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Celebrating Home: Elly’s 2015 CNY Collection {Giveaway}

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As the dust settles on the new year, there is no rest for the weary in this household as we start gearing up for the next big event on the calendar: Chinese New Year.

As kang tang as I am, there are a few things I do adhere to when preparing for Chinese New Year: I try to do a bit of spring cleaning (though the standard varies from year to year!), I buy new year goodies for our home and for our parents, I prepare ang pows, and I buy new clothes. Buying new clothes for the new year is something my mother did every year and which I’ve continued doing since I started earning my own money. Admittedly, I love new clothes so any excuse to get some new ones, right? But I like this practice of starting the new year in new clothes — a fresh start, a clean slate. With children, this has extended to getting new outfits for them too.

While I often have to hope to chance on something nice or try my luck at getting a coveted cheongsam from some popular online retailers, with the kids, it’s simple: I head to Elly. Since they launched their first cheongsam pieces three years ago, I’ve been togging the kids in their outfits. Especially when they started having matchy-matchy sets for the both of them! (See Noey and Mei in Elly in 2013 and 2014!) It was just too cute and yet stylish at the same time.

This year, I got to take a sneak peek at the collection when both Noey and Mei were roped in to model for Elly’s 2015 CNY Collection: Home. Lucky me, cos this has got to be my favourite collection, and in my opinion, their best one to date.

EllyHome1Presenting Elly’s CNY Collection: Home

One of the special features of each Elly CNY collection is a selection pieces made from fabrics which Elly designs and prints on their own that are one-of-a-kind Elly. And this year, they went for a mix of the classic and the fun. Their exclusive fabrics for 2015 consist of the simple yet striking geometric Japanese Fans design in three colours, the playful Swallows design, featuring red swallows against turquoise clouds, and the totally whimsical and utterly Singaporean Home design, with local icons dear to our hearts. Think dragon playground, pelican playground, SBS buses, HDB flats! Perfect for SG50 this year, don’t you think?

In usual Elly fashion, there are mandarin-collared shirts for boys, and cheongsams for girls, in a variety of prints that you can mix and match. There are onesies for baby girls and little mandarin-collared shirts in 3-month, 6-month and 9-month sizing too so that even the littlest ones can get in on the action this Chinese New Year.

EllyHome3Noey and Mei in matching Red Japanese Fans and Blue Japanese Fans prints.

EllyHome7Lil S in a Home Cheongsam and Mei in a Swallows Emily dress.

EllyHome4Noey and lil A looking impossibly cute together in the Lanterns print.

I was starting to feel a bit envious of my kids so I was really thrilled to find out the this year, Elly is letting mummies get in the act by offering a series of clutches in their exclusive designs! Yay! I admit it — my top priority was picking out my own clutch before moving on to pick out the kids’ clothes! There are also cute little bags in two sizes in matching cheongsam prints that I know Mei is going to love.

EllyHome8Clutches for Mums in Elly’s signature fabrics for 2015.

EllyHome6Little bags for little girls! Available in the same five fabrics as the clutches above.

This is just a small sampling of the collection — do hop over to Elly’s Facebook Page to see more photos and designs: Home — CNY 2015. The collection has also just gone on sale at their store in Cluny Court over the weekend so you can also hop down to to take a look and make your purchases. But you’d better be quick, because the last I heard, the items are really flying off the shelf and some items and sizes are already out of stock. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

GIVEAWAY!

I am also really excited to bring you an exclusive giveaway with Elly where one lucky reader stands to win the Emily Dress in the Swallows Print (worth $59) from Elly’s latest collection! This dress comes in sizes from 1Y to 6Y and the Emily dress is my personal favourite design of the Elly range. I think that pop of red is perfect for Chinese New Year and yet versatile enough to be worn any time of the year. In short, it’d make a great addition to your little girl’s wardrobe!

EllyHomeGiveaway

 

To enter this draw, you have to complete the following steps:

1. Visit the Elly Facebook Page

2. Visit the Life is in the Small Things Facebook Page

(While you’re there, we would greatly appreciate it if you could “LIKE” these pages!)

3. Comment on this Facebook Photo telling me your favourite design from Home — Elly’s 2015 CNY Collection AND Tag a friend to join this giveaway.

Use the Rafflecopter widget below to indicate that you’ve completed these steps. You have to complete ALL 3 STEPS to qualify so don’t miss any out! You can also get additional chances by completing the rest of the steps.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Do also check out the giveaways over at Life In The Wee Hours (Japanese Fuschia Fans Cheongsam) and Beverly’s Net (Home Shirt or Shorts)!

Terms & Conditions:

  • This giveaway ends on Fri 16 Nov 2014, 11am and is open to Singapore residents only.
  • Winners will be contacted using the contact particulars provided when entering this giveaway and will till midnight on the same day to respond, failing which a new winner will be drawn.
  • All incomplete entries will be disqualified. All entries will be verified before the winners are announced.
  • To be fair to our sponsors, please note that all fake Facebook accounts (eg. accounts set up purely to take part in contests with no or very few real friends) will also be ineligible to win.

Good luck!

* All photos used in this post were taken by Maryann Koh of The Studio Loft.

Comments

  1. Hi.

    Thanks for the giveaway.
    Hope to win the cheongsam for my girl for the coming cny.
    The cheongsam looks fabulous!

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  5. Cny goodies!! Especially delicious when baked with love by your relatives, the laughter and joy shared over the goodies during cny gatherings! Can’t wait for CNY, thanks for the awesome giveaway mummy bean!! Cheers, khookie

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  14. My favourite thing about CNY is the
    – bonding time (with relatives and friends),
    – makan time (eat bak kwa),
    – playing time (huat ah!) and
    – prettiest time (Look! my new dress.).

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  19. My fav thing about CNY is gathering with the family and spending time with loved ones! Of course the yummy food is also one of the best things – cookies, bak kwa, pineapple tarts!

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  23. Bak kwa
    Ok very realistic answer.
    I could be saying connecting relationships with distant relatives where we left off from the previous CNY, but it would be so..,fake.
    I would really like to hang out with some but not all.
    But i remember spending these moments with the closer ones when I was younger, everyone was chomping on bak kwa only!
    And playing ban luck for the next 6to8hours.
    Those were the good old days!

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  24. I actually love the spring cleaning and house decorating. It is the only time I have a chance to clear all the old stuff to make way for the new !

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    • Good for you, Eunice! I wish I could say I love spring cleaning too but I’m always having to force myself to do it.

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  26. The boisterous gathering at my grndma’s place and feasting over all her home cooked dishes! Not to mention the new year goodies too 🙂

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    • What is it about grandmas and their awesome homecooked food? I told DD that I hope that when I’m a grandma my grandkids will think the same of the meals I make!

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  28. My favourite thing about CNY is definitely the dressing up for my kids to the CNY theme and of course the gatherings at relatives and friends’ places.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  29. My favourite part of Chinese New Year is gathering with my extended family! I may only see some of them only once a year but it’s great to have the opportunity to catch up! 🙂

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  30. Love CNY because is a gathering time for family, relatives and friends. I can have valid reason for retail therapy to buy new clothes to dress up myself and my kids. Plus kids indulge themselves so much with the cny goodies and Ang Pows collection. Children’s joy = Parents’ happiness.

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  31. I love the CNY lightup in Chinatown and make it a tradition to visit China Town every year.Though not a Chinese, I love CNY very much and my daughter gets angpows every year from my Chinese neighbor and they pass vegetarian snacks (so considerate of them as we are strict vegetarians)too for us and my husband receives oranges from his colleagues too every year.These things make me realise that I am truly blessed to be living in Singapore so rich in different cultures and yet everyone treats others with sense of friendship.

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    • Thanks for sharing, Arsheitha! That’s a wonderful testimony to the truly multicultural society that we live in.

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  34. I love dressing up for CNY …. be it our kids or the house! Hahahaha! Love the joyous mood and dressing up in lovely spring colours certainly makes this occasion a colourful and merrier one.

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  36. My favourite thing about the Chinese New Year is the gatherings that we will have with our family members, relatives and friends! It gives us the perfect chance to gather together to celebrate the festive holiday with lots of good food and fun. We get to catch up with one another – how heartwarming!

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  37. Thank you for the giveaway, mummybean & Elly.

    The swallows dress is beautiful. Will be lovely to win this for my little girl who will be celebrating her first Chinese New Year this February.

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  49. definitely the baking for cny goodies with my mom and seeing how the family enjoy them during the holiday,

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  51. All mummies are the same as they want to dress up and see their princess in pretty clothes, especially during CNY.. Haha! I m one of them.. Most importantly is that we can get together with family, relatives and friends to drink, eat and chat. Cheers!

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  61. I love reunion dinners, thanks for the giveaway, and these child models are so good looking in these clothes, I m sure my girl will be so outstanding in one of these dresses.

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  63. My favourite CNY tradition will have to be staying up as late as possible on the eve. I’ve been told by my late grandma that the later we stay up, the longer our parents will live. 🙂

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