News & musings

In the UK, Mother's Day is celebrated in March (19th this year), while most of the world will be toasting to their mum's in May (14th this year). Regardless, we should all be thanking and showing love to our moms on a regular basis (if you have a good relationship with them that is, of course). Here are a few gift ideas for the dog mom, the auntie mom, the mom mom, the grandma, the plant mom - all the moms. 1. Card - Mother's Day Shop now 2. Card - Love You Soy Much Shop now 3. Art Print -...

Super excited to announce our first accessories drop! This collection is dedicated to the iconic and hilarious af Cantonese phrase: Laugh Die Me or 笑死我 siu3 sei2 ngo5. Laugh Die Me is used to describe something so funny that you just die. Yup, us Cantonese are just that extra.  It's my first foray into clothing accessories, so it's super limited in quantity and to be honest, the quality is fine, but it's not what I would really want, but I also got to chalk this up to the growing pains of a small business with a limited budget. Test and trial is...

2023 is the Year of the Rabbit! And Cat (for our Vietnamese friends)!  Lunar New Year celebrates another new year based on the traditional lunisolar calendar - which is based on moon cycles - and the start of spring. Because the Lunar New Year is based on moon cycles, it falls on a different date on the Gregorian calendar each year. How do people of Asian heritage celebrate it? Well our friends from Little Egg Crafts (Nozomi Tolworthy 雷希望) and Amy Phung 馮金薇 of besea.n wrote a great guide here. As for me, well there's a lot of traditions I...

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂! Today is the 15th of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, which means the moon is exceptionally full and bright tonight and that it’s time to eat all the mooncakes. Mooncakes come in a variety of flavours and sizes, but my favourites are the traditional Cantonese lotus paste filled ones with (double) duck yolk or the bit more modern molten lava egg custard ones (particularly the ones from the Peninsula if you’re lucky enough to get gifted them!). Not sure if it’s because of the influx of HongKongers moving to the UK lately, or if...

⭐  G I V E A W A Y ⭐  For International Bubble Tea Day, we at sketchykarr and Little Eggs Craft have organised a BIG - EXTRA PEARLS BIG! - bubble tea giveaway along with some bubble tea businesses! There will be 6 winners in total, so you’ve got nothing to lose! 🧋 How to enter: - LIKE this post- FOLLOW @sketchykarr and @LittleEggCrafts  - TAG  friends you’d like to drink bubble tea with (one tag = 1 entry)- BONUS: Share this post on your IG Stories and tag @mooboo_uk, @hoko.london, @luckyteauk, @jichickens, and @xingfutang.uk The Little Eggs Craft x sketchykarr...