The Daily Nail

Bernice and Berly, this is for you :D

If I were younger and still in college, I’d want my nails like these:

Berry cute :) hehehe

She probably couldn’t just pick one, so she got them all :D

Love the lollipop too!

CUTE!!!

Sweet :)

Genius. Super love this

Because I love Hello Kitty :D

Love this

This looks so yummy!

Malefecent’s nails

Birds! :D

I wish I had thought of this at my wedding. And her fingers are so nice no?

This one I still want now. Wish we had black matte nail polish here

More cute and different nail designs. But not for me na :D :

I love pencils :)

Ninja cute-ness

Better than a gold tooth

hypnotic


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I Miss Bacolod Food . ..

I can’t get over how cheap the food in Bacolod is. Cheap and yummy!

I miss the P160 backribs, that was good for 4 people. And the sate rice. yum

I miss the cakes from Calea . . .

and their ice cream cakes. . . Yum

The interiors of Calea are pretty nice too :)

I miss eating at the beach on a windy day . . .

. . . in a little hut by the water . . . .

. . . of an almost empty beach

I miss the Batchoy at 21



and their pasta with softshell crab

I regret not having tried the ribs that Brian ordered . . .

the nice menu of 21

I miss having coffee in the back garden of Sweet Greens Cafe . . .

I miss this spread that we ordered at MU SHU. Best meal. Yummy everything . . .

You were right Namay. That crispy prichon really was the best!
I have to find something like that here in Manila . . .

Other things I miss that I don’t have photos of. The tapa breakfast and the steak in butter that I had at Business Inn. The salpicao at Pepe’s. Yum, yum, yum

Thanks to Mike and Namay for showing us around and for making us fat while we were there.

And thanks to all the nice, new friends we met there. Bacolod people rock! Till next time ulit! :D

Mati: Mommy, I Want a Raibow House

Last week Mati asked if we could have a rainbow house. Ayayay.
I wonder where she got the idea
.

To make her happy, I googled rainbow house to see if there were any existing already.

Found these
:

photo from here

Cute but really not fro me . . .
photo from here

photo from here

photo from here

Mati loves them!!! Yikes. Really, really don’t like. . .  

I told her we have to save money first before we could have a rainbow house.
She seemed satisfied with my answer. Whew

Then I found something interesting rainbow interior ideas :)

Rainbow toys, pwede :)

photo from here

If the kids had a spiral staircase in their bedroom . . .

photo from here

Love the interiors of this rainbow themed HK aparment. It doesn’t have all the colors of the
rainbow but Mati likes it too :) Interesting . . .

Love the yellow chair as well

I like it . . .

photos from here

For their bedroom lang of course . . . Hmmm. I wonder how much to have wall stickers made . . .

Creepy Fairies on BabyTV

Saw the creepiest looking fairy on BabyTV the other night:



Doesn’t she look like a manananggal ?!?!?!?

THe other angel didn’t look so creepy


I think it’s cause her arms are so macho, no? And batwings?!! Plus she they don’t seem to have
any faces
What’s up BabyTV?!?!

Mati didn’t notice anything though. She loved the manananggals fairies that were flying around
our screen
. To be young and innocent

I wish I could still see fairies instead of monsters. SIgh

If My Life Were a T.V. Show . . .

If my life had a title sequence, I want it to be like the one of Game of Thrones


Although my map would probably just feature my house, SM Megamall and my mom’s house. hehehe
And I wouldn’t want my life to be as bloody as the show. Cool title sequence though.

If I had to choose people from T.V. as friends, I’d want to hang out with the cast of Happy Endings :)

See, that’s me sitting there with my blonde hair and perfect posture.

or maybe the guys from How I Met Your Mother. They also look like a fun bunch :D

If I still went to school, I’d go to school not with the Glee cast, but with the cast of Community.
Not really for the quality education I’d be getting there but for the fun they always seem to have
in school :)

Plus, see, that’s my community college boyfriend sitting in the front row. hehehe

If I could choose my family on T.V., I’d be related to the cast of Modern Family

My family is in the middle. See, just like mine, 2 girls and a boy :D
But my kids will be smarter of course. hehehe

If my life were a cartoon but still close to reality, I’d be in the series, As Told by Ginger

And if my life were a Disney cartoon, I’d want to be in Mickey Mouse clubhouse where I’d have
have giant gloved hands to always help me and my day’s problems can be fixed with mousekatools

If I could choose a TV husband, I’d want Marshall from How I Met Your Mother. Not for his looks
but cause he’s a real sweetie who’s always nice to Lily :)

For my home, I’d choose Monica’s apartment from Friends. I know it’s not a house, but
I like how roomy and homey the place is :D

 

Another place I like would be the apartment of Sheldon & Leonard from The Big Bang Theory :)
So many cool toys & stuff! I wouldn’t want Sheldon as a roommate though. hehehe

If I had a cabinet from the movies (I know this isn’t from a tv show but I really want this :D),
I’d want the one from Narnia!

And If my life had a closing sequence, I’d want the one from . . . . Astroboy! 

Not for the song and it’s not even the coolest but cause I’ve always liked how they show him being animated in black and white first, then in color, then showing him flying of the page! hahaha.

Why I Might Have Nightmares Tonight . . .

This evening, while driving home from my in-laws house in Katipunan,
I got really creeped out by this billboard ad of TechnoMarine.

It’s Slovakian model, Ivanca Vancova. (Catchy name)

It’s actually gorgeous, but something about a face
on an almost 100ft billboard is really, really scary.

Searched online and found the rest of the models for the ad campaign.
All of them are quite stunning.

Arben Bajraktaraj (from Harry Potter)

Chin Hsi (Taiwanese model)

Tuki Brando (Marlon Brando’s grandson)

Except for Chin Hsi, don’t they all look like they have glass eyes?
And don’t all of them have some kind of vampire look to them? 

Now, imagine all of these faces blown up onto a billboard . . .

shiver . . .

Vector Challenges & Goals

I’ve always wanted to do a really nice vector illustration.
So I took on the challenge of illustrating this wooden vespa  :)

Here’s the final vector illustration:

Next, I saw this illustration and I thought I wanted to do something similar

I chose to do the logo of the Vespa Club of the Philippines made by their member, Abet Rana :)
I wanted the challenge of making this colorful logo into just one color.

Adding more shadows than the inspiration photo, here’s what I came up with:

Next, I want to be able to make different kinds of vector portraits :)

Here are some cool illustrations I found online (most of which are from this site: vector portraits)
Love the different styles of each. . .

Love her lips, the use of color and the highlights of this one:

Someone said that my self-portrait illustration looks almost like Emily Strange.
hehehe. She’s cuter of course, but I do like the simplicity of her illustration

Love the style of this illustration

I love how her hair and skin is in different colors, yet it still works aesthetically

Love the highlights of the hair detail of this one. Ang tiyaga

I don’t even know how to start doing something like this?!?!? And the hair? How?!?!?

It’s always the hair! And her freckles and blush are perfect. Hay, so nice

I have a hard time drawing teeth . . . light grey for outlines pala dapat. Hmmm.
Plus I love the shadows of the lip part

I love everything in this drawing

5 or 6 colors for the hair? Whatever. Really nice


This one has a photoshop
tutorial :) Cool!

Hehehe. So pop. I like


Now, which style will I try first . . . .

The Sibling Popularity Rivalry

During lunch, Reg & I were talking about escape artist, Harry Houdinni and his less
well-known brother, Hardeen, who was also was an escape artist.

We just thought how unfair it is that sometimes one sibling is more popular than the other.
I didn’t even know about Hardeen until I read about him in the graphic novel, Y the Last Man.

Our parents always say they love us equally. I guess the rest of the world doesn’t share that view.
So I thought of other famous siblings and checked who was more popular. (heheh, ganun din pala ako)

1. Prince William (isn’t this a hot photo of him) & Prince Harry.
More Popular: Prince William

  

2. Paris & Nikki Hilton
More Popular: Paris

3. The Kardashian Sisters (minus the little ones) 
Most Popular: the one who’s always in the middle of course
 

4. Hillary & Haylie Duff More Popular: Hillary

5. Rica and Paula Peralejo More Popular: Rica

6. Toni and Alex Gonzaga
More Popular: Toni
(although it may be the other way around now plus I find Alex prettier :D )

7. Eric & Julia Roberts
More Popular: Julia

8. Richard & Raymond Gutierrez
More Popular: Richard



8. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
More Popular: I still can’t tell them apart so you tell me

9. Michael Jackson & Brothers
More Popular: Michael

10. Luke & Owen Wilson
More Popular: Owen

11. Ben & Casey Affleck
More Popular: Ben
(although I think Casey is cuter. . . until the scandal. tsk, tsk)

12. Jessica & Ashlee Simpson
More Popular: Jessica

Even in Cartoon Siblings, there’s one who’s more popular

1. Mario & Luigi
More Popular: Mario

2. Bart & Lisa Simpson
More Popular: Bart
(I remember having a Bart T-shirt, not Lisa)

3. Cinderella & her Stepsisters
More Popular: Cinderella

4. Ariel & her sisters
More Popular: Ariel

5. Mufasa & Scar
More Popular: Mufasa
(although I think Scar’s voice is sexier :D)

And Lastly,

6. Ashley & Alodia Gosienfiao
More Popular: Whose Fans Day is it in the Flyer? 

Vector Portraits

Last month i was feeling kinda sad. So I made a vector self-portrait  to amuse myself :)

I made it as simple as I possibly could, making sure that it still looked like me.
Realization: Making something look simple isn’t so simple
. hehehe

Next I made one for my sister.
(At this point, I wasn’t feeling so down anymore and was really getting into this :D)

She loved it! :) Next I made portraits for Mark and our friend Abet.
This time I traced more instead of simplified.
I also put the logo I made for them on their shirts :)

    

It was getting a bit harder to make, plus I’m having some trouble with drawing teeth. hehehe.
But I enjoy the challenge :)

So I made some more :D

My brother, RJ                                              My other brother, Richard
   

Our friend, Benz (as a birthday gift)             My friend, Nadine (as a gift also :D)
    

Dad (hihihi)

Then Reg gave me a business idea :) She ordered 2 shirts for her kids’ friends :) Thanks Reg :D

      

On actual shirts :)

    

So happy with how they came out ;) Thanks to Jun from Funky Cuts! :)

Also printed shirts for Mark and Abet

  

And Benz had hers printed as well :) 


To think this all started just from a day when I was feeling down :) Funny how things work out huh
?

My Other Brother

While I was in Makati last week, I set a lunch date with my best friend, Marc.

I’ve been friends with Marc since college. We were inseperable then. He’s my buddy, my best friend,
my brother. He used to know all my crushes, my quirks, and my deepest, darkest secrets and he
never ever judged me :)

Another thing I like is that he’s always very frank with me ("mag-ayos ka naman muka ka nang nanay").
I know he means well and I love him for it :) hehehe

I’m thankful I have a friend like him. Miss you ahia! :) Let’s have dinner soon ok?

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