out in Mumbai. Mumbai has so many places to discover. The city has various dimensions with lots of charms to fall in love with… Read more
I found this gold Christmas tree in Jakarta at a Christmas bazaar and I am so glad I bought it! I can’t remember which vendor I bought this from, but they go to all the holiday baz… Read more
My favorite time of the year started.
Our family tradition that my husband and I do is to trim our Christmas tree as a family on the first weekend after Thanksgiving. So we did. With th… Read more
This year (and it seems that I repeat this every year) I had a slow start on an autumn festivity. I live in a city where October is the hottest month of a year and prior to moving to Mumbai… Read more
Before our house hold effects arrived, our dining room in our new apartment in Mumbai looked like in the photo below. We moved into a furnished apartment which we have no say in what w… Read more
When we first moved into our furnished apartment provided by my husband’s office, it looked like this as shown in the two photos below. When walking into the apartmen… Read more
Some of you must have thought what has happened to my blog? Or me? I am alive. I have been absent from blogging for over a month and I feel terrible. After having left a nice life with dom… Read more
During our trip in Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta), we stayed at 2 different places. The first hotel was Saraswati Borobudur Hotel, a hotel located right by the entrance to Borobudur. We … Read more
Essential bed n’ bath is a store with items to fill your space in a bedroom and bathroom as suggested in the name. Essential is part of the Vinoti Living group. There is a store i… Read more
Le Souq has been in Kemang, Jakarta since 2011 in the same center as KOI Restaurant & Gallery, in the heart of Kemang, the hip and trendy part of Jakarta in my opinion. Le Souq is on… Read more
My husband’s office had an annual office holiday lunch party. This red table was the one we used as a dessert table. I regret that I did not take a photo after desserts were plac… Read more
This is how a home decorated with French design inspired red and white Christmas decoration. I am very excited to pre… Read more