A Life in Bloom: March 2008

Back to Our Regular Programming

>> Sunday, March 30, 2008

*sigh* Our 12-day break from work is over. Back to reality na naman tomorrow. Yikes! Though it is a good thing because:

I miss some co-workers/good friends there. (It's good to talk and interact with others naman, aside from Wes and Therese)
I need more sunshine. (I rarely went out during the break. Just today and last Sunday to attend Mass).
I need my job. Obviously.

Things are going to be very busy at work. Summer is the peakest of all peaks at the office. It is going to be stressful, I tell yah. But I will remind myself over and over and over again that a new book is on its way before April ends. Plus I can scrap now. Plus I need to earn more because I want to buy more pretty kits from Kay Miller! See, I am so in love with her stuff! I have been talking about those pretties for what, 3 posts now?? :) But I am still too wrapped up with organizing my kits and stuff. I can't seem to start a page until I finished them all. And that's about a year from now. LOL! But I will. Yeah. Soon! Now that Mojo is almost back. Yeah! Mojo is back! I tried with a goddaughter's invite and birthday backdrop some hours ago and I am very much happy with what I was able to come up with! Yey!

Anyways, enough with my rants and raves. Allow me to share another good find on the web. Introducing Scrap Stew Sue! She makes and gives out lovely Adobe Photoshop brushes and some overlays and embellishments. Go and visit her and as always, give thanks! :)

Spring Cleaning and Bar Exams 2007 Result

Hi everyone! As some of you noticed, I did a little spring cleaning on my blog. Notice my header way up there? Everything is from Kay Miller's Blue Lagoon Kit. Lovely, isn't it? :) Kay creates the cutest of all kits and if I only have the $$$$, I will buy them all! I am also happy to do some minor tweaking here despite my limitations on HTMLs and stuff. Yey me! The links are also grouped. I made a separate list for my digiscrapping friends from the PHP Forum. I included some paper scrappers too.

Anyways, the list of our new lawyers can be found HERE and those who topped the 2007 Bar Exams are HERE. Congratulations!

Happy Sunday, everyone! Off to prepare brunch and attend Mass. Later, gators! :D

Say It!

>> Friday, March 28, 2008

Good evening! Here is another great find for digiscrappers: Elegant WordArt2 by Bethany. Here's a good sample of her work:

So true, right? So go and pay her a visit but please don't forget to thank her once you download her stuff.

I'm outta here! Good night!

Make A Wish!

Here's a tag from Hana, este, Alpha. Thanks! :)

The “Make A Wish” Meme.

The rules:

1. Think about what it is that you want more than anything, what your heart’s desire and fondest wish is, and what it is that you would wish for if you were to see the above wishing star flame across the night sky.
2. Right click and SAVE the blank graphic above.
3. Use a graphics program of your choice and place your wish on this picture.

This time, I am tagging my online friends Eds, Lisa and Marie Grace.

My wishes:

And here's the original that you need to right click and save in your computer!

LDD Apprentice Contest Round 4

Good morning everyone! Just a quick note that the Little Dreamer Designs' Apprentice Contest Round Four kits are up. Go HERE and grab them. And as always, please do not forget to say "Thank you!".

Yeah, I am back to downloading freebies again. LOL! Plus I recently found something which I used to ignore - TEMPLATES! These are great when your mojo's lost or for beginners. However, it is still not compensating for my lost mojo. *sigh*

Anyways, I will be posting another great find later. :) Have a lovely Friday!

This is Your Fault, Mojo!

>> Thursday, March 27, 2008

After much think-think-think (like Pooh Bear), I finally decided on two things:

I will scrap on either 8 x 8 or 8 x 10. I will worry about printing and albums in the future. Once I have the layouts na.
I wil do little enhancing on our photos (from way back January 2005 pa! Imagine that!) and crop to 4 x 6 and will have them printed and placed in albums. In that way, I will stop feeling guilty about these tons of photos not being scrapped. Since we got a digicam kasi, I stopped printing photos na. My bad!

(Hay. If you only knew how much frustration I've been feeling because of these self-imposed tasks. I stopped scrapping nga because of this confusion!)

Anyways, in relation to my #1, I been trying to scrap since last night and I've started and eventually deleted three layouts. It seems that my mojo is lost. I even camped at Shaui's blog for inspiration! But to no avail. *sigh*

Oh well... What I did today then is SHOP! Yeah, I did shop for digi kits. I am hoping that this will enable me to scrap again. if you know me, I don't know buy on impulse. I have been eyeing Kay Miller's Happily Ever After Clay Bits for months! I find this super cute and so perfect for my little princess' pages. I should definitely use this in many, many layouts! LOL!

And this one is out of season, okay. But Kate Hadfield's Nativity Doodle is on SALE at $1.75! Plus I am more of the Nativity scene thing than Santa Claus. ;)

Lastly, this Blue Lagoon by Kay Miller is intended for a god daughter's birthday stuff. And on Kaela's first beach trip too! Those photos are about 3 years old now! LOL!

I promised my Paypal that I will STOP shopping na. I am now convincing myself that I have loads of kits na. (Though I am still trying to find cute birthday kits naman. LOL!) But stop na, dapat. DELAYED GRATIFICATION is the magic phrase.

Hey, mojo! Come back! We have some pretty stuff to play with! LOL! Plus I only have three more days summer break left! Come na! Now na!

Casino en línea en Español...

...and in among other languages.

I have been writing about online casinos but I never really understood how these gaming sites work. Not until I visited Joyland Online Casino. No, I do not have the guts to play casino (yes, I do believe that you need to have the guts to play and lose, or win!). I just want to understand how these things work. Anyway, from what I learned from their fun and informative site, here's how you get started: Download an application. Once downloaded, it needs to be installed after you agreed on their site's terms and conditions. Next? You play by choosing from the variety of casino games available.

And can you say, "casino en linea"? ;) Yes, Joyland Online Casino is available in multiple languages, including Spanish.

Diviértete jugando!

Seeing Vintage

>> Wednesday, March 26, 2008

I have been hoarding digital kits again! :) Here are some vintage stuff which I recently found.
Go and visit LynO's Always Plumpster, grab these free stuff and don't forget to say "Thank you!

Questions of the Week 12

Here's my take on Yen's Questions

1. Have you ever had a summer romance? Care to share? Nope.

2. Do you believe in love at first sight? Nope.

3. ‘You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.’ What do you think of this quote? It is so right!

4. Where does true beauty lie? On the inside or on the outside? Both.

5. Did you ever had a crush on a classmate or teacher? Who was it? Ay wala.

6. Summer wear….shorts or capris? Depends on where I am.

7. Would you ride a roller coaster or sky dive? Sure!

8. Last stupid thing you have done? Spank the little girl. I surely feel stupid and guilty afterwards.

9. Any summer plans? Trips, vacations and etc. Where? Haha! How I wish. But let's see.

10. In one word, define yourself! SUPER! LOL!

Gas

>> Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Saving Tips

With the rising cost of basic commodities, what do you do to save up? Here are some of what my family does to at least cope with the hard days:

First, we got rid of our expensive helper/ caregiver and bought a washing machine instead! This is more practical since Therese is already 5 and does not need much caring compared to when she was younger. With the new washing machine, we do the laundry at least once or twice a week. This does only help us save on water but also on electricity. The weather here is usually hot so we do not need a spin drier.

Second, we save used water (like the one used for bathing or laundry) and use them to flush. This we learned from my parents in-law when we visited them. This and doing the laundry once or twice a week greatly reduced our water bill to almost 50%.

Third, we stock up on fish, vegetables and fruits instead of junk foods. We usually buy groceries with a full stomach since hunger moves us to buy more junk. Aside from that, I usually cook what we can consume at one meal time to avoid wastage.

Fourth, we unplug unused appliances. As testified by others, this is one sure way to cut on your electricity bills. Even if they are turned off, these appliances still use electricity. Thus it is wise to unplug them.

Speaking of electricity, I am amazed to discover that in other countries, consumers can avail of cheap electricity since they have choices when it comes to energy-provider. You see, in our place, an energy-providing company monopolizes the market. It would be amazing to have the freedom to choose the company where we can get cheap electricity. Imagine the amount that we can save with that! I can buy my DSLR in no time! Seriously, companies like Stream Energy does a great job in providing people with a smarter choice. They obtain electricity through a variety of sources to bring their consumers some of the lowest rates in the industry. For me, that is business with conscience! I hope that they can bring this too in third world countries like ours.

10 Recent Things That Made Me Happy.

Got this one from a ka-Twitter, Aggie! Salamat! Makes me stop and reflect and realize that life isn't THAT bad after all!

1. A 12-day break from work which started last week.
2. Being able to spend this break with Wes and Therese.
3. Being able to go online as much as I want.
4. Being able to sleep and wake up as late as I want to.
5. The dark chocolate bar from Wes.
6. Wes and Therese's time together.
7. Wes' super effort to take care good care of us.
8. Twitter din like Aggie. LOL!
9. Newly found friends online like Shaui and Jan. =)
10. Secret namin ni Diane. LOL!

This time, I want to know 10 recent things that made Diane, Jan and Liz happy. =)

Kelsey's Adobe Lightroom Presets

>> Monday, March 24, 2008

From this:

to this:

Grab these awesome Adobe Lightroom presets and more for free at Kelsey Smith's My Sweet Life. Don't forget to say "Thank you!"

From My Blog to Yours,

>> Sunday, March 23, 2008

Credits: Vintage Spring Kit by Angelica E. and Alpha Brushes by Kelley Mickus (LDD Apprentice Contest Round 3)

Limited Memory...

>> Saturday, March 22, 2008

...limits me! It takes time to open files, much more to run my digital image editing software. It was a bummer so I stopped digital scrapbooking for sometime. Instead of finding joy in creating layouts, it brought frustration and annoyance. That's why I felt liberated when I finally found Found My Best Deal on Memory. Now, with additional RAM, I can simultaneously run my digital image editing software along with my photo/graphic organizer. When I Got My Computer Memory Deal, I created layouts again. You can see one in my previous post. Not bad, eh? :) But with my growing collection of photos and digital scrapbooking kits, I am saving up for additional memory. There are lots of choices available, like Samsung, Hynix, Qimonda, Micron, Elpida. I just need to find one which is compatible with my unit.

LDD Apprentice Contest Round 3

>> Friday, March 21, 2008

The Little Dreamer Designs Apprentice Contest Round 3 Freebies are now up. Go here and grab them.

Upload here using the LDD Apprentice Contest stuff for a chance to win $10 to the Little Dreamer Shop.

You Know...

... you are watching to much Grey's Anatomy when you have mistaken your real-life doctor's first name for a GA character's name. :)

Two days ago, our matchmaker/my former boss asked me through SMS re Kaela Therese's pedia's first name. I told her it's ISOBEL. It was only five hours later that I realized that I gave her the wrong name. actually, the pedia's name is ISOLDE. And the name, Isobel, is actually hers:

Oh well... :)

Let There be Light!

The first time I visited Wes' hometown, I was very much surprised and pleased with the effort of the Kapampangans (natives of Pampanga, a province in the Philippines) in beautifying their houses and yards, especially during the Yuletide season. Colors and lights are everywhere, thanks to led rope lighting. It may look plain during the day but at night time, my parents in-law's house is the most colorful and most lighted house among all houses in Margarita Street! One brother in-law, Ted, bought decorations depicting the nativity scene composed of the three kings and the Holy Family which are shaped using led rope lighting. These durable and great energy savers lights are so versatile. They are much practical compared to other outdoor display lights because they really last long, despite their exposure to heat and water. Indeed, led rope light is the BIG thing when it comes to decorative and accent lighting, whether for home or business use.

Book Alert!

>> Thursday, March 20, 2008

Before I lay me down to sleep, I want to post this muna. Like what I have mentioned, I stopped scrapping because of oh-so-many reasons. Good thing I got my RAM and much needed inspiration back. :) Like what I mentioned (again), I have been re-reading Stacy Julian and she is indeed a super enabler! So I checked Bookoto and found Stacy's new book, Photo Freedom, on the front page! Yay! It is on sale so I quickly pre-ordered. I am vewy, vewy excited. :) At least there is something exciting to look forward to to April. (It is going to be exhausting at work, I tell yah.)

Interested? Pre-order your copy of Photo Freedom here.

P.S.
This is my first purchase courtesy of my paid blogging. Yay! :)

Twit-Twit!

Look who's on Twitter! Syempre, ako! :) Lookie there at the right side column ----->

Nakigaya kina Yen at Alpha. And like Alpha, I am wondering for how long can I sustain this. Let's see. :)

And just above my Twitter is my Punkymoods! I totally love this thingy. I even waited until they opened the site for new members again.

Basically, that's all for now. I am feeling happy as you can see, because I am on a vacation. But I feel lazy and a bit uncomfortable because of the monthly thing which most women have to deal with. Haaay.

Have a meaningful Good Friday, everyone!

Questions of the Week 11

This is my first take on Yen's Question of the Week (or is it Question of the Wednesday?LOL!)

1. What was the last movie you bought/rented? Pooh Bear movies for Therese, I think.
2. Have you ever gone too far on a dare? Nope!
3. Can you sing the alphabet backwards? Definitely not.
4. Are you allergic to anything? What? Weather changes, smoke, anything that's smelly.
5. Do you cry at weddings? Nope!
6. Name one person you want to hug right now. Why? Hubby! Just because. :)
7. Hair….natural or colored? Both.
8. Do you like camping? Not much.
9. Most annoying TV commercial? This new Axe commercial. Hmp.
10. Favorite place to shop? Bookstores, SM!

Cute as a Bug

>> Wednesday, March 19, 2008

FINALLY!

I have been reading Stacy Julian's The Big Picture and was inspired by her "My Favorite Photos" album. I have not scrapped a page for ages because of so many reasons and one of them is being overwhelmed by the number of photos that our family has. Believe me, they are plenty! Plus I have been undecided about the size of my layouts. Stacy has been a big help. And my friend, Shaui too! Thanks, girl!

If I remember it right, this is my first time to extract a photo for a layout. I find extracting time-consuming that is why I never liked it. However, in this case, the background isn't that complicated (buildings at the Ateneo) and extracting required less time and patience.

So, I am starting my own version of "My Favorite Photos". My layout size is 4 x 6 inches. Two cute albums have been waiting for two years to be filled up. I have lots of favorite photos. And I know that there will be more. And there is really no pressure to finish the album. Scrap. Live. Enjoy. - that's me, talking to me. :)

Credits:
Paper ang bugs: Julia Makotinsky
Alpha (recolored): Kristen Rice
Fonts: Calvin and Hobbes, Commercial Script, Dauphin

Our Lesson for Today Is

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Painted Season

I can't wait to finally scrap a page or two tonight! Yay! Why not now? Because I have a thousand and one things to go and do and buy! I would rather stay home and scrap and do things on my laptop but then, I need to go out! Because no one else will. :) Anyways, I am not complaining because I have more than a week to scrap and organize and work on my blog and spend quiet time with my family. Quiet? I doubt it. LOL!

Anyways, here is another great find! I have been waiting for Miss Mint's new kit and the wait is worth it! Take a look at this preview:

Spring colors are my favorite! And this kit totally reflects the colors of spring. It is lovely and totally fab! And did I mention that it is free? :) Go here and grab it! Enjoy!

I am done with photo disc-ing my 31 CDs. Yey! I will tag each item in between blogging, creating pages and other things. :)

Attention, Earthlings!

>> Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Obviously, we only have one Earth. Whether we like it or we like it very much (a phrase I caught from my boss), we are all obliged to take care of it. Or we all die. Or there is no future for our future generations. There are sooo many ways to show that we care. One of these is participating in the global movement called EARTH HOUR. Earth Hour "uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming".

It was initially launched in Australia last March 31, 2007 when about 2.2 million people and 2100 businesses in Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one good hour.Their massive and collective effort cut down their city's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour. Even famous Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turned their lights off! Others got creative and initiated extraordinary affairs such as weddings by candlelight. With these massive effort and more, the world can't help but take notice. Inspired by the massed effort of millions of those residing in Sydney, various major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, thus, turning one symbolic and significant event into one global movement.

Here in the Philippines, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is encouraging us to shut off our lights from 8 to 9 in the evening on Saturday, March 29, 2008 in support of Earth Hour. For more information, visit Earth Hour's website. You may also want to signify your participation and support by going here. As of this time, there are 1467 persons in the Philippines who signed up! Yeah! :)

Be a responsible Earthling. Join this global movement and kindly spread the word by posting about Earth Hour in your blogs, or sending text messages and emails to your friends, relatives and colleagues.

March 29, 2008. 8 - 9 PM. It's a date!

10...

...CDs more and I am done with photo disc-ing my 31 CDs of kits! Yey! However, it is going to take me longer to tag each file in them. Yikes! But did not stop me from downloading kits. I told you! :) My super latest finds include this:

And this:

Plus this:

They are lovely, aren't they? They're courtesy of my new found pretty friend, Shaui! She is a fellow Filipino I recently met online. She is a young pretty mom to an adorable little girl. She and her small family is based in Dubai. I don't just admire her pages. I looove them! And her talent, kindness and motivation inspire me to scrap simply. And beautifully of course! :)

You are one talented and inspiring friend, Shaui! I congratulate you for being accepted as a part of a prestigious kit designer and having one of your fab layouts of Fei published in magazine! You really rock, girl! Keep on creating layouts (and freebies!)! Thank you for the your works of art which you have generously sharing to us and for inspiring me to scrap, scrap and scrap!

Go and drop by Shaui's blog, Fei-Fei's Stuff for more freebies, layouts and inspiration. :)

Contests

>> Sunday, March 16, 2008

Want to win that pretty necklace? Or $100 perhaps? Then go and visit my gorgeous online friends, Yen and Juliana. Yen is going to give away this lovely necklace to the top commentator of her blog at the end of this month (there's still time to join!) plus $20. The second top and third top commentators will receive $15 and $10 respectively. Generous, indeed!

On the other hand, Juliana is giving out $100 to the participant who will accumulate the highest points across her three blogs. Second placer will get $55, third will receive $40, fourth is going to get $30 and fifth place will take home $25. So, are you getting excited to join or not? :)

Yen's contest mechanics can be found here and you can read everything you need to know about Juliana's contest here. So, what are you waiting for, go now and check them out!

P.S.
Photo by Yen.

LDD Downloadables

Look what I found! These are just some of the lovelies which are available for download at the Little Dreamer Designs' Apprentice Contest 2008. Register first (in case you have not done that yet) and have fun downloading!

I already unzipped and burned the kits into CDs. That brings me to about 31 CDs to tag on ACDSee. Yikes! I will stop downloading today and do the tagging this week. :)

Have you organized your digital kits yet?

Dine-in or Take-out?

I Am...

>> Saturday, March 15, 2008

...sickie again! I hate it. I will miss this weekend's big events such as the baccalaureate and graduation exercises at the university! I will miss seeing Atty. Adel Tamano in person. Not that I get kilig in case I do see him! LOL! I was given a special task actually, to be one of the documentors of the aforementioned events. I was supposed to be one of the photographers. Even if it can be tiring, I see it as a good opportunity to practice what I have learned so far in photography. Last year, I was also a part of that team and it was indeed a good experience. And I will be missing it this year. :(

I hate this drastic weather changes that trigger my asthma and cough and colds. I hope to get better soon. Really soon! Our summer break will start this coming Wednesday and I can't afford to be just lying down and recuperating. I have so many things to do on my list and I intend to get them done.

Celebrations
Anyways, today, my brother in-law who will become a priest soon is graduating. Congratulations, Dudley! You make us all proud! Also, my god daughter and niece, Mylene graduates from pre-school today and yesterday, another god daughter graduated from nursery and ranked 3rd, congratulations, Nana! Love yah, girls! Tomorrow is going to be my mother's birthday. Happy birthday Ma! And of course, three of our most active Peer Counselors and good friends of mine (and my favorite cousin too!) will be graduating from college. Congrats to Aring, Joniel and Ate Leng! You three are the best and we are very proud of you. You will be surely missed!

You all have a lovely weekend! And oh, speaking of weekends, here is one cute weekend greeting sent my way:

Thanks, Jan!

I hope that you all have a great weekend! Gotta get back to bed and rest. Or else I will be reprimanded by the Husband. ;)

Ta-ta for now!

More Awards!

>> Thursday, March 13, 2008

And before I forget, I thank my newly found pretty friend, Jan, for these awards:I am passing this on to my super friends who are making my online life joyful. :)

Weather You Like It or Not

It' Been Like Ages...

...since I last posted here. Sorry! The birthday party preps really kept me tired and all. I promised to post some photos, which I will be doing soon. :) It's just that I don't have the time to resize them to fit the web's requirements. Work has been keeping me busy too since graduation is fast approaching. We have last minute programs which need to be implemented before this semester ends. Just today, I joined our Career Guidance team in a very bumpy and rocky trip, visited some schools and encouraged their graduating students to join us in the university. My, my! My entire body is really tired and aching that I slept upon coming home. My good husband just woke me up after two hours to have supper. I am one lucky wife! :)

Thankfully, we are going to have a 10-day summer break soon and I am definitely looking forward to that. I am expecting to spend more time with my loves, clean up and organize things around the house, finally scrap a layout or two, backup my digital kits (I still have tons to unzip!) and help our dear Mamitz in preparing for her parents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration on May or June in New Jersey. I am verrry excited for them!

Graduation at our university will be this coming Sunday (my mother's birthday too) and our baccalaureate speaker is going to be the gorgeous Atty. Adel A. Tamano. His photo and bio and an interview are posted at our school's intranet and boy, the ladies and some gay friends are going gaga over him! There is going to be a dinner with him on Saturday but I don't think I will attend. I prefer spending the night with my more gorgeous man, Wesley. ;)

That's all for now! I hope that you are all having a lovely week!

Picture-Picture!

>> Tuesday, March 11, 2008

BFF Award

Thanks to Eva and Hye for this award! Forwarding this award to my super Blogging Friends namely Liz, Ate JennyL, Diane, Alpha, Ate Melisse, Juliana, Nita, Yen and Chikai.

Enjoy!

30 Minutes More...

>> Thursday, March 6, 2008

...and it will be my Kaela Therese's 5th birthday! Yey!

The loot bags are now set and bundled up, ready to be distributed. The cheese sticks are also wrapped and will just be fried tomorrow. The spaghetti sauce is also ready and the pasta will just be cooked tomorrow. The cupcakes and birthday cake were also ordered. I thank Yani (my most favorite cousin) and Jonnel (or Joniel, whatever! Blame it on his birth certificate!) - who is like a kin to us too.

The birthday girl, on the other hand, slept soooo late. Maybe it is because we got company. The two boys (my left and right hands) are spending the night here with us and helped with the preparations. These two are totally awesome! I could definitely not make it through this 5th birthday celebration without them! To you and you, thank you so very much!! There are others who also offered help in one way or another and I thank them all for making my precious girl's day special. ;)

Anyways, the birthday girl is now doing okay. We're hoping that she can attend class tomorrow afternoon. I still have to attend a meeting tomorrow morning so I can't really spend the morning with her. We'll be attending a thanksgiving Mass tomorrow afternoon. I don't have anything in mind yet, on what to serve to my family tomorrow evening. LOL! However, I am happy because Wes is around this time. Last year, we celebrated Kaela's birthday without him, because of his work.

Anyways, I will be hitting the sack now. Take care you all and have a fabulous Wednesday ahead! It is going to be a busy one

Election Talk

Bleh

>> Wednesday, March 5, 2008

My little birthday girl missed her class again today because of a bad cough and a low fever. I am still thinking if we'll pursue with the celebration on Friday or postpone it to Monday. We'll know tomorrow. I hope her condition improves. Please do pray for her fast recovery.

I still have stuff to do but I just feel so sleepy and tired. Night-night all!

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Summertime Designs

>> Tuesday, March 4, 2008

To my fellow freebie hunters and hoarders out there, this post is for you! :) Visit Summertime Designs (go click that name!) and grab these lovelies for free!

Happy downloading! :D

It was a Good Day!

Indeed it was! Hi everyone! Thank you so much to all of you who dropped by and left a message or two. I did not go online last night. I felt sooo tired. And it's refreshing to take a break from the www for at least 24 hours. LOL!

First, happy birthday to a very generous and good-looking brother in-law of mine, Jeff! May all your dreams and wishes come true! :)

Anyways, some updates on the party preparations. I decided to make my life easier and do away with the loot box I was talking about. I finally settled to plastic bags with tags. Gotta make those tags tomorrow. And guess what, some kind-hearted persons are making my little girl's day extra special! THANK YOU! She is actually asking for a toy xylophone (and we already have a sponsor for one! Thank you, Jeff and Tel!) You see, she saw their school's drum and bugle corps practice at the field. She was fascinated as I explain the instruments to her. I helped her remember her turtle xylophone toy from way, way back. Don't ask me where's that toy now because I don't know! That's why she is asking for one. :) I am getting excited for her big day (and it's because things are finally falling into place. And help keeps on pouring in!) :)

Here is another great news: the loving Husband finally bought me additional RAM! Yeah! We've been saving up for this and finally, finally! And do you what that means? No more excuses for me not to scrap! Yeah!! I tried running Photoshop CS2 and ACDSee 8 simultaneously and wow, it was fast!! The feeling? It was actually liberating!! :) Thank you, Love-Love!

Lastly, I am thinking of buying my own domain. Maybe on Friday to coincide with my girl's birthday. ;) I am fairly new to this but friends like Diane, Ate JennyL and Ate Melisse have been helpful in providing information. They only validate my conviction that I am very much blessed with lovely friends who make my life happier and hmmm...blessed! OK, I am being OA again but it's because I had a rough days behind me and I had friends who really stood by me. :) Now, are you a blessing to those who sorround you? Or are you a curse (just like bleep!)? LOL!

That's all for now but do come back as I will post some contest run by my generous online friends. As their grand prizes, one gives out a very lovely necklace and another generous soul will hand out $100. Tomorrow. ;)

P is for Pizza!

I am not a pizza person but I do crave for one once in a while. :)

Awards and Party Help Please!

>> Sunday, March 2, 2008

First, thanks to a friend, Butchay, for these awards! Thanks, girl! You really rock!

Anyways, happy Sunday, everyone! I hope it was a happy one for you. It was a busy one for me since I have been preparing for the 5th birthday of who else but my lovely, sweetie, cutie daughter! =) Yep, my baby will turn 5 this week! It will be a simple celebration at school on Friday. Instead of making my life easy, I am going to make it more difficult by making party boxes instead of party bags. A very good friend of mine, Jonnel and I already bought the goodies for the boxes, plus the materials to create them. However, I don't have the party box template yet! LOL! So off I will go now and scout for the ideal party box template. ;) Drop me a line here please if you know one. Thanks!

And before I forget, the aforementioned awards are now handed over to Ate JennyL, Diane, Alpha, Ate Melisse and Juliana!

Have a great week, everyone!

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