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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Start Smart with BDJ: Belle de Jour's First Rendezvous

February 20, 2014 0 Comments
          Last Saturday, Feb 15 at Ace Water Spa (Pasig), marked the first rendezvous Bellas have been waiting for. We were greeted with exciting prizes and useful talks about living through 2014 without any regrets.
Games and Raffle Prizes
Games & Raffle Prizes
Janeena Chan ~ the funny & lively host that brings cheer to the crowd
           First speaker is Daniella Morga from One Core, an organization that supports individuals in making better life decisions. She discussed the questions you might wanna ask yourself first to achieve your goals in life. One Core conduct workshops & free learning sessions that you might be interested in, just check their facebook account here
Danielle of One Core
           "Wear on Repeat" was the topic of the next speakers - Kabbie Alipio & Jacque de Borja, fashion editors of stylebible.ph. They shared some shopping tips and learned from them that there is what we call the end-of-season sale which falls on January, February, July and October. 
Jacque of stylebible.ph
Shopping Tips
  • Quality over quantity
  • Save up for the end-of-season sales
  • Look for a trusty seamstress
  • Give ukay-ukay a try
Sumptuous merienda

          Next topic is kinda interesting — "What to Do with your Money" discussed by a professional junkie and a freelance writer/editor Katherine Tiuseco. She gave some recommendations on saving for the Rainy & Sunny. 

5 Tips on Properly Save
  • Value each Peso
  • Remember your motivations
  • Pay Attention: List Things Down (Here's when the Cash Flow Tracker on our BDJ Planner comes handy)
  • Practice Delayed Gratification
  • Pay Yourself First
          If you want to know more about handling your money wisely or want to save but don't know how to start, her book "I Wish They Taught Money in High School" can help you with your problem. 
Instant book signing with Katherine Tiuseco.
          Last talk was about "The Secret to a Wonderbod" facilitated by Jose Gemora, a senior coach at 360 Fitness Club. He shared some Fitness & Diet Myths some of us might already know.


Jose Gemora
Fitness & Diet Myths
  • To lose weight, DO NOT EAT
  • Do crunches to lose fat in the stomach area
  • Steady state cardio will always help you lose weight
  • You need a long workout
  • Lifting weights will make you look bulky
          All those inspiring and practical talks plus a delicious merienda is all worthwhile but a bella always doesn't go home empty-handed. So here's my take home. :)


Box of Donuts
The gold bag for the early birds & bdj lootbag
Inside the gold bag
More goodies
Claimed my 21-day challenge prize
          Thank you BDJ for that wonderful experience. Till next time! ☺

Monday, February 10, 2014

My First Polymer Clay Creations

February 10, 2014 0 Comments
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          One day while I'm browsing the internet, I saw something interesting and thought to myself that I can also do it! So I watched a lot of videos regarding this new art that I want to try and bought some materials to get me started. Let me just share my first few polymer clay creations.

Onigiri Polymer Clay
Onigiri (Japanese Rice)
Minion Polymer Clay
Minion
Owl Polymer Clay keychain
Mr. Owl
Wedding Couple Polymer Clay
Wedding Couple

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Monday, January 20, 2014

Art Maven: 21-Day Year Starter Challenge

January 20, 2014 0 Comments
          They say that whatever you do in 21 days makes or breaks a habit, so Belle de Jour came up with a 21-Day Year Starter Challenge to help us bellas to start our year right. Since I'm fired up that day when I saw this post from facebook, I didn't hesitate to join. You can choose any or all of the buckets but Art Maven is my chosen bucket.


          Here are the day-today tasks together with my posts. This will serve as my collection of challenges so that someday when I feel lazy, I'll just read this post to be inspired and to remind myself that I took this challenge and started this year right! I will try to update this until the last day of the challenge. 

Among Marcello Barenghi's works, this is my favorite. It amazed me how it was too detailed that it doesn't look like a drawing anymore but a real one. So cool!
Got this plant from a sidewalk near megamall last dec. I intend to give it as a gift but it dried up as soon as I got home. I thought it will die soon but its ok till now. Maybe ignoring it would make it stay alive. I just hope I can make it healthy again but sadly I dont have a green thumb
Pink, teal & purple are my favorite pastel colors
I'm currently using 2 logos. The first one is for my digital artworks & the other is my photography logo.
My name written in chinese, alibata & greek


DIY Stamps - always trendy & never gets old. Among the possible things we can use for stamping, I want to create an eraser stamp. It's affordable and can be used for other diy projects.
Wiw, I'm half way there...

Here's the link of the video thru instagram
Here's the link of the video thru facebook
When the queen asked her how was her sleep, the princess told her that she had endured a sleepless night because there is something hard in the bed and that kept her awake. The prince at once concluded that she was a real princess and asked her for marriage. She declined the prince's offer and told him that SHE WILL NOT MARRY A GUY WHOM SHE JUST MET (sounds familiar ba? :D) and alternately offered friendship to the prince. There, that can be a true story.



This is the hardest task for me -- to post my #OOTD hahaha :D



          Yay! I did it! I finished all the tasks and it feels so great to accomplish something. I learned from this activity that sometimes we just need a little push to start something great. I'm glad that I'm part of this challenge and I know there will be more to come.