Blythe Giveaway Preview

Hello! Hello! Hello!

I've been uber busy with some major major things around the house that I haven't had time to take a photo of my giveaway prizes.  So I'm just giving you a peek of what's in store for my online friends who love Blythes!  Tada!!!...

The details of the giveaways will be posted next week.  I'll leave you once again, for hubby, Maria, Pepper and I are going to Baguio and Sagada this weekend! More pics and stories to come when we return.

i love you all! mwah!

xoxo, ails

Seth Alvin, Blythe travel, Coron, and crochet stuff

hello hello hello!

how have you been lovelies?

It has been 40 days since I moved to an off-line life in Laguna so here I am again, giving you loads of short updates.

I am now an aunt to this wonderful and healthy little boy, Seth Alvin.

This picture was taken on his 12th day.  He arrived in this world at 8.14 lbs. thru normal delivery.  He fills our days with sunshine. I love him sooooo much!

I've tons of news about my blythes but i'll tell you just a few.

I brought Pepper with me in Coron, Palawan.  I went there as one of the organizers of a seminar for librarians.

Pepper was with me the whole time including my trip to the enchanting island of Coron.  Unfortunately, in one of the best destinations there, Pepper fell off the limestone cliff.  i posed her, seated on a limestone rock, to have her picture taken in this postcard pic of Cayangan Lake.

 (pic taken last May 2009, on my 1st visit there)

She tumbled down the clif when i left her for a second.  :(

 (pic taken last May 2009, on my 1st visit there)

I could see her head down the cliff but i could not risk my life rescuing her.  :(  So I enclosed all my emotions in a bubble and accepted Pepper's fate.  :(
Then, a knight in a red armor came and asked me what happened.  I told him that my baby fell off the cliff.  He then scouted the area and tried looking for the best way to save Pepper.  After 15 minutes, he came back to me with my little darling.  He told me that Pepper's hair and pull string were caught by the dried branches on the cliff.  I was so thankful! Only after I had her back did I feel my knees shaking.  I barely made it down the mountain and back to our boat.  The elders in our group believed that Pepper probably saved us from being taken by the spirits of Coron.  It was a scary thought but I was so glad she came back to me with just a very minute scar on her right cheek.

During the seminar, I was able to crochet a pair of olive bikinis for Pepper with a matching hat.  Here she is after her ordeal in Cayangan.

She enjoyed the beach so much!

And here is Pepper with her saviour...

I was also able to take her photos for a story I am planning to write on my new blog for my Blythes. :)

And for another good news, I have reached 20 unique followers already! Yay! So I will be hosting a little blog candy. :)  Aaaaand another candy for my Blythe-lover friends in celebration of Pepper's second life with me! Yippeee!  I'm so excited! I hope you are too! :)

Have a great day lovelies! :)

xoxo, Ails

new life, new job, new house

Hello lovelies!

I'm so sorry I have somehow neglected to update my blog.  

Last Tuesday marked my first monthsary of being married to a sweet and wonderful husband.  It has been magical that even moving all my stuff to a new house seemed so fun.:)  A looooot of exciting things have happened since I got married.  And one of those is getting a new job.  I have been wishing for this position/job since 2001!  And as a bonus blessing,  the university also offered my hubby a job! :D 

By July 1, we will be starting our new life together in the province.  I am so glad to be (finally!) free of the fast and busy city life.  But of course, I'll be back to Manila from time to time to meet with my friends and do some shopping. :D  This weekend, we are once again moving our stuff to a new place where we are going to build our family. :D  I am so excited because there will be plenty of room there for my dolls and my craft supplies. 

I do not have new wedding pictures to share with you now but I have lots of my girls'.  And I am starting a new blog dedicated entirely for them.  :) No posts there yet so I'll share as soon as I have uploaded my first post there.

Check out more of their photos at their flickr (yes, I started their own flickr account!). :D

Have a super fun and exciting weekend lovelies!

xoxo, ails

a fun and exciting day

Hello lovelies!

Maria, Pepper and I are so excited to meet Abbey and Janice tonight!  We prepared some special gifts for Abbey.  here they are...

this woven backpack

this buhi sports/duffel bag

and

this soft pillow (2 sets - 1 satin pillow and 1 red pillowcase) to rest her head on at night.

We are so excited to give these to her.  We wrapped these in a special bag. Maria and Pepper made a simple little card for her too.

Oh dear! I can't wait!

xoxo,
Ails

great find

Yesterday, we went to Megamall after office to pick up DH's new camera.  He promised me that i will have his old and dependable D40. Yipee! :) Then we went to Greenhills to look for a charger.  And look at my treasure find last night...

I bought this at Toy Kingdom in ViraMall.  100 pesos is a great deal for the 2 pairs of shoes and a bag!  The dress is gorgeous on Maria but it needs altering because the top is HUGE on her.  The doll will go to 2 little kids i know in the province.

Here are my lovely girls trying on their new accessories...

I would also like to share these photos of Maria and Pepper at CWC in Bicol.  These were taken by my cousin Raymond using my DH's D40.  The camera on the background is Raymond's.

Aren't they lovely? :) I'm so in love! How about you? What makes you feel so in love right now? :)

xoxo,
Ails