I love birthdays. Including mine. The festivities coming up next week warrant a entire new wardrobe. Afterall, I am only 27 once in a lifetime. Heh.

Marimekko is a Finnish textile company. Like all Scandinavian design houses, their patterns are clean lined. The colours! Are fabulous. I have a Marimekko pencil case only, having resisted the siren call of their bags sold in Prints.

I like colour. Alot. A little too over the top. Dresses are easy though my closet comprises of mostly separates. Somehow, tops and bottoms are not as memorable as dresses. But dresses require virtually no thought.

If I strike lottery (which is impossible considering I do not even buy lottery, heh), I would immediately rush to scoop all these beautiful frocks into my arms and prance in a new one everyday for a month even with no where to go.

Awful will be going to the Hello Kitty Lab at Expo next Tuesday. Hello Kitty is 35 this year and all sorts of collaborations with various brands have taken place this year. (Profit spinning cat that Hello Kitty.) But this Hello Kitty Lab must be something extraordinary! (Tickets are 35 smackeroos after all.) To visit the popular feline, this Nea dress, a short sheath with flower prints (a Marimekko speciality) will be the perfect outfit.

An Awful birthday week won’t be a birthday week without a trip to the land of Mambo, Zouk. Wednesday night Awful has a date to go dance the night away. Dance little lady dance. The swingy trapeze Tasaaja dress may not be that mod A line 60’s go go-ish but still easy to do a pirouette in.

Then its off to the beach with Jupes and Addy on Thursday. The last time I was at Sentosa with Yu, Ahmu and Tiffy, all the girls were in dresses except for me. Turns out I have no beach worthy dresses. Well, in an alternate universe, I would be all up for the beachy action in this tree patterned Nila 1 Tunic.

The actual birthday plans are still sketchy, with dimsum lunch with my Mama and a pantomime with the girls. But I got my heart set on this Rois Tunic, complete with pockets and all, loose enough for all the eating that I intend to do.