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Showing posts with label architect me. Show all posts

3/01/2017

Ode to Our Attic




     Our attic like the rest of our house has gone through too many transformations. We were not even supposed to have one in the first place. While our home was under construction though, it took sooooo long for the roofing contractor to install the actual roof that I spent hours on top of our roofless house hating that contractor.  (I forgot to mention that was pregnant with Blue at that time. Maybe that explains why he has a temper?)) It gave H and I enough time though to re-think the option of building an attic. Turned out it could not only accommodate a room but a small bathroom as well. H and I decided to make the attic a TV room and guest room. 


    

     There were times when it served as just a storage room for the many times, we purged and decluttered. Raising a family is messy! We have added storage, repainted and re-positioned furniture.  Remember I told you we were downsizing? Our next home won't have an attic. In fact it will have less rooms. Waaah! So this post is dedicated to our attic which I will miss. The photos on this post are of its current state. Last year we had out of town guests three times and I hope they loved staying there. Hmmm.... what if I will ask everyone for sleepover soon, movie night et al. Naah, I bet the kids will just be staring at their phones and chatting with their friends. ROAR! 

    So it will be good-bye soon. Sniff!






















9/08/2013

Sisterhood of the Traveling Tummies: 14Four Cafe


      I am really thankful I have been spending A LOT (Too much?) time with a group of friends from high school who live almost parallel lives with mine. We are all moms, kids still in school, obssessed with facebook chat stickers and we all love food especially pancit (noodles). We don’t stop there though as we all love to try out new restaurants together as well.

     Over a week ago, after tela/ fabric hunting in Taytay three of us from the group tried the much-talked about 14Four Cafe.

     Behind the restaurant  is the talent of Chef Nikki Sambile whose dad owns the furniture shop next door, Stick Design. This explains the restaurant’s unusual, quirky yet homey feel. I loved it. 


   

Don't you just want to kick your shoes off and spend the afternoon relaxing here?

     Surprise! A Mondrian-ish painted facade!
   Look at the eaves! Raw GI sheets! haha! Why not?




     Inside the air-conditioned part of the cafe are even more quirky, pretty stuff!

Guess who placed the reservation.

     For starters we had a zero fat drink....


Smoked Fish Pate 
cream cheese, spices, smoked hard-tail mackerel, tortilla chips P130
Adobo Flakes and Kesong Puti Panini
savory adobo flakes, Laguna white cheese, garlic aioli, pandesal P160
Aligue & Tuyo
Creamy aligue sauce, tuyo flakes, hint of citrus P220





     For dessert, we had coffee and cinnamon pancakes.

     Look at the cute individual sized French press! Adorbs! I am so gonna copy this at home.
 Cinnamon Bun Pancakes
cinnamon swirled pancakes, cream cheese icing P170

Overall, the food was good. We almost did not have the pancakes since the kitchen ran out of gasul. What? Yup! But good whoever ran to get it made it possible for us to enjoy it. This and the adobo panini were my faves. The pasta was good until I added calamansi which made it taste like Lucky Me Pancit Canton. I am not doing that again next time.

     Even the washroom was not spared from the quirky, eclectic feel. Look!


On our way out, we noticed they have laid out pillows of the ledge that wraps around the big tree in the front yard. 
Hay, more lazy, siesta dreams....


     It made it all so hard to leave this place. 


My accomplices that day!

     

Until our next foodie...or shopping adventure, ladies! 

Learn more about 14Four here!












6/06/2013

Spring to Pottery Barn (2013)


     I love it that a Pottery Barn store is just walking distance from my mother-in-law's place in the Bay Area. 

    Since I am always there on family vacation, stepping into a Pottery barn store is like meeting someone who totally gets me amidst the packing, unpacking, jet lag, homesickness, kids' whining, husband whining....Okay back to Pottery Barn....

     What was up in Pottery Barn this spring? Look. look and see..... Enjoy!


Pretty, seaside and fiesta place settings! 



Relaxing vignettes!

 

     But I really could not afford most of the stuff there. So I just mentally "pinned' ideas..... Hee!
  
..... and make an in-store Wish List
Whut? I can. Can't I? Here it is!

This serving carousel which was the last one 
and they refused to let me have it. =-((( SOB!

So adorable drinks dispensers!

 Shells!
Lovely but I am against snapping them from our beaches.
Wait, are these even real? I guess they are, right? 

 Too pretty pillows. But $50 each? C'mon!

That's it! Enough salivating. Let's go home, H!

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