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.