Happiness walks on busy feet.

-Kitte Turmell

Indeed. Since February, Sunflower had been so busy with events, updates and bazaars that we didn't had time to contemplate about being busy. Luckily we did our proper planning hence things didn't go out of hand! However, it was a very happy, satisfying and rewarding month for all of us.

For starters, we went to 4 bazaars last month! Way beyond our initial target of at least 1 bazaar/ month.

here we are at NUS, our first bazaar there, which is held over 8-12th march.
We were sharing booth with 2 of our tenants, AppleRain and Xia Letni.

I totally love our huge sunflower, ( although its such a pain to transport from our shop, which is in the farrer park, all the way to the west ! ) it never fails to brighten up our booth( and the area). Also, its become a bright and sunny( pun intended) " sign-post" for the crowd there. As we were there for 4 days, sometimes we will overhear students talking on the phone near our booth, " i'll meet you at the big sunflower ok... ? " .

Laughs, which is just brillant for us, as more crowd gather around our table.

Here are the 2 ladies hard at work...

AppleRain workshop is set up by a very talented local artist who aims to evoke our hidden dreams with her bright and cheery watercolor paintings. However, the missus is trained in jewellery design. Through this sharing of bazaar space with Xia Letni ( who handmakes a wide assortment of swarovski based and vintage inspired accessories) she is properly inspired to turn back to jewellery making.

Here's something you wont see everyday! order something and see it materialize before your eyes, that's the power and allure of customizations folks! :)

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here's a hint coming up, do look out for our huge spread in May's first issue of CHIC magazine, where you will see more of Apple rain works!

Next up, Sunflower collaborated with PUB to organize a flea market to be held at the newly opened, and widely raved lifestyle spot, Marina Barrage in conjunction with World's Water Day.
here's a banner showing us as one of the partners! A first time for Sunflower! With this experience, we will be able to move on to bigger and better things! Do stay in touch with us, we might even organize our own sunflower themed bazaar one day!

here's a picture of our booth! it was one of the biggest tables we have ever been given in all the bazaars we have ever went to, it even comes with the skirting ! We had to utilize the table properly to make use of all that space! In the end we came up with a novel way of propping up the racks and securing them with cable ties! totally novel as we could hang things both ways!

a wider range of eco-friendly products brought that day, as PUB requested for environmentally friendly items, to promote conservation of our naturaly resources such as water.

so we had solar chargers, and handmade rattan and jute pouches just to name a few.
One of our partner, Gina who joined us, Sunflower was the co-organizer in charge of collaborating with stall owners. FOC for all of sunflower's partners!

Gina specialises in hand painted pouches and shoes! Her talent has earned the admiration of many a passerbys!

Here 's a photo of Forever blooms! Their life like floral arrangements will never fail to entice a " so nice..." comment out of any customer, no matter how tight lipped!
They are also having a new collection in Sunflower specially for the fast approaching Mother's day!
here's a picture of one of my very favourite creations!

pretty ain't it! Act fast as there's only one piece for each design, so its extremely limited and exclusive!

Next we went to NUSSU-Arts bazaar on the 22nd and 23rd of March!
There were live performances this time around , hence the crowd was really thriving!

Our mini booth, this time around, we brought along our own in-house fahsion brand, the Sunfashion! Demand for it was really encouraging, and we sold out of a few designs! Were you there, if you were from NUS?

Do look out for us as we were be going to more educational institutions over the next few months.

a beautifully edited photo showing our products. This time around we brought along our famous 3D cards which were imported from germany ,and new pouches from one of our newest partner, Periwinkle Sue!

After a successful collaboration with Xia Letni and Apple rain, we decided to go to this bazaar with them again. and i must say, they have outdid themselves!

Their array of new offerings were mind boggling, from intricately beaded bracelets to whimiscal story-line necklaces.

Do check out their items in store, for both are having promotions for the up coming Mother's Day!

We also took part in the annual EARTH hour project on 27th March, 8.30pm-9.30pm. Though lights are very important in retail line, and to our sunny image, we gamely agreed to turn off the lights so as to drive the message across that all it takes is a little change on our part to be green.

On top of participating in the project, 10% of our profits from the sale of our very own Sun candles will be donated to EARTH hour!

We also managed to rope in a few of our partners to donate to EARTH hour as well ! The partner featured here is that of Hourstyle, a local based firm who specialize in customized clocks. Love photography? Bring down your favourite picture and have it printed on canvas! Just married! Immortalize your love for each other on the wall with a customized wall clock cum art piece!

Special promotions! do drop by to take a look!

So, where will you on 27th March ? Did you participate in the project as well? Feel free to comment to this post!

The shop in 90% darkness, with only our front display lights on.. Let the darkness fall!

Surprisingly, the crowd in the shop increased 3 fold compared to normal days! We're really glad we made an impact on our resolve to be a green ambassdor.

Just look at the crowd! hmmm, perhaps we should switch off the lights from now on? at least once a week, can save electricity bills as well! ( laughs!)


March is also the month in which we finally came up with our very own slogan and tagline!

Hence " Always different, Always sunny! " is immortalized as Sunflower's tagline. We will be using it in all of our media releases from now on.

- the amount of work behind was so tremendous its kind of unbelievable! Imagine waking up suddenly at 3 am because you had a sudden brainwave on the tagline, den feverishly writing them down before mooting it in our regular meetings the next day. well, at least that's what happened to me.

Simplicity is always the hardest to achieve! How do you summarize the sheer amount of hard work, passion, and our past, present and future endeavours into a mere oneliner! Through endless brainstorming, that's how!

Our creative director also came up with this lovely collage of past and present events and happenings. This serves as a reminder that we still have a long way to go ahead, with trepidation and excitement, we shall bravely forge ahead! Thank you to everyone who have always supported Sunflower!

As for our media releases, we were featured in a varsity newspaper! A two page feature in volume 5 of Good paper, which features everything good! To what we know, it is available in educational institutions and newstands and this volume has been fully distributed! Have you seen our feature? :)

A local parenting magazine also feature our bee swimsuit! It makes any baby look 3 times more adorable instantly! Perfect for that unofficial photo shoot you have been thinking of doing for Junior!

Now available in different sizes in our shop! Fits children up to 6 years old! It even comes with a complimentary bumble feeler cap! Totally kaiwaii! I can hear the mums squealing in excitement already, XD drop by today! limited pieces only! It comes in pink as well.

For little boys who want to more macho, we have an adorable frog themed wetsuit as well! comes with a zip down front for moms who want an easier time getting junior into the suit!

We are also featured in CHIC magazine march issue! Did you catch us?

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Do stay tuned to this blog! More exciting news, pictures and events coming up! We do not jest, read it to believe it! More coming up soon!

I also want to check, been thinking of a mailing list to inform you guys of updates whenever explosive new contents have been posted. Do comment to this post with you views!

Tata! Til the next post!

Always different Always sunny!