Esther is a Singapore Lifestyle writer who is happily married to a practical and introverted engineer. Her witty husband who always inject humor into her life, he will make rare guest appearance in this blog from time to time. Watch this space as he invades into her daily activities, saying unexpected things and giving his logical opinions which can make her perplexed and amused at the same time.
HER BACKGROUND
Born with congenital bilateral hearing loss and recently diagnosed with a rare eye disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Esther grew up with the Natural-Auditory Oral approach. Since young, she have always love doing art because it gives her the escape and comfort from the oppressive world of speech, auditory and lipreading. Immersed in the beautiful world of handmade crafts, arts become her native language to express her emotions and communication, while gaining strength and positive outlook from it.
She is also a self-taught artist who loves playing with all sorts of media especially paper and paints, making her table messy with her crafts. Esther enjoys doing interior designing and visiting home decor stores to source for inspirations, so much so that she even worked at a well-known home furnishing company as a part-timer too! She also loves weddings, filling up her Pinterest with wedding inspirations, flipping through wedding magazines and at the same time, crafting wedding gifts for her friends/clients!
Beside doing freelance design projects for clients, Esther has also collaborated and guest blogged for Canon Pixma SG, Interior Design Singapore, Singapore Toy Club and other international craft-related blogging websites. Her blog was listed as one of the top 10 finalists under Lifestyle Category for Singapore Blog Awards in 2014 and 2015.
With her posts often filled with her creations, inspirations and creativity, she hopes to show others that arts and crafts are the magic of imagination and therefore, highly valued and unique.
‘Bella’ related to the Italian and Latin words for beautiful, and ‘Elysium’ means place of perfect bliss. Putting them together give a very special meaning, indicating a perfect and beautiful place for creating happiness, spreading the love and joy to everyone. – Esther
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For collaborations and sponsorships, please email her at bellaelysium@yahoo.com or you may use the Contact page on the blog.
Copyright © Bellaelysium 2016
All creations and photos are of my own unless stated otherwise. You may repost my creations and photos as the source of inspiration for your website or online gallery and I would appreciate if you could relink back to my blog. However, selling of your crafts made from my designs is not acceptable. Please contact me if you have further enquiries.
