Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year! x

This may come a little late but I would like to wish everyone a belated and blessed Christ-mas with your family and friends and a very wonderful New Year ahead! Looking forward to sharing more inspirations here on Laissezfaire in 2011!

xoxo Su Ling
(image above from Martha Stewart Kids. A wonderful idea to turn missing socks to good use!)

RESERVED! Finding a home for 3 old school metal lockers

I am helping to find a home for 3 pre-loved old school metal lockers. Each locker comes with a set of keys. Unfortunately, a few keys are missing so you would need to get a locksmith to help make a new key for some of the cabinets. Otherwise, the 3 locker cabinets are in good condition.

If you are living in Singapore and are interested in inheriting these lockers, please email me at ztansl@gmail.com.

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These lockers have found a new home. Thanks to all who emailed! x

Part-time position available

Pupsik Studio is currently looking for responsible and people-oriented individuals to join them part-time starting 1 April 2009. Hours: 5-7 days a week, min 6 hours a day. Basic pay + commission on sales.

If you enjoy selling beautiful baby products like you see here and love meeting people in a large retail environment, please drop them an email at hello@pupsikstudio.com. Do share a little more about yourself. e.g. your age, what you currently do and why you would like to be considered for this position. Students currently waiting for results and are available over the next few months can also apply.

All suitable candidates will be contacted by email. Open to Singapore residents only.

Do help forward this to someone whom you think may be suitable and interested in this position. Thanks!

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone had a good time with family and friends over Christmas. I was so busy tending to last minute gift orders from the online shop that I didn't get the chance to wish everyone a very 'Merry Christmas' earlier this week.

Anyway, I just wanted to take the opportunity this special time of the year to say that it has been such a joy getting to know so many of you through this blog. I am truely thankful for your warm friendship. Even though I have not been able to post as often as I would like to in recent months since the birth of my second child, knowing that you are still visiting keeps me motivated and inspired in more ways than you can imagine. Thank you so much for your support.

I will be signing off to spend more time with family and friends for the rest of the year but will be returning on Jan 5. Meanwhile, here's wishing everyone Happy Holidays and all the very best for 2009! Here is a little festive dance from my family to yours.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

And if you are looking for some ideas that will make this New Year's eve party a little prettier and more memorable, here are some lovely ideas to share from Martha Stewart.com.

Above: Place your homemade Oatmeal cookie in these lovely CD sleeves to give to your guests

Above: These Confetti and noisemaker will make a very fun and pretty looking New Year party favour
(Above) Customise store stationary with a rubber stamp and pad

Nadya Vitalyevna Zagorodnova

I have not been able to blog as much as I would like to over the past week as our family just welcomed a little bundle of joy over the weekend.

With praise and thanksgiving to God, Nadya Vitalyevna Zagorodnova was born on October 11, weighing a hefty 4.535kg (or a perfect 10 lbs to be exact). Apart from the lack of sleep and endless feeding over the past few days, our family is overjoyed!

Do bear with me if I don't manage to keep up with my regular posts at laissezfaire over the next week or so as we adjust to the new addition in our family. I promise I will be back soon! I will also be blogging more about my second journey into motherhood and other baby-related discoveries at my other blog, Pupsik. Meanwhile, I better catch up with some sleep while I can! =))

10 Most Influential Design Bloggers

The time has come to find out who are the current movers and shakers in the design blogsphere!!

After the smashing success they had with last year's inaugural poll, The Home Rejuvenation's poll on '10 Most Influential Design Bloggers' is now back again!

This year, The Home Rejuvenation has consolidated a long list of design blogs (see below) culled from votes received during last year's poll.

2Modern Design Talk
30 gms
Absolutely Beautiful Things
An Indian Summer
Another Shade Of Grey
Apartment Therapy
Beach Bungalow 8
Behind The Curtains
Better Living Through Design
Bloesem
Blue Ant Studio
Brilliant Asylum
Casapinka
Charles And Marie
Contemporist
Cool Hunting
Core 77
Cube Me
David Report
Decor8
Design Boner
Design Boom
Design East
Design Milk
Design Observer
Design*Sponge
Design Spotter
Designers' Block UK
Designers Who Blog
Desire To Inspire
Dezain
Dezeen
Dezona
Fabulously Green
Freshome
Grijs
Happy Mundane
Hemfeber
Home Rejuvenation
Ikea Hacker
Imedagoze
Inhabitat
It's (K) not Wood
Josh Spear
K-Fresh Designs
Karin's Style Blog
Katiedid
Laissezfaire
Land+Living
Lena Corwin
Made By Girl
Materialicious
MocoLoco
Mod Mom
Modern Roost
ModishNotcot
Oh Joy!
Pan Dan
Patricia Gray
Poppy Talk
Print & Pattern
Product Dose
Sensory Impact
Sfgirlbybay
Shelterrific
Style Court
Swissmiss
The Cool Hunter
The Design Files
The Peak Of Chic
The SCOOP
The Style Files
Treehugger
Trend Hunter
Trendir
Uncrate
Yanko Design
Yatzer

Laissezfaire is honoured to make this list, together with many other worthy candidates!

To vote, simply send in a maximum of 5 choices from this list by 15th October 08 (click here to vote; you may need to disable your pop-up blocker for the voting form to show). Though not compulsory, it would be great if you would also briefly mention why you think the blogs which you've voted for are influential.

And to make things slightly more rewarding and exciting for voters this time, The Home Rejuvenation has also teamed up with international design purveyor Wallpaper* to reward 3 lucky voters (picked from random) each with a free 1-year subscription to the print magazine. The results of the poll and the winners will be announced in mid-October. I am so excited to see if this year's results will differ from last year.

For more details on the poll, click here! Thanks THR for organising this.

Calling for host for new Asian Interior Design show

Do you have a passion for Asian inspired interior design? Love travelling to exotic locales? Then this might interest you!

Moving Visuals, a respected Singapore production house, is coming up with a new international TV series comprising 10 episodes that will focus on Asian interior design. Apparently, this new show has already received tremedous interest from international broadcasters like Discovery Channel Travel and Living.

This new TV series is currently looking for a host for the programme. The person should have a background in architecture or interior design, speaks good English and is comfortable with the camera. He/she would also have to be based in Asia and will get to travel around the region for the shooting.

If you, or anyone you know, are interested in this position, please send your CV and recent photo to designer.flair@gmail.com.

Thanks Stan for letting us know about this.

(image above via Bali T House)

Mini Contest by Sparkle Thots

This is for all handmade jewellery lovers out there! Sparkle Thots is organising a mini contest to find out what you love about them. Anyone can take part, regardless of which country you are in or whether you have bought anything before. All you need to do is to tell them what you love about them, which item you really like in particular and you might get it for FREE!

Contest closes on 14th April and the winner would be randomly selected. For more information, click here.