WHEN IN NATIONAL...

...go to the adhesives section!

I found pretty colored masking tapes and a big one in kraft material!

Get the Crocodile kind, there's another brand but it looks satiny and 

too perfect to be 'krafty' looking.

Use these if you want to save your pretty washi tapes, 

this you can wrap all around, as much as you want, wherever! 

Here's a nice idea:

Set a strip of the kraft tape on sticker backing ( the backing that gets left behind from sticker paper :)).

Get your circle cutter (or you can always trace a circle and cut with scissors).  

I had a few tries and found out the best way to do it is to gently glide the blade once all around making just a light marking, then do two more rounds until you cut through it.  If you do it digging deep into the material the first time, you will just scrunch it up or end up with jagged edges.  

DO NOT USE YOUR CIRCLE PUNCHER.  Trust me, I've been there. Hehe.

That's nice.

:)

Happy crafting!

Tapes from NATIONAL BOOKSTORE. Kraft tape around P70+/roll, colored tapes around P20/roll.
Circle cutter from SM Supplies section, Mega Mall, around P1k.

MOTHER'S DAY GIFT SUGGESTION.

I have had so many product posts over at Instagram (@iameyecandy) and Facebook and I realized I haven't updated the rest of you with The Candy Shop's new items!

I've always wanted to own a shop, a physical honest-to-goodness shop, only because I would have fun decorating the store window and spend all my time looking at, fixing, and rearranging my products.

Anyway, I thought of The Candy Jar, sort of the part of my shop where I would have stock items --the kind that would have me doing inventory ( aaand there's the part of the dream where I would get to hold and caress my "stocks"!) because these items require no personalization.  Just like candies stored in a candy jar, these goodies are ready for scooping!

What's in the candy jar?

Postcards in the prettiest patterns, sticker seals (oh my posted these in IG probably a month ago!) and lovely gift tags!

Pardon the delay, but being the lone member of our product development department, I can't keep up with posting and updating every new item in our catalog.  I'm overwhelmed with the number of items in that thing and I bet you are too so I made it easy... introducing

THE CANDY MIX!

Our CANDY MIX package is a little of every new thing we I come up with.

Mother's Day Candy Mix

P540 only!
Includes:

POSTCARDS (Assorted per collection)
6 pcs postcards (approx 4" x 4") Rio Collection
6 pcs postcards Ikat collection (not shown in photo)
6 pcs postcards Jetsons collection
6 pcs postcards Peacock collection

Sticker Seals
18pcs Round (Gold)
18 pcs Heart (poppy Red)
18 pcs Star (silver)
18 pcs Scallop (speckled pink)

Gift Tags
18 pcs Chevron
18 pcs Zebra pattern
18 pcs Polka Dots
18 pcs Greek Key

*These items are available by the piece too but in our standard packed quantities.

Place your orders now, cut-off for delivery ONLY IF you want make it in time for mother's day is tomorrow, Monday (May 6) at 12 in the afternoon.  Will still accept orders  after but can't guarantee the timing!

Expect our monthly CANDY MIX offers!

So that's it for now, from your secret source of deliciously good paper products!

Pat

MAKE YOUR OWN (PLASTIC) BOOK JACKET.

How to Cover Your Book in Plastic* Without Using Tape.

(*It's a Filipino thing.)

Materials:

Sealer, mine is 8" long (I know, there's a catch- sorry!) (around P1k in NBS) 

Masking Tape

Plastic cover

Scissors

Measure and cut plastic to size.  

Don't worry about the top and bottom edges not being straight, it will be trimmed close to the edge later on anyway.

TUESDAY STYLE.

Some style capsules for today.

1. Nondescript is It.

2. KEEP IT CHIC..  Haven't been reading blogs lately, but luckily stumbled into this one.  I'm having a SHE COULD BE MY FRIEND moment.  This blog is by a chic woman who is happy to see peplum go ("who wants ruffles around the waist?"), a SIMPLE GAL, even admitting to BEING AFRAID OF LIPSTICK (me too!), TRADES SUPERGA FOR TRETORNS --all white only please.  I already checked, hihi, plain white Tretorns are 3k(!) in Manila (copycat!).

Photo from Keep It Chic via Photo © TOMBOY style.com by Lizzie Garrett

Yeah, she could be my friend.

3. SURI'S BURN BOOK.  Ok, I know, where have I been??  A friend told me about this blog. Sooo hilarious.  I spent hours back-reading.  Learn a thing or two from "Suri" (whatever you do, don't wear ripped denim cut-offs if you want to gain Suri's approval!).  

"The Beckhams have released two pictures of Harper Seven. She’s a beautiful baby, but do these two know anything about a properly planned baby photo media release? She’s less than a week old! Where’s the mystery? Where’s the intrigue? Where’s the respect for young Harper’s media value? I mean, Facebook and Twitter? That’s so … lowbrow. 

Never forget:"

You'd actually begin to think she's really this snarky in real life.

4. RUBEN TOLEDO'S FASHION ALMANAC.  Ugh, should've gotten this when I still caught it available in Amazon. One merchant is selling it used at $2,000!!

I fell in love with Ruben Toledo's art when I saw his illustrations on Nordstrom paperbags a long time ago.  I didn't know him then.  I came across him a 2nd time when I was leafing through my Feb 2007 Harper's Bazaar pages which featured the Toledo's amazing home/ art studio.

From Harper's Bazaar A Fashionable Life: Ruben and Isabel Toledo

Later on, his illustrations would appear in Nina Garcia's ever popular THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF STYLE, (a must-have if you ask me) and her series of style books,

in  Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition covers,

 and Louis Vuitton's -- City Guide Ruben Toledo 100 Postcards

1

Somebody give me this, please?

2

Check out more amazing photos from THE SELBY.

Ruben Toledo, from THE SELBY.

5. Now Playing.  Lenny Kravitz's "Heaven Help".  Bring out the Pinot for brunch, sit back and melt into Kravitz's soothing spell.  This is how Tuesdays should be.

:)