4/22/2009 09:47:00 AM

The Indian Pillows

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The start of my Indian-inspired sala make-over...

I drool over bargains like anyone. Especially if i get to buy something expensive at almost 70% off the original price.

  

Bought this babies originally priced 395.00 each at 120.00 each.  Still quite expensive but its really nice and beautifully made.  These are items bought from India, made in India.  I guess a lot of people found it too expensive that Shopwise had to offer it for clearance sale.

Bought this a little over a month ago but just got to use it last night.  Shopwise Sucat finally had the pillows for it.


I intentionally bought different designs as advised by my Mom who was with me when I bought this.  I got 5 pillow cases which turned out to be a problem since the throw pillows came in packs of 2.  Now i need to find another pillow case to make use of the extra throw pillow.


4/17/2009 10:55:00 AM

Green Walls

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Dear Ga,
Sharing with you a picture of a room with walls with same color as ours.
Please help me execute something like this.

I think it would really make a difference. :-)

Love,
P



4/16/2009 10:36:00 AM

We found a winner!

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We have bean meaning to change Taal's feeding bottles since Nov 2008.  When it comes to personal things, i sometimes get too attched to it which makes it hard for me to let go.  Especially when i have been using it for a time already.  That's why even if i had issues with Playtex' nipples and the vent-aire seal, i still hanged on to it up until last weekend.  

But hey, I still love playtex' baby products  I cannot be more thankful for their  breast pump which became a good friend for almost 5 months.  And their breast milk storage system which filled our freezer for a while. And Playtex is not really cheap.  I had to save up on some things for this!  I'd still give high ratings for the Vent-Aire bottles.  Taal rarely had colics through-out his infant days. And i'd like to think the bottles worked as it promised.  

I guess a product cannot just be too perfect. The nipples and the bottom seal started to accumulate milk particles even with the thorough washing.  At first I though it was just my Yaya not brushing it too well so i started brushing it myself.  Only to have the same un-brushable  remnants in the nipple and the seal.  

The option is to either change bottles or completely switch to Playtex Drop-ins.

The search went on...

The Tommee Tippee bottles caught our attention.  SM's Baby Company was on sale for this kind of bottles.  P1500.00 for a pack of 4 but when you buy individually, its at P399.00 each.  We could not gamble P399.00 that time we were there. 

We initially tried the Even-Flo bottle by buying 1 piece for P199.00.  And after trying it out for 2 days, we had to say goodbye to that P199.00 purchase.  Taal did not like it.  
Last Saturdays trip to the baby store made us again explore our options.  

And we found this quite interesting... The Breast Flow bottles...

I then asked the merchandizer to talk me into it.  Its specs and features... 

Which made us more interested.  
At P550.00 for a pack of 3 bottles, it wasn't so bad!  So we purchased it and crossed out fingers.  The bonus feature, which my husband only realized after we got home, is the bottle cover fitting unto the base so it wont get lost.  Bottle covers getting lost ruins my day.  Thank God they thought about it!

The conclusion?  We found a winner! Taal's been feeding on it for 6 days now  :-)

Sad part is the saying goodbye and packing up of the old Playtex bottles.. I gotta get over it somehow..

4/15/2009 12:40:00 PM

A colorful inspiration

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My walls in the house are too bare.

This is one great idea to make it more busy.

4/10/2009 05:09:00 PM

Surviving a relationship

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Sometimes i feel so down that it comes to a point that i question my commitment to our relationship.  I become unsure if i will survive this "forever".  Then I start to question what forever means.  Our forever may mean years. or months. 


I feel like its been too unfair.  And the mere fact that i am categorizing myself in that side of losing end is scary.  

Its either i get on with it and be miserable once in a while. 

Or let go now, be miserable for a while and let life go on.

I'm just so sad and the people around me are either to dense to notice or just don't have time to even bother knowing how i am.

This, my friend, is the sad reality i am facing right now.

My hands are shaking. and my brain is crying. 

4/08/2009 09:54:00 AM

Mumbai-Inspired

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I think I may have been an Indian in my past life.  I so so love indian designs and colors and designs an colors.  I love their contrasting combination.  Combination of colors one would never thought to blend perfectly.

Another cool post from Apartment Therapy