Happy Holidays!

My Christmas has been both merry and sad. 

My 5 yr old nephew, Dion, was pushed by a 4 yr old boy into the river and drowned a week before Christmas.  It hurt sooo much losing someone close to you in that manner. After him,  my inspiration and greatest teacher ever, Lola Aque, passed away last dec 23.  She was one of my motivations to take up education and it hurts me that i haven't finished the course before she died because I planned to dedicate my diploma to her.  She has also instilled in me my love for the children and for our environment.  The way she shared her life and love for every living thing is truly inspirational and very contagious. Her shoes were too big for me alone to fill in  but i will do my best to keep her teachings and ideals alive by sharing them to others and to my future kids.

On the other hand, the sight of happiness on every child's face as they receive and open their gifts last Christmas was really magical.  Even adults (like my loved ones and me! of course) have little children inside their (our) hearts that just couldn't wait to open the gifts under the Christmas tree.  It's really something that we always look forward to every Christmas. 

As much as i wanted to make this Christmas a handmade one,  I just couldn't finish all my desired projects in time.  So I wasn't able to give everyone a handmade gift this holiday.  But this year has been a very good start on my Handmade pledge.  I can't share pics right now of all the gifts and decors I made but i promise to share when i get back online next week.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I am wishing a prosperous, happier, more blessed, more creative, and more magical new year to all of us!

love, ails

pretty stressed but inspired thursday

I had a wonderful time crocheting with Jas last night.  For our session, i decided to re-introduce to her the "double stitch" (dc) because she asked me about treble in a text message the day before.  So i printed a copy of The Royal Sisters' Grandma Trees DIY because the pattern uses dc or treble stitch and i thought that it's very timely for the holidays. We set a time limit on our craft date until 8pm only because we had to be home early. And in less than one hour of crocheting we were able to accomplish half of the grandma tree. Yay! It was fun and we learned alot from that session. hehe. i also taught her one of my tricks that worked even if it's not in the instructions.  we decided to meet again sometime this month for another crochet session.  I'm excited!  Crochet is one hobby that we can do even without a craft table.  Yes, both of us are in a situation where we do not have our own craft table/space in our apartment.  She used to have one but the typhoon Ondoy last September ruined her house. 

On the other news, I've been a busy bee again in the office today.  We are polishing our workprogram for 2010 plus we are also preparing for the Exporters Forum on Monday, Dec 7, 2009.  We're really busy huh!?! It's actually an extra technical work for me because it's not part of my work as librarian.  But i'm enjoying the challenges and experiences i learn from being in the technical working group of the Product Research and Strategy Group. I'll just share with you some pics of the library where I'm working.

 some shelves and tables in our library

that's me in the User-Assistance counter

my fave nook in our library ^_^

Visit our website here.

Oh and i also got my certificate and some pics on the Basic Barista course last Nov.5. 

this was taken after steaming milk

 

Look, I'm pouring steamed milk and foam on my cappuccino.  Hee hee but i still don't have the skill of pouring milk with art.  It's something that i have yet to learn through practice.

love, ails

P.S. I made 2 cads last night. i'll share pics later. ^_^  xo.

WoW

I can't believe it! I received an email from Blizzard Entertainment last Nov 30 to notify me of my free 7 DAYS of game time in celebration of World of Warcraft's 5th Anniversary.  Here are what's in store fo me within those 7 days:

• Grab your own 5-year anniversary pet, the Onyxia Brood Whelpling, just for logging into World of Warcraft during the celebration.* 
• Find the Night Elf Mohawk to get your Mohawk Grenades... and help make Azeroth look “goooood”. 
• Battle the newly updated level-80 version of the fearsome dragon Onxyia in Dustwallow Marsh. 
• Answer the Call of Crusade in Icecrown, and take on all-new dungeon and raid content.  
• And more to come... including the epic final confrontation with the Lich King himself.

I'm excited! it's been months since I suspended my account in WoW and i kinda miss it. Hmmm...


be back later for an update on my date with Jas last night. ^_^


love,
ails

cure needed

this day would have been perfect until my migraine started once again.  anyone knows how to cure it?  i'm desperate. and i also have 3 HUGE ant bites.  all of the scars on my legs and feet are from ant bites. :(

anyway, while my kool and i were printing Men.Real shirts yesterday, a customer saw us and asked my love to make her a shirt design for her tire company.  we were excited!  look at what my love came up with this morning here.

i have a date tomorrow with Jas to learn some crochet techniques with her. I saw some DIY designs on the net this afternoon and i'm preparing myself on creating those projects with Jas tomorrow. I can't wait even with this headache!

i just feel bad for not making anything today.  i feel so disabled...

oh! and Just already got her huggers.  and she even gave me a gift for Christmas! she's so sweet! i plan to open it on Christmas day along with my other presents.  i wonder what gifts will i receive 24 days from now... hmmm... maybe i should start posting my wishlist too. that'll be fun! i'll do that tomorrow when my eyes and head are rested and fresh. sweet dreams lovelies!

xo,ails