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Today is day 50 of my photo challenge this year. I took this photo on Le Thanh Ton street. Was curious about it for a while since I saw it on pokemon Go as one of the pokestop. Apparently it is only a small street with 2 mural arts on it. One of it is this picture, and I think it is quite nice and unique.
I’m lucky to be able to capture the gold reflection on the buildings from the sun. There is no way I can watch sunset from my apartment. Tall building is there, to block my view 
As the new year come, I started a photography project to improve my skill (I hope..). It’s a 365 photo challenge where I need to take photo (and post it) everyday. Let’s see how it goes but I want this to be a success project. I posted the pictures on my facebook page but I figured I need to do it here as well. So.. here is the first photo :
This photo was taken at one of the hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia on new year’s eve. They have a firework event and it was beautiful!
Are you a foreigner and having trouble in finding art or craft stuff here? I was too! I like coloring and was having trouble to find some stuff because I don’t know where to get them and language barrier is real. After a few searching on google and asking my friends, I found some good places that sell art supplies. So I’m gonna list the stores I know and visited already.
They have several branches in Saigon but I only visited 2 of them. The one in Nguyen Hue street is very big. That makes it harder to find something, at least for me. The other one I visited is in Le Loi street. This one is my favorite. The location is really nice and it is easy to find coloring book, pens, pencils, crayons, pastels, etc. Another plus thing about this Fahasa Le Loi branch is I can walk to its neighbors where they are mostly selling art stuff. Please be warned though that they can’t speak English and not as friendly. The most famous one is number 54 Le Loi street (but it also famous for its rudeness lol). I don’t take it personally when they do that. Not all of them are like that.
This store also have several branches, mostly inside a mall. I usually visited the one in vincom mall, but the small branch in thao dien D2 is better for coloring. They have more collection of coloring book for adult. And I found a cheap soft pastels as well, with good quality. It is located on 2nd floor of AnPhu Supermarket.
I found this place when I was searching on google about where to buy for art supplies. They have website as well but everything is in Vietnamese and no option for English. Their location is a bit far from the center (150/7/2 Nguyễn Trãi, Q.1, TP.HCM) , but it’s worth the trip. They have MANY art supplies, and most of them are the best one in their job. They have faber castell polychromos, prismacolor, copic, water brush pentel, prismacolor blender and many more! I love this store. Not good for my wallet though…
Vinspace is an art gallery in D2 (6 Le Van Mien). My friend told me about this place. She said it is a gallery but they are selling stuff as well. I was looking for paper to print out a drawing to color. They also have watercolor paper. I bought the normal paper (Daler Rowney) A4 size 130 g/m2. It works really well to print a drawing then to color it.
This one is a big discovery as well! The best shop there for me would be 134 Nguyen Dinh Chieu. They have vast range of items, including craft supplies. No artist pencil colored though, only marco, faber castell classic, stabilo, and caran. They also have a cheaper version of copic. I bought a pencil case, but it can only fit 36 pencils. Not bad though. After to finish shopping here, just continue with the street, they are all art supplies store. Last store I visited was 144 Nguyen Dinh Chieu. No more store beyond that one.
Art Friend is an art supply store chain. They are also available in Singapore and Malaysia. This is the only store that I found derwent pencils. I bought Derwent Inktense in this store. They also have Derwent Studio. The shop is small but the stuff is a good one. They have copic pen as well. It is located at 24 Lê Thị Riêng, Bến Thành, Hồ Chí Minh. There is a banh mi shop next to it, and it is very good, especially for meat lovers.
Do you know any other art supplies store in Saigon? Please let me know in comment!
Did you notice a new jewelry shop in Thao Dien, District 2? It’s called Wish (or in Vietnamese cua hang muon). I went there to visit my friend (the owner) and ended up buying something for myself.. I just couldn’t resisted it!
The shop has several section, each with different designer style and material as well. Most of them are made in silver, and rose gold. There are some jewelry with swarovsky crystals as well. Their design is unique with an affordable price. If you buy an item, they will give you a discount card (20%!) which can be used for the next buy. The card is usable many times (only 1 item per use per visit) until September 2016. Check it out now!
Bought these pair of earrings because they are so cute! I love owl. It was 320.000 vnd. Not bad eh? And they only have 1 piece/pair for each design. Only some of them have more than 1 piece/pair. So it’s very unique and not everyone has it here 😉
They also have a wish list book. You just have to mentioned which items do you like to the shopkeeper. She will put it in a book, and when you have birthday or special occasion, they will let your closest people to know what kind of item you like from Wish 😉
Wish is located next to Kepi Gift Shop (63 Thao Dien, D2).
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