cool costumes

hiya sis :)

while the hub and i came matching in his outfit-to-take-me-seriously-while-i-give-my-speech,

wanted to share with you the way more creative groups that came to the multiplicity party...

that's all :)

cool twinpoplolos and twinpoplolas

How cool is this???

Got this via facebook from twinpopniece...

Here are some bits of research I found while trying to build our Family Tree. This info is all about the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of Lola Aging Sumulong/Lolo Tony Reyes/Lolo Achie Reyes:

- Gervasia de Guzman, the ispiration for Severino Reyes' Lola Basyang series, was actually the mother of his "balae" Crispulo Zamora.

- Crispulo Zamora was an eminent engraver and silversmith and considered a hero for his work in producing insignias for the revolutionary government of General Emilio Aguinaldo.

- Pelagia Mendoza, wife of Crispulo Zamora, a sculptor, was the first female art student of the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura in the 19th century. She won the 1892 Columbus Quadricentennial Art Contest with a bust of Christopher Columbus.

- Severino Reyes was a famous author, recognized as the "Father of the Philippine Zarzuela" and was the first publisher of the weekly literay magazine "Liwayway"

- Lolo Ciso or Narciso Reyes was in the first batch graduates of the UP School of Fine Arts in 1914. The graduating class consisted of Fernando Amorsolo, painting; Tomas Cullel, engraving; Doroteo Abaya, painting, Horacio Reyes, sculpture; Narciso Reyes, painting; Domingo Celis, painting.

The Family Tree is still a work in progress. If you'd like to help contribute and get further updates, do send me a message with your email/contact details.

Is this cool or what?

w is for walkway

super cool hallway to our hotel room...

it has this grey-and-white library theme... (with matching lounge music)...

this is where the elevators are...

the ceiling...

outside each room is a faux opened book...

... for the do-not-disturb or please-make-up-room light...

it took me a good minute to find the elevator buttons... do ya see it?

secret store

discovered this really cool second hand store... the girls there claim things are from italy.

not really sure... but nevertheless they have a lot of really nice pieces.

they have the usual frenchy items... like these tassled chairs...

but of course, i'm drawn to the midcentury pieces...

like these side tables with gold legs...

cool sofa and floor lamp...

green plastic chair...

i love this console. we're eyeing it. the inside is pink with mirrors! should have taken a photo.

more cool chairs...

lamps, lamps, lamps!

i'm waiting for them to text me how much this is...

wanna go?? :)

the post-it

did you know that the first "sticky note" was used in 1945 by a guy who worked in the post office? who made stacks of square paper with glue to leave notes around? but he never really commercialized his idea. so it was later on, in 1977 when 3M first introduced post-its - invented by Art Fry; the adhesive was invented by Spencer Silver (no, it wasn't Romi and Michelle, hehe). and now post-its have come a looong way... watch this post-it art project....



soooo cooool! (and soooo tiyaga!!!)

here's how they made it....



now i want to buy post-its and make wall art. haha!

never ending story

i know we've seen this before...  can't remember the artist behind it...

i think silverlens acquired it... and it's so so cool!

from the outside, it looks like a spaceship.

up close, it looks like a bookshelf...

inside, it looks like a never ending book tunnel!

cool!  yun lang :)