Just last Friday I received an order of a whopping 32 lamps, I was overwhelmed by sheer amount and had only a week deadline to complete the job. For info, a lamp takes 8 hours to dry, it requires mold preparations, casting, sanding, filing all of which you probably need to experience to really feel the scale of it but just one lamp takes up to 3-4 hours to complete not counting the drying process. I took it as a challenge and toiled over the last week to complete them and really surprised myself that I could do that. It was my personal best as a maker and surprisingly the results were really good, considering that as fatigue sets in, it normally...

I like how a friend put it,  "When you buy from a small business, you are not helping a CEO buy his/her third vacation home. You are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy get his team jersey, you are helping put food on the table, helping pay a mortgage, helping pay for university fees." and truly it says it all.

So its official, we are now 1 year old! Been really exciting so far and so many things have come up for us that we never knew when we first started. Business aside, our own lives have also been total madness, our little son Ernest was born 3 days before my birthday and we've been parents for about 4 months already. We are just learning so much and having a child tho is never easy, is a very fulfilling thing and I feel everyone should have a go at. haha. I started on a new career path, a new job as well and just one week from now, we'll be collecting our keys (like every other Singaporean couple) to our...

There's really something magical about having your own business, its so dynamic, encouraging and you see yourself growing so much more than an otherwise dead-end job. Just off my head let me list down some of the differences. This is of course my own personal opinion. I am sure there are plenty out there living their lives, enjoying their dream job as an employee. :)  Working World Entrepreneur World You answer to your boss. You answer to yourself. Take instructions. Create your own paths. Boss opinion is always better than yours. You are your own opinion. Credit is given if you are lucky. Credit is to the one who made the decision (you). You have nothing to lose, just cover...

Many of you have asked, how did Concrete Everything started? As a person from the creative industry (I'm not necessarily creative), I always feel ideas coming in from everything and anything. Here are a list of things that I often get inspired by and feel, have you had such a similar urge/experience before? 1) Problems around you There are problems all around us, dirty toilets, rude people, badly done up magazines. I always tell others, why don't you do something about it? So births forth a beginning of an idea that can develop and form into something exciting for you. As a youth, I had so many ideas, all of them burnt to the ground. I wanted to make my FYP...

  Things pass through my mind like nobody's business, as a boss of your own setup, you get to chart the direction and vision that your company/business is heading towards, it is so different compared to your job/career everyday. You always get to decide and choose your path. On that note, I have a whole bunch of ideas, things we want to do and try out, ways to make money and its really dynamic and anything can happen. Its lucky for us that at this time, the support for local design is slowly building up, retail stores are open to stock our products and the public are slowly opening up to handmade products. Just yesterday unfortunately, we stopped stocking at...

Our journey has been a short one so far, from little beginnings almost a year ago. I want to share our story with you, firstly to share with you chasing after my passion and secondly to give everyone out there with some entrepreneurial spirit to pursue your dreams. Through our weekly stories, I will share with you little advice at how you can take a shortcut, a smoother path into realizing your dream. Providing you more time to work on the things that drives you. So here's to all you out there, all the young and old, born with a burning passion and reaching for the skies! SG50 yo! *everything also SG50.... cheers!