Romantika store in Amcorp Mall
Last week while I was at Amcorp Mall looking for the Crocs sale, I came across a store called Romantika. It is at the concourse area as you enter and sells all sorts of household stuff at really cheap prices. There was a lot of decorative stuff in the likes of pictures and lamps in flowery designs mostly comprising roses.
If you are looking to furnish your house in an “English Rose Garden” theme, this would be a good place to go to get inexpensive items. However, that was not what caught my eye. What really caught my eyes was the array of Christmas themed plates towards the back of the store!
My phone battery was dead so I could not take a picture, but they had plates with snowmen and santa clauses on them and plates in red and green with holly jolly berries… gaudy but hey! Its perfect for Christmas themed parties! 
I was in a bit of a hurry but I”ll go back and take a look. Maybe look up a couple of egg nog recipes online and pick up a themed mug or two and have a holly jolly Christmas this year! 
If you are looking for Christmas themed crockery, try going to Amcorp mall and see if they have what you are looking for.
Its the IKEA Sale!
If you are still itching to shop after the Christmas, Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, well, now you can at the IKEA SALE!
The IKEA sale is on from 28 Feb – 16 Mar 2008. I need a few things so I’ll be popping by to check out the deals.
Oh and IKEA Friends members or IKEA Credit Card members will have a SPECIAL SALE PREVIEW on 28 Feb with extra special deals.
So guess where I’ll be this 28 Feb?
Affordable Pussy Willows for Chinese New Year
With Chinese New Year coming round the corner faster than a speeding mat rempit (hooligan 
) I decided to pick up some traditional decor for the home. Nothing is more traditional than Pussy Willows.
Pussy Willows represent spring because that’s when the silky shoots put forth, but also represent the inflow of money (because of its Cantonese pronunciation of the name so I’m told) and so most Chinese homes will have some stalks of pussy willows.
I found some affordable pussy willows at Ikea, to my surprise. They retail for RM16 for a bunch of 12 stalks. In the city when I checked flower wholesalers, they were going for RM20 for a bunch of 10 stalks. So I guess Ikea does have its uses too!
What do you get someone who has everything?
A pink whistling kettle!!
Ok, maybe they don’t have everything, but a pink or blue whistling kettle would fit perfectly in my boring white kitchen, or maybe even yours! hehe…
I spotted this in Tang Household department in Singapore and quickly snuck a picture when the sales people weren’t looking. Each kettle costs something like S$49 so really, its only for those who have everything or almost!