Yahoo, the Wedding Essentials team's newest baby, Beautiful Weddings 2006, will be available at all leading bookstores and mag stands starting this week. So, just what is Beautiful Weddings? It's a collection of wonderfully inspiring stories celebrating beautiful beginnings by real brides and will be sold for only Php 120.00 - ...

Hip-hip-hurrah! Yes, there is reason to rejoice because the fourth issue of our magazine, Wedding Essentials (July-Dec 2006), is now available at all leading bookstores and magazine stands. Hope you can check it out (pretty please?) Marbee, Charlene, Ria, the staff, and I have been working on it since January ...

A couple of years ago, I made a mom-and-baby cat illustration for a book that never happened for some reason or other. I found it again while spring-cleaning my hard drive and thought, why not put it to good use? So if you love cats, red tabbies in particular, and [a] ...

Here's the next six in the 2-in-1 series we designed for Sony BMG. As in the first four, my Arn's art graces the covers. ;) *** Nothing but small talk for now, friends. We're wrapping up work on the next issue of Wedding Essentials and if there are brides-to-be out there reading ...

"Why didn't I think of that?" idea of the week - scented jewelry mini-dessert charms from Pancake Meow ((how cute is that brand name?)). They don't only look astonishingly real, they smell real too ((of course I can only imagine how good they must smell from here on the other side ...

(Can you guess what song the above lyrics are from?) *** I'm having a pret-ty busy summer as I'm sure you can tell by the slow trickle of entries. But of course I won't leave you, dear blog visitor, without pretty things to look at: 1. My friend Tippi Ocampo's Summer Collection. In ...

So how have you been? Me? I was neck deep in work and more importantly, in offline life, since the last time I blogged: 1. Arn and I had new water pipes installed in our home. The original pipes were more than 20 years old and one of them had leaked, ...

Please please please buy my Arn's book Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat: now available at Comic Quest (Megamall, SM City North Edsa) and by now it should already be at National Book Store, Powerbooks, Fully Booked and Filbars. Less than a week after it's release, we were excited to have ...

How very interesting - a knitted wedding! (I remember Nest telling me about this when we saw each other a few days ago.) Everything, from the bride's gown, wedding cake, flowers and confetti were knitted, and it all began with this invitation for contributions from knitters all over the UK. ...

How I wish I had ideas as creative as these when we were tasked to recycle junk into something useful back in grade school*: A vinyl record fruit bowl, a motherboard cd case, a vinyl record cover bag, scrabble-block cufflinks, and a telephone cord bowl. Of course, back then the items ...