Friday 27 June 2014

Date A Man Who Loves You More

I found this article on Thought Catalog, Thought Catalog are collections of articles written by different people that pertains to his/her freedom of speech. I find it read-worthy. This day, I would like to share with you an article written by Shanna Roberts Salee entitled Date A Man Who Loves You More.

Date a man who loves you more. Meet him young, at a time when you're not old enough to realize how precious he is. Fall in love carelessly. Start to think he must be the one, begin building a life with him. Become entangled with his family and him to yours, believe he will be the father of your children in later years. Date a man who loves you more because he will love everything you hate about yourself. The man who loves you more will rub your feet when you're tired and take your cousins out for ice cream because he is simply that kind of man. He will abandon his plans to come rub your back when you're sick without you ever having to ask. The man who loves you more will allow you to grow as a person without taking space. He will be patient, kind;; he will know when to apologize and when to be quiet. He will never yell. He will laugh at your jokes and find you beautiful, even at your worst. The man who loves you more will love you entirely, unconditionally; he will follow you anywhere and do anything for you.
As you grow with the man who loves you more, ignore the creeping sense of boredom, Ifnore it because it is selfish, it is unbecoming, and you know you should be satisfied with this perfect man. Ignore it because you watch the women around you, your friends, your sisters, your co-workers, and you know they all long for the man you have. Ignore the melancholia and the longing you feel every time you watch a couple fight with passion, with anger, with fire. Count on your fingers the number of fights you've had over the years, and consider yourself lucky without really believing it. Ignore the nostalgia you feel for moments that have never existed. Ignore it because you know passion is fleeting, passion is mercurial; passion is not something you build a life on. Passion will not raise your kids, it will not pay your mortgage. When passion fades, you tell yourself, you are left with nothing but regret. Ignore the slow leak of emptiness filling your gut when you kiss him, because it does not belong in your life. It does not belong with this perfect man who loves you more. He is dependable and with him, you know you will lead a lifetime of contentment. You will travel with him, you will push him towards his goals. You will have wonderful memories and photo albums. You will celebrate milestone with pride, you will grow old holding his hand and raise balanced children with him. When your children fall in love, you will smile and hope they find someone who loves them more, because it will guarantee them the satisfied life you have led.
Do not date the other man because the other man will never give you the stability you know you need. Stay away from the other man because with him, you are unreliable. The other man will never be there for you with the same dependability you have come to expect. He will challenge yo and push you to question everything you think you know about yourself. The other man will love you, he will love you in a ways that makes you abandon every certainty you have ever had, but he will not help you keep your balance. Just when you think you have figured that man out, he will disorient you, you will be winded, you will not be able to breathe. Date the man who loves you more because the other man will never need you. He will miss you when you're gone, he will be secretly broken, but he will go on without you because he does not depend on anyone. This man is treacherous, you cannot trust yourself with him.
When things are good with this man, you will be euphoric. You will be the best version of yourself. You will look in the mirror and find you are beautiful. You will be the luckiest woman in the world, and you will believe it. You will tell him you love him and the words will explode out of your heart because it will be the first time you have ever encountered such irrevocable truth. He will say it back and mean it, and you will feel like you can never be close enough to him. You will lose yourself in him, and he will lose yourself in you. Stay away from this man because your happiness will be fleeting. When things are bad with him, he will fight back. He will not be patient, he will not soothe you. The other man will be infuriating. He will be selfish, careless with his words and at times even cruel. He will try to inflict as much pain on you as himself is feeling. He will not apologize and he will push you to your limits. With this man, you can expect the dizzying agony of passion, the blurred oblivion of apathy, the delicious comfort of despair, the addictive misery of loneliness. You will tell yourself that it is better to have loved and lost that to have never loved at all, but in that moment of utter hopelessness, you will not believe it with absolute conviction.
Date a man who loves you more because while he can never be quite enough, the other man will always be too much. The other man will leave you thirsty for more, parched for him, panicked like a drunk who has finished his last bottle. Date that man who loves you more, fall for him in a slow and steady way, build a foundation with him and consider, truly consider, how lucky you are to have found him. Do all this, because with the other man, you will never know anything but a frenzied hunger and all-encompassing madness. With that man you will burn bright and fast, and you will be invincible until you are not. Find the man who loves you more and keep him because the worth of happiness cannot be measured in days and months and years, and those fleeting few memories of pure, unadulterated bliss will never measures up to the lifetime of contentment you will have with the man who loves you more. Tell yourself this over and over, let it become your mantra, and condition yourself to believe it. Forget the other man, or at least try to, ignore the smells, the sounds and the things that remind you of him, ignore the way he made you feel, because you are better off apart. Together you make the world explode, but you cannot survive in it after. Date the man who loves you more, choose him and never let him go, because you are wise enough to know that stories of true love never have a happy ending, and with this man at least you will die knowing someone loved you more.

Craft Room Ideas

I wish to have my own creative space someday (I am keeping my finger crossed on this one!). Below are my inspiration should I be having my my own space in the future.

Photo by froggymonkey from Rate My Space
Photo by thehappyzombie from Flickr
Photo by new-memories from Rate My Space

Just Between Friends
The Embellished Nest
Better Homes and Gardens
Better Homes and Gardens
Unskinny Boppy
Better Homes and Garden
Little Gray Fox via Apartment Therapy
Defodigital
My Creative Escapes
Room Decoration

More Ideas:

Tuesday 10 June 2014

Paper Flowers Galore

I'm addicted to anything Do-It-Yourself and inexpensive crafts! This time its paper flowers! I would like to share with you some of the DIY tutorial on making paper flower.

1. collections of lovely paper flower tutorials from Oh Happy Day



2. how to make paper flower from A Beautiful Mess



3. making fiesta pom-pom flower from Creativebug



4. making paper flower headboard on Design Love Fest



5. paper to petal by Design Sponge and Oh Joy



6. mini pajaki tutorial on Honestly WTF



7. making paper flower bouquet on Creativebug

8. mixing real flowers, paper flowers, airplant into bocquet by Michelle Edgemont



9. making paper flower corsage and boutonnieres by MicheleNg



10. tissue flower on A Beautiful Mess



11. giant peony paper piƱatas on Corner Blog



12. fabric flower on Crafty Craft Fair



13. felt flower on In My Nest



14. shabby chic flower by Little Snippets, tutorial can be found in Guidecentral




For more inspirations, you may also visit this websites:

Happy Crafting!

Monday 9 June 2014

Jo Avila Photography Class

Hey folks! I have started another seminar. It's Basic Photography Seminar by Sir Jo Avila every Saturday at Unit 114 Gold Building, 15 Annapolis St., Greenhills, San Juan.

Here are the coverage of the 5-sessions photography seminar:
Session 1 - Basic Theories and Principles of Photography
Session 2 - Composition Technique
Session 3 - Basic Studio Lightning and Flash Photography
Session 4 - Basic Post Processing and Basic Color Management and Inkjet Printing

The good thing about this seminar is that Sir Jo Avila offers 50% discount to celebrate their 20th year of teaching basic photography. What's more is you may attend multiple refresher session for FREE!

You may visit his website at www.joavila.com!

Friday 6 June 2014

My Favorite Polymer Craft Store

These days I considered myself crafty, not surprising since I've enrolled polymer clay workshop. However, polymer clay equipment and supplies are sometimes difficult to come by since we have few specialty shop in the Philippines that sell this product. Most of the good finds were found on internet. Below are the lists of shops where I would like to get my supplies.


  • have branches all over Metro Manila, mainly in malls.
  • they have US imported polymer clay such as Sculpey and Kato
  • various arts supplies
  • tools
  • Slightly lower price than Deovir
  • wide range of polymer clay supplies/equipment
  • Mostly pre-order items
  • they have a shop in Sta. Ana
  • Greenbelt, Greenhills and Rockwell banch are known to have a polymer clay supplies. I will go check if their Trinoma branch have clay availablity.

The Gift of Time

 You've probably heard this statement a few times"Time Stood Still For No Man". How true are these words. Time denotes our existence here on earth, the dash - between our birth to the last day of our lives contains a personal history of who we were, how we lived, who we knew and what we did with our lives. 
It is filled with memories of love, joy, laughter, pain, sorrow, anger, forgiveness, emotions all entertained, some internalized, some expressed, and some exploded.
In the midst of our living, time continues on its endless journey - time is a gift, though we rarely stop and acknowledge it as such. With everyday time is equally allotted to everyone - 24 hours, and what we do with that time is totally up to us. 
We can spend out time wisely, or worthlessly, we can squander it, or invest it, we can enjoy it, or abuse it, we can live it, or retreat from it, but it moves on regardless. 
Time cannot be contained, only the memories caught within that time can be. With time we have the amazing ability to capture within our memory bank those moments that cause us to become embodied with adrenaline, love, passion, peace, and a revealing awareness of who we are as individuals.
I have always wanted to do everything at once. These past few weeks, I have taken various short classes of the things I want to learn and also, I plan on taking more in the future. It was a huge sacrifice on my part, especially if you are someone who wants to be beside your guy all the time. For the past three years, I always tends to my boyfriend for enjoyment and contentment, until I felt that I have to do something worthwhile to accelerate my personal growth. Which is a big surprise for me because I rarely get bored with monotony.

Seeing Labsie working out every weekend and enjoying his chosen hobbies sparks something in me. It got me thinking that I should do something about it. Since I was into arts and crafts, I decided to take various arts and crafts and enjoy my life. Travelling was out of option since I'd like to go travel with him. 

Spending time with your boyfriend is no biggie - but you have to have passion for other things. If Labsie was into sports and I was into him is not the mark of good relationship. Finding other passion will make you love yourself more. It also gives you enough confidence and self-esteem.

These days I manage my time between my passion and my boyfriend which is good for us as it make the two of us grow together and separately while chasing both our dreams.

Labsie gift for me on Christmas 2013