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Visiting Ellen

By | Homes and Interiors, Travel, Velada 2012 | No Comments

I was so happy to visit my batch mate Ellen!  Ellen is such an easy person to talk to and she is very open with me which is why I enjoy her so much!

In such a short time, I was able to catch up with her and am happy to know she is happily married with a beautiful son!

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 Ellen told me that she met her husband, Jeremy, through an online dating website!!!  It’s amazing because Ellen and Jeremy are such a perfect match! I am so happy for my friend!

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Beautiful family photo

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Their blessing 🙂

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Parker is such a cute baby!

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Thank you Jeremy and Ellen for sharing your home with us!

Guest room which is on the ground floor of the house

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A beautiful Filipino artwork

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Going up to the 2nd floor which is their cozy living room, dining room and kitchen

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Parker’s toys! 🙂

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Parker is such a good boy, he even closed the safety door 🙂

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I love watching the mother and son move around the house.  Ellen preparing Parker’s milk as he is about to go to bed

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Instructions for Parker stuck on the ref

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Ellen used to work for Microsoft which explains the piggy magnet on the ref

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The third floor is their bedroom

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 With a super beautiful view of Seattle!!!!

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And I watched Ellen put Parker to sleep 🙂 while we were making kwento 🙂

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And our yummy dessert which Jeremy prepared for us 🙂 YUMMY!!

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By Jia Estrella

By | Arts and Culture, Homes and Interiors | No Comments

Jia and I used to work together in Rustan’s and she was handling the high end fashion brands as she loved fashion!

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 And only recently I found out she is very artistic

Previous entry:  Shifting Scenes by Jia Estrella March 5, 2012

and is also very creative and has a talent for interior design.  I told her that she should have also handled the home department!  🙂

Thanks Jia and Gabby for letting me share the photos of your new home!  I love it and your collection of art is beautiful!

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Jia has an extensive collection, I cannot remember all the names of all the works.  I am sure many of you can spot the artist just by looking at the works.

Garibay

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Geraldine Javier

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A special cabinet made by John Santos with a chess board for kids to play

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John Santos

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Lorenzana

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Love the Morroccan tables

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Jon Jaylo

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I like this artwork make of religious stampitas and medals

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Beautiful altar

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All Peruvian art in the dining room

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Love the Ferragamo scarves made into pillows.  We used to handle the brand together many years ago

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Shrine 🙂

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Jia’s workspace

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Shoes of the kids and Gabby’s shoes

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Gabby’s tools!! I love it!  he used the plastic bottles of the Mandarin Oranges ( Del Monte ) he eats 🙂  He is so organized!!

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Guest room – Jia seems to like blue and white

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Wow!! Photos of Miguel Fabie!!!!!

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Acqua Livingstone Interior Design by Missoni

By | Events and Launches, Homes and Interiors, Real Estate | No Comments

Congratulations once again to the Antonio family!!  It sounds like I am a broken record always congratulating them, only because they are really launching so many projects.  The brothers are amazing!!  

A year ago, Marco presented to us his vision for Acqua

Previous entry:  Acqua By Century Properties March 19, 2011 

A year later, the vision is finally coming to life and it’s beautiful!!!!  Hear it from Marco and Robbie themselves

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We were inside the pebble already which is already in existence and is used to showcase the different model units

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And with great news as Century Properties ties up with a very well known brand, Missoni Home, for the interiors of the Livingstone Tower

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All the items in the photos you will see are the real Missoni items including the tiles on the floor!

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Even the bathroom signs were dressed up in Missoni! 🙂 

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Love the hallway!! 

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There are 4 different kinds of units.  

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Bianconero being the biggest with 3 bedrooms in two floors 

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The second model unit 

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Click below to go to their website for more information

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by Noey and Krie

By | Arts and Culture, Homes and Interiors | One Comment

Five years ago I featured photos from the place of M. Noey and Krie.  You will see quite a number of changes from that time 

Previous entry:  Mother’s Day May 13, 2007 

Like Dr. Cuanang, my brother saw the talent of the Saling Pusa artists and also invested on them early on.  There are really some people who have the “eye”

Love their home which they designed together with Leo Espinosa 

Wow! I like this beautiful painting by Tony Leaño 

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I wish I had so many paintings i could put them in the restrooms 🙂 

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More works of art in the master bathroom 🙂 

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Portraits by Winner Jumalon, same artist I featured who made the portrait of Dr. Cuanang!

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The Nursery!!

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I told you so, more paintings in the guest bathroom 

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Visit to Dr. Cuanang

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Since Howard and Lyn love art, the family took them to Antipolo to Dr. Cuanang’s home and gallery.  I have not been here in so long.  The last time was when the doctor was only starting and people were just talking about him.  So, this was a big change for me to see how it has transformed.  For me, the whole place is a work of art in itself.  It’s beautiful, the garden, the works of art scattered all over the place and I just love all the old Filipino objects of art which are rare already nowadays.  Truly anything that is of good quality will always have value many many years down the road  

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Chapel 

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Another Jose Rizal Sculpture 

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Monk’s Quarters 

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Dr. Cuanang’s house

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We met one of the gardeners who was very kind.  He is one of the many gardeners who maintain the  the place  

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He walked us down further past the pool  

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And there was a Casita for guests or for couples getting married at the gallery 

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Click here to go to their website:  Pinto Art Gallery 

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Starbucks JP Laurel

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After lunch, we visited the nearest Starbucks store which was at JP Laurel.  I featured this before 

Previous entry:  Heritage Concept Store October 15, 2011 

but this is my first time to go to this store and it has a certain charm to it.  

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Who’s that handsome guy there? 

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Oops!  It’s my husband 🙂

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with Howard Behar 🙂  Howard says it’s one of the best stores he has seen

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And a happy partner having his book signed

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Star Pressure Wash

By | Great Inventions, Homes and Interiors | 7 Comments

About 10 days ago, I went out of the house, looked at our driveway and called my husband and asked him if our driveway will ever go back to the way it was before we renovated.  There were cement in between the bricks and it was very very dirty from the construction. I was feeling bad because I thought the driveway was beautiful.  

About 3 days after I had mentioned it, I received a message from Charry Tulio.  She told me she and her husband, Roy, had a new business which she wanted to promote.  Oh my gosh!  This is a true story and this is proof of God answering my prayers 🙂  

After a few days, Roy came over and worked on the driveway for maybe 2 to 3 hours!  This is Roy!  He himself is the one doing the cleaning with his gadget! 

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Here is Roy working so hard and scrubbing away 🙂 I had to leave him that morning to go to work 

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When I got back from work, I could not believe it!!!  This year is definitely a year of TRANSFORMATION!!

From this 

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to this!   

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 And the other side, from this 

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to this!!  OH MY GOSH!  WHAT A MIRACLE! 

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More photos of before and after! 

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And here are other photos from other satisfied clients 

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San Antonio Church, Forbes Park 

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HURRY CALL ROY NOW!!  The service is very affordable. 

We are having our garage and other parts of the house done as well!  THANKS ROY AND CHARRY! GOOD LUCK and MORE POWER !!!!  To give you an idea how much a job will cost, see the costing for the different projects: 

 

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