pretty and calm

I'm more of a neutral girl when it comes to interior design and paints.

I'm more inclined with mocha, taupe, sand, gray

even in clothing I prefer blacks and grays. whereas when I was younger I love bright popping colors. hmm.. sign of aging?? noooooooo...

but I'm beginning to appreciate pastel colors that are soft and girly.

of course this is through the influence of my design partner Suzette who is overly obsessed with pastels and Parisian designs.

here are a few of my inspirations that made me all giddy with pastels.

look at the pretty colors!

 you can deny it all you want, but every girl had that pink phase 

(the love-hate relationship with the color pink)

Girl bonding: SPA TIME

A couple of weeks ago I went back to Manila to celebrate my sister's birthday. And to have some girl bonding time with my favorite cousin in the whole wide world, Janna, whose birthday happen to fall on the same week I'd be in Manila.

She wanted to try to have a nice massage after her hectic schedule and her stressful week. She is by the way a registered nurse and she works as a rescue crew (like a paramedic, I guess) and a clinic nurse at the same time. Nice huh?

Anyway, back to our bonding moment. I'm not a spa addict unlike my friends so i just knew just a couple  of Spa in Manila, and since she told me she's on a budget I asked my friend Kat for any suggestions. She gave a lot, but we decided to try NUAT THAI in Tomas Morato, Quezon City.

We were thinking of how to get there through commuting but we needed to take a lot of jeepney and bus rides to get there so we decided to take a cab.

the birthday girl and me!

Art is fun

Lang is one of the author of design street, she is in charge of the graphic arts we’ve been posting under art-e lang, She’s an HRM graduate turned graphic artist. I really didn’t saw the connection at first but when I visited one of her uncle’s place, where she also grew up, I knew why.

The place was full of artistic stuff. May it be just a simple baboo or coconut shell it becomes art.

Coconut shells carved with faces. All lined up.