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December 25, 2013

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Christmas Trees 2013

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I put together some photos of Christmas trees this year. The last time I featured trees was in 2007

Previous entry: Starbucks Christmas Tree December 30, 2009

Christmas Trees December 26, 2007

A beautiful Christmas tree by my friend, Tricia Eusebio Hosaka, who chose everything from Rustan’s Flower Shop. This is her first family Christmas tree since normally she just shares her Christmas tree with her Mom who she lives with. So this is quite a special tree for her and her family. Thank you Tricia for sharing this wonderful memory with Heart2Heart

My Mom has three Christmas trees around her house. This is one of them and it is in the family room. Those are Starbucks bears and gingerbread man stuffed toys

My Lolo has 4! I think I am going to have 2 next year 🙂 Who says you can only have 1 Christmas tree!

This sister in law of mine is so creative and has such good taste! She put up this Christmas tree and chose all the decors from Rustan’s Flower Shop that went in it! So elegant!

Love love this! Nothing beats this gigantic fresh Christmas tree in front of the cathedral of Our Lady of Covadonga in Spain

The Four Seasons Hotel in HK has several too! Two gigantic ones – one in the driveway and one in the lobby

I love this one in the buffet – its not the usual tree!

Chinese theme

I chose this because again it is not the usual. It’s owls! 🙂

From my brother and Krie – which is a white Christmas theme

I love coming here during Christmas!

This is our third Christmas already in our home and I have used the decors three times 🙂 So maybe next year we can change theme 🙂

Sharing with you a nice article sent to us by Tita Nena about Christmas Decorations

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December 25, 2013

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Christmas Segragation

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Green | One Comment

Oh my gosh! I am segragating during christmas! 🙂 Is there such a thing as Christmas segragation?

I am so busy watching over the mess I don’t get to open gifts! I open them after the kids have opened theirs 🙂 I am nagging them to put ribbons together, torn wrappers and boxes etc etc

All gifts that come in paper bags, I set aside and keep for reuse

I don’t have the heart to throw!! I keep all the ribbons and try to reuse too

I used to collect the Rustan’s boxes and ribbons and return them back to the store so they can be reused, but recently I keep them because I love the boxes!! I can use them to store things in my linen cabinet or pantry

Then of course wrappers have to go because they are torn already – though they can be used for stuffing too

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December 25, 2013

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Christmas Wrappings

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Design | No Comments

I put together a few wrappings which I feel are really unique this year. I am not creative so I really appreciate how people put together things!

The champion is this one which I received from a very good friend of mine, Arlene. She is an interior designer and a very creative lady. She used brown paper and personally wrote a christmas hymn on it! How personalized can you get? And what a labor of LOVE 🙂 What was inside is another story and will be featured in the future 🙂

A unique gift tag this time! I saw this on instagram from Vanessa

In instagram as well, from Kat Holigores

From my brother Quito and Pam! What a unique and elegant design. I opened it slowly and removed the scotch tape because I did not want to tear the wrapper! 🙂

I actually prefer gifts wrapped in bags which you can reuse. I feel bad tearing wrapping paper and throwing them. I liked this one from our friends Randy and Pia. I liked the folded top and then she put a green velvet ribbon and a glittered star which made it look really elegant

I like this gift tag because of the crest /logo

I think this is unique too because its not the usual christmas colors. This was black and orange from Randy and Candy!

Loving pompoms this year!!

Intersting gift wrap from Fully Booked. Took the back and can’t figure out still how they did it!

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December 24, 2013

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Surprise Christmas Program from the Assumption Ladies You Wish Were Single Ladies

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Entertainment, Velada 2012 | No Comments

Sharing with you the video from our Assumption Batch Christmas party. We tried to get the batch together on this special Christmas season and wanted to include our batchmates abroad. Some sent their greetings and these ladies prepared a dance number for us!! What a nice gesture and how fun!! Watch Joy, Irma and Drizzle all the way from Las Vegas performing Single Ladies! 🙂 They sent me several videos and I edited it from the MAKING to the final video. They are the cutest! ENJOY!

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December 24, 2013

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Santa Came to Town

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Santa came to town!! To greet and give gifts to the kids who came to Mom’s house for caroling.

Previous entry: Santa Claus is Coming to Town December 30, 2008

The kids of San Juan Nepomuceno Malibay supported by the Assumption. We love listening to them because they bring so much joy and meaning to Christmas.

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The real Santa is my Mom who puts together all of this! She provides everything and organizes everything for the kids, the school, for Santa, for our kids, for us and for everyone!

Since it was Mio and Mischka’s birthday, they helped Santa give out gifts to the kids

Previous entry: Happy Birthday Lola Glecy and Mio January 11, 2013

I love the topping bar for Pinkberry and Golden Spoon. This time it is individually portioned so it is more sanitary especially if there are a lot of people partaking

Christmas cupcakes!!

We love santa too 🙂

And our latest mascot gets center stage since it is his first christmas!! Such a cutie this baby Pepe and such a good boy! He never makes any fuss. He will just be quiet in anyone’s arms and will not cry or complain ever unless he is hungry or wet

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December 12, 2013

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Chocnut and Flat Tops Butter by Grace

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Yummy! | 3 Comments

Received this Chocnut butter from Louie and Des! So happy there are local alternatives to the Cookie butter. Because Trader Joe’s limited their cookie butter, other businesses are benefitting

Heart2Heart is happy to meet the pretty lady behind this yummy goody 🙂 Special delivery from Grace Ongpin herself. How can she be so slim with all the yummy cooking that she does??

Apparently there is Flat Tops butter too! I love flat tops!! Really brings back childhood memories 🙂

And her latest creation!! Three Cheese spread!!! Made out of Queso de bola, cream cheese and cheddar cheese!!

Christmas Packaging

Grace is also the one behind the yummy Wagyu Shawarma

and pizzas – Pizza de Grazzia in Salcedo Market

They also have cocktail shawarma which you can order and she will deliver

You can also buy her bottled goodies there at the Salcedo Market every Saturday

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December 9, 2013

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Cadentia L eau des Collines

By Heart2Heart | Beauty, Christmas, Jaric Marketing Inc, What's New at Rustan's | No Comments

My favorite scent from L’ Eau des Collines of Cadentia. Gingembre tonic!

Each scent is personal so there are other scents available

I am so glad other women love Eau des Collines for themselves or for gifts this christmas!! Vanessa Mayuga- Santos – she has an answer for every beauty question! 🙂 I asked her her favorite scent this was her reply!

Laya and I are the same! 🙂 Thank you Laya for buying them as presents too

When you buy them online at Seektheuniq, they come packaged so beautifully!!!!

All these beautiful ladies have good taste! 🙂 Thank you for loving Cadentia for yourselves and for your beautiful friends for Christmas 🙂

Another kind of packaging from Seektheuniq

Available at Rustan’s Beauty Source and online at SeektheUniq

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December 8, 2013

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Christmas at Gourmet Garage

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Foodie, Travel | One Comment

We celebrated Mom’s birthday and Thanksgiving. It was so nice to see Tito Ralph there and Tita Winny and Tito Christian Monsod who are regulars at Gourmet Garage!

And Mom officially started Christmas at Gourmet Garage by giving the staff their Christmas gear! 🙂

My favorite dish for the moment that replaced raclette 🙂 Baked Goat Cheese with Sundried tomatoes, roasted garlic and fresh rosemary

Another cheese dish, Baked Brie

Trader Joe’s pizzas!!

And so many new arrivals!!!

Look for the Pink Himalayan Salt Plate

Ground Floor, Bldg. 1143, Rizal cor. Argonaut Highway, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Olongapo City

Telephone number (047) 2502672

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December 6, 2013

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How to Plan for a Batch Christmas Get Together

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Velada 2012 | One Comment

Tomorrow, our highschool batch will be having our Christmas get together. We had planned this months ago and after deliberation, we decided to push through with it. We toned it down and made it a simple get together so that we could meet up with the batch.

I found our last year photo when we conceived the Christmas party committee and we are back again

Previous entry: AC Batch 87 Christmas Party 2012 December 28, 2012

Hopefully another team can take care of it to give others a chance to organize for the batch

We had our first meeting in Lills house

Previous entry: From the Kitchen of Lills November 9 , 2013

And then we had a second meeting in my place.

Here is how we planned for the party.

1.) Think Happy Thoughts

We started the meeting with HAPPY THOUGHTS to make my committee be in a HAPPY MOOD because they are always getting mad at me for being strict and bossy! 🙂

Here are their happy thoughts 🙂

2.) Get into the mood of the theme of the party

This was a prelude to our pink christmas party so everything was pink 🙂 We had a pink tea party to get them in the mood

3.) Always have an agenda because when you are friends, you tend to stray and talk about other things that are not Christmas Party related 🙂

Each one is a head of a committee or a particular responsibility – so Lills is in charge of the food. She got quotes and proposals from different caterers and she presented it to the committee

To keep costs low so that everyone in the batch can afford, we get a basic menu and then we ask generous and willing batchmates to donate additional food and drinks 🙂 Though this was scrapped already since we decided to cut down on expenses after typhoon Yolanda

Our host for this year 🙂 I asked her to make a layout 🙂

4.) Take care of your committee

Feed them so they will be good and just follow !BRIBE! 🙂