Lelit's Orange Dragon Gift

For my friend Lelit's gift I gave her Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy. It's actually a shared gift from my bf and I. I wanted to make the gift wrap inspired by the books.

Key elements dragon, bold letters and neon colors

I could not find a gift wrapper with dragon in it so instead I wrapped the gift in an orange cartolina and used temporary tatoos to place the dragon design. I accented the gift with a neon green ribbon.

I had no time to print out a card so with my rusty hand I tried to write the card in bold letters.

Jorel and Karen's personalized wedding Gift

For my Cousin Jor-el's Gift I wanted to do something personal.

So I made two illustrations and placed it into two different frames.

The wedding was held in Manila so there is traveling involved so bubble wrap is key!

After securing it with bubble wrap I lined the box with Japanese paper.

I bought this gift box from Chimes where you can get cute boxes there in different size. The Gift box can be reused and also adds charm to the gift. This how the gift box looks like with a cover.

Finished Gift with Ribbon. My Friend Monica did the ribbon.

Jessie's Black and Red gift

I love giving gifts. I really love looking for the right gift for the person. I also love wrapping gifts. Last November 25 was Jessica's birthday. When I saw this cute book from booksale, I knew Jessie would love this.

Aside from the book I got a miniature Absolute Kurant and a Drambuie

I got my red and black inspiration from the book cover

Wrapped them separate with red japanese paper

Here is the gift. Fully wrapped and ready for giving!

P.S. The gift was a hit. Not only Jessie loved the gift even my other friends liked it.

My guilty pleasures

After reading Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy. I am just enjoying some light read. I have discovered Mtv books. It's basically just young adult novels.

Thanks to booksale got these book at only P 20, P45 and P 75.

Besides my mtv books I also got new books (I know I promised myself not to buy new books....) Digital Fortress, Stepford Wives, Totto-chan and The girls guide to hunting and fishing.

To anyone who shares my addiction, happy reading!

Sleep Blogging

It's 1 a.m. in the morning and my mind is still working like crazy.

I went to Lelit's to see Manny Pacquiao's fight. I'm not really a boxing fan but I like hanging out at my friend's house and watch everyone enjoy the fight. I tried to drag my bf but the day before we had a Big Bang Marathon and the day before that we also hang out. He is the type who can't go out many nights in row. He has to recharge. So while he is recharging I have my bonding time with Lelit, Don, Jessie, Dennis, Linda, Lara and Patchik.

Here are pictures from early this day...

Jessie, Me and Lelit

Meet Jessie's Baby Liam!

Meet Lelit's baby Chewy! hehehe

And this is Don's baby

Linda and Dennis

Me and Linda

All photos are from my bf's ipod. He left his ipod the other night. I am secretly wishing his ipod could mate with mine so they can have small ipod nano babies! hehehehe

On another note before I started this entry I made a quick logo for a personal project. Ever since I have been sending postcards to my sister I fell in love with snail mail again. I know it really DOES take long before my sister gets my postcard but the wait worth it. Nothing beats a tangible postcard rather than just a text, or an email. So I am collecting addresses and planning sending nice soon.

Here is the quick logo I made.

I will update you when I finally get to start on this small project of mine.

My eyes are getting heavy and I really think I should get some shut eye.

Leather and Lace Ball in the Edge

Look at the top most left corner thats a picture of Lelit, Linda, Jessie and me. (Click the picture to enlarge)

Leather and Lace Ball

I didn't post this in the recap because I feel this event DEMANDS a blog post. It's rare that you will see in make up. Those who knows me well that I went through a Goth phase. When I heard about this party I was really excited. It's been a long time since I don black clothes and put on make-up.

The Leather and Lace Ball is a fundraising and awareness event aimed at informing everyone about HIV/AIDS while still having fun. Everyone is invited and there is no cover charge at the door although donations are welcome. All proceeds of this event will fund the HIV/AIDS awareness campaign

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I went with the girls!

(From the Left: Lelit, Linda, Me and Jessie *Photo Kenneth Irving Ong)

*Photo Kenneth Irving Ong

Lelit Loving it!

(other photos are courtesy of Lelit. My photos sucked. I really need a nicer camera!!!)

I really fun...until next year!

Walang Magawa sa Buhay

I miss doing this... senseless photo manipulations of my pictures!

Two Words

It's one of those days when my cravings are heightened. I definitely want to sink my teeth into DARK chocolate or eat slices of cheese! Yum!

Briday Party

It was my first time to host party at my house (with out the parental supervision). It was at first a surprise party for my friend Rochella. It was double celebration. It was her birthday/ bridal shower. Honey and I planned and schemed what could we do to make Rochella's party memorable.

It was not really a bridal party because Michael was present but we still have fun. Rochella was really surprised...well she knew about the party. She was surprised with the quick AVP we made for her. Days before I contacted friends, classmates, family and co-workers of Rochella to give her a message. Thank God Honey was a master with Windows Movie maker and compiled everything. I also got a customized cake for Rochella. Honey cooked and I researched on how to make jello shots.

I'm glad my first party to host was a success!

ReCap- Missed events

Empire State of Poverty

The past month I have been on a shopping rampage. Last time I reviewed the collateral damage. After adding and subtracting I discover in order to balance my finances I have to take out a huge chuck of my measly savings. Oh well...Lesson learned don't let your hormones take charge of the shopping.

Since I am a rehabbed pessimist I will view this predicament as a fresh start for my LX5 fund.

My Birthday is a month away and I don't feel like celebrating. First I don't have the funds, second my whole family is in Australia and third I feel old. In a month I will 28. Ack! I'm already in my late twenties. In 2 years time its going to be the big 30.

Right now I have no choice but to cramp my style and do fun things with out spending a dime. Thus leads me to this motto:

Translation: Wala akong pera. hehehe

Can anyone give me suggestions on fun things to without a budget?

Reformat, Rejuvenate, Renew

I think I should device a new way so that I could blog more often. I should reformat the over all look of this blog.

This is the list of events that I should have been blogging about:

September: My Manila visit - I got to see my college friends. It was years since I last saw them.

October: This was eventful. There were birthday parties (My boyfriend's grand mother's 90th birthday, my friend Lelit's Birthday and Donie's birthday), then there was my cousin Jor-el's wedding, another trip to Manila (due to the wedding), and then there was the Halloween party at Legaspi Suites.

I'll try my best to gather photos and finally make an entry about it. Better late than never!

....baby steps to get my blogging groove back.

OMG

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh My God!

My last post was last August! Major blog fail!