Colorful Weekend again! Nothing much going the week that passed, but I’m happy to present you with some flowers. Smile?

These were made by womenfolk from the small town of Candoni, Negros Occidental, in the hopes of deriving income from a creative, handmade industry as an alternative to farming. I’ll make a lengthier feature about them and their other crafts in the weeks that follow. The armature is wire and old newspaper shaped into thin strips before it is wrapped with colored plastic. Using some weaving techniques, the colored strips are shaped into petals and put together to make flowers of all sizes. Mix a couple of these with other materials like twigs or some artificial bamboo, they spice up a pretty large jar and a stretch of lonely room space. Pretty rad and very, very colorful!

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Your turn! What colors are you digging right now? If you have something colorful to share on your blog, join the party and link up. Your blog post can be anything… photos, artwork, collages, a video, the list is endless!

You just need to…
1. Grab a badge HERE and include it in your colorful weekend post. Don’t want to add a badge? S’kay, a text link back to this post is fine too!
2. Add your entry to the linky tool below. Remember, it’s your post’s URL you’re linking, not your blog/site’s homepage.
3. Visit as many party goers as you can and leave them comments. What’s a party if we don’t socialize? Remember to return comments made on your blog!

You can check out old Colorful Weekend parties for a dose of rainbow inspiration!

Havahappyweekend!


help me go to girl’s guide design school!

Let me tell you a secret fun fact about me: I once wrote my undying love on a twenty {peso} bill and gave it to an ex boyfriend. Thought it would be a unique keepsake then. {I uughhh at it now, I tell yah. If that bill is working the economy, making the rounds… *shudder*}

Now let me tell you a little something about the aesthetics of Nshima Servings. For the longest time, I used a free template much like any other blog would use. Here I was, dreaming up a blog about being happy, chasing rainbows, celebrating color, inspiration, craft and handmade, the little things… and I had a boring, blah template for a canvass.

It was all in my head, what I really wanted it to look like, I was literally popping with ideas. I even drew my design on paper! Sadly, my penchant for the creative went only as far as paper, pen and crayons. I knew absolutely nothing about translating it online so I used a gift coupon for web design sessions; what you see here now is the outcome. Is it what I had in mind? Close enough. Somehow we didn’t quite meet middle ground on what I really wanted. Little details matter, yes?

It’s frustrating, not getting the little whatchamallits that make the whole design the way you want it. If I had any inkling where to start, I’d be tinkering it myself… if I wasn’t cowered in the corner by The {dreaded} Codes.

Well what do you know? My lucky stars brought The Girls’ Guide to Web Design to me months back. Oh-wow-take-a-bow, a course designed with my name stamped all over it!

It answered all the elements that were essential to web designing, through simple and fun “classes” taught by the sister tandem Amanda and Allie, owners and designers extraordinaire of GG2WD. Ready was I to hop on over to their boat for First Class Edition sessions, until I met the enrollment page. Bummer! I didn’t exactly have $497 extra to sign up, even if I so badly wanted to. Not with a family to feed and daily needs to be met. Looks like my design dream was gonna be on hold indefinitely.

Lo and behold, good fortune smiles on me again! Amanda and Allie are offering limited scholarship slots for lucky deserving gals {and lads} through their first annual scholarship grant. Me! Me! Please, me! I’m taking my chances and I need your help to win it!

  • First go to the GG2WD Contest Page. {You might want to explore their course, sooo cool!}
  • Look for Nshima Servings. You can spot me right away!
  • Click on my thumbnail and you’ll find a teeny “Like” button at the bottom, left corner.
  • Click “Like” and your vote counts!

Whatever I’ll learn here, I’ll also use at an old domain that was meant to be my online craft store, another dream I’ve had for ages. You guys could change the future for me! Awesomesauce you for helping me out!

{it’s more fun in...}

I love Wow Philippines and frankly I don’t see what’s wrong with it, but okay I admit, we also need something fresh. After the disastrous new slogan last year that everyone would like to forget, (cough*pilipinas kay ganda*cough) the DOT’s new slogan looks like it could work, even if we seemingly copied it (again ~ Switzerland?). “It’s more fun in the Philippines” allows a play with the words so anyone  [ Read More ]

{it’s the little things}

I may have blogged like crazy last year but it was not nearly crazy enough. There were a lot of small things I didn’t get to share because, well, they were small. When I shared my photo compilation project last week, I got raves here and through social media ~ still getting them, thank you so much! I’ve watched the re-run countless times, either on my own or with my  [ Read More ]

After our holiday haitus, say hello to our first {Colorful Weekend} for 2012! Colorful Weekend is all about the colors that we dig, the colors that rocked our week. We had so much fun last year, let’s get the party started again! Hue’s {pun!} making waves this year? Say hello, tangerine tango. The electric hues of orange and red, selected by the Pantone Color Institute, is notches up from the warmth  [ Read More ]

{coming in me}

I think at some point or another, everyone makes resolutions, even if they say they don’t. We all want to be better at something, fix whatever needs fixin’ right? It all starts with a change in mindset and the determination to see it through. Personally, I’m coming into 2012 different. A few thoughts for 2012: FOCUS ON ME.  Selfish as it sounds, I need to be a better me to  [ Read More ]