LO Share - Claiming by Faith

Happy Mothers’ day to all my Mommy friends and readers

I took Jacq’s Template Challenge and this is what I came up with…

Credits: Jacq’s Template#1; Patterned Frame from Freshcut Kit, Everything else from Dear Diary Kit — all from SSD.

Journaling reads: Posing at the ONLY Anne Gedes Store (Disney Anaheim) with a baby doll, June 2007. Mommy Carmie greeted me on Mothers’ Day 2008, saying that. . .I am a MOTHER and the real BABY is coming real soon…claiming by faith.

Thank you very much to our support group/people. You know who you are!

LO Share - Reunited

Credits here

Journaling reads: Jo, I am so glad that you were able to squeeze me in your schedule even though you were to leave again the next day. I knew you’d be busy, your stay here is short, but I crossed my fingers — and I got my wish *wink*. You even got me and Hubby some ‘pasalubongs’! Ain’t that sweet?

When you told me last year that you’d be coming home this year, I was excited. Hubby and I even planned to treat you somewhere nice. We thought, it’s just proper since you and Ryan took time to show us around San Jose last year despite the erratic schedule. We really appreciated that, gel. Thank you very much! I hope that we will continue to see each other every time we can — here or there.

You called me the last minute, but that’s okay. I kept my weekends open, just in case. I picked you up near your Mom’s house and then we drove to Greenhills. We did a little shopping (got my sister a blouse and asked you to bring it to the US). We called Ria, and decided to visit her at Centerpoint. But it started to rain really hard we got worried we’d get stuck in heavy traffic AND floods! LOL! Only in Manila?!

We stayed in Greenhills and you requested that we eat at Shakey’s! There are no Shakey’s in the Bay Area, you told me. We had some pizza, mojos, chicken and lotsa chicka, hehe. Hubby dropped by before his badminton games and I asked him to pay for our food, LOL! Our meeting was short and sweet, but I enjoyed your company! See you when I see you!

LO Share - Happy

Finally making use of what I bought during (Inter)NSD!

Credits found here

LO Share - Miracle

Was Browsing my fave cousin’s Friendster pictures and found that one in this LO that matches his shout-out. So I decided to scrap it Wish he’d send me the big picture file though because it’s pixelated hehe. Started doing this last week and honestly not too happy, I feel there is something missing…

Credits: Papers, Flowers, Button, Butterfly, Staple, Tape & Journaling Tab by Shabby Princess; Stitches and Ribbon by Traci Murphy (Aw Pickles Kit from DAM April); Frame by Petitmoineaux; Alpha by Gina Cabrera ( DDE April Idea Notebook); Fonts: Courier and Quilline

Arte Y Pico Award

Thanks Buge!

The Rules:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
http://arteypico.blogspot.com/ Make sure you visit the link above. There are crafts of all kinds shown; you are bound to come away inspired!

5) Show these rules.

Well, I know a lot of really creative people and I just love their blogs and sometimes I even envy them, but for now, I need to only pick 5 blogs…but then I dunno who to tag anymore…hmmmmmmm

LP 6 Mahal na Ina

Bago ang lahat, gusto kong humingi ng paumanhin dahil hindi ako masyado nakadalaw sa mga lahok noong isang linggo. Napansin ko lang, kahit malungkot ang naging tema sa ika-limang LP, marami pa rin ang nakuhang tingnan ang tema sa ibang perspekto. Ako, dinibdib ko yata masyado at masyadong hebi ang aking lahok. Hehe. Pasensiya na po sa mga naapektuhan, hindi ko po sinasadya. Kung tutuusin, inayos ko pa muna sa Photoshop ang larawan upang hindi maging ganun kabiswal, yung tipong kita na buong mukha nung kaibigan namin. Gusto ko lang din sabihin na hindi ko natural na gawain ang kumuha ng larawan ng nakahimlay. Ginawa ko lamang iyon dahil hiniling ng aking kapatid na hindi nakauwi para makiramay at makita sa huling pagkakataon ang yumao.

Kaya naman po ngayon, naisip kong medyo gaanan naman ang aking lahok.

Ang may hawak ng mikropono ay ang aking pinsan na seminarista, si Marc. Siya ang nahilingan na umawit para sa kaarawan ng biyenan ng kanyang kapatid, yung nakasuot ng rosas na blusa. Habang ako’y kumukuha na litrato, napansin ko ang anggulong ito. Ang babae sa gitna ay ang kanyang ina na tila ba ninanamnam ang bawat himig at salitang namumutawi sa bibig ni Marc. Hindi man para sa kanya ang awit, damdam pa din ng aking tiyahin ang kanta. May pagka-stage mother din kasi yan minsan

Narito ang iba pang lahok. Magandang Huwebes!!

My (Inter)NSD 2008 Loot!

Just wanna share my loot from this year’s (Inter)NSD celebrations over the weekend! This is really the best time to buy digiscrap stuff because of the discounts PLUS add-ons for the purchases. I’ve never shopped online as much before now so I kinda overspent. Hubby is not too happy so I guess I really have to use ‘em stuff to show him every penny is worth it hehehe. Gotta find the perfect pircutres now! Click on the images to enlarge

LP5 - Malungkot

Wala nang mas lulungkot pa sa balitang ang isang malapit na kaibigan ng pamilya ay pumanaw. Lalo na kung ang paglisan ay hindi inaasahan.  Kuha pa ito nuong taong 2007…malapit nang mag-anibersaryo ang kanyang pagyao.

My new bestfriend…

is Akismet!!!! Mwehhehehehe. I dunno why I waited this long before I had it activated. Less than two weeks ago, I started getting spam comments. I thought a solution would be to add a captcha plugin but I kept on getting errors everytime I tried to install one. I asked for Amor’s help but I guess she’s busy at the moment. So I was patiently waiting for her to get back to me. But last Friday (I think), spam comments literally poured in. I checked and they’re not even tagged to any of my posts but to only one picture I attached months ago. Argh.

So on Saturday I studied how to go about installing Akismet (the wonder spam blocker LOL!) and it was easy.  I opened my account tonight and found that  Akismet has caught 603 spam comments since then.  WOohoo! Problem solved, for now

LP4 - Hugis ay Pahaba

Masayang Huwebes na naman!! Bago ang lahat, nais ko munang ibahagi ang Sikreto ng Nakalutang na Rubik’s Marami kasi ang nagtanong kung ano ang aking ginawa sa aking larawan at kung bakit tila nakalutang ang bagay na maraming apat na sulok. Hindi ko na kayo iisa-isahin, heheh. Eto na!

Ayan!! Mapapansin na hindi naman talaga mahika ang sikreto ko, TNM!!! Ang buong ideya ay akin ngunit tinulungan ako ng aking mahal na asawa mag-isip kung paano ko magagawa ang nais kong gawin. Simpleng solusyon sa isang tila mind-boggling shot (naubusan na yata ako ng baon na Tagalog!!)

Ok, ok. Para naman sa linggong ito, ako’y napaisip. Ano nga ba ang ibig ipakahulugan ng salitang “Pahaba”? Akala ko ako lang, ngunit nang mabasa ko ang isang akda ni Adinille, nalaman ko na siya din pala ay napaisip. Nalaman pa niya tuloy bunga ng pananalisik na ang tagalog ng “Oblong” ay “Taluhaba”, hehe. Pati tuloy ako, may natutunan.

Eto na, naghahanap na ako ng maaaring makuhanan. Ang ibig sabihin ba ng ‘Pahaba’ ay ‘Mahaba’? Gaya na lang nitong Ramyun na bago pa man namnamin ng aking kapatid ay pinagpaalam kong makuhanan sumandali

Puwede! Hindi ba? Ngunit ako’y napaisip na naman. Nais ko sanang maglahok ng isang bagay na mas makahulugan. Sa mga isyu ng lipunan ngayon, tila nangingibabaw ang problema sa bigas. Aba tama nga naman! Ang isang butil ng bigas/kanin ay hugis pahaba, hehe.

Ang bigas o kanin ay ang siyang pinakamahalaga sa bawat hapag kainan ng mga Pilipino. Hindi kumpleto ang kainan o hindi nakakabusog ang salu-salo kung wala nito. Di bale nang walang ulam, di bale nang patis o toyo na lamang, basta may kanin. Importanteng maituturing ngunit bakit kailangang pumila ng halos isang araw para lamang makabili ng murang bigas? Nakakalungkot isipin na maraming tao ang nagugutom dahil hindi man lang kayang tustusan ang isang bagay na napaka-basic (ayan naubusan na naman ako!!).

Araw-araw, kapag ako’y nanunuod ng balita, napagmumuni-muni kong ako pala’y napakaswerte…di hamak na mas maswerte sa mas nakakaraming Pinoy na naghihikahos.

Pumunta dito upang makita ang ibang lahok