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December In Depth

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I hope the first week of your 2018 has been good and full of promise! While I spend the last few days dreaming, setting goals and creating game plans for this year, I also took a good look on how last year panned out and what amazing things I experienced and learned. I also made it a point to complete documenting my 2017 December Daily. In case you didn't know, this is a Christmas and year-end activity I've been doing the last three years, which I picked up from designer and scrapbook extraordinaire, Ali Edwards. It helps me reflect more intentionally on what Christmas is all about and makes Read More

Stamp By Stamp

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I'm always thankful for opportunities to teach arts and crafts, specially when it's rubber-stamp carving. It's not a very popular thing people want to learn, unlike calligraphy or pottery, so whenever I come across a bunch of people who are eager to learn and willingly set aside time for a class, I'm ecstatic! The last few months I've had the chance to partner with a festival, some friends and an events studio in Makati to hold Basic Rubberstamp Carving Workshops. KATIPUNAN ART FESTIVAL 2017 Last October 21, I took part in Katipunan Arts Festival which is a much awaited, multi-event Read More

Magic And Meaning

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A week into Advent and we've been busy! In keeping with our family traditions, the girls and I made an Advent Calendar to help make our countdown to Christmas memorable and meaningful. We set aside an afternoon at Kendo to work on it together. I must say, this year's may be my favorite one so far! Just like what we always do, we made use of stuff we already had at home: an empty cardboard box, assorted board paper, markers, washi tapes, ribbon and crepe paper. I took care of creating the little compartments inside the cardboard box (which turned out to be a lot trickier than I had imagined!) Read More

Christmas To Remember

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It's 26 days before Christmas! I hope you feel it cause I do! And I'm loving the cool December breeze we get more often these nights. As we all prepare for the holidays and all the avid memory keepers get ready to document Christmas, I thought it's the perfect time to share my December Daily album from last year. Here are some photos of my favorite pages and I've included a flip through video of the whole album at the bottom of this post. The kids and I had a lovely time looking through these pages again as I was preparing for this post and it definitely puts me in the right Christmas-sy Read More

Merry Making with Instax

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My first Christmas event of the year was with Fujifilm Instax last week at The Atrium in Megamall. They invited me to conduct another Instax & Crafts. This time, we made table top Christmas trees which can also be used as Instax photo holders. Again, I was amazed at the participants' crafting skills and how they maximised the materials given them to make these adorable miniature trees! I think they're perfect as a holiday dinner centrepiece. Plus, they are super inexpensive to make. Make them in different sizes, colors and go classic or crazy with the ornaments - anything goes! The Read More

Cubao Hex, Po!

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Halloween was crazy fun at Cubao Expo last October 26! And it was our first time, as a family, to join in the shenanigans. For me, here are the highlights of this year's Halloween festivities: SUPERHEROES IN UNDER 600 PESOS The kids wanted to be comic book characters for Halloween but I refuse to buy them costumes in the store because, let's face it, they are pretty expensive and I am 100% sure they will feel very uncomfortable in them. They won't last and will want to take them off. So I decided to put together their outfits myself! Thanks to Market Market! bazaar where I found very Read More

Summer & Emma Get On The Sticker Business

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My girls and I love stickers! I keep my own stash but I also have a bunch which I let them use when we're scrapbooking together or making greeting cards for friends. We also share a fondness for sticker-bombing our stuff, like bags, boxes and notebooks! They can't stick stickers all over our house but they can inside their closet door, so that's been sticker-bombed too! And because we love stickers so much, we did a little collaboration recently and created sticker sets using their own designs! First, I made them draw on paper. They could draw anything they liked as long as it was big Read More

Arts & Crafts For All!

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I've always said that arts and crafts is for everyone. And we proved just that at the Instax Coffee & Crafts event that happened last Oct 14 at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Convergys Tower, Ayala Avenue. We were happy that the place was packed despite the rainy weather that weekend and also surprised to see a very varied mix of participants. There were young students, teenagers, yuppies, mothers and a good number of men! That afternoon, I prepared two craft projects. First, we made Instax cork board displays and then after that, we decorated journal covers. Both activities involved some Read More