In September last year, I acquired my second typewriter– an Olympia Cursive Script. I’ve used her many times since, and you’ve seen orders with her type in six different posts. It’s high time I show her off with a meet-and-greet, no? Here she is. Olympia DeLuxe Cursive Script. Made in Germany, and as far as [...]
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Custom Pop-Up Zombie-themed Birthday Card
The title pretty much says it all! Today I’ll be sharing a custom zombie-themed birthday card I made for a customer. Her giftee was described as quite the character– obsessed with zombies to the point of having devised detailed strategies for how to stay alive when (and not if) zombies take over the world! She [...]
Custom Order: Australia-themed Wedding Card/Mobile/Wind Charm
Awhile ago, I received an order for a custom wedding card. The backstory is that the couple in question met in Australia while in university, and are heading back to Sydney to start work after the wedding. They apparently have always wanted to live there again, and are looking forward to the farmer’s markets, good [...]
Custom BMW X6-Themed Card
Now that it’s 2011, I can finally write a post on this quirky little card I made for a customer back in August 2010. Yes, August of last year! At my customer’s request, there was an embargo on the public sharing of this card until December– so here’s the write-up on it, 5 months later. [...]
B’s Christmas Party
First of all, I do understand that the 12 days of Christmas are truly over, and there’s no point in deluding myself. The thing is, I have so many Christmas-related posts to share which I couldn’t finish in November and December, even when I was blogging twice a day! So we’re going to have a [...]
An Update on the Royal Senior Signet Typewriter
If you’ve been following my obsession with manual typewriters, you’ll know that I love (and use) my Royal Senior Signet typewriter to death– both for personal purposes and also for custom orders. Three days ago, I was delighted to find, in my inbox, an e-mail from Alan Seaver, owner of the fabulous website, Machines of [...]
Custom Wedding Card
I think I’ve said this before, but it is so important to the process behind Paper Exploits that I’ll say it again (and probably again at a later point)– I love the back-stories that I am privy to when designing a custom card. Call it being kaypoh (Singlish for nosey), but it’s beautiful learning about [...]
Gifted Over: Eat Me/Drink Me Tags, Party Photos
As promised, here are some photos from the birthday lady’s camera, for whom I created vintage Eat me/Drink me Wonderland-themed tags! Read the full back-story here. Here’s a shot of the party favours that each guest received! Two giant (each bigger than the size of my palm) poker cards, a heart-shaped piece of chocolate with [...]
Gifted Over: Alice in Wonderland-themed Eat Me/Drink Me Tags
Just what the title says! I had the pleasure of making 40 eat me/drink me tags for a friend’s Wonderland-themed tea party that happened this past Saturday, and thought I’d share the photos with you! Remember when this dystopian shrinking happened to Alice? Well, the birthday lady had wanted little tags to tie around her [...]
One of Many Experiments
How goeth thou, o sweet Paper Exploits reader? I hope all your mothers’ (yes, s-apostrophe, not apostrophe-s!!) day celebrations went great! I just wanted to do a quick post to share what’s been going on behind the scenes. As everything here is hand-made from scratch by myself, I spend a awful lot of time playing [...]
About Kelly Tay
Apart from being the one-woman show behind Paper Exploits, Kelly is also a financial journalist by day. She read English Literature at the National University of Singapore, where she graduated with First Class Honours. In addition to both her full-time jobs, Kelly volunteers to teach English at the local prison, performs salsa at various national and international events, and often lusts after vintage typewriters she cannot afford. She is contactable at Kelly [at] PaperExploits [dot] com.
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