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Flipping Through 2016 + Practical Scrapbooking Tips

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I finished my 2016 Project Life album over summer and I'm so excited to finally share it! I created a quick flip-through video of the whole thing which you can watch HERE. I am also sharing five practical tips I've learned over the past few years which have made scrapbooking easier and more fun for me. Whether you've been memory keeping for years or you've just begun, I hope you find a thing or two in this list that will be useful to you too! 1. Narrow It Down While I would love to document every single day and week of my family's life, I don't have the luxury of scrapbooking all the Read More

Hold On To The Holidays

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Patterned paper in red and green, details of shimmery gold, little star-shaped embellishments and stamped holiday greetings — it was the 16th of January but the workshop table was covered in Christmas cheer! This was how Craft Party PH opened the year. In partnership with Life Documented Manila and with Anna Ignacio as instructor, we held a holiday-themed memory keeping workshop entitled, Hold On To The Holidays, where participants learned how to document their beautiful Christmas and New Year celebrations while still fresh in their memories. Mia and I thought it would be a great way to Read More

Remembering One

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It seems like a very long time ago when I think of it, but it's only really been three months since One, a week long art festival that took place at Bonifacio Global City. A fantastic mix of both international and local contemporary street artists amazed us as they took over walls and painted murals all over the city last May. Kayo and Honeycomb Communities, in partnership with Le Basse Projects, organized this event which is the first of its kind in the Philippines. And because Kayo was deeply involved in the event, busy attending to its many details, the kids and I had to uproot ourselves Read More

Scrapbooking Love, Rekindled

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I love compiling photographs and I'm the type who likes to keep concert tickets, boarding passes and the tags that come with the gifts I receive. When I was in grade school until I became a teenager, I diligently kept scrapbooks and a big wooden chest where I stored memorabilia. But as I grew older and busier with "real life," I had slackened in my memory keeping and instead of meticulously laying out photos and souvenir in albums, I just dumped them in a box. There even came a time when I just grew tired of all the"junk" I had collected and threw a bunch of them out. I just didn't have the Read More