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Lessons With Ukelele

While I was uploading my Mahat’s Choral recitation video, I tweaked my youtube account and found this:

That was my first born doing his rendition of Tayong Dalawa 🙂 taken using my Motorala V8 (oh how I love that fone!) I even saw their videos singing The Jerks’ Reklamo ng Reklamo using the guitars we gave them as a gift… reminds of the guitar we got them a few years back..

It was in 2007 when we bought their guitars, as a gift for my first born’s birthday. And as a rule, Mico and Kieth will have a guitar too. Hubby bought a real guitar for Mahat and bought ukeleles for the younger boys. He bought it at raon in Quiapo. It was a bit expensive, but of course new Electric Guitars is still more expensive. Little we did know, ukeleles can be bought at Greenhills for a much lower price. The ukelele he bought at Raon costed him 800 PhP (4oo each) where in Greenhills, a smaller version can be bought for only 120 or 150 PhP. To think that the ukeleles did not even last for months, we should have gotten the cheaper alternative.

DIY Loot Bags For Birthday Parties

As you all know, I stay away from plastic as much as possible, not the person plastic OK.. plastic as in plastic bags and the likes. So when it comes to birthday parties, I always use brown paper bag for the loot bags instead of plastic bags.

Last January 20 was my nephew’s birthday but her mom forgot to buy brown paper bag (for the freebies) the day before his birthday. We were left with PR materials and some creativity to make paper bags for the birthday party. This is what we got after an hour of paper crafting:

Here’s a step by step guide on making Paper bags perfect for Birthday Party Loots

Materials:

scratch paper (other side must be clean)
transparent tape
scissor
crayons

Take two papers and tape it on the cleaner side.
Tape the other end of the paper together.
Fold about an inch on the other end.
Open the fold and press it until the two sides forms a triangle. Fold the paper end about half an inch, do it again on the other paper end.
That’s how it should look.
Tape the part where the two paper ends meet. Start doodling using your crayons and create crazy patterns then put your hands inside the opening to form a paper bag like the one below:

And voila, you got an artsy craftsy paper bag perfect for your birthday party loot bag. You can go crazy on the patterns. You can also put a tag on the paper bag with a Thank You note from the birthday celebrant.

Hurray For New Toys!

It’s been a while since I last doodle, well except for a few weeks ago while we waited for our turn at the scanner.. which resulted to this:

its fun to discover that I can still doodle! after all these years, so when I had the time (and the funds needed), I went straight to National Bookstore to buy the much needed toys, er, supplies:

I am not planning a mural or a landscape or a self portrait or paint on scrubs… not sure if I can do those things again.. just a simple ABCDs and numbers for Sati and Chico, Holidays for the big boys and some other educational that we can place on their play area.