It has been a wonderful month off from the store, celebrating Christmas, the New Year then now, Chinese New Year. From the turkeys to the presents. To the lovely homemade repertoire from aunts and grandmas alike, to the mouthwatering baked goods (personal favourite: Kuih Karpet aka Love Letters) that seems to be a regular fixture in every household, it has truly been a wonderful occasion for all!

Not forgetting the many "Ang Pows" (red packets) collected and winnings from the gambling table for the lucky few, this Chinese New Year certainly makes for a great transition to one of my all time favourites: Valentine's Day!

Last year, I showed some Crashing potential. This year, The Remix:

I have been scouring both stores for some Valentine's Day gift ideas. Here's what I found at CzipLee:

1. Love-stories:

From the flush of first love in Turgenev's First Love, part of the highly regarded 'Great Loves' series from Penguin, to those Vintage Classics with books that change the world, with books from the "it's a girl thing" people at LBD and to the evergreen and well loved Jane Austen.
Fall in love with a book this Valentine's...=)

2. Love-inks:

A Pilot Ageless futuristic pen in RED of course:

Or if not, get the RED Moleskine Van Gogh Museum series (as featured in Zero Degrees Feb issue) A vibrant hard cover notebook lined with shantung silk, but still boasting the time-tested durability that ensures musings are kept safe from the elements.

4. Love-journeys

To fuel your travel bug this year, see Asia in 2008 with the ultimate Asian travel companion:

The hugely popular glossy scarlet LUXE Asian Grand Tour Box puts you on the expressway to fabulous with Asia’s top 12 cities and all the treats they contain: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Bali, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Tokyo and Cambodia & Laos.

LUXE guides come with handy online updates, so not only do you get all the latest hot info, but when you buy the LUXE Asian Grand Tour Box, you get twelve guides for the price of eleven, how’s that for holiday spirit? Dust off your passport and start packing…

LUXE. Twelve into one does go.

5. Love-keeps

And to top it all off, keepsake the warm memories with my favourite themed scrapbook range, the Making Memories "Love Story" collection:

Ahhhh...Love....=)

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Labels: 12GC, Christmas, Harry Potter, Vintage Classics

When you think of Classic or Classical, you think of music don't you? Well think again!

VINTAGE FEAR
Brothers Grimm The Complete Fairy Tales with
Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

VINTAGE LIES
Henry James' What Maisie Knew
with Ian McEwan's Atonement

VINTAGE LOVE
George Eliot's Middlemarch
A.S Byatt's Possession

VINTAGE LUST
Henry Fielding's Tom Jones with
Martin Amis' The Rachel Papers

VINTAGE MONSTERS
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with
Jeanette Winterson's Sexing The Cherry

VINTAGE SATIRE
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels with
Michel Houellebecq's Atomised

VINTAGE SIN
Dante Alighieri's Inferno with
Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre

VINTAGE YOUTH
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist with
Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting

Labels: books, Pansing, Vintage Classics