View from my design area

I love it here.

My mother's mini landscape, it's sooooooo green.

The birds are eating! So cute.

Maria

Design Area at home

I set-up this area two weeks ago and due to work and school, it was only my first time today to stay here the whole day - to design, to update my blog, to google, to do what I wasn't able to do recently.

I love it here, so hot yet so windy today.

The notebook I designed was always beside me to inspire me when I am designing something.

Finally, my artworks are framed and displayed. The heart one is in my room.

There's the Rose one. All my important files are on that side table. It was rusting and I painted it gold and it looks new again.

I painted these as well, ohhh the power of spray paint. :)

My sister got this from Dubai and it was really ugly but the gold paint gave it a new life. My perspective of this changed, too./

My note to self, Claim it. I love life.

Updating my blog.

Maria

It turned out so Japanese

It's still in September but today I was just in the mood to brainstorm for the own creation finals.

I was thinking of the techniques I learned and will learn and what I came out with turned out so Japanese inspired, like a kimono.

I am going for Filipino, so definitely this is not it.

Maria

Just My Imagination -- Gwyneth Paltrow with Babyface (in HD)

Slim's: Cherie Gil at Slim's

Cherie Gil visited Slim's to talk about Vreeland. The school owner was there, too.

Maria

Slim's: Cherie Gil talks about Vreeland

Got to meet Cherie Gil and Mark Higgins for the first time. :)

Maria

Little Tokyo

We visited Little Tokyo. True to its claim, it's little. :P

My friends from Slim's.

Maria

Let live. Let love.

Let live. Let love.

Maria

Simple Joys 9

...it's been a long time.

- I started my DM2 in January. I love being at Slim's.

- Tier 2 position

- salary adjustment

- straight shift schedule - for this special case, I could still come to my Saturday class. Thank you God. 

- Night schedule is very unhealthy and hard even but I'll make it work. I can't stop now. Literally, I am almost halfway in finishing my fashion school.

- JQ's bacon sandwich - it's fatty but I really like it. I can't resist.

- Brewed coffee, I live for coffee at nights.

- my stuff from my locker were retrieved tonight (032614). It brought back so many good stuff and memories.

- Russel's prom dress project. It was successful.

- Russel won 2nd runner up Prom Queen that night, she was one of the most beautiful and best dressed that night. I felt great, too.

- Divisoria shopping, it was textile haven! :D

- My immediate manager left and my temporary managers (they're two) are kind.

- Design area at home.

- My mother's sewing machine is working.

- Finishing my first project for DM2, I know now how to make a pleated skirt. :)

- Finishing the patternmaking of the second project

- Saturdays with my friends from Slim's

- Cool weather. 

- Sleep.

- Cookies and peanut butter cups by Reich

- My lolo is getting better.

- Seeing my relatives from the province.

- Daiso and Japan Home Center - I never appreciated those stores until this year.

- Sundays and family days

- Rest days

- The birds in our village. They are so adorable.

- My mother's very green, min garden landscape of calamansi, pandan, oregano, ashitaba, other plants, grass...:P

- kind officemates that I could get to talk to for the first time, often and again. :)

- peaceful disposition

- Allowing myself to get pissed, get mad, get frustrated, get annoyed... even to feel hatred and get mean sometimes. How are these a good thing? Answer is, I let myself feel emotions now. I am not denying that right to myself anymore. It's a good thing.  It's not suppressed. It doesn't last long. I learn from it. I feel better. By doing so, I realize that I am more accepting of other people.

- I am healed.

- The invitation I made for Ms Claire turned out satisfactory.

- My artworks were printed perfectly. I found a supplier! :)

- Reduced electricity bill by half...wow. That was a first. Let me correct it, second! This month it was low again.  Thank goodness for the cool weather.

- Easy transportation to work every night.

- I am learning to be honest with myself.

- I have come a long way. Thank you God.

- I am talking to people again. I am learning to trust again. I am slowly learning to open up again. Baby steps. I'll get there.

- Our cat, Mingming. He went home and he could walk again.

- Our dog, Kimbies. Such a kind kind kind cute dog.

Until my next list...

Maria

Slim's Student Works

It is everyone's favorite event at school when the Advanced students present their works.  On our part, it is really inspiring to witness.

Maria

Book habit

After lecture today, I borrowed two books. Two of my favorites: Andy Warhol and Christian Dior. #Slim's Library

Maria

Slim's Library: Dior

Christian Dior, my favorite designer. I would always remember that "gold dress" I saw at their window display when I was a kid. It was like a liquid gold, literally.  It was something I had never seen before. So beautiful.

Maria