My Birthday part 1

It's 11:45 pm now, my birthday is almost over. I had a blast. My kids are awesome! They wrote me long letters and they surprised me with flowers, balloons and cute stickers!

I made truffles and egg salad sandwiches and we had picnic at the park. It was so much fun!

I love my shoes!

My homemade truffles and egg salad sandwich

What the Mr. did. on the next post...

Birthday Cupcake

I love, love this cotton candy cupcake. Isn't it so pretty? This is from REAL SIMPLE. Hop on there for the recipe.

I'm quite excited to go to the park with my kids today and have a little picnic. I just hope that it doesn't rain. It's pretty gloomy today and a bit chilly. I'm thinking of bringing cupcakes, hot chocolate and egg salad sandwiches. Yum!

By the way, the shop (if you see that link here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(graphics courtesy of Pugly Pixel) is officially open. More items and more categories will be added soon. I hope you enjoy looking around.

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via Geronimo

12:41 am
May 23, 2011

It's that time again when I turn a year older and hopefully a lot wiser. I sit here on the couch in the living room as I reflect on how my thirty something years were like. It was bittersweet. I am in a better place now but I know things can still get much, much better. I'm not asking for a lot,what I'm asking for is so simple and yet seems so difficult to have. That wish got me in so much trouble but what matters is that I have learned a lot and those mistakes made me a better person.
I know there are things that happen to us that we have no control of but one thing that we do have control of is how we feel inside. Today, I choose to be happy, no matter what. I will spend this day with people who matter to me most and will only think of positive thoughts.

I am grateful for all the years that God has given me and for all the years that are yet to come. I am thankful for everything that I have and for everything that I can and will have. Life is beautiful even if sometimes things don't happen our way, being alive is enough. Someone told me that pain is the evidence of life. I agree but so is joy and love amongst other things but all these I am thankful of because it only means one thing... I am alive.

Happy Birthday to me.

Weekend vintage finds

Here are the things I found this weekend. I know you might think that some of the things I got are a bit weird...

I can't blame you. I have an odd taste for old things.





So beautiful!



Inside it...

The second First aid kit

A vintage calculator, a board game and a hanky holder...

Awesome finds. I love them all.

As we waited for doomsday...

We went to thrifting and had our favorite froyo. Don't get me wrong, I don't think all this doomsday talk is funny. I was so scared so I pre occupied myself of things that I love doing just so I won't die from a heart attack. I believe in rapture and all that but I guess what I'm scared of really is the predictions and possibilities of disasters. If you are a single woman who hates life then that might be a different story but If you are a mom who loves life then disasters are just frightening because we love our family too much.

Well, it's 7:37pm now, I really hope that everything stays calm as it is. I don't know about you but whatever Mr. Camping's intentions were, I take this day as a second chance on life. Now let's live life to the fullest, starting today, shall we? and of course, have faith.

Inside the house that was having a sale...

The condition of the house turned a lot of people away but not me. I had to come back with my daughters that afternoon.
You must be disgusted, probably cringing but to me it was like stepping inside the pages of a fairy tale book. It was dusty, musty, very dark that we even used flashlights.

They enjoyed perusing around, looking at things they've never seen in their whole lives before. It was like a movie set. I loved everything I saw there. I wish I had taken photos of everything so you could see but I know not everyone could love it.

I really loved this crates but at $20 each it was just a lot of money to spare.I wanted my vinyl records in it.

There were a lot of these vintage medicines. The photos came out so blurry because it was so dark.

What do you think? Do you like it or hate it? I don't know why I love it. I don't know why I enjoy old stuff so much. I was probably born on the wrong century. Looking at this stuff and owning these things make me happy. I love being surrounded with things like this. How about you, what era do you enjoy most? I think I'm more into the 1800's and 40's.

Do you want to see what I bought? Well, I will post them here soon.

Baby baby baby oh...

I went to this cool Chinese/Japanese baby & kid store. My preggy friend and I went gaga over the cool stuff for babies that weren't available years ago. Bummer. They were so many cool gadgets and baby things that you never thought your baby needed! I ended up buying training cups for my three year old who can drink perfectly from a cup just because they were sooo cute!

It has a straw so he loves them. I also found the website of Innobaby and I want more of the things there.
Check it out www.innobaby.com

Dimsum Love

We love dimsum. We are so fortunate to be living so close to Chinatown (actually close to everything) in downtown Los Angeles. Good food is just minutes away! We especially love the dimsum restaurants where servers push carts with dimsum. I wish I had taken a photo but I didn't want to be rude plus I was really hungry so that explains it.

Everything was so good that we had to buy more to take home to the kids. I can't wait to go back!

CBS SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
700 N Spring St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Le Shoppe

My shop is opening soon. I know I mentioned here before that I won't be opening a shop anymore because it takes so much of my time but I found a way of squeezing a little of this and that until everything just fell into place and voila! It happened!

No definite date yet. I am not ready for that pressure. Let's just say it's opening sooner than you think. I really hope that you drop by my blog so you don't miss it's grand opening day.

Indian Pizza

I don't really enjoy cooking but my family has to eat. haha. I'm pretty good at it I think because I get fat from my own cooking. Well, each day we try to eat healthier. Slowly but surely. So we tend to buy more food now from the farmer's market and Trader Joe's. So now, from time to time, I'll be posting recipes with ingredients that I bought from these places. I encourage you guys to try them because it won't be posted here unless it's family tested, happy tummies guaranteed!

So the first recipe is Indian Pizza that I invented using the garlic naan bread from the freezer section of Trader Joe's. I think one pack of four flat breads is only $1.99 (please correct me if I'm wrong).

What you need:
Garlic Naan bread
Barbecue sauce (or any sauce you want)
ham (or any topping you want)
grated cheese
olive oil or sesame seed oil for drizzling on top
white button mushrooms (or any veggies you want)

What I used:
Garlic Naan bread
black forest freshly cut ham
white mushrooms
barbecue sauce and okonomiyaki sauce
provolone cheese that I cut into thin strips

The process:
This is a quick and easy recipe and the kids love it. First, pre heat your oven to 350 degrees. Take out the frozen naan bread and spread the sauce you want to use, do not put too much and do not allow the sauce to run through the edges because it'll make your oven dirrty. I used barbecue sauce for some and okonomiyaki sauce for the rest. Then, put cheese on top of the sauce,it is important that you put the cheese first before the other toppings because the cheese will hold everything together. Then add your other toppings and drizzle a fair amount of oil on top. Then put them directly on the metal rack of your oven and cook until all cheese on top are melted. Ovens vary and time depends on what cheese you used but based on my experience, once the cheese has melted or is bubbling up then the naan bread is done too. 5-7 minutes is ideal.Turn on the light of your oven so you can check what's going on in there.

We love it and I hope you try and enjoy this recipe!

Yogurt Love

We had yogurt today. It was sooo good! I brought all the kids and my mom too.

It's self serve yogurt and you can put any topping you want, then they weigh it. It's so cool! pun intended. :)

We can't wait to go back for more! I'll try their crepes made on the spot with nutella and fresh fruits.

What is not to love?

Thanks Anthropologie for making me want to paint my house white that I get sleepless nights. You make houses so beautiful, it makes my heart ache. So sweet, it gives me toothache.Your luxe quilts are so gorgeous it makes me want to spend my entire life savings on them. Because they are so expensive and dry cleaning them once in two months is no joke! . And yet I want another one, or two, and more! Goose down feather comforters doesn't look as sweet. Thanks for stealing it's magic!

I want your rusty iron bed frames. Other beds are just not the same. How could you make rusty bed frames and unmade beds look so chic? Not to mention peeling paint on walls, scary halls, old bathrooms,mismatched mugs and unfinished floors. How could you make disorganization look so organized anyway? And why is that when my house is disorganized, it does not look as fly? Oh Anthropologie, why do you do this to me???

* Do you also feel this way? Damn I do everyday!