threads / with the girls

We spent girl-talk-time with some of the best we know doing what we love best (eating waffles). These girls are all sorts of lovely and beautiful and different - proof that the ultimate style tip is having the sparkliest personality! Here you have them in various versions of Wear Anything - only the best kinds of clashing prints and colours and gazes. 

hit and mix / let it in

let it in from wafflesandwit on 8tracks Radio

march mix up! just a collection of favourites; gentle and bold, break and mould. enjoy this one!

best day of my life - american authors / emmylou - first aid kit / featherstone - the paper kites / get yourself free - akina adderley & the vintage playboys / the girl - city and colour / ivory road - king charles / little joy - brand new start / prophecy - adam & the amethysts / riptide - vance joy / saturday - adam faucett / sweetness - pearl and the beard / troubles will be gone - the tallest man on earth / we don't eat - james vincent mcmorrow / the wrote and the writ - johnny flynn 

waffle watch / wimbly lu

This waffle watch was one that we were eagerly looking forward to and finally we had the time to pop by courtesy of the university's recess week. We brought along the girls this time - easily our most favourite people, and had sparkly conversations over these babies. 

The waffles were edible sunbeams, golden and radiating warmth from the most wonderful toasted batter. Crispiness levels were exciting, slightly charred (always appetising), but unfortunately not as dense as I hoped. Scoops of frozen creams received mixed reviews - the brownie scoop was literally like frozen brownies, which can never go wrong; the honey cinnamon was velvety and strong on the cinnamon front so you get this sweet spicy cold conglomeration of unique, the salted caramel had an overpowering burnt caramel after taste and there is so much right that can happen with truffle chocolate. Waffles came with syrup and butter, served on beautiful china blue plates added plenty to the gastronomic journey (sucker for packaging), delicate curves keeping the golden syrup and melted ice-cream in a pool for the waffle to soak in. Just by the way, who else eats their waffles in equal portions of ice cream and syrup in perfectly calculated square cuts???!! Y'alls should. That's the only way you keep track of how much you've eaten so you can ration the remainder to make it last, man.

Service was great, friendly and earnest waiters, food reached our table quick and we realised just how much we went trigger happy with our orders. We got coffee - a big nyehhhhhmehehhzzzz no; my mocha tasted like extra sweetened hot chocolate and the cappuccinos were too milky. The jugs of iced ribena were just iced ribena but so rewarding in this relentless heat. We didn't want to split our attention between waffles and their other confectionaries - haven't gotten the hang of this food tasting/blogging yet, obviously. But their cake and treat display looked like a glorified willy wonka's candy store, will definitely be back for more. They also had a red (!!) t-rex (!!!!) in their outside display beside the word "rawr-mantic". Plus points for Jurassic Jokes. Amazing interior, good use of space and cozy just the way it should be. 

Wimbly Lu Chocolates

15 Jalan Riang

Singapore 358987

+65 6289 1489

lu@wimblylu.com

handy dandy / thread charm bracelet

Took a break from the madness of essay writing to make thread bracelets, inspired by the Rugby and Co ones our friends have been sporting. Here is a modified version of a project by Operation Overhaul, tweaked a bit to make it a charm bracelet, too.

You will need to start with a basic charm bracelet - I made it using chains, jump rings and lobster clasps fastened using long-nosed pliers. (You can add more jump rings to make the bracelet adjustable.)

Cut your embroidery thread to four times the length of your chain, and tie it in knots of eight to ten pieces for each colour (depending on the size of your chain links - I used eight pieces for mine), two colours per set.

Here's where my braiding differed from OO's (getting loopy patterns instead of braids). Pull the pink set under the first chain link, then cross the grey set over and into the same chain link.

Repeat for subsequent chain links (pink going under, grey crossing over).

Once you reach the end, tie a neat knot, and cut off excess thread. You could stop here if you wish, the bracelet is completed!

Alternatively, you could add charms onto the chain links - here I added a matryoshka doll to each bracelet using jump rings. And there you have it, a cute twist on traditional friendship bracelets!

threads / checks and balance

We had so much fun taking shots with boys we bribed with the promise of food, and that the both of us turned up in monochrome checks was not the most deliberate but it was the most fun! Checks and tartans are pretty easy to dress up and dress down - here's how we wore this cute basic print for the weekend.

waffle watch / department of caffeine

today was a sunday and we were insistent on waffles for late lunch, which unfortunately meant a 20 minute wait in the approximately 200 degrees sun because this really popular new place was Really Popular. got a queue number, sweated buckets and eventually sought refuge between the shelves at Littered With Books. but when the waiter placed the valrhona chocolate waffle and peanut butter and jelly waffle gloriousness on the table, all was forgiven. we also had a spot of shepherd's pie that was really good, a brownie, elderflower lemonades and ice chocolates all for the price of $(a satisfactory bang for buck). i don't describe food as well as you think i should. you would do better sitting on the other end of this screen if i gave you the food gum that violet beauregarde got to chew and programmed it to taste like newborn unicorn glitter tears which is possibly the closest thing to these waffles. but while we wait for science to catch up, go waffle watching for yourself at department of caffeine!

Department of Caffeine
15 Duxton Road
Singapore 089481
+65 6223 3426
deptofcaffeine@gmail.com

hit and mix / cupid bows, afghan throws

cupid bows, afghan throws from wafflesandwit on 8tracks Radio

When They Fight They Fight - The Generationals / Cupid - Sam Cooke / Treasure - Bruno Mars / You And Me - Penny & The Quarters / Be My Baby - The Ronettes / Triangle - Janie Grant / Dream A Little Dream of Me - The Mamas & Papas / Wonderful World - Sam Cooke