I should exercise with these guys

holidays are hectic! but i have to share this awesome video of this new band i'm digging OK go. enjoy =)

i thrift therefore i am

yesterday was a good day to go thriftstore shopping...but before i show off my finds, i just wanna say a big overdue THANK YOU to my friend matet for my pasalubong from the philippines (my dad came back last month so yea, this is really overdue). cloud 9 and kendimint rules! it's such a rush to taste these treats again and feel the childhood memories come back. hahahha! doesn't take much to amuse me =)

now on to thrifstore finds. lia and i went to the salvation army yesterday -- it's just a few miles away from the house so vaughn spent time with his lola daisy and auntie chu while mommy takes a break from nannyhood. they had a 50% off sale on everything so... (click on pics to enlarge)

i found these beautiful ball jars for less than $1 each, it matches the old school feel of our apartment and now i have a place for all the candy i got from matet:

and for other stuff as well:

i also found this bag that looks like something from urban outfitters...it has amazing bead detail! a lady and i both reached for this at the same time but she graciously let me have it woohoo!

and other random stuff (that's a kid's knitting kit, lia is teaching me how to knit since i never learned from home ec...i've decided i'm gonna do something about my "uncraftiness" hahaha)

and this vintage shirt for mark hahahaha!

gas: $3

parking: $0.50

thriftstore finds: $20

satisfaction of cheap retail therapy: PRICELESS!

happy halloweeny!!!

ahhh it's that time of the year again! the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year! and now it's even better with a little one around =) vaughn's first halloween festivities started friday night when we went to a halloween festival here in the valley. there was a pumpkin patch, rides, food, games...but we forgot to bring cash! so we took pics and left. saturday we went to la mirada since the flores clan decided to do halloween early (oct 31st is a school night, so we can't get together that day) -- we went to another pumpkin patch and this time we brought enough cash =) the kids had a lot of fun running around and picking out the perfect pumpkin. vaughn snoozed through the whole thing hahaha! we dressed him up as wonderbread (i know, crazy parents huh), but he has 5 other costumes (1 my co worker lent to me, the other one is a roo costume that's too big on him, and the other 3 my friend jen bought for him) so i'm planning to do a shoot on all of his costumes for posterity's sake. on halloween day we plan to go to the disney lot to join the annual halloween festivities, should be fun! meanwhile here are some pics from this weekend, hope everyone's having a blast too!

twenty twenty four hours ago, i wanna be sedated

Vaughn's Ramones photoshoot!
(the effect of being on maternity leave for waaayy too long, hahaha!)

jean dilemma

i want a sewing machine. i don't know why i didn't get one before but for someone who spends around $15-20 just to get jeans hemmed by a pro, i should've learned how to hem jeans on my own a long time ago. sigh! i think about random things these days, i.e. i wish i went to a sewing class instead of wasting my time stewing and being mad about certain things in the past, or i could've learned how to fix cars or went to photography school or learned how to knit a scarf...hahaha. but i'm not that great at home making. when i was in gradeschool and highschool, i always paid somebody to do my home econ projects for me. now all of a sudden i feel like it's such a critical skill to have, but really the desire to learn how to make anything with my hands or at least to sew is derived from my frustration of shelling out so much money to have some other person do it for me -- and it doesn't even come out the way i want it! anyway, i'm gonna save up for one and maybe try to hem the boyfriend jeans i got from ae. i might need to buy some thriftstore jeans to practice on...or i might just go to isang and have her do it for me heheheh. lazy bones.