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Monopoly Afternoon

24 September, 2013 by Rose Kuruvilla

It has been some time since I last blogged. I have been so tied up as the Production Manager of the Singapore International Storytelling Festival 2013 as well as planning a Monopoly afternoon. I will write more about the festival later as I don’t have pictures of the festival to share with you yet.

In this blog post I plan to tell you all about the Monopoly afternoon I hosted for those I worked closely with at the festival. The idea was to wind down and play some Monopoly!

Being the party planner that I am, I decided to make the afternoon a real Monopoly party. From decor to food, the entire afternoon was themed around the board game. As with all real estate transactions, plenty of wheeling and dealing results in certain tensed moments.  My aim was to set the right ambience from the start and get everyone geared up to play for the fun of it!

Ever heard of the expression “money doesn’t grow on trees”? We stuck money bills to a cane tree to look like a real money tree. Contrary to the expression, I like the idea that everything is possible!

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We had a Community Chest filled with old coins and chocolate gold bars. For some added fun, we put in cards with guest names on it. At the back of the card was a witty accusation relating to that person and the recent festival and demanding that they pay a fine of $5 in chocolate coins.

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We printed Monopoly icons on little squares and made them into streamers which we hung around the room.

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Most of our parties involve signature cocktails. For this party we served 3 drinks – a berry sangria, an appletini and an orange/lime mocktail. Of course we gave them names to suit the theme and location. The party was hosted at Hullet Road – taking the pun from the word ‘harlot’, we chose to serve a berry sangria to reflect that. Perpendicular to Hullet Road is the famous Emerald Hill of Singapore. As such, a green cocktail was in order – appletini. The mocktail was named Just Visiting. We wanted an orange colour drink to reflect the orange jumpsuits of prisoners’ since on the Monopoly board Just Visiting was a sign on the prison square. To present the drinks we styled the glasses with Mr. Monopoly’s bow ties and top hats.

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The drinks counter was decorated with white flowers with a red base, dice and gold chocolate coins were placed around.

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The food was a little trickier to incorporate into the theme. We decided on some simple Chinese food and gave them names of streets and Monopoly icons. The buffet table was styled with dice, chocolate gold coins and chocolate bars. We also incorporated some yellow-gold flowers to brighten the table.

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Everyone has a sweet tooth so for dessert we decided to serve Mr. Monopoly cupcakes and Tarts to dice for – which were made by the lovely Lilah of the Little Red Hen.

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The game table was set and each player was given a Community Chest favor (which they could use as part of a trade), a top hat and a moustache.

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After the game ended we brought out the Chance spin-the-wheel which was designed and crafted by my talented husband. Players were asked to spin the wheel and win some chocolate coins to go home with.

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A special thanks to Kamini Ramachandran and Geophin George for helping me plan, prepare and set up the event. In one way or another you played a big part in making the event happen.

To the man behind the camera, Geophin George (The Silver Fox) thank you for taking pictures of the event and giving me something to be proud of in my portfolio.

To Kabir Bhugtiar, thank you for helping me with the designs. You did a great job!

To Lilah of the Little Red Hen, thank you for the lovely cupcakes and tarts. They were to dice for!

To the Parker Brothers, for bringing Monopoly to the world!

Dream team:

Event Styling, Planning and Coordinating: Never Ending Ideas

Stationery: Never Ending Ideas with Kabir Bhugtiar

Photography: The Silver Fox

Cupcakes and Tarts: Lilah of the Little Red Hen

Catering: Mackenzie Rex

For more pictures of this event – check out our gallery!

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cocktails, desserts, events, monopoly, SISF 2013

A Planter’s Affair

8 May, 2013 by Rose Kuruvilla

I’ve been so busy this last 2 months since the launch of Never Ending Ideas. Running your own business is hard work but satisfying on every level. Today I am writing to tell you about a pre-wedding dinner party event we planned last month.

My clients hired us to plan a pre-wedding dinner party to celebrate their good friends’ daughter’s wedding. My clients and the bride’s family belong to the oil palm plantation fraternity. As such they wanted a planter’s style themed dinner.

This was an exciting opportunity for me as my family belongs to the Oil Palm Plantation Fraternity too and this meant going back in time to life on a plantation. This being the case I incorporated palm leaves and oil palm fruits into the decor of the event.

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Orchids also played a big part in the event as it symbolises a flower of luxury and elegance which in a large way defines the Oil Palm Plantation Fraternity.

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As a centerpiece we sub-merged orchids in a jar filled with water and let a lit tea light float on the top. Oil palm fruit was grouped around the base of the jar for base effect.

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One of my favourite parts of designing this event was creating signature cocktails. Mixology has always been a strength of mine and as such I always encourage my clients to go with signature drinks. Why stick with the usual spirits if you can make a drink all about you? After creating the drinks – we gave a twist to the names to reflect the couple, the bride’s family and Planters.

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cocktails

Instead of a guest book – we thought it be a great idea to give guest floating lanterns to write their wishes to the couple and then float into the pool.

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This  is what it looked like.

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Everybody loves cupcakes. It has become such a trend today. Instead of getting 3D cupcakes or individual designs on cupcakes, I thought it would be very cool to use cupcakes to form an oil palm tree.

Adding a sign with the common rhyme of the couple sitting on a tree – K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

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Instead of Dessert Bars – we thought it be quite cool to serve desserts on a trolley as you would commonly find trolleys stacked with newspapers and magazines in a Planter’s house. So we turned them into Dessert Trolleys! This is our Dream Weaver, Lyn, rolling out the dessert trolley.

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desserts

Never Ending Ideas is all about personalization. I like to make an event everything about you and I try not to leave out any details. Together with my team, I styled and planned this event. After coming up with ideas – I worked with the lovely Serene Soh who illustrated all the stationery you see in this event. When I say personalized – I go all out to even creating personalized stirrers, food labels, drinks menu and even Wet Closet signs!

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So how long did planning take? It took just 1 month to make this event happen. It also helps that my clients were extremely organized, very helpful and accommodated all my ideas including the crazy ones. I do hope to work with them again. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Chandran for engaging Never Ending Ideas! I hope the event was what you wanted it to be!

A glimpse of how the event looked.

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A special thanks to Kamini Ramachandran, Alexandra Yeong, Riaan Ramachandran, Dill, Weng, and Agnes for helping me prepare and set up the event. In one way or another you played a big part in making the event happen.

To our photographer Caxton, thank you for taking pictures and giving me something to be proud about in my portfolio.

To Serene Soh, thank you for working on the designs. The designs were very effective and received a lot of attention.

Finally a big thank you to my good friend and Dream Weaver, Lyn for helping me make this event happen. I really couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s to more events.

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Dream team:

Event Styling, Planning and Coordinating: Never Ending Ideas

Photography: Caxton of Emotion in Pictures

Cupcakes: Cecilia

Catering: Rekha Shekar Catering

Stationery Designer: Serene Soh

For more pictures of this event – check out our gallery!

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: events, Never Ending Ideas, Oil Palm, Plantation, Planters, Pre-wedding, Weddings

Black, White and Shadows

26 March, 2013 by Rose Kuruvilla

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This blog post is long overdue.

We recently styled and event managed ‘Making Stories, Telling Stories’ in conjunction with our client’s (MoonShadow Stories) celebration of World Storytelling Day 2013. We were to design the event room layout which lends itself to the theme of the event which was around shadows as this was a Shadow Puppet Performance and Workshop.

Since we were talking about shadows and candles were considered a fire hazard, my team and I decided we would work on a classic black and white theme. We would create silhouettes to replicate a shadow effect. We also incorporated elements of the Malaysian Rainforest as the stories told at the event were Malayan folktales. To subdue the bold contrast of black and white, we added black and white plaided ribbons to stationery.

The event went on smoothly with minor hiccups. I was very happy to see how relaxed our client was at the event. She placed her trust in us in managing the event for her so that she could focus on her performance, which she did.

This event also marks the first event for our Dream Weaver – Soma Rachel George, who did a splendid job. See how natural she is with the kids and dressed in theme!

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Selected photos of the event will posted up in our gallery soon. So stay tuned!

Dream Team

Event styling and coordinating: Never Ending Ideas

Event Host: MoonShadow Stories

Cupcakes: Little Red Hen 

Stationery Designer: Serene Soh

Balloons: Party with Us!

Photographer: Aaron Iceman

Videographer: Gorilla Pictures

Venue: The Arts House

Shadow Theatre Setup: Funplay Workshop

 

 

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: designs, DIY, events, Mood Board, Never Ending Ideas, plaid, shadows, stories

The Birth of Never Ending Ideas

16 January, 2013 by Rose Kuruvilla

“Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.” – Ray Bradbury

How many times a day do you look at an object and think about the many things you could do with it? I cannot give you the number of times I do that simply because that is how my mind works. I am curious and a dreamer. Tell me you like balloons and I will float you in the air!

Planning weddings and events was never something I envisioned myself doing professionally until I planned my big day.

My big day was just that – BIG. Not just by the amount of people who came but with the concept and theme of the whole day in itself. My husband and I wanted something different. We didn’t want a typical colour themed wedding. We chose a Jungle theme with birds and pink roses. Highlights of our wedding included a Bird photo booth, an interpretive dance as a grand entrance to our first dance. Every detail fell within the theme. (You will see pictures of our wedding in the gallery).

We looked for a wedding planner in Malaysia and could not find a single person that could do the job as detailed and excited, as we wanted them to be. Having to plan our wedding ourselves with the help of family members and friends, we had our dream wedding.

I worked in a lot of theatre productions and planned many social events in school and University. My whole life has been about detail and studying law further emphasized my love for details. After planning my wedding I just knew that planning was for me.  It is the perfect combination of my love to dream and my detailed organizational skills.

With the birth of Never Ending Ideas – I aim to put fresh ideas on the table and give you an event you deserve.  From conceptualizing to planning to executing – we do it all. Most importantly we make the event all about you.

My blog entries will feature some of my ideas, my thoughts, my experiences and the work that I do.

Enjoy the read!

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: birth, events, ideas, Never Ending Ideas, wedding

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