Category Archives: Shopping

Peter Jones by John Lewis

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Suharto and Rina suggested we go to Peter Jones  in Sloane Square to take a peek.  It’s a popular department store among the British where you can find almost anything you will need and at reasonable prices.  This location is good because it is not as crowded as the other John Lewis stores.  Peter Jones was a fabric store which was bought by John Lewis.  So this is technically a John Lewis store but they maintained the name of the old shop 

We caught a Godiva demo of chocolates and got some samples of yummy chocolates

Click below to go to their website

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SOS Spray from the Urban Alchemist

By | Great Inventions, Household Tips, Shopping | No Comments

My nose is so sensitive I can smell anything and everything even from far away 🙂  I have colognes, home sprays, and all kinds of sprays to remove smell 🙂  I am definitely keeping a bottle of this in my bag and it will be good in different parts of the house!  A great invention by the Urban Alchemist and you can order through them or online through SeektheUniq

Click below to go to SeektheUniq and order your SOS Spray

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Click below to go to their website

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Ablaze

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Congratulations to Jun Jun Ablaza!! Jun Jun always looking so regal.  He is wearing a beautiful antique bark which was redesigned or rejammed by designer Steve De Leon

 Two years ago, he opened a stall in Market Market in the gift section.  Now he has expanded and now extends to three stalls!  Business is booming with all the beautiful things he has from his travels and treasures from the Philippines. I am so happy for him!

Full support from friends and family

 

Chevron beads from Africa

Turkish carpets and evil eye to scare away bad spirits 🙂 

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Matryoshka doll made into a bag inspired by Chanel

Love the capiz ceilings –

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I can’t take a nice photo because it’s coming out yellow but seeing it in person is beautiful and you will hear it as the wind blows it – sort of like a chime 🙂

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There is a small workshop where they can adjust or fix jewellery pieces

From their pawnshop which Jun Jun himself handpicked to sell

One of the new stalls

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Oliver and Maude

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So nice to meet Julia Morales!  It’s a small world since we have many common friends 🙂  She is also into monogramming with her own line called Oliver and Maude. Beautiful and elegant items!  She can also monogram anything under the sun for as long as she can do it 🙂  She told us that the wildest request she has ever had was having a dining table monogrammed 🙂  

























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Cabaña Workshop

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My sister in law, Pam, has many monogrammed things and I love them 🙂 

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She gave us for Christmas these hand towels

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I asked her her source and she gets them from Mia Legarda of Cabaña Workshop.  For two years now I have been wanting to visit this store but have not been to it in BF Homes.  But she has a website which is more convenient 🙂  Click on any photo below to go to her website   

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Click below to go to their Facebook page

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Century City Mall Now Open

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Congratulations once again to the Century Properties family!!!!  on the opening of the new Century City Mall!  

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I love the new mall!! As you enter, you can hear the aircons blasting which is Jigger temperature 🙂
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Congratulations Jackie Cohen Antonio on your new boutique!
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Beautiful store by Blue Carreon
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Congratulations Chut Cuerva and Manny Del Rosario – missing Marco Antonio and Marcel Crespo as part owners
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Cinema!!
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We were able to tour quickly the mall.  Of course there is a Starbucks 🙂  
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The best supermarket in town
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Desigual by Stores Specialists Inc. I love this store
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Love the ceiling of Desigual

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TWG
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Samsonite
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Planet Sports
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Pepper Lunch
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It’s Wellworth The Wait

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Last  month, I went to the blessing and soft opening of Wellworth in Ayala Fairview Terraces!  

Wellworth was a brand started by my grandmother, Gliceria Tantoco.  It was a house brand in Rustan’s department store.  And now I am happy to see this revived into a bigger scale and into a full department store.  My Lola will always be alive and her spirit will reign in everything we do

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 It’s a beautiful mall!!

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 Bobby Dy, Chief Operating Officer and Board of Director of Ayala Land and my cousin, Anton Huang, President of SIAL.  Wellworth is a department store partnership of the Rustan Group with Ayala Land under the company, SIAL Retailers Inc.  Congratulations!!!!

Renato, M. Donnie and Lolo Benny were there for the blessing and soft opening

My cousins, Mike and Catherine Huang, Frances Yu and some managers from Rustan’s

Interiors by Maja Olivares Co of Sonia Santiago Olivares and Associates ( SSOA) and display and visuals by Leonardo and Stephanie from Germany 

I love this store!!! Please open in Makati!

4 Floors

You can get a bag, a shopping basket or a cart with shopping baskets.  I think I need a supermarket cart! 🙂  There’s so many things to shop for!!!!

Children’s floor

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Beauty

Dashing Diva inside!!!

Men’s


Dekada Filipino restaurant on the first floor
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Banapple on the 2nd floor by the women’s and teens floor

Plus sizes
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Wow! A wide section of flip flops!! So colorful!!


I love this section! Organizers and traveling stuff

I call this the muji section 🙂  
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F & F from the UK!  Value for money!  Even cheaper than M & S and Debenhams!
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Candles!!

Love all the knick knacks!!!



Religious section is always a must in Rustan stores!  I love it 🙂

So colorful at the Home section!






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More stores from the Rustan Group opening

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Touring White Plains

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I had to go to the Katipunan area so I asked my friend, Ginge, for places I could check out on the way there and here are some places I was able to pass by in White plains.  

This place had a lot of Asian furniture and decorative items







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Bellitudo  

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The popular Bawai’s from Tagaytay is open in Manila and this is their branch




Further down is Earth Kitchen which Ginge said was quite good

and a Healthy organic store


I would have wanted to go inside this place 🙂  Pan de Amerikana which was an inverted house 🙂

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