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More Dash than Cash

'More dash than cash' - a phrase borrowed from UK Vogue referring to style on a budget. But here it's also a place posts are filed away if they are about somewhere you can (literally) dash to - be it for a quick dinner or just something/somewhere easy, low maintenance and relatively good value...
Fash

DVF and GAP Kids Collaboration

By On Monday, 6 May 2013

Like millions of other women around the world, I own several of Diane von Furstenberg’s eponymous wrap dresses (one of which I bought for a song in the Woodbury Commons outlet, just… Read More

Fash

Move over Havaianas…

By On Friday, 3 May 2013

I think I am the only person I know who can’t pronounce the word Havaianas properly. I resolutely seem to refer to them as ‘Havanas’ which is not only a type of… Read More

Beauty

Aunty Sally’s Tips on Daily Detox…Using Things You Already Have in Your Store Cupboard

By On Wednesday, 17 April 2013

I’ve been going to see the lymphatic drainage guru that is Sally Hew for an hour a week for about six months now. I first wrote about her here; she’s amazingly skilled at… Read More

Beauty

The Urban Myth that is Spray Tanner Hannah

By On Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Yup, there really is a leggy blonde English girl who lives in Chip Bee Gardens and who turns all who meet her into golden goddesses. I first heard about Spray Tanner Hannah… Read More

Competitions

Char Kway Teow…and Other Stories

By On Monday, 15 April 2013

I love hawker food and can regularly be heard extolling the virtues of char kway teow (there aren’t any…except for the fact it tastes delicious). However, my confidence in ordering this dish… Read More

Fash

Charmed

By On Thursday, 11 April 2013

Over the years I have been given and collected a lot of charms, some strung on various bracelets, some lying loose and lonely in dusty pouches in a drawer in my dressing… Read More

Day Trips

Raffles Place Transformed into a Playground

By On Wednesday, 3 April 2013

You’d be forgiven for thinking this picture was taken on a beach. Tanjong beach in Sentosa maybe.  Nope, this was taken yesterday at Raffles Place which has been transformed in to an… Read More