If you wish to start a business creating gift and flower hampers, there are so much of items that you can sourced from Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur (also known as Chinatown). For flowers, you can source from a flower supplier that I have mentioned in an earlier post. How about for soft toys…especially if you [...]

There is a shop called Gift Season located in Jalan Petaling (Petaling Street or near Chinatown) that sells gifts items that are a little unusual. What first attracted me to the shop is that is the steel plates with designs in the eras early to middle of 1900s that is usually used as a wall [...]

While visiting Masjid India area, I came across a large shop hidden in the basement of Semua House which sells all sorts of craft supplies (ribbons, beads, wrapping, cute containers, plastic flowers and many other items) as well as supplies for hantaran kahwin (for Malay weddings). The shop is called Sin Yin  Sdn Bhd and [...]

If you wish to print your own mini stickers, aside from a sticker printing shop located at AEON Big Subang Jaya, there is also another kiosk located in Sunway Pyramid. Reason why I write this article because I realized at times, folks may need to have some personalized stickers printed but offhand do not know [...]

It’s the time of the year and many people would be going for holidays, taking a well deserved break and at the same time clearing leave. Aside from looking for luggage, some little add-ons like luggage tags and passport holders may come in handy. One time I was searching for a passport holder (until my [...]

Traditional Chinese weddings requires specific items like a new tea set (used for the tea ceremony), red ang pows, wedding themed soft toys, plates, ribbons, slippers and even a red potty. Prior to a wedding, an auspicious date would need to be set, taking into account the birth date and time of both the bride [...]

If you are looking to buy blank mini magnets to be used for your craft projects to make fridge magnets, I have sen one shop in Petaling Jaya that sells it. As it is not wholesale, the price can be more expensive. Suffice if you just want a few for your craft projects. This shop [...]

There have been a few inquiries from readers asking me where to get feathers and fluffy boa or artificial fur for craft projects. I’ve managed to locate on shop in Petaling Jaya that sells these items. The coloured feathers in yellow, blue, purple, pink and white as seen below are sold in smaller quantities. In [...]

Most flowers sold around Malaysia- from the flower suppliers, stores, markets and florists are sourced from Cameron Highlands. For example, a huge lorry will arrive the the flower supplier in Petaling Street few times a week to delivery boxes and boxes of packed flowers. I came across one flower supplier located in Tringkap, Camerons Highlands. The [...]