Wrath of the TiTanks #dogstagram (Taken with instagram)
Gucci loves Bear in Underwear. #dogstagram (Taken with instagram)
I love rings.
My first ring was a silver-y ring with a red octagonal Chinese symbol enameled on the front. It was a good luck charm and I wore it until the enamel wore off and I outgrew it (literally).
When I was seven, my mom replaced the ring with a birthstone ring—an unpolished peridot in a gold twisted rope setting. I wore it until I outgrew it again.
I still have both! Even as a kid I was very good at keeping jewelry (also my mom would flay me alive if I lost it).
It was the beginning of a(nother) continuing collection.
I used to spend my allowance buying jewelry from Silverworks, and one of my dream jobs was is to be a jewelry designer.
Up to now, I spend a considerable amount of my income on cute jewelry, although I still have a spending ceiling when it comes to bling. I still don’t have the stomach to plunk down a chunk of cash for a tiny piece of sparkly stone set in metal.
I know chunky rings are the in thing but they’ve never appealed to me. I like my pieces dainty, stackable, sparkly, vintage-y or interesting.
Like this reproduction of a fifteenth-century promise ring.
I got this in Rustan’s back when the Tiffany & Co. section in Makati was still a Metropolitan Museum of Art shop. I really love the vine detail outside and my favorite part is the inscription inside:
“De m’amour soiez sure”. Translated from French it means “Of my love be sure.” Isn’t it sweet? I liked the idea of owning a promise ring with a French inscription inside. I know the vines and the intertwined circles etched outside also mean something but I can’t seem to find the card and the box. I hope I find it soon! This was a find that thrilled the Nancy Drew in me.
Or these stackable rings from Alchimista:
I love the hammered gold detail, it looks medieval, and I chose the stones based on my birthstone (peridot) and my brothers’ —aquamarine and amethyst. I’m so lucky that our colors look great together, and I threw in a garnet because I like garnet, and I like the cabochon setting of this one.
I love birthstones. My friend says they’re actually lab manufactured, i.e. few stones are really dug up naturally from the earth. That bums me out a bit because it takes the history out of the stones but the nice sparkliness makes up for it.
In the same vein as family birthstones, I scored this really cool brooch years ago in Bangkok. It was such a lucky twist of fate that it was a peridot-amethyst-aquamarine combo with an extra citrine. I used to fantasize that my future husband will have November (birthstone: citrine) as his birth month so my brooch will be extra meaningful, but I think I will just buy a super adorable puppy born in November.
I was able to buy a brooch that came with a pendant converter so I can wear my circlet brooch as a pendant, too. Neat, huh? I like the medieval look of this, too. Like it was used to secure a cape around a princess’s shoulders (also another favorite pastime: romance novels lol).
OK, I fear this post may grow too long and unreadable if I post all my favorite ring finds here, so here’s part 1. Will post part 2 soon!
Choco yema cupcake from Slice. Yema = egg yolk + sugar + condensed milk (Taken with instagram)
Tank’s nose on MarbleCam #dogstagram #marblecam (Taken with instagram)
I haven’t gotten around to playing with my new(ish) Lytro, but I’m so glad it performed well at the Penshoppe press conference for Ian Somerhalder’s endorsement here in Manila.
(If you can’t see it, check out this link instead: http://pictures.lytro.com/tatiny/pictures/180045)
Feel free to play with the photo, you can click anywhere to change focus. Neat, huh? Full Lytro story soon!
I’ll upload more Lytro photos (of course I took more). The quality was not bad at all, I was shooting from maybe 5 feet away, and this was at full zoom. I was going to post a smiling shot, but figured that the ladies (and gaydies) who are in lust with him may wanna see this first.
Isn’t it cool? And isn’t he gorgeous?
He’s also very nice and very charming. Sharp and funny, too!
Check out our dual feature on him in today’s PDI Super here and here .
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Testing a b&w app (Taken with instagram)
Puppy quilted TP stolen by @pajammy fr S. Africa. Too cute for ass-wiping!! (Taken with instagram)
Metallic nails fix from Chanel Delight! Thanks for the expedition, @pajammy! #chanel #delight (Taken with instagram)
Comic book stamps from Mom! Yay Calvin & Hobbes!! ❤ (Taken with instagram)