Eli's Christmas Holiday outfits in Hong Kong

Not so much outfit post from me as I was the official photographer of the little boy. I forgot to ask the dear husband take photos of my outfits! Hahaha! I'll just show you the little boy's outfits instead. :)

full anchors away

I know I haven't been blogging much lately. It's the season where I am busy stuffing myself with food! Hahahaha. Anyway, I am super excited as we will be flying to Hong Kong next week with the little boy! I cannot wait for Eli to experience his first plane ride! We will be going to Hong Kong Disneyland for sure! I just hope that there won't be too much people.... though I am sure it's going to be packed as we will go there during Boxing Day! I will surely post our Hong Kong trip pictures here! :)))

Simple outfit for the past few days. I just cannot be bothered to dress up now. Especially now most of my clothes won't fit me anymore. Then the fact that I am in a shopping ban... so I am recyling almost all the dresses that would fit me. Hahahaha. I'm so predictable these days. And yes, I am always in flats! I'm wearing one of my fave flats from Paisley Clothing. They are ultra comfy! Don't you just love ultra comfy clothes like dress, bag, and loafers. You can find similar stuff like that at Walmart.

dress: DKNY

bag: vintage

loafers: paisley clothing

the 80's flower

Nothing much to say really. Been busy with loads of Christmas parties & gatherings. Been stuffing myself like crazy!!! Nomnomnom. I love eating! 

black blazer: bought in hong kong

floral dress: vintage

socks: saizen

loafers: seibu fashion

Carioca Resort 2012

Carioca refers to a native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro. The designers have always been fascinated with the Brazilian beach lifestyle and if only we can wear caftans and tunics everyday wouldn't it be great eh? Hence the name and the line.

The Carioca piece is not only for the beach. Each and every piece created is something you pack with you to a beach getaway and not store at the back of your closet when you return home. They too are made for you to revel in and survive the urban heatwave. In a manner that is all so chic and effortless.

Catch Carioca this Friday at the Brown Bag Vintage and Crafts Market at Filipinas Heritage Library. Find these and more in different colors and prints, a lot of which are one-offs (some even vintage!), at this specialty artisan market.

plan your days

It's the time of the year again where the search for next year's planner is on. I am a sucker for planners especially those cute ones. I have been a planner user ever since high school. I love writing down stuff from my day to day life in my planners. I wish I still have my old planners from high school though but they are long lost. I must have misplaced them somewhere. Great thing that I've kept my old planners from 2005 until last year. I love looking at my old planners. I've rounded them up for this post along with my other new unused planners from my planner collection.

Eli playing with my old planners as I was taking pictures of them.

My old planners from 2005 until 2010

My fave planners: 2005, 2009 & my current planner for 2011.

2005 is the year I started using planners again. I got this planner as a freebie from a Japanese magazine. I really love this one coz it's ultra light & really cute with the rate your day thingie. 

 My first ever Starbucks planner! My husband (then boyfriend) always gives me a Starbucks planner every year. Compared from my 2005 planner this one is quite heavy but I love how roomy the weekly pages are.

 Another Starbucks planner for 2007. I think this is one of my least fave planners as this is really bulky! Plus I do not like the ring bind. Makes writing harder. :p But I still love how huge the day space are though. I can cram a lot of things in it.

 Decided to buy the Paulo Coelho planner this year rather than using the Starbucks & Belle De Jour planners I got. I love the heavy duty semi glossy papar of this planner. The downside? Another heavy planner! 

 This is one of my ultimate fave planner ever! I pre-ordered this from Seibu Fashion at Multiply. It's a blank planner from Korea wherein you'll fill out the dates yourself. I swear the Koreans have the cutest planners!!! My obsession with calendar stamps & mini rubber stamps started with this planner. I super love the uber cute illustrations and how small & handy this planner is. 

note:

Just in case you are interested Seibu Fashion is having a 2012 planner pre-order until this Dec 10 only! So hurry!

 I went back to the Starbucks planner this year. I don't know the reason why I did coz I still have a lot of unused Korean planners I bought from 2009. Hahaha. 

I got this planner from Fully Booked for around P250 or so. This reminds me of my 2009 Korean planner. But I think this is from China (but copied from a Korean planner). The paper used for this one is a little less nice than the Korean ones and this one has a misprint (Suanday instead of Sunday). But I still love the compactness & cuteness of this planner. I need to write smaller again to be able to include all my notes & such for the day as this one have limited space to write on obviously. 

My planner collection (some of the unused planners I have in my collection). I wasn't able to take photos of all of them.

I love every single planner  I have in my collection. :) I love looking at them when I'm bored. 

lacey lacey

I've been obsessing with organic soaps & shampoos these past few days. I finally found my Cyleina organic soap loot I got from the first Bloggers United event last May. So I'm trying out their famous Organic Tomato Soap to try to dry out & clear up my bacne. Yes, unfortunately my bacne got really worse now that I'm pregnant. Ah hormones! I recently finished my Human Heart Nature shampoo and I just ordered a couple of shampoos (plus a few organic soaps) from All Organics. Can't wait to get them! 

Anyways, going to what I'm wearing... another of my secret for pregnancy dressing? Wear black! Even though my parents always reprimand me for wearing black coz they think it's not great for my pregnancy chi. Hahahaha. But I swear that black is always so slimming and so easy to wear. I'm trying to play down my tummy and I think it's working in this outfit, yeaah? ;)

lace tank: Giordano Ladies

skirt: from my mum

ballet flats: Giordano Ladies

that blue tent

This is one of my fave dress. I had this dress made when my mum's dressmaker went to visit us. I love how roomy and comfy this is for my ever growing tummy. It's quite a challenge dressing around the growing tummy but a challenge I gladly accept. So yeah, kinda like pregnant dressing 101: one way to hide the tummy; wear a tent maxi dress.

dress: custom made

shoes: Virtual Mae