Hubbie’s plants

I dearly hope I can see you soon.

Leaning against one of the potted plants is a Mother and Child artwork we bought last Dec 31 in Boracay. Hubbie and I were moved with the story of the kid selling the artwork that we decided to buy two pieces (for a good discount hehe).

On another note, I thank God that I have such a sweet husband.

lost luggage tags

I really don’t want to post any negative outbursts here in our wedsite. But my lost luggage tags were quite special to me hence this post. Mind you, I didn’t loose them by chance or out of sheer negligence.

They were specifically removed.

I didn’t notice their loss until now, when I was starting to account my stuff after our trip. After some investigations (from pictures) and recollections, they were removed for our flight to Manila from Kalibo. Arrghhh!! I just find it so frustrating!! They were luggage tags for goodness sakes! They were put on the luggage to help identify the luggage. Huhu.

One was a gift given last Christmas – it was orange (one of our wedding colors), bearing my married name with our home address in Japan on it. The other one was the luggage tag I got in our Vietnam trip – from our favorite hotel in that trip (Ancient Hotel in Hoi An). It was a wonder the person who removed my luggage tags didn’t removed my destination stickers from all my trips. But if he/she has done that, I would probably be in fits – I (and Hubbie also) sort of want my(/his) gray luggage to be filled with destination stickers.

Frustrating T_T. It was a good thing Hubbie was able to take a picture of my luggage in NAIA while waiting for our flight to Kalibo.

18th day

Happy New Year everyone!! ^_^

It has been a wonderful 18 days! Perfect for celebrating the year that was and for joyfully ushering in 2011.

Barring flight delays, Hubbie is now about to board the plane for his 2:50 flight to Narita. And i’m here back at my apartment. Yes, i’m terribly homesick for Hubbie. So here I am, blogging on our wedsite again.

With much hope and faith in our hearts, soon, hopefully soon, we’ll be together again.

home interior design!

Excited and pre-occupied seems like an understatement to how we are these days. But we ain’t complaining of course, we’re loving every minute of it!! “Ichi go ichi e” as one of our favorite mentor and one of our ninong Nagano-san, told us. Make the most out of every moment, do your best with what is at hand because you only pass by this moment once. =)

So on top of beating deadlines, dealing with office drama and finding our way in this engineering maze, Hubbie and I have to process some very important paperwork, prepare for our perfect and beautiful wedding and prepare for ourselves a beautiful home as well. Hence, in between obtaining important documents and researching for good wedding detail ideas, we need to keep an eye open as well on home decor ideas. Got started yesterday. And i sure am loving every minute of it.

Three essential tips on home interior designing that i’ve learned so far:

  1. keep a single theme
  2. for small condos, invest on vertical decors and furnishings that adds to the illusion of length
  3. for small condos, keep light and pastel colors on your furnishings and decors to help add to the illusion of space

I know mirrors do add to the illusion of space, but i’m not too keen on keeping a big one – yes, i’d just get scared with it at midnights.

This one would be great in our tatami-floored living room, in front of the kutatsu, hehe! But it’s at 30,000pesos!! So it probably would remain as just an “idea”.

The cheery brown wood version of this lamp would be perfect on the corner of our living room

Hubbie and I both agree we’ve got to have live green (and flowering if possible!) plants inside our house. This wooden stand with multiple levels having plants and picture frames with our photos alternately decorating its shelves would be lovely on the corner of our dining room.

Plants and a candle atop its rocky ceramic holder would be great on our toilet. We still don’t know what to do with that weird condensate piping though……suggestions are very much welcome.

You got to make the most out of the space you have in your condo hence a couch with drawers underneath would be very efficient.

My dream house in mind has got bay windows in it. Our condo now do have a pseudo-bay window albeit it can’t fit our butts in it. But it has got enough space for a lampshade and a vase of flower hence i’m thankful with it already. Plus, with the lampshade up there, we can have more space on the floor for some other what-nots.

So, till the next home decor ideas hopping! Hopefully my next post is all about entourage flowers. =)

candles, in our colors!

A “pick-me-upper”: finding something that has our colors.

I had no idea what to give my colleague who was my “baby” in our seniors’ Christmas party exchange gifts. Asked hubbie for inspiration ideas and he threw in candles among others. When I went to “Our Home” store to look for home decor ideas, I came across this candle.

Pretty, ne?

Well, suffice it to say that within 10min, I had it gift-wrapped after finding the suitable ceramic stand. =)

Hmmm…this one would be great during cocktails..!

Thanks to Hubbie for giving me the gift-idea. =)