Home scented-products are my favorites. I always love good-smelling products including perfume, body sprays, body wash, candles, room sprays, etc. I usually put up my beauty-related hauls in my other blog Two Thousand Things, so go on and click THIS LINK if you want to read my beauty and fashion themed blog.

Meanwhile, all the home-related hauls will be posted on this blog instead, such as these candles and home fragrances that I recently purchased during the last couple of months. Now, without further ado, here's my recent home-fragrance shopping bag ( + one non-scented haul which is a bunch of hair brushes ;p) :

 From Ikea Singapore:

Dofta Potpourri in Blue

Dofta Potpourri in Green

Sinnlig Candle in Strawberry

Tidsenlig Candle in White (narcissus?)

 From Ikea Indonesia:

Sinnlig Candle in Grey (spa?)

 From Bath & Body Works Indonesia:

White Barn Leaves Candle

White Barn Mahogany Teakwood Candle

This one below are not scented products but I just want to also feature them here because it is one of my recent purchases and because I love it so much :)

 Hair brushes from Forever 21

Aren't they too cute?!

(^_^)

 What did you purchased recently?

 See You on my next post!

Home-Living: Hand Soap Collection

For those of you who didn't know, I have a knack for fancy hand soaps :)

You might call me a snob but I just love hand soaps. The reason behind that is maybe because I'm kinda weird with my hands. I don't like my hands to feel dirty or dusty, or greasy or dry, etc. I like my hands to be clean and moist, ALL DAY LONG. 

So every time I do something like applying moisturizer to my face or after I pet my cats even for just a stroke, I would wash my hands afterwards. Even when I'm cooking I would do 3-4 times of hand washing during the cooking process (wash hands after slicing onions, wash hands after preparing eggs, wash hands before making rice, etc until I finished cooking). I would also wash my hands after I went outside, before making tea/coffee, after applying body lotion, etc - That's why I always wash my hands up to 5-10 times a day. And THAT's why I need a good hand soap. 

I need a good hand soap that would make my hands smells good and would not dry my hands with all those frequent washing that I did during the day. So that's when I started collecting fancy hand soaps. It's not for show-off, but it's because they doesn't dry my hands like the regular hand soaps do. So please don't judge me (*_^)

So anyway, I just recently purchased two new soaps from Bath & Body Works when they were having a sale last week ( 2 hand soaps for IDR 160k ), and I purchased their Aqua Blossom Deep Cleansing Hand Soap and Peach Bellini Gentle Foaming Hand Soap. 

Below are the whole collection of my hand soaps (PS: my stash is not that much, but it's probably too much for someone who doesn't collect handsoaps ;p) :

They are mostly from Bath & Body Works because I used to buy them when they were having huge sales on their website and then I have them shipped to my brother in law's address who was residing in the US at that time. I also bought a couple of them when I went to Singapore a few months ago when BBW were not available here yet in Jakarta.

But now Bath & Body Works has opened it's stores here in Jakarta and I am so excited because it is one of my favorite store! Me and hubby K also love BBW hand soaps especially the foamy hand soaps because they last longer than the regular hand soap (which means it saves us money on the long run), so most of my stash includes those foaming hand soaps from BBW.

 BBW Citrus Garland (my current kitchen sink handsoap)

BBW Cranberry Tangerine Foaming Hand Soap

BBW Fresh Sparkling Snow Foaming Hand Soap

 BBW Iced Ginger Bread (my current guest handsoap)

BBW Kitchen Lemon Foaming Hand Soap

BBW Peach Bellini Foaming Hand Soap

 BBW Aqua Blossom Deep Cleansing Hand Soap

BBW Twilight Woods Deep Cleansing Hand Soap

Marks & Spencer Lily of The Valley Moisture Rich Hand Wash (my current bathroom handsoap)

From all my BBW hand soaps collection, only two of them are the Deep Cleansing variant which I think would be perfect for my bathroom sinks. The rest of them are the Gentle Foaming variant which is our favorite type of BBW hand soaps - which I like to use in the kitchen or when I have guests.

Before I tried BBW hand soaps I used to buy Marks & Spencer hand soaps because they have pretty packaging, they doesn't dry my hands even after repeated washing, and they smells great too. I also found a new hand soap brand that I found in Ace Hardware called Astonish that also smells great and surprisingly the scent lasts on my hands for a lot longer than any other hand soaps! So that's a score for me :)

 The last two of my Marks & Spencer hand soaps:

Lily of The Valley (which I'm currently using)

China Blue (which we finished recently)

 Astonish Milk & Honey Anti-Bacterial Handwash 

(which I'm currently using for my bedroom sink at my parents in law's house)

I think I would buy the Astonish hand soap again from Ace Hardware (in another variant, of course) because I love it so much. Every time I use this soap I can still smell the soft scent that lingers in my hand long after I washed my hands :) - This soap makes me want to always wash my hands!

One thing to note: it is a bit pricey for a hand soap (around IDR 40k when I bought it), but the bottle is huge (!) so I think it has the most higher value for money compared to BBW or Marks & Spencer hand soaps above (^_^). Totally worth trying out if you like fancy handsoaps like I do ;p

Do you love hand soaps too? 

Do you have a favorite brand of hand soaps?

Lemme know!

Adios Chicas!

Hello again :)

Hey you guys....

How are you? I'm really sorry for abandoning this blog. I have been very busy with my fashion & beauty blog [TWO THOUSAND THINGS] and been neglecting this one. I felt like a very mean stepmother, LOL.

I was surprised to still accepting a few comments on my inbox from you guys on my last post which I wrote back in September of last year! One of the commenter, Londyn [Hi Londyn! :D] reminds me to keep this blog running again. She said that she wishes that I updated this blog again. And reading that one particular comment makes my spirit up and running again, and so I will try to update this blog again. 

Let's start new in 2013, alright? :)

So, thanks to Londyn, I am gonna try to make this blog up and running again. I have made some plans for this blog and I think from now on I'm gonna be focusing this blog on several things:

• Home Decor Inspirations
• Gift Ideas
• Places / Hotels to travels
• and my general daily life

Those are the things that I found most favorited from my readers (according to my web statistics). Well except for the general daily life part, because I just added that one so I can have my own media to keep notes on my daily life ;p

So anyway, to start a new year I have bought a new journal back in early January! 

I always have a journal on hand. I wrote all my important notes such as birthdays, appointments, due dates, etc.. and sometimes I kept important scraps too such as recent bills that I want to take a note of later, or hand notes, etc..

This is my journal for the past 3 years... :

I've been using my trusted pink leopard print journal since 3 years ago. It's a planner type with rings in the middle so I just changed the papers into a new one at every start of the year. 

But this year I got bored with it and wanted to start fresh with a new journal. I also wanted a more simple journal that I can bring everyday on my bag because sometimes the pink journal above is too bulky. So when I found a new office supply store near my house, I browsed around and opted for this new small, simple, and cute journal instead:

I bought it at a new stationary and office supply store at Cinere area. That store has a lot of cute stationary such as cute unique pens and pencils, cute little notes, various styles of stickers, post-its, etc. Soooo fun to browse at!

I ended up buying a few other stuffs beside the cute journal above. I also bought a pen, a pencil, and a few other knic-knacks which I'm not gonna show here because I'm saving it as part of a giveaway prize bundle which I'm gonna held at my fashion & beauty blog soon ;)

So here's the cute team that now resides in my working table ^o^

I love everything about the journal. It's simple but has complete sections inside it for writing my plans and important dates as well as for keeping my appointments. And it's small and very lightweight too so I can just grab it and bring inside my bag without adding additional weight ;)

I also love both the pen and the automatic pencil. There are many styles of pens and pencils at the store and it was hard to choose which ones I'm gonna get. If I could, I want to buy them all, LOL. Because they are so cheap too! I think it was around IDR6000 - 7000 each. (around 6 or 7 cents). I think there were others with IDR 4000 tags too!

Sooo cute!

I still sometimes use my big bulky pink journal for storing important notes or to jot down random ideas, but I put it on my desk. I've been carrying the new smaller pink one instead. I think I'm gonna stop by that store again really soon ;p

I forgot the name of the store but it is located right beside the Ace Hardware Cinere. It even has a connection door to the Ace Hardware store so I'm guessing maybe they both are related somehow? ;p

So anyway, out with the old and in with the new. 

Say goodbye to my old pink leopard print journal and say Hello to my new tiny pink dotted one ;)

 I'll see you tomorrow, guys...


Cheers,