Mt. Pulag: The Sea of Clouds and 8-Man Tent Experience

This is a long overdue post, but I want to share my experience and a few photos from my hike to Mt. Pulag in Benguet last February. It was a last minute trip that was organized by my cousin Bea. Another cousin of mine Carlo, who came home from NYC, wanted to do something for his birthday weekend here in the Philippines. Due to the fact that the schedule wasn't flexible and Carlo only spends time in the Philippines once every two years, I was definitely...

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Art Stalking: Molly Hatch Furniture and Ceramic Paintings

So if you're one of the 5 people who read this blog (hi sisters, Jim and Mom!), you've probably read a recent entry about my brand spanking new apartment to be turned over to me within this month. I'm due for final unit viewing next week, before I receive the keys, so I'm absolutely excited about this milestone and the process of buying furniture, decoration and finally moving in. I've been Pinteresting for HOURS for ideas, and I've been going gaga...

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Watercolor Weekday: Exercising Creativity

I started this blog with the goal of documenting my creative pursuits, artistic activities and design projects outside of my day job as an I.T. Consultant. Since childhood, my love affair with art has never wavered despite the smorgasbord of interests and life events that have come my way during my adult life. There was always this need to create, to play with color, to scribble, doodle and draw, even if they were on scraps of paper, the back of...

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Project Condo 2014

The previous post about our beloved Whitney's passing away was kinda heavy, I feel like I needed to look at the brighter side of life and celebrate the better things that are happening or will happen this year. I will be going through a big leap these next couple of months, because I am set to move into my new apartment by mid May! Three years ago, I invested on a condo unit for my 25th birthday. It's not really big--just a one bedroom apartment...

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Charcoal Drawing: 14 Years of Loyalty

I've been restless the whole day, so in my attempts at reclaiming what's left of my sanity and my deteriorating attention span, I went out for a while to draw. Workload is easy these days, it's bordering on boring despite the steady trickle of enhancement requests from our clients. To take a break from staring at Functional Design documents and emails, I headed out for coffee and did a sketch of my dog Whitney, as a tribute to the 14 long years...

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Watercolor Feature: Happy Days Studios

Kristine of Happy Days Studios contacted me a few months back about creating a header for her newly launched Photography Website: www.happydays.ph. She sent me her pegs--nature inspired with use of calligraphic font. She gave me her original logo for reference. Happy Days Studios' logo: Bright, yellow and, well, happy! I reused the original font from the logo called Janda Stylish, and for the tag line, I used a Sans serif font to balance...

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