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Merry Making at Quriocity

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Making ornaments with my kids during this time of year has become one of our much-anticipated family traditions. I enjoy it and treasure it simply because it helps add more life and meaning to our Christmas preparations. We all know how chaotic this season can be so setting aside a few hours to just sit down together as a family to make things with our hands, help us slow down and meaningfully savor it all somehow. So when Quriocity -- a one-of-a-kind space in Quezon City that encourages creativity and imaginative play -- reached out to me a few months back asking if I was interested in doing Read More

Not So Fresh. Thoughts on Work Wear.

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Build day! (Follow along in Instagram stories.) Something I've been experimenting with is upcycling denim work wear, and personally customizing pants to my own style. Here at the build site, I'm very happy to see they that the pants are actual functioning perfectly in the carpentry workshop. It's nice and airy, but also keeping out all the sawdust and protecting from there odd scrape or flying nail. Street wear and work wear are so often about looking and being "Fresh." I have no beef with that, but it's not something I relate to. It's just not how I was raised, or who I've become. But who Read More

Play No Matter Your Skill Level

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Follow our journey on Instagram (@kayocosio) this week as we build and roll out interactive street art installations with 5 young artists from our mega city. It's all part of the art leg of Nike Battle Force, a month long celebration of basketball culture and the subcultures that coexist in the same spaces. Spray paint, silkscreen, upcycling, metal, wood, and cement. We've been planning/building for weeks now and can't wait to share our creations with you, along with the stories that inspired those creations from the artists' respective home towns and street subcultures. The installations Read More

All The Different Things I Bleed

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Despite of the short time I had left to work on my part in this piece (because crammer!) and suddenly deciding to change some things about it at the last minute, I very much enjoyed this project. I'm thrilled to share it with you!   Let me quote Kayo's write-up about it on his Instagram post: This mixed media piece is the Carlos + Veronica contribution to Hidden Space's Halloween group show, "All Hallow Tide." Nica came up with the concept of working through collage, which is an ongoing theme in her work through 2018. We combined my current exploration with pens, typography, Read More

Pop Culture, Street Art, and Moments in our Memories

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Fascination with pop culture never ends. This afternoon we took a moment to check out EXLD's newest mural at Eastwood City's mall dropoff. Summer, Emma, and Jo were enjoying Twin Popsies on a pleasantly warm October afternoon. It's snapshots like this that I hope stick in their memories. Pop culture and street art's continuous fascination with it are like the angelic voices of a young Justin Bieber or Micheal Jackson. In the case of these musicians, we would hear their young, innocent, angelic voices and be transported back to a time when our own perceptions of love we're equally as pure Read More

Papel at Pandikit: 100 Tiny Collages

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I finally completed my 100 Day Project for this year and I enjoyed it so much that it makes me a little sad to end it. Like what I've mentioned many times before, I like playing along this activity because it pulls me out of my comfort zone and gives me an opportunity to creatively express myself. 100 Tiny Collages did just that and more. I never thought I'd be able to bring to surface so many thoughts and ideas in my head through it. It turned out be way more than just cutting up magazines and gluing pictures together. It was introspective, revelatory as well as comforting. Most of the Read More

Curious Kids at Quriocity

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Last week, my sister in law, Martine, and I decided to take our kids and their cousins out for a little exploring. It was the two of us adults and eight very active children! We needed a place where they can freely express themselves but also be indoors (in case it rains), and where we can easily keep an eye on them all. Quriocity turned out to be the perfect place. Quriocity is a children's picture book store; play and workshop space; as well as a tea bar located inside the Crossroads Center along Mother Ignacia, Quezon City. It was founded by parents who loved to travel and make things. Read More

Every Detail Counts: An Afternoon at Heleyna

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"Who are the people in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood..." is the song that comes to mind when the girls and I go on our little studio visits. In our own way, we are trying to learn about the different things that the people in our circle and community do to contribute beauty to others and help improve people's lives. The most recent studio trip we took was just dreamy. It was at Heleyna Bridal owned and run by the talented Janina Saspa. We met Janina at Kendo and she had, at one time or another, become playmates with the girls and I simply adore her work which I follow on Read More

Little Makers at Hey Kessy Pottery

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I always find my kids making things -- whether it be cardboard tube dolls, a shoebox spy gadget or a simple string of beads for accessories. It delights me and I support it. I admit, though, that encouraging them to be makers means I have to be okay with all the mess. I'm working on it, promise. At the same time, I'm also always on the lookout for ways to help cultivate their creativity not only at home but elsewhere. There's only so much I can teach them, really, and I'm discovering that learning new things alongside them makes for really memorable experiences. So every few weeks, we go on Read More

Museum Day!

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Clean white interiors, neoclassical architecture, ample natural light, a rich and colorful heritage -- these best describe our experience of the newly opened National Museum of Natural History. My sister in law, Martine, and I took our kids together on a little field trip a couple of weeks back with the hopes of discovering a little bit more about the history of the beautiful country we live in. We went on a weekday and arrived early, just a few minutes before opening, so the queue wasn't bad at all. The visit did not disappoint. Kids were completely awed by the gigantic "Tree of Read More