One of my favorite past time, apart form watching kdrama is playing games online. Usually when I am tired of watching or just got bored with the film's plot, I would turn to playing games especially those classic ones like solitaire, puzzles, chess and mahjong. I was happy to have discovered this website Solitaire.org because aside from my favorite classic card games, the interface was so smooth and easy to play.
To beautify one's home, one technique is to change your painting. Six months ago, we were living in our bare house. When we got it painted, the living room and kitchen looked so big even if we only painted it white. Now, it got me thinking, there are several paints that will suit each lifestyle and each home.
If you are renovating your home and looking for professional house painting services in Richmond hill, you might want to try Arkady's painting. They are the most trusted painting company in Richmond Hill. We got to ask the professionals to do it for us because they have the knowledge in doing that and to make it last.
So before deciding what color will suit your home, you might want to consider these insider tips in picking the right color for your home.
1. Pick a Color, Any Color
Your favorite color can be your guide. You can play different hues of your favorite color and from there, you will establish the mixing and matching of the colors on the whole household. Say your favorite color is blue, you may want to try light or pastel blue for the wall then look for the same color scheme for your appliances and other household stuff.
2. Consider the room size
If you have a small space and wanted the place to look big, try lighter colors. If you have a bigger space at home and wanted to make it smaller, try the opposite which are darker shade.
3. Use trial and error method
Try different paint colors in different parts of the house. This way, you can check first if you pick the best color. Try a small area first so that in case you made a mistake, you can go back to the original one.
4. Consider the room's lightning
Before choosing your wall paint color, you have to keep in mind that if you have natural light, it will show the true color of the paint. Consider that incandescent light will bring up a warmer tones while fluorescent will give a sharp blue tones. By checking on the lights, you can make adjustment on your paint's color.
Recently, my husband kept on bugging me on getting a new car. We own a classic secondhand car in 2016 and now he's complaining that he always experienced lot of troubles in our car right now. It's a '97 model and of course, it's old. Well, really old. (He's our home driver since we all don't know how to drive).
I myself wanted to get a new one but of course, we had to first consider the finances and if we are capable of buying one. In flexible payment terms that is. We also have to consider a lot like getting insurances as well. Of course we also need to be prepared for repairs say we encountered some problems just like how we need to seek for someone who fixes dent repair for Cadillac cars. We should know where to go.
We had lots of challenges with our sedan that's why I understand my husband's frustration in driving our car. We often experience engine malfunction and our glass windows were already giving up. Sometimes it's lose , sometimes it's stuck.
Now it got me thinking, how do we check for signs that we now need to change our car.
* When Electricals Begin to Fail
I think it's crucial that the car's electricals should always be on perfect condition before any drive. If this came as recurring issue on your car, better fix it now asap.
* Rusting
Rusting makes the car deteriorate, either with long term use or when you neglect it. I can already see signs that our machine is rusting already compare to others that I see which is free from oxidation reaction. This might greatly affect the performance of your driving so you should maintain cleaning your car to avoid rusting, especially if it's just new.
Here are just some of the factors you can check which can help you decide if it's time that you get a new car or you can still continue using your own.
In the end, it is up to you when you can change your car. Just remember to always take care and be safe on the road.
If there is one appliance that I would want to get at home, that would be a dishwasher (apart from my fave skincare fridge). It is one of the appliances that I am thinking of getting but I always end up postponing it. To be honest, I am not really familiar on how to use it nor the benefits I'll get once I had it. It's also rare that we have friends and relatives who uses it so I was really contemplating of getting one. So I had to do a little research on how will it be beneficial to me and I took note on some of the advantages of getting a dishwasher.
During this pandemic, apart from being busy with my work, what I am most busy at was improving our home's interior and exterior. We believe that home improvement is a continuous process. There is always something that we wanted to change or aesthetic to achieve.
When we had some extra cash, our first project was to add kitchen cabinets and change our entire living room flooring. Before deciding what design to use at home, we had to research different designs at Pinterest and on the web.
Have you tried auditioning for a certain role because you wanted it for your livelihood or maybe for your hobby?
In a situation where you want to achieve your goal by means of auditioning, what does one need to do? Of course, preparation is one of the key factor but what other things that you can do to contribute to your success.
Well, I've jotted down some tips on how to nail that audition you've been reaching out for.
1. Practice makes perfect
The good old line may be old but preparing for your audition and spending more time perfecting it will surely paved your way to success. I read from an article before that most talents and kpop stars spent almost ten thousand hours to hone their craft. So you better know where to spend your good hours and let it speak for your greatest efforts.
2. Be on time and be polite
Whenever you do an audition, one great personality that the judges looked for is attitude. They may not know you personally but letting them see that you have prepared for it by showing up early than the given schedule already speaks a lot.
Also, try to maintain a friendly and polite attitude with them. Ask them how was their day and wear a smile while greeting them can sometimes do the trick. When you show kindness and politeness, it will reflect back on you. Just imagine if you are being arrogant and being a 'know-it-all' kind of auditionee, then you are opening up everything for them to see. Leave some mystery about yourself so people would think on what you can offer more in the future or once you are accepted.
3. Attend trainings
Apart from spending time on practicing, you might want to consider getting some trianing. And with that, get the best trainer you know of. It maybe a friend or a colleague. If no one around you is available, there are also actors for hire that can help you with training. Practicing with the same group of people or same passion can be a big help as well.
4. Research
It wouldn't hurt to do some research first before going to your battle. Learn a thing or two about the judges on how they judge auditionees or perhaps you can also research your competitors if you have the chance to know them. Just like in sports, knowing your opponent's weakness can somehow benefit you in the end because you will know how to strategize your piece.
Getting that role you are eyeing for really requires an incredible amount of time and energy. Auditioning is just the start of it all. Know that once you get the role, you have a bigger responsibility in the craft you choose so take it and embrace it and try to give your best shot.
In the end, love the path you take and enjoy all the hardships along the way. Because it is when you feel the feeling of failure, that you enjoy the true meaning of success.
Owning a home may be a huge goal for some and may be a life goal too but getting a house might not be the solution since owning a home isn't for everyone.
When I was a student and studied at the downtown metro, I had to rent instead of travelling 3 hours from home. There are many advantages and disadvantages too when renting based from my experiences. I've been renting here and there for several years and from all those experiences I gained, let me share some tips on why is it better to rent.
I am privileged to receive the whole range of Dove's newest Ultimate Repair line from The Beauty Junkee's group. When Miss Martha gave us the chance to join when she mentioned that there will be some beshies who'll get the chance to review the products, I immediately signed up because for a mom who experienced dark pits during her pregnancy days, this is a must for me!
I was lucky and happy that I was picked because I get to try the newest line and to finally get the chance for my pits to achieve lighter and brighter days. 😄
If there is one thing I would like to purchase related to my skincare stash, that would be fridge for my items. With the skincare fridge booming few years back, I wanted to get one myself too. However, my dilemma is that they say it is costly and better to invest in nice small fridge, than those dedicated to skincare alone.
I have a lot of skincare products and how I wish most of my masks can be stored in the fridge. But our fridge already has a lot in store so adding skincare items there would be difficult. Also, I fear that my husband might mistake it into something edible. 😂
I've been a member of this home aesthetic group on Facebook where the members aim to share how they transform their homes into one beautiful abode. I believe home improvement is a continuous project because there are times you want to update or change your house set-up.
Personally, we have a small home and we also have limited funds so we were not able to fully finish the whole house when we first got it. We are still saving some money for home renovation so we can maximize the remaining space that we have. For now, we take advantage of the space available and all the furnitures and appliances that we use.
Home design is such a beautiful topic to talk about. I always adore and love looking at houses and every furnitures or equipment that you can layout with it. I dream of big and bright houses which I am looking forward to own one day. I will slowly then create it into a masterpiece that transcends my own style and personality.
One source of home design I always search for is Pinterest, and there I find very beautiful, unique and elegant showpieces in every home.
Repairing things at home are often linked to the husbands or men at home. But what if you can't rely on men at some point? Who are you going to rely on?
We know that the era where men were the only one seen as the strong human compared to women has already passed. It's already 2021 and let's normalize equality. But I admit that as a wife and woman in the house, there are things that I found difficult to handle. Just like repairing appliances.
I am always an advocate of love in health and beauty. I believe that being beautiful isn't just about putting makeup and skincare but also about having great confidence in your own body and skin.
When I was in my teenage years, weight issues were not really my problem because I have a small built and can even fit extra small size set of clothes. That story was ancient history though. After giving birth, I started blaming everything on my hormones. I feel like I am not losing weight anymore despite what workout I do. Perhaps another reason was eating my children's leftovers so as not to waste food, and the lists goes on.
With that, I sometimes feel my confidence suddenly went down the drain. Good thing I was able to checkout some best waist trainer that I know would help me gain back the confidence that was once was lost.
More than a year has passed since the shift to a new normal and the nostalgia of being able to go out as you please really hits the nail. Months of being unbothered about how we look have passed and now, the reflection we see in the mirror is just begging for the attention and maintenance that we’ve deprived ourselves of.
The unruly, overgrown, problematic hair that we now have to deal with needs the salon TLC that it deserves. By now, we all probably miss the experience of being in the salon — the smell, atmosphere, and fulfillment that a pampered and good looking head of hair makes us feel.
But, we can always take matters into our own hands. If you’re
missing the confidence that salon-like results offer, here are four tips to
achieve a Salontastic experience at home.
If you and your family are considering moving to a different place, you might want to consider the city of St. Albert. Apart from being named as one of the best places to live in Canada, it also has a lot to offer. Here are five solid reasons to answer why you should move to St. Albert now.
With the pandemic on the rise, it's difficult to send the kids out to play. You may or may not agree with me when I say that online games are sometimes helpful in keeping our children engaged in online activities. Kids can have fun and enjoy in the safety of our homes as long as they have good gaming habits and good choices of online games.
Any type of activity is good as long as you know how to balance using them for you and your child's development. You can help your child develop good gaming habits as soon as they start playing video games.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically made a huge impact on everyone. Who would have thought that we will experience this in our lifetime? Actions became limited as we cannot go far from our homes, jobs were decreased, savings went down the drain and lifestyles have changed. I remember before the pandemic, my son can still attend his therapy sessions but it was halted because of the situation since kids cannot go out. Eventually, we decided to stop sending him at the center because of shortage of funds. Some of my extra gigs were stopped as well so our extra income was reduced.
I am a huge spender on both skincare and makeup products; yet mostly on skincare. I am confident to spend money on these items because I know I am earning extra from my blogging. I always find myself buying the latest product release from the industry. Most of the time my cabinet would be just full of skincare stuff of different kinds. I even have a year's worth of sheet masks, as if I use a sheet mask daily. I was such a huge hoarder and spender way back before the pandemic.
I'm always a fan of anything beautiful, be it skincare, makeup and even beautiful homes and designs. If given the chance, I would love to incorporate it on my own home. I want to design it with something dainty that would provide a beautiful and luxurious feel into it. Then I noticed that a home with beautiful flooring makes a huge difference in one's home.
If my face would thank someone right now, that would be Skin 1004's Witch Pack.
I am so grateful because despite being Covid positive, Skin 1004 was so understanding and patient for they allow me to postponed this review until I fully recovered. If you have been following me on FB, IG or YT, you know that I and my husband were positive and things has been difficult for us. Thankful that we are both well now and continuing moving forward.
Anyway, I have tried using this Witch Pack, and I first used it in the review on my Youtube channel. (Please subscribe.) It's a nice soothing and cooling wash-off mask pack perfect for acne-prone skin. It's also great even for dry skin like mine because it somehow gave back the life of my skin.
News or reports about house break ins are not a joke, especially if you have many valuable things at home.
It is indeed rewarding to have a place to call your own. As a wife and a mom of two kids, one of our goals is to get to build a house of our own, and it is slowly coming into fruition. Starting from keeping your hard-earned money to watching out your expenses on a daily basis, I can say that we were able to save money enough to start our dream home.
Skincare fridges has been a hype in the beauty industry lately even before the lockdown and pandemic happened. For those who aren't familiar, those are mini fridges dedicated to your skincare products. Until now, a huge hype is still ongoing with these mini fridges. Why is everyone so obsessed with skincare fridges for their skincare products?
If you are into beauty, especially skincare, you know how investing in skincare products requires a lot of effort in keeping them effective. This small fridges are designed to take care of the products you’ve invested in and extend the life of your beauty investments.
We all like to buy new clothes once in a while, just to give our wardrobes a bit of a refresh. However, fashionable clothes can be expensive. And some are not made to last. Finding new ways to buy affordable clothes can be difficult, especially when can’t venture out to do it.
Whenever I would read magazines, I always adore looking at home living sections or lifestyle sections because I want to create my house with beautiful furniture pieces. My husband and I planned and dreamed of having a home with beautiful furnitures that are made of high-quality and elegant-looking materials. Sometimes we would go to the malls or furniture stores to window shop what pieces we like to have in our home. We may not have the budget for it but it isn't bad to dream, right? I know I will achieve it one day anyway.
Exquisite and luxury furniture pieces exudes a great vibe in any home. Who wouldn't want great items and furnitures in their home, right? Investing into the right furnitures will transform your home into the perfect place of rest and relaxation.
For the past 10 years, I've been establishing this blog and writing my heart out whenever I can. This became my humble web abode where I can freely expressed my thoughts, let my heart out, and review products and brands on my own way and own words.
Blogging world is a huge place and creating digital content opens lots of doors for me. I first created this space for myself alone but it slowly transitioned into a space I never thought it could be. It gave a whole new world to me.
Blogging about beauty, health and wellness made me dream of having my own beauty place where I can do what I love like exploring different beauty products and cater it to the people who wants to bring out the beauty in their best selves. I am thinking of having a commercial area where I can create my own beauty space. My thoughts are playing between a beauty bar, a very cute and dainty salon or a nature spa where all materials to be used can be wood. Browns and greens will surely make the place calm, serene and tranquil. Just thinking about it all in my head makes my heart giddy.
The call for lessening our daily waste is a huge thing in the world right now since more and more countries encounter different problems in terms of lessening trashes.
Just like in our community, we noticed the increase of the trashes the garbage collectors get this past few months because collection period dramatically changed. The collector in our subdivision collects our garbage always on a Saturday before but the homeowners association here would announced a different collection day because the garbage truck cannot get more trashes since it's full already. That's a clear manifestation that the trashes are rapidly increasing daily.
Especially for cases like events and big gatherings, collecting of garbage has been a headache to trash collectors. They sometimes take days in collecting and cleaning a whole area because of those undisciplined citizens who doesn't care about the environment who just dumped their trashes in the streets. Dumpster bin rental is a great help to lessen the manpower and make collecting of trashes easier.
Personally, my main concern is the increasing number of my skincare bottles and tubes that I disposed every month because to be honest, I'm already feeling guilty about it. So recently, I came up with ways to decrease and reuse some of the empties I am slowly collecting.
LESSEN SINGLE USE PLASTICS
I've been a sheet mask collector since I started blogging. I am happy that I am building my sheet mask collection but the truth of the matter is, the nature is not happy about it. If I use a sheet mask daily, that's 365 plastics a year so the guilt-feeling is haunting me. So this year, I opted to use mask in tubs or containers with 7-30 pieces inside. Plus I can reuse the tub to be a container of my trinkets and other stuff.
REUSE EMPTIES CREATIVELY
The beauty community often posts their empties online especially on Instagram so I always get a good idea such as creating bookmarks from the product boxes, plant containers for big tubs or tubs from sheet mask or face pads and a whole lot more.
BE A RESPONSIBLE USER
Sometimes, it's really overwhelming to use a new product that is released in the market especially if brands are reaching out to you and sending you all the products of their line. I remember I have 10 facial wash opened all at once and a quarter of those reached the expiration date because I tend to reach out on my fave face wash to use.
Right now, the big challenge for me is how to reuse the tubes especially if they're small. So I often decline samples because those are additional plastics, still. Unless I create eco bricks, I can still use those empties.
You? How do you handle all your trashes or your skincare empties. Share your little wins in helping save the environment in adding up more trashes. Would love to read more suggestions.
Home renovation is a continuous process. There would always be a time where you want to upgrade and update the different pieces in your home. As time goes by, more and more modern designs and styles are updated in the market, and so we would like a new look, or new style.
Before we recently renovated our small home, we had some troubles in choosing and picking the best tiles for the kitchen and living room. I just can't find the perfect design in my head. Then I found out that it's not the design that's lacking, it's the aesthetic that I want to achieve.
Maintaining your business in the beauty industry in this pandemic is quite a challenging feat. With most people getting out of jobs and saving their money for future expenses, the beauty industry is affected as people would spend first on their necessities instead of getting their favorite tub of moisturizer.
Just like other businesses now, it's a challenge on how to step up your game to increase or just maintain your profit. A lot of businesses are transitioning online or continuing their services on the web because of the situation we are right now. If you are struggling on how to start doing it online, you might want to consider getting online marketing services and ask the experts on what to do. They are the professionals on that field and they know how to increase your online presence.
I am so grateful to Skin1004 for sending some items to me for review even during the pandemic period. More than the product, I am more grateful with their response when I told them that we were Covid positive and asked if I can delay the review after I get well. They sent me well wishes, also telling me it's okay to delay the review. It's rare to find brands who understands their bloggers/ influencers situation despite the deadline so I thank them for that!
We recently had our kitchen fixed and painted. It has been a long awaited plan but we just dont have enough time these past few weeks to manage it and get it done.
Recently, we renovated our home space since we had some extra funds for a kitchen upgrade. However, we have limited space, and the subdivision where we reside has exact measurement for units like ours so we are forced to extend and close the whole space, especially the back part at our kitchen. Downside to a house/unit like ours is we don't have windows at the back since we accumulated the whole space and closed it. Same goes with our back neighbor so you can imagine that we are wall to wall already so there's no space left for windows.
Condo living has been a thing recently especially for young professionals in the city. It's a place where you can stay that will take minutes to go to work and the malls are just some perks you get to save precious time.
Apart from the proximity to entertainment and business districts, living in a condo generally provides flexible living. It also offers great sense of community and top-notch amenities. Some may also have appliances and furnitures included.
Few months back, we started renovating our kitchen space and living room since I was able to get some part time job. We have a small space and one of our house rule is whenever we want to get something new for the house, be it a new appliance or furniture, we need to let go of what we currently have so we would have a space for the new item.
So I browsed some ideas on the internet on how we can DIY some of the very old and broken appliances that we have and turn it into something useful so that we don't need to bring it at the appliance repair shop anymore. I know most of our old appliances are as good as junk and it would be a huge problem to dispose them. The environmentalist in me just don't like adding more trash so I often find ways to reuse, or upcycle those things.
So here are some of the very inspiring transformations I saw which you can also do if you have some broken appliances lying around your home. It's great to repurpose knowing you are also saving the environment.
I found something new to prepare today since I want the kids to experience a different set of viand. It's their favorite Chicken Tinola but I'm doing it with a twist so keep on reading.
Since last week, we are buying from the wet market everyday because we had some troubles with our fridge. We had a small, one-door refrigerator and the freezer part isn't working properly so we can't store frozen goods there yet. It's in our plans already to get a new fridge but since it's still functional, we thought of just using it until the end of its machine life. We can just send it to a fridge repair shop this weekend for it to be fixed.
Anyway, here's a different twist of the classic Chicken Tinola which our children always loved.
Hola amigas and amigos!
Another review up and this time, I am writing about these soaps which I received from a brand before the pandemic and it's from the brand Sam4Kinis. It is my first time to hear about them so I am excited to try it upon receiving it from the loot I got on the Candy Dollz The Magic Tour 2020 event.
Actually I have plenty of soaps to review from all the events and PR I have received the past months so I've been switching and using different kinds of soaps lately. Because of that, my dry to sensitive skin is always at risk so I try to be careful in picking a product that I knew my skin would like. For these items here, I knew the moment I used them that I won't be repeating the same thing again.
Anyway, before proceeding let me summarize my thoughts on the products first.
“Lord, make me rich para lang makatulong. To Love the POOR, you cannot be poor like them. Because who will LIFT THEM UP?” -BO SANCHEZ
Hola everyone!
I've been missing out on almost all my social media accounts for months because of several reasons and one of it is Covid. I have created a vlog about our Covid-19 experience so I hope you can watch and listen to our story and experience. Who knows, it might help you too when you faced the same situation. Spare me a like and please also subscribe as well. (I'm a new youtuber now! Ahaha) :)
So I'm back in maintaining my blog and socmeds because I miss them. I just miss writing and sharing my thoughts on my humble web abode. I have a lot of products to share and review because they're piling up my closet now. Some were even expired so I had to think of ways on how to still use them (if possible) so I think you'll see more of my posts now. I need to work with my backlogs asap.
One of the products I need to use asap is this soap from The Better Skin Project. I got this from Sample Room few months back but because Covid happened to us, I wasn't able to use it. I don't know, Covid just made our life stopped. We were quarantined, we felt so down and lifeless and just can't move and do anything. So now we are up again and ready to start a whole new year.
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