Home Decor

This week, I learned to include fresh flowers in our home decor. I never realised how it can brightened up the atmosphere of our unit. I love how it looks in our dining table and our dining room smells so nice. I will soon learn to do flower arrangement.

We also started to decorate our Christmas tree. My hubby, Naj’s nanny and I are excited in decorating our new Christmas tree. There are still some stuff to add in. We wanted a blue and grey decors with red accents. Christmas is in the air! I saw some Christmas decors in malls and the Christmas songs blazing in the mall’s speakers.

This week was uneventful except for a bug that struck my ageing body by the end of the week that reminded me to give myself a bit of TLC. So that left me in a bad shape to carry out my homework in the photography workshop I am taking with [Blogging Your Way that started last December 15.

I teamed up with a Blogging Your Way classmate, a nice Filipina newlywed, Deanne to exchange feedbacks on our photo assignment for this week. Here are some of the photos I did. (What do you think? Please be gentle, I am still an amateur.)

I haven’t read Deanne’s feedback on my work. I hope its good ( Fingers crossed, hehe.) If you want to check out my instagram where I have more of my practice photos: Little Miss Honey. Here is my Blogging Your Way pinterest board where I get my photo inspiration: Lil Miss Honey.

Here are a round-up of links I found online that inspired me this week:

10 book recommendations from radiant newlywed, Nikki Gil

I would love to look like Jennifer Lopez (I wish, haha!) when I turn 45 years old

What not to say to a pregnant lady ( Yes, to me.)

Korean beauty inspires me

Interested in enrolling in an online blogging and photography workshop, head to Blogging Your Way

Check out my classmate and partner Deanne’s personal blog, Classy Musings. She writes beautifully.

Why we marry the wrong person

Tomorrow is the last day of November. It is going to be December really really soon…

One of our family goals is to have a house of our own. My hubby and I dream to have our own place to decorate and make it our special homey haven. We are currently renting our a condo unit and sharing it with a couple of people. So we can’t really decorate it as much as we want to. But maybe someday, we can actually get to have our own home.

How timely that when hubby and I are having our late night talks about our own place someday, I received an invitation to join an intimate blogger session at WIHARDJA, an Indonesian furniture shop. And I can bring along my hubby. Yey!

Wihardja Furnishings, specialised in teakwood furniture, teakwood accessories, pottery wares and soft furnishings all made in Indonesia. It started in 1997 and currently has two showrooms in Singapore. They export to Canada, Spain, Costa Rica and Australia.

The blogger event was held in Wihardja Enterprise One Showroom at Kaki Bukit Road. It was nice to meet several familiar faces and their respective partners they brought along. We got to roam around the showroom and was impressed with everything inside especially the variety of displays and the different collections of wooden furnitures and suar wood tables.

Credit: Originally Us

I learned more about wooden furniture that night. Teakwood has natural oil content which makes it resistant to insect infestations and rotting even with extreme changing seasons. It is a very durable type of wood that has been used in ship-building, bridge-building and furnitures. It varies in color from light to dark brown. So let us address the question in your heads. Is Wihardja contributing to the haze that has plagued Singapore? The wood from Wihardja comes from the government-run plantation in Central Java, Indonesia and they don’t use the “slash & burn” technique in clearing lands. So no, they are not responsible for the haze.

Credit: Originally Us

Besides the wooden furnitures, there were also pottery wares, soft toys, small home decors and wall decors that can give your homes more character. I am already dreaming of how all of these would look in our future home. And did I mention that I checked out their prices? They quite affordable for a good quality furnishing.

I have been eyeing several storage containers, a table decor, a plastic plant and a stuffed teddy bear that night. I needed a few decors for our room, some ontainers to keep our stuff and I wanted to get a stuffed toy for baby #2.

After excitedly roaming around the showroom, we all were gathered to enjoy an Indonesian buffet. The spread looks delicious. I am not very familiar with Indonesian cuisine and I am happy to try it that night.

My husband is a very picky eater and is often wary in trying new foods but he surprisingly enjoyed the buffet a lot. He even got a second helping of food because it was so yummy. I was so full and satisfied that night. It was such a wonderful evening of furniture & home decor shopping, Indonesian buffet and dreaming of our future home. It is not too early to start buying stuff for our future home. My hubby and I are already selecting some furnitures and decors we want. Thank you Originally Us for inviting me and my husband to this fun & unique blogger session.

When I told my friends that I visited the Wihardja Showroom, I learned that they have heard of Wihardja, bought some stuff there and are fans of Wihardja. I have a friend who got the convertible teakwood table/bench for their balcony. It looks great! I am seriously wanting to buy one.

Credit: https://www.instagram.com/xxtraa/

*( Yes, that table and bench are one and the same)

For those who are in a hunt for premium furnitures for their home or decorating their new units or are interested in shopping at Wihardja, just quote “WJLITTLEMISSHONEY” to enjoy a 5% discount during payment. This promo will be valid until December 2016. (Yes, that is not a typo. 2016!)

Wihardja Furnishings

Toh Guan Showroom
3-B Toh Guan Road East, #03-02, Singapore 608833
Operating Hours: 11.30am – 7pm Everyday
MRT: Jurong East MRT

Enterprise One Showroom
1 Kaki Bukit Road 1, #01-07/08, Singapore 415934
Operating Hours: 11.30am – 8pm everyday except Wed & Thurs
Bus: 5, 15, 58, 59, 87, 25, 45, 51, 55, 93, 94, 854
MRT: Eunos MRT

Customer Service Hotline: 67417717

Website: http://www.wihardja.com.sg

Facebook: wihardja.sg

Instagram: wihardjasg

Disclaimer: This was a blogger session invited by Originally Us on behalf of Wihardja Furnishings. We were given gift vouchers from Wihardja. No monetary compensation was included. All opinions are my own. Regardless, I only recommend products which I personally believe will be good for my readers.