A Christmas
Worth Keeping

Some things are worth bringing back. Others are worth introducing.

Last Christmas, CzipLee and JAKES-store built a gingerbread world at Bangsar Village.

It brought together two Malaysian family businesses with different backgrounds, but a similar story. We grew up around the work our parents started. Today, we’re trying to carry those businesses forward without losing what made them matter in the first place.

That was last year’s story.

This year, we wanted to give people more to do than look.

A Christmas Worth Keeping starts with a simple thought: a gift can live beyond the moment it is opened.

A book can be read again. A notebook slowly fills. A pen becomes the one you always reach for. A box becomes a home for letters, photographs or the small things you don’t want to lose.

Last year, we showed how CzipLee finds could fit inside a JAKES-store box.

This year, we’re taking the idea further.

You can still choose your own finds and pair them with a box. We’re also introducing CzipMas × JAKES-store bundles, curated with pieces from CzipLee and the partners joining us this year.

Then there’s something new: the CzipMas × JAKES-store Buffet.

Choose one of the participating JAKES-store boxes first. That box is your entry into the Buffet, where you can fill it from a special selection of useful, playful and unexpected finds.

At the Buffet, the box isn’t packaging added at the end.

It’s where you begin. Choose the box. Explore the selection.

Build something for the person you actually have in mind.

Not another gift set made for everyone.

Something put together for someone.

Around the Buffet, CzipMas becomes a small Christmas village.

The idea carries forward the spirit of CzipVillage: different people bringing something of their own into the same space.

Barkery Oven joins us with TCM and treats for pets (yes TCM!), le bon août brings its quirky finds and a slime bar. ABCDEFG brings art and collectibles. Bendang Studio brings pottery. Lit Books brings a selection of books.

Most of these finds have been chosen with gifting and the JAKES-store boxes in mind.

There will be things to make as well as things to buy.

Shachihata and Artline will lead layered-stamp activities. Oh Beatricee and Wizard Within are bringing children’s activities and special bundles.

We’re also working with Limzy on a collection of limited-edition illustrated JAKES-store boxes and DIY Christmas kits.

Some partners will stay throughout CzipMas. Others will join us on selected days and weekends, so the Village will keep changing as Christmas gets closer.

CzipMas is the work of many hands.

The CzipLee team, JAKES-store, our participating brands, makers, and creative partners each bring a different part together.

One has the box. Another has the book. Someone makes the pottery. Someone designs the activity. Someone builds the display, prepares the space or helps a child make something of their own.

That is why we collaborate.

Not because one person has everything figured out, but because each person brings something the others cannot.

Then people arrive.

And it becomes something shared.

CzipMas Village runs at the Bangsar Village II concourse from 19 November to 6 December 2026.

The wider CzipLee store programme on Level 2 continues from 19 November to 30 December, with selected workshops and activities.

From 8 to 30 December, Christmas gifting continues at the Bangsar Village I concourse with a smaller CzipMas pop-up.

Come by. Take your time.

Build something for someone you know.

Find something worth keeping.