Something new from Smidapaper!
This Sunday, our friends at Smidapaper open doors to their new store at Island Plaza, Penang. So if you are looking for something to do this weekend and if you are in the Pearl of the Orient, pop by smidapaper's island store and rediscover scrapbooking! Check out what Smidapaper offers. Part of their selection of scrapbook materials are available at CzipLee Bangsar! Congratulations to the Smidapaper gang! =)
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All about LOVE!
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:
Inspired by the love stories, armed with a love pen and all you need now is a notebook for your:
3. Love-notes!
Last year's top selling Valentine's Day product. More stocks are now available: 
The Clairefontaine Passionnement by Sacha Goldberger range is as funny and as fresh as a bubbling love! It is a range that cleverly combines words and graphic arts!
If you do not know what a Moleskine RED diary yet, you don't know what you are missing out! =) CzipLee has LIMITED STOCKS of the Moleskine Twin Set - Limited Edition - the only RED range left. Go on spoil yourself or your object of affection this Valentine's: 
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....=) technorati tags: all about love Valentine's Day gift ideas book pen notebook scrapbook travel guides Love Labels: 2008, crafts, CzipKid, Events, In Store with CzipKid, Moleskine, Penguin Books, Pilot Pen, smidapaper, Valentine's Day, Vintage Classics
In the mood for love...and travel!
This is a very special smidapaper-flavoured post!
When we were told of this *Love, Elsie* range by the smidapaper gang, well how could we resist them?! So here's what we're hyping about...
Apart from that we do have a range of the new Making Memories Travel too:
But its still all bout L-O-V-E! =)
Love, baby, love
This is my theme from summer
Winter, spring and fall
Love, baby, love
In July, August or December
Anytime at all
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And so, here we go again...
Ok, we have really been busy. Well that is probably the easiest(and lousiest) excuse we could think of most of the time...but its somewhat true!
Let's see...we have been busy with:
1. Moleskine Voyage - if you don't know about it, go read here. Oh did we mention that you can drop your completed travel book to us at CzipLee by the 30th of June 2007 (the official deadline) just remember the 3 things you'll need for the competition:
(1) Come by CzipLee Books & Stationery Bangsar to purchase your very own Moleskine of any size and type!
(2) Go to Voyage to register yourself and read up on the official stuff
(3) Get cracking already! (It can be any old travels too!)
Of course, don't forget to get them to us by the forementioned deadline and we will do the rest for you! Also, the 18 Months Diary is now available too! 
2. Harry Potter 7 fever. Meet CzipKid Potter:
Its heating up!
Every other good bookstore is throwing some kind of preorder special but we reckon we have got one of, if not the better deal in town - customers have said that we have the best but we will let you decide. Our deal:
(1) Deposit or we call it booking fee of only RM 10!
(2) Pre Order price: RM 88.88 (Normal Retail Price: RM 109.90) Save at least 20%!
(3) Mysterious gift - so mysterious that even we don't really know what it is yet!
(4) Guaranteed book on the 21st of July 2007 - from 7:01 am (Tune in to our countdown clock!) and stay tune for more HP stuff! In the meantime, check out the link below for all things Harry Potter:
3. In-store upgrades in Bangsar.
We have got a very custom-made space for  and  . With more art materials (namely paints) and brands plus a wider selection of scrapbooking materials. Our greeting cards got new shelves too which has allowed us to put even more cards in and we are still constantly changing things around to bring in even more things! Swing by to check us out!
4. Scrapbooking classes by
We held our second Basic Scrapbooking I class last Saturday with the promise to work out even more classes for our budding Scrapbookers! See photos from our first class in our flickr set!
5. New window display: (we'll let these photos paint a few words for you)
 
'nuff said!
Well so ok, we have not been that busy after all, huh? =)
Here is a promise to do better with our blog and website(we have done minor updates - just bits and pieces stuff but big ones coming!). So to make up for all that, we give you one of the many projects underway for www.cziplee.com. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we introduce to you...
Happy days!
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Holiday Fun - 3 fun activities for kids!
If you're running out of ideas to keep the kids occupied this school holidays, it's time to get some activities lined up for the kids lest they spend time being vegetative in front of the TV.
Here are some quick fix activities to be done with kids (ranging from 4 - 12 years old). Activity 1: Shape that Dough! Activity 2: Ribbons & all things pretty! Activity 3: Do it yourself "Posh Pegs" Mind you, we've cleverly adapted this from books found in CzipLee as well as some of our own ideas, and suited it to your needs. So, we've taken time to pick activities which are simple, easy to execute and - ahem, failure proof and fool proof! Best of all: Mention any of these activities for kids (from August 23 - September 3, 2006) at our check out counters, and you'll get a mystery gift from us (limited to the first 30 customers) technorati tags: quick holiday fun ideas, crafts ,bangsar, cziplee ,activities for kidsAdd to: blinklist del.cio.us digg yahoo!Labels: crafts, school holidays
Activity 1: Shape that Dough!
Suited for kids: 4 - 8 years old
Time needed: 2 hours
Recommended because:
Kids get to mix, model, cook and paint in this "pau ka liao" (do-it-all) activity
They can easily make shapes such as: stars, duck, faces, ladybirds, letters and others
Dough Making
You need:
- water (200 ml)
- flour (300 g)
- salt (300 g)
- oil (2 table spoon)
- rolling pin/ cylindrical item
1) First, mix the flour and salt together in a bowl
2) Then, slowly add in the oil and mould the dough
3) Add in water as the consistency starts to dry up
4) Pat all ingredients into a ball, with surface being smooth
5) Then, proceed to roll it out with a rolling pin/ or any other cylindrical items
6) If the dough gets sticky, you can sprinkle on some flour to smoothen it out
7) Once you're ready to roll, you can proceed to make various shapes (adapt from items in your
house – easiest would be jelly moulds and cookie cutters!)
Bake those shapes!
You need:
- microwave/oven
- tray (heat proof)
1) Once shapes done, you can proceed to baking the shapes
2) Some tips: if shapes are big, they will take longer to cook, and if they are delicate, it can
easily break, so keep those shapes small and chunky
3) Bake the shapes for 20 minutes (180 Celsius/ 350 Fahrenheit)
4) After that, let the shapes cool for awhile ( 5 - 10 minutes)
Painting & Decorating:
You need:
poster paint
acrylics
PVA glue
You can now paint with poster or acrylic paint
Try mixing a little PVA glue with the paint ( 1 part PVA, 2 parts paint) and this will make it tough and shiny
Adapted from: The Rainy Day Book by Jane Bull, Dorling Kindersley Book (ISBN 9780751368406)(available at Cziplee, Bangsar)
Note: All art supplies (such as paint, acrylics and PVA glue) available at Czipleetechnorati tags: fun with dough ,shape mix play ,dough, fun activity, kids, bangsar ,czipleeAdd to: blinklist del.cio.us digg yahoo!Labels: crafts, school holidays
Activity 2: Ribbons & all things pretty!
Suited for kids: 4 - 12 years old (young kids & older girls, don't think the boys would be interested!)
Time needed: 1 hour
Recommended because: Kids get to dress up in pretty bows and flowers
You need: Shiny long ribbons (plastic) Paper ribbons Cloth ribbons Twist ties Glittering glue Buttons Safety pin Gold dust
Instructions:
Using paper ribbons, unfold it and combine it with plastic ribbons, cloth
ribbons (or individually to make simple bows)
Then, combine it together
- by keeping the core steady using a twist tie.
You can add in some
sparkles using glitter glue, sew on some buttons or sprinkle on some gold dust.
Experiment it with it, you should get yourself some interesting designs
and colours Combine it all together and attach a safety pin to the bow
tie/ribbon Adapted from: Original ideas from Cziplee
Note: All items above can be obtained from Cziplee Bangsar.
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Activity 3: Do it yourself "Posh Pegs"
Suited for kids: 4 - 10 years old
Time needed: 1 hour
Recommended because: Kids get to glamorize themselves with DIY jewelery It's a perfect necklace or crown when you clip the pegs on a ribbon, or a hard card (like Jughead's crown)
You need: Pegs Big brush PVA glue Plastic ribbon/ hard textured card A big bottle of glitter
Instructions:
First, fill a small dish/paper plate with PVA glue. 
Next, using the brush for the PVA glue - slather it on the pegs.
Then, roll those sticky pegs in glitter You can separately get various colours of glitter,
plonk them in various paper plates for kids to easily dip
in.Use extra glue or glitter if pegs are not completely
covered.
Next, let those clips dry (don't put it near any paper, lest it
sticks!)
Finally, clip it on a ribbon (and voila! You have a
necklace!) Or, if you feel like
a king or a queen, clip those pegs on a
strip of hard textured card to make a posh- peg crown (but make sure you staple
the ends of the cards to make it a comfortable fit for your head before you clip
the pegs on!)
Adapted from: My Art Class by Nellie Shepherd, A Dorling Kindersley Book (ISBN 9781405309349)
Note: All items above can be obtained from Cziplee Bangsar. (Except Pegs!)
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