day 111 of 365...

i miss writing...really, i wish i have more time for sleep or more time for things that does not involved sleeping. I've been very intimate with my bed, my comfort zone...or that couch that i take power naps at the office lounge, i don't know if i snore. well i don't care about that anymore.

i just thought i must have a little update of my not so updated 365 project. i thought i can post something on a daily basis but sigh sigh sigh...at least i am still on with this project. and it really helps me express myself somehow. and i thought i have a lot to say but for now i am all sigh...still overwhelmed on everything happening to me... feel blessed but stressed at the same time. anyways,i am thankful that i can handle things, hopefully, i could...so help me God... i still don't have that dream camera or a dream phone for a camera. but i read from somewhere that the best camera is what you have. :)

well i am just gonna sigh for now. i think this is what i am good at...sighing

a little something for the new year...

randomly writing my thoughts...no edits...just impromptu's...november and december of 2012 have been so fast-pace for me...wistful, that they did not end so soon, so 2013 is a new start, hoping to still have the optimistic vibe that those months gave me, so many things have happened and I never felt so blessed...from zadee's birthday and then designing birthday invitations for my friends with their daughter's birthday...to finally be working...meeting new friends...zadee's being a flowergirl on his Uncle's wedding, Christmas, New Year...answered prayers for my Mom. Being able to provide for zadee. so so thankful for that year. I miss writing poems on AP, I miss Ma'Dee, I miss Jac and I miss blogspot, where mostly all the small realities I've collected daily are being written here. I kinda felt I am no longer good on words, or maybe there some realities that you can't really find words to say...things unexplainable like saudade and deja vu...this year I've started this daily collection of photos which I am posting at instagram...I am going to at least try...my project 365...so I am now on my day 14. hopefully...maybe just maybe...I can complete this until day 365 :)

and lastly I just want to thank all the beautiful people I met in my life of 2012...who's been an inspiration to me most of the time, salamat, you all know who you are..xo

flowerchild

Oi Lienda
Bella que fa?
Bonita, bonita que tal?
But belle
Je ne comprends pas fran§ais
So you'll have to speak to me
Some other way

 

 effeuiller la marguerite

merci beaucoup ate rachel

thank you ate rachel 

ang munting salu-salo

New friends

People like them makes going to work less stressful, it's not even the salary that makes you stay, survived, it

is having friends like them at work :)

portraits and the beauty of being unfinished

 

I never really get to finish most of them...inspiration is really very elusive

the beautiful and the intrepids

 

I am kind of speechless with these illustrations but I could say 

that the last one is my favorite :)

never really thought of posting these because I know they are not good enough 

but going back through my sketchpads...I realized I've collected  some okay 

and mostly failed attempts at illustrations and watercolor paintings

illustrations and inspirations...

insomnia has been an unwanted company last night so I decided to ignore him and stumbled upon Valerie Chua's blog "Quiet Girl" I probably had two cups of coffee. I was drawn at how amazing her artworks are, and didn't realized it was past 3 in the morning. I suddenly miss sketching. Her artworks suddenly made me remember one sketch that I made. It has been yellowed and tainted with time. the spots kind of look like bruises now. I was scouring through drawers trying to find my sketchpads. I know I can never reciprocate her artworks but I am suddenly inspired...

 my failed attempts at watercolor sunsets

one thing I learned though is that your paintbrush needs to be in love with you

in order to come up with finer brush strokes

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. ~ Hemingway

 

"That Paris exist 

and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world

 will always be a mystery to me."  

~ Midnight in Paris

 

yes, that Paris exist, temporarily in our home...  

I painted this Paris scene mural and had this diy Le Tour Eiffel replica...

in her favorite shade...pink. 

Thank you for our neighbor's bougainvilla haha

I don't have enough budget so might as well give all the effort... oui! bien sur!

 

..Ang hindi maipaintang mukha ni Mona Lisa

 Mona Lisa smile

 

after I painted the "Mona Lisa". 

I decided to make the extra styrofoam into a vintage frame

and I am glad they like all these...

  and my fave shot of  the girls, they look like they are having a blast :)

merci beaucoup

joie de vivre

Parvati's bite-sized french macarons from Petite Patisserie

 

diy...makes you want to try everything, so happy that these pompoms turn out really well :)

 

Keep Calm & Enjoy

 

KC was in charged of the cake, she had a friend that takes cakes&cupcakes orders, which saved me a lot as well from discounts. ooh la la love it :)

my birthday girl

 

I had a pretty set up for the cafe until the fondue suddenly decided to become an active volcano and erupted splashes of chocolate lava even before I could take a picture. (pag wala nga namang dating ganito sa barrio

 

checking how my paper mache teacup will look like as party favors. I think I paper mache'd 

around 50 teacups, didn't meet my 60 teacups goal :( 

but Ann Wood's  teacups did save me a lot from buying expensive party favors

 

   teacup+cupcake=<3>

 

@le cafe zadee: free teacups for everyone with heart marshmallows or chocolate rice crispies

my not-so-pretty diy paper bags, and zadee's merci-giveaways :D, something that I bought 15 pesos each @ toyrus :) and lest I forget, my diy cake stand 20 pesos platter, 35 pesos doily but got it for 30 pesos and 25 pesos bowl at our public market

& oh well I will never be somewhere in the bg, if I could divide myself into three, one in the kitchen, one in decorating, taking pictures...etc etc