Aching for a Sewing Machine

As days go by, my demand for customizing my own clothes have been bugging me and I feel like I want to give in. All day, I’m thinking about designs of a new dress, or baby stuff, or curtain and pillowcase details. I want to sew my own stuff and materialize my own designs.

I found these home sewing machines quite nice:

1. Brother BM-2600 Entry Level Sewing Machine that handles all kinds of fabrics

“Featuring a stitch selection dial with specialised stretch, decorative stitches, and stitch width and length adjustment dial, the BM-2600 is a delightful entry-level sewing machine to work with. It can handle all kinds of fabrics with its needle threader and large bobbin capacity.”

2. Brother LS-2160 Lightweight Sewing Machine with Twin Needle

“All the basic features you'll need are packed in this lightweight model -- automatic buttonhole, decorative, twin needle and more. The LS2160 is perfect for basic sewing and mending.”

So now I’m surfing the net for these and found out I couldn’t purchase any of them locally. I found a BM-2600 on the ebay but the seller doesn’t do postage/shipping. What should I do now???

See the Brother website for these items.

Fragile Heart

Trial Sketch #001

A list of things I want to do

20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity.

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want
Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In-Box."

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds"

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."

8. Don't use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their
Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot,Yelling
"Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To
Have To Let One Of You Go."

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......

Share this with Someone To Make Them Smile.

Its Called therapy"

The greatest battles of life are fought daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

What Really Matters

""..in the End, all that really matters isn't the things you did, but what its effects are today, not the knowledge you have learned, but how you applied it, not the words that were said, but how they made you feel, and most of all, not the moment of occurrence, but how its now just a part of our memory.. Everyday, we make memories.. Let's paint lives with happy ones.."" 

-Unknown

Sweetest Miracle

A wee bit of heaven

drifted down from above -

A handful of happiness,

a heartful of love.

The mystery of life,

so sacred and sweet -

The giver of joy

so deep and complete.

Precious and priceless,

so lovable, too -

The world's sweetest miracle,

baby, is you.  

I wish you know me that well

I wish you know me that well...

So that you can see who I really am and not who you think that I am...

I wish you know me that well...

Know that I am strong... I have an adult's mind but a child's feelings...

I wish you know me that well...

So that you'll know I want to be hurt by the truth rather than be comforted by lies.

I wish you know me that well...

So that you'll realize that I love you enough to hold on if you're happy with me

or let go if you're not.

XXX

The Secret

“And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.” ~ Jean Cocteau

As if there’s no tomorrow

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be struck blind: Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, as if you would be struck deaf. Touch each object as if tomorrow your sense of touch would fail, smell flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell or taste again.

Be grateful for what you have.

Fate and Choices

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. I can decide how to spend my time, whom, I interact with, whom I share my life and energy with. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life – whether I see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of my voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Never allow yourself to be treated as nothing

Never allow yourself to be treated as nothing by another person whom you value so much. If there’s no sense in waiting, then move on. If you feel your not valued by that person like you do, then let go. That’s life, its about making wise decisions not about making yourself a foolish one.

Things I want to do!!!

So little time but there's so much I want to do!!!

I want to...

1. Take photographs

2. Blog

3. Design Clothes and Jewelry

4. Sew clothes

5. Create jewelry pieces

6. Shop for baby's stuff

7. Create an interior design for our home

8. Shop for furnitures

9. Shop for house decors

10. Create a mini-garden on our terrace

All these I want to do now, but I have a career to take care of. I'm so busy at the office that the creative part of my brain's been sucked up dry by the corporate world. Sos!

Taking Healthy Options as a Mom-To-Be

My recent trip to the mall did not end in vain. I found my way to a Healthy Options store in search of nuts, granola bars and healthy snacks pregnant women ought to eat. Lately, I've been feeling guilty eating a lot of salted adobo nuts, flavored popcorn and yummy junk food. As calories, sodium and cholesterol pile up in unknown numbers, my guilt has been piling up too.

I found Mommy Bars and Blueberry Granola Bars interesting. Plus, I took a little trip to the body care department and found Chamomile Deo Body Spray and  Jason Cocoa Butter Lotion for my growing bump. I'm totally conscious over stretch marks and I feel like my skin really needs a lot of healthy moisture, rather than chemical-made moisturizers. 

Total cost  for the 4 items: P1300.00.

How much will childbirth hurt?

A woman goes to her doctor who verifies that she is pregnant. This is her first pregnancy. The doctor asks her if she has any questions. She replies, "Well, I'm a little worried about the pain. How much will childbirth hurt?"

The doctor answered, "Well, that varies from woman to woman and pregnancy to pregnancy and besides, it's difficult to describe pain."
"I know, but can't you give me some idea?" she asks.

"Grab your upper lip and pull it out a little..."
"Like this?"
"A little more..."
"Like this?"
"No. A little more..."
"Like this?"
"Yes. Does that hurt?"
"A little bit."
"Now stretch it over your head!"



Pregnancy Joke
*Source: http://www.breastfeeding.com/lighter_side/lighter_side_prego_jokes.html

20 Weeks Preggers

I'm glad we've made it halfway through the pregnancy, all safe and normal. My bump's getting bigger and more noticeable, and I can feel baby moving already! Right now I felt baby kick, but it feels more like a tickle from small cute hands. This afternoon, while lying down to rest, I was thinking how my baby would look like and will he/she always be smiling and laughing? When he/she cries, can I calm him/her down and stop her tears from falling? Will he/she know I'm his/her mother with just a touch? Will he/she want to stay in my arms all the time? Will he/she need me as I need him/her? I am so excited to touch and feel my baby, to see and kiss him/her. I just couldn't wait! :) My baby = Happiness!:)        

Some more great words on Love

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin 

Share it everyday...

The greatest disease in the world isn't medical. It's being unwanted, unloved & uncared for. We can cure physical diseases but the only cure for despair is love. There are those who are dying for a piece of bread but many more are dying for a piece of love. Share it everyday. ♥ -Grey's Anatomy