Anyone wearing a polka red dot dress tied with a red grosgrain ribbon for X’mas? Well, I’m not but I found this Origami folded dress version in card version from Maranda, an online store that makes one-of-a-kind handmade paper creations. I thought it’s such a cutie and a nice way to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas here!

Before I go, just wanted to share a modified X’mas joke with you.

Crabtree & Evelyn as a brand certainly doesn’t need much introduction but I wonder how many people are like me and would sometimes call it Evelyn & Crabtree by mistake? But mistake aside, I’ll always step into their store when I spot one, just to test their hand creams, smell their fragrances and finger their fine foods. Undeniably, their stores have a distinctive English style that somehow draw me in and make me want to linger just a little longer.

I thought I was recently fleeced for the purchase of a beauty tool I made online. No goods arrived after nearly a month and no updates were given about the status of the shipping either. After I wrote to the store, they claimed that they did not receive my money. Good thing was that I paid via PayPal and I remember they have a resolution centre to faciliate purchase disputes. Leon of Beauty Secrets Revealed also confirmed that she had successfully made various claims through their resolution centre and so I went ahead to make my claim. Well, three weeks after I filed my claim, the money is back in my account.