only one more piece in stock!
heart measures approx 3cm tall not including loop.
18 inch gold plated chain
this is not an authentic chanel piece.
xoxo
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Tagged chanel logo necklace, chanel necklace
this came in from Design for Mankind today…
if you haven’t already read from my “tweets”, ben booked out way early today cos… well, accidents happen even in camp!
apparently, they were doing area cleaning in the bunk. they lifted the mattress, and the mattress hit the light bulb and it blew, breaking into two. and ben, in an attempt to shield himself put his hands over his head and his finger got cut by the falling broken light bulb.
did i mention i got new panda charms added on to my phone? lol.
hahaha i love the new additions… they’re so adorable!
and i made these today too :)
the vintage gold earstuds are so so chanel! and the “watch” on the right? well, it’s a bottlecap ring!
no idea what ben and i are gonna do on saturday… we’re not quite in the halloween mood especially with his finger like that… i just want a big big HUG!
xoxo
i’m just a little bird who wants to follow you… will you take me home? tweeeet?
hand drawn black bird on a hot pink tile of wood measuring 1.8cm x 2cm
♥
hand drawn black butterfly on a hot pink tile of wood measuring 1.8cm x 2cm
includes a pistol, hello kitty and soda
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saydie measures 6cm from beak to tail and is attached to a keyring
baby ele measures a mere 5cm across and stands at 3.5cm tall and has a pin on his other side.
♥
on a side note, i’m totally loving the doodles used as a photo “backdrop”. aren’t you?
xoxo
this lot of rosette headbands are for Hannah. she’s getting them for herself and her bff(s)!
and i’m in loveeee with the pretty pastel colors!
xoxo
im done coloring! haha just a quickie, nothing fantastic… still cute tho i reckon?
spot the difference! i drew something extra in this one! :P
grrrrr… i should have worked on this in a higher resolution. i think it makes a pretty desktop wallpaper!
*smacks*
i’m so gonna color this in with photoshop… i’ll post the colored version when i’m done!
and this is gonna be the “background” for lots of future product pictures! wheee! :)
xoxo
bottlecap ring customised for Selmin :)
♥ jean
have you ever broken someone’s heart, and then months later, wonder if they’re okay?
have you ever come across someone’s writings, and felt as if (no, make that sure) it was directed at you?
have you ever come to realise you MIGHT have “ruined” someone’s life, sent them into depression, thrown them into an emotional whirlwind?
have you ever regretted being mean to someone?
…if my answer to all the above is yes, does that make me a really bad person? :(
xoxo
i’m gonna start putting them up on jeaninegabrielle.com right about now, so check back in abit! :)
xoxo
xoxo
Posted in accessories, jeanine's design updates, jeaninegabrielle customisations
Tagged bracelet, chanel, coco, coco chanel, satin
ben was on mc until tuesday… food poisoning (apparently). i say it’s just the excess of food he gobbled down once he got out from field camp… but he’s all better and back in camp now… tho i really wish he’d be out with me on our monthsary…
ben being on mc got me really tired out tho… on sunday we went for mass at SFX, then went home… i couldn’t help but pack thai express on the way home… then on monday i made a trip down to kino to pick up some stuff before going to ben’s place again to keep him company. he’s such a baby! lol i kept saying he was just faking sick to abuse his girlfriend… LOL!
anyway, i got some stuff over the weekend… more like on monday actually!
i’m not really a kitty fan but this was a tad too cute to pass on. plus it was only $28.70! i don’t know what to do with the gold bow tho, can’t bear to poke holes in the bag just yet…
and that’s my CHER 2010 diary! not too heavy so i can bring it with me wherever i go, and there are even blank pages at the back for my random doodles? i also came across this issue of SEDA that comes with this awesome bow studded pouch! it’s really cute, and it’s great quality too. for $14, it’s a really great buy! (and the interior is hot pink!)
oh well, need to sleep soon to wake up in time to receive my registered package… they tried to deliver it on monday but i guess i missed it in the morning… sigh. need to update the website in the day too! so much new stuff to put up!
should i get an airbrush tattoo? i’m really thinking about it…
i’ve always wanted something like this on my ankle or something… haha i told ben i want to tattoo a panda… he said… “you already panda still want another panda? so many pandas!” true… i have like 5 or 6 pandas on my bed already… not including myself! :P
oh well, night ya’ll! – xoxo
Posted in just us, The Army Journey
Tagged airbrush tattoos, hello kitty, hello kitty bag, pandas, seda, tattoos
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love, jean
nawwwww not really. hahaha i just get bored when ben is too busy ignoring me…
until the point where i actually try to squeeze myself into his duffle bag. i’m not kidding! i really did!
told you it was me in the bag! did you think i was kidding? :P
grrrr waiting for ben to finish bathing and what not so i can actually get to sleep before 1:30am for the first time in a very very very long time.
night night everyone! :)
xoxo
Posted in jeanine amusing herself, The Army Journey
Tagged army, boredom, contortions, national service, tekong
…remember i said our brain really controls everything?
well, i got through the entire week perfectly fine. why?
cos i told myself ben wouldn’t be able to call, not becos he doesn’t want to… but becos he can’t. somehow i manage to block out emotions that way… and then the whole of friday was crazy! why?
cos i knew ben was gonna be back from field camp, but i didn’t know what time so i was really jumpy all day… then it started to get late… and 9-ish would be the normal time he calls… but until like 1130 my phone was still silent! but yea, he called in the end :)
i’m so glad field camp is over… i mean, that’s probably the worst part of BMT right? a whole week apart? i’m just so glad that now we can say…
but come to think about it, anticipation can really drive you bonkers.
anyways, meet my latest panda addition! :)
isn’t he such a sweetheart?
he’s realllllly tiny! he’s about 1.5cm? this is officially the tiniest panda i have in my collection now! can’t wait to show ben later :)
speaking of which, i’ll probably be out all day… so here are some sneaks of what’s new cos i got new supplies all the way from the USA earlier in the day!
i loveeeeeeeee the wedding chapel ring! there’s just something about it that is so so cute. this piece is mine! haha!
ppssssttt : even the paper i use as background is imported from the USA! lol! cos i’ve given up on looking for pretty paper here! those are just a fraction of the new stuff i came up with. i’ve got new bottlecap and scrabble tile rings! and more chanel!
BUT! for now, my eyes are shutting. i really want to wake up and go to pasir ris to see ben but i really doubt i can wake up. if i do… well it just means i’ll be zombified all day. grrrrrr…
oh yeaaa one last thing before i sign off… mummy’s laksa.
i’m not a laksa fan but ben will probably scream when he sees this. i hate the leaves… ppffttt.
goodnight! -xoxo
Posted in jeanine amusing herself, jeanine's design updates, The Army Journey
Tagged anticipation, chanel, quirky, rings, wedding chapel
for weeks i have been contemplating chopping my bangs again…
i don’t know why, it’s like i want to and yet…
1. when you cut your bangs it takes at least a week to fall nicely into place.
2. once it grows you have to trim.
…
anyway when i came home from dinner, i suddenly decided i was gonna do it.
see how long my fringe had grown? and becos i previously did straight bangs, it’s just hard to let it grow out and push it to the side… it just won’t work… trust me, when i came home i spent about 10 mins staring at the mirror… walking all over the house. asking mummy if i should cut my fringe…
actually she said don’t.
like everyone already thinks i’m 19… butttt after about 20 mins, i decided to do it anyway! haha! i wonder what ben is gonna say. maybe he won’t recognise me. the first time i chopped my bangs, he really didn’t recognise me! like he really stared at me and took awhile to realise it was me. hahaha funniest thing ever i tell you.
yeap. did it. i don’t know if i did a good job… guess i gotta wait a couple days for it to fall back into place… but but, how does that look baby?
oh i totally failed my sleep early plan last night. i think i slept at 3? lol. i will try again tonight! before 2am! and it’s 121am now. i still have 39 mins to get my butt to bed! and later today, the return from the jungle! wheeee! stinkies!
night ya’ll! :)
when ben talks to his friends, somehow he always refers to me as “this one”. i never really realised until last weekend when they were talking about army and bringing me along for the parades and all that… he kept saying… “bring this one”, “this one ah”, “this one”
…
since when did i become a thing? :(
thursday
friday
anyway, we’re halfway through! i wonder if he’s still alive actually. lol! i mean, yea obviously he’s still alive but… honestly i cannot begin to imagine how much he must stink right now. gross. no matter how much i miss him i wouldn’t want a hug now. really. no thanks… i think he has to take at least 5 good long baths before i’ll let him anywhere near me. hahaha!
oh well, i wonder if field camp will end today or tomorrow… they’re not allowed to smoke during the entire duration of the field camp (which made me very happy and i didn’t bother hiding my glee!) it’s good that they’re not letting them smoke, somehow i secretly wish they would extend field camp… then they’ll realise just how long they can survive without the smokes. i keep telling him it’s a psychological need but… which smoker would admit that right? it’s easy to blame the addiction on the nicotine, but…
pity not everyone embraces the fact that we are in control of everything. oh wells… i’m gonna try to sleep earlier tonight. somehow i get hooked on writing long blog posts late at night and end up going to bed at 3 or 4am… ben will kill me if he finds out! it’ll be quite a feat if i make it to bed by 230am tonight. hmmmm 13 minutes, i’ll make a dash for it.
ps : if you’re wondering about the photo, i like the bag. i really do. i don’t know why i like it, but i think it’s cool. i actually told ben i want it when he’s done with it, cos he refuses to buy me one cos it’s expensive. LOL!
toooodles! :)
xoxo
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xoxo
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Tagged andy warhol, bottlecaps, famous quotes, quirky, quotes, rings, unique
gosh i feel so stupid today.
i sent kino an enquiry like 3 days ago asking if they carry the CHER 2010 diary. and they usually reply my enquiries within a day but i didn’t hear from them for 3 days so i went ahead and bought the only one i found on ebay japan. S$35.
this is what the diary looks like!
i love it cos it has like the day scheduler with time stamps… it’s easier for me to organise my daily schedules…
and then earlier today my jaw dropped when i saw an email from kino saying that they have reserved the diary for me at taka. and it costs S$28.70.
i mean yea, technically it’s the same price but add shipping. sigh. now i feel like an idiot… just sent the seller on ebay a message asking if i can buy something else from her instead otherwise i’ll be stuck with two diaries. i know i can just cancel the one at kino, but i can go pick it up within 3 days… why not right? plus it’s cheaper too… and i was eyeing something else in the seller’s shop.
it was something i wanted from topshop but didn’t buy in the end cos ben was nagging at me. lol….
oh well… now i’m waiting to see if the seller is agreeable to let me swap items and top up the difference… *fingers crossed*
xoxo
Posted in jeanine amusing herself
Tagged 2010 diary, cher, japan, quilted bag, topshop
this is gonna be a pretty long one, so bear with me okay?
here’s a song i’ve been listening to on loop…
♥
blogging about relationships, it got me thinking about all my past relationships. i mean, skip primary school. nothing that happened then was worth remembering for me. being in an IJ from primary to secondary school, the only relationships present in school were the lesbian ones… right?
then in secondary school when we became more interested in boys… the only boys we saw were those at the swimming and track and field meets, remember? that’s when we’d start ogling at the swimmers, the runners… those were the guys the girls wanted to be seen with. and if you were dating a swimmer, the girls would “hate” you.
we’d date the “hot-listers” just to be “famous”? looking back now it seems pretty silly how our minds were wired back then… i wonder if things are still like that now? gosh. suddenly i feel so old. to think that i was in secondary school a decade ago. yes… 10 years. sigh
believe it or not, the first guy i dated was 3 years younger than me. and i was 15. can you imagine? that means he was still 12! technically! and until today, we’re still in contact, and on good terms too! in fact, ben has met him too… as well as his twin. haha there are photos of him on my blog in previous entries. if you’re gonna start digging back, hint : butter factory.
the more i think about it, i seem to realise… i never really had a clean break with anyone. somehow it was a continuous cycle. i can’t remember a time i was officially not dating anyone… until much later. come to think of it, i might have been a pretty “mean” person when i was younger. if i was nice to someone, i’d be really nice… but when i got bored and wanted out, i’d just RUN! well not literally run, but… i’d just leave it to die?
at some point my friends did ask, “jeanine, why do you get any guy you want?”
honestly i never knew how to answer them. i never thought about who i was going out with. it just happened somehow. did i date a swimmer? did i date anyone in track and field?
in fact when i was in poly, i was attached to the vice president of the wakeboard committee for a couple months too. sometimes i still ask myself if that was a mistake. i had just entered poly, joined wakeboard, and neglected my then boyfriend… i still feel sorry towards him somehow, even my close friends hated me for leaving him back then. we had been together for a good 6 months or so, but when i joined wakeboard… i let myself slip.
don’t you get points in a relationship when u feel like, all you do is fight? and then someone else just so happens to come along and make things seem so much more positive and then your feelings just shift? you don’t realise it at that point…
well, 5 months later i realised it. it was a mistake, and i wanted out… and then believe it or not, my life changed forever from then on… i don’t even know if i should actually blog about this, but i believe in being totally transparent. i mean, it’s all in the past anyway… and we all have skeletons in our closet, right? i’m a normal human being, just like everyone else, i’m not perfect, i made mistakes too. but that’s how we all learn. well, the thing is, i actually had 3 girlfriends after that. yup, i’m not kidding. i really did. i guess not many of you actually knew that, but it’s true.
of course, it wasn’t becos i got upset after breaking up. in fact, it was when i started working part time at ritz and meeting more guys, and getting “involved” with different people.
and i swore i never wanted a boyfriend ever again. perhaps it was an excuse, i don’t know. but i hated them so much that i somehow leaned towards girls… experimental? maybe. but that was one period of my life i will never ever forget. it was also the most painful. period. those of you who knew me then would know what i’m referring to. you’d know how much i hurt back then in those 2 years? and how i actually became quite depressed and suicidal. but thanks to my friends who were always there, to remind me that the jeanine they knew would never fall like that; becos of them, i stood up again.
and i’ve grown so much since then. i swore i’d never let heartbreak ruin me. but at that point, i still couldn’t let myself love, or be loved. i still shut everything out… for a long long time… and then slowly, i started to let people get to me, and most of my friends would remember the very amusing “saga” that came to an end last year… but that’s that. and after that, i pretty much bounced back to being me.
and then i went out with this “rock star”, it wasn’t really anything serious, but it was quite the experience… at least i learnt for myself why they say you can never trust a rock star! but, i can say i did date one in this lifetime. those of you who know who it was, you know. those who don’t know, well… i guess i won’t say…
and then more recently there was nic… altho we didn’t make it very far, i’m glad he came into my life, and i’m glad he still is. nic was one of last year’s cleo bachelors, but at that time he was still studying overseas, and the whole long distance thing just wasn’t working out… but he really did pave the way for me to love again. and for that, thanks nic :)
looks like i’ve reached my present, and my future. and like in the late michael jackson’s song ben,
indeed, i’ve found a friend, someone who knows my past, yet still loves me for who i am today, and whatever i will be.
i really appreciate everyone who has left comments, sent me emails, facebook messages, tweets… thank you for being happy for me, and i’m glad that you are able to confide in me :)
there’s a special someone out there for everyone, you don’t have to look for that person, that person will find you, somehow. it took me years of heartbreak to meet mine, after going through countless teary-eyed nights, he finally found me.
till my next rant – xoxo
Posted in jeanine's writings, relationships
Tagged advice, experience, mozart, relationships, sonata 11
click on the banner to go to the cheesecake cafe’s website!
from the outside, this place looks like any other cafe along siglap… but once you step in, it’s a whole different atmosphere… stepping in for the first time, i was totally dumb-founded by the interior. hundreds of statues, framed pictures, clocks and what not decorate the walls… and the washroom isn’t spared…
we spotted a sign that said photography and videography was not allowed, but i had to sneak a couple of shots to blog…
pretty isn’t it?
i’m a sucker for classic cheesecakes. blueberry is my favourite, and this one did not disappoint me one bit. it’s awesome. my next birthday cake maybe? :P
ben had the vanilla chocolate chip cheesecake. not bad, but i’m still sticking to my blueberry.
a pretty cuppa cappuccino. i always like the foam on top… always tried to perfect it when i was working at The Ritz Carlton… i miss those days sometimes.. :|
and here’s Joyce with my strawberry tea! very tai tai right? hahaha
and us, of course!
but you might want to call to make a reservation tho! they’re almost always packed!
Tel: 6448-7725
685 East Coast Road Singapore 459054
(Near Siglap Centre)
♥
love, jean
Posted in Advertorials, food, Our Recommendations
Tagged cafes, food reviews, siglap, the cheesecake cafe
okay so it was Gabriel’s last weekend in Sg, so the bunch of us went for dinner together on Saturday at The Garden Slug. Apparently Joyce made this recommendation on air a couple days before… so we had to try it for ourselves!
The place is really cosy, it’s almost like eating in a large living room with friends… feeling lazy and just wanna chill out? there’s a sofa there too!
this is a platter to share, with a mix of appetisers… calamari rings, fried mushrooms, bratwurst sausages and chicken wings!
the wagyu burger… this cost $18.90 i think? not fantastic tho, you can’t really tell if the beef is indeed wagyu or not. in fact it kinda crumbles to pieces when you cut or bite into it. minced wagyu patty? i’d rather have an order of OVEREASY’S philly cheese steak sliders for less! at least you get a solid chunk of beef.
the sausages were great, altho i still prefer the ones at Brewerkz more. and while they were really generous with the mash, it wasn’t really to my liking… it was quite chunky and probably had a tad too much herbs?
not your typical shepherd’s pie, this one had pasta in it… we thought it was more like lasagna? definitely, more like lasagna than shepherd’s pie.
so we weren’t exactly WOW-ed by the menu, maybe dessert would have been good but we had other plans for dessert!
The Garden Slug
55 Lorong L Telok Kurau, #01-59/61 Bright Centre,
Singapore 425500
you can also check out their website, click on the garden slug banner on top of this post! :)
love, jean
Posted in Advertorials, food, Our Recommendations
Tagged bright centre, food reviews, the garden slug
