Ayie


Thinking of buying new home furnishings? This is the best time to get your shopping started because it's the clearance sale season. Usually after holidays most stores will go all out sale to clear their last year's goods for a fresh new year supply. Me and my husband are in search for some new home additions but more of baby furnitures. But I can't help but to admire those nice living room sets, sofa collections and leather collections they have in the stores. In time I want to change our furnitures here at home too.



Here's how our living room back home looks, mom and dad ditched the traditional cushioned sofa sets and went for these solid wood sets. Aesthetically I like it but I still like the comfy cushioned seats. Oh well that's my parent's place so we can't really complain. =) Mom got tired of the cats clawings the leather sets so they thought having the wood can give them more ease of replacing those cushioned sets from time to time. Another thing dad fancies is a recliner. He loves to watch TV and take naps so I think that really will fit him good. I remember dad whenever I look at the reclining groups and living room groups of furnishings in the home area of the stores. Not only him, I also remember little Elisse because there are cute child recliners too! Only if shipping it from here won't cost me much then I could've bought those for them. I can picture out Elisse sitting there and not allowing anybody to sit there. She just loves to have her own throne!



Ooops.... I couldn't resist posting all photos with Elisse and dad. My bestfriend took these for me when she visited home (my family) last month. Thanks bes for the photos!



Ayie


This might be helpful for those who are into concerts, sports events or even theaters. Have you heard about ACheapseat.com? This site is great because here you can find good deals on premium tickets everyday. It's very competitive to other online ticketing companies. This new year has a lot of good shows and sporting events, it would be best to enjoy all those with a little savings on the side for our tickets purchase. Me and hubs usually get good deals when it comes to tickets, we get to enjoy the shows plus it's more practical for our budget.



If you are a basketball fan and rooting for Lakers, You can check out the Los Angeles Lakers tickets for their games starting this January 3. Of course this favors all basketball fans out there but if you prefer to see other sports like football, baseball, golf and tennis you can also check out schedules and details. For those who are concert enthusiasts most especially teens who are just so crazy with the new teen icon, Taylor Swift tickets are already available for her upcoming tours and concert starting this February. Not to forget those who like the "grown up" boys, Jersey Boys tickets are also available. Almost all musical genre has specific bands and solo performers on tour like Elton John, Metallica, U2, John Mayer, Michael Buble, BEP & more. But if I were to choose which concert to go I think it's cool to attend the U2 and BEP concerts. I'm not much on watching ringside sports events so it's out of my list, only once in a while. I enjoy theaters more and concerts.



How about you? Any preference?

Ayie

...proposed low cost 2bdrm house with mezzanine/attic...

Looking at the all the designs, do you notice anything that I love to put in my designs? Any guess?



Oh well let me reveal it, I love to incorporate nature in my designs even with the smallest lot possible. I see to it I have provision for some "greens" in the designs just like having garden window boxes. Of course I have to consider the clients if they want it too but as much as possible I like to put even a small window box or series of window boxes / window flower boxes thinking a house is better with plants.



I find it very "friendly" most especially for resort houses to have those window boxes planters to add more touch of nature to the resort feel. It's a more practical and cleaner way than having cluttered plants in pots. Don't you agree? Do you know that staring at plants or greens when you are so tired (like being infront of computer for long time) can actually relax you? It's like an eye soother. Maybe that's why I have this fondness of incorporating plants with designs. I also love having ponds and landscapes but sometimes clients prefer to maximize the use of space and really not want to have such a lush garden. This is when window plant boxes come handy for me. I get to input some natural character within the whole design concept.


...all 3 photos above are small resort hotel schemes...

Ayie


Have A Blessed Christmas
&
Prosperous New Year!!!



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Ayie
Taking care of babies, toddlers, kiddos is not an easy task most especially for those super hyper kids who simply can't settle in one place. I had a hand on our dear Elisse and it was like a rollercoaster ride running after her at all times. Our home has 2nd & 3rd floors so we always had to keep an eye on her. Hubs on the other hand had his big accident as a kid when he was brunt with boiling cooking oil. Me also had several mischief as a kid. These are the things that I am concerned about now that I am nearing to have my baby. Just like what my title says, better safe than sorry.



Keeping our kids safe is one of our first and foremost priority. Now that we're about to start our baby shopping, we're seriously considering of buying all the necessary baby proofing products like baby gates, child safety locks, etc. All parents can't have their eyes every minute set to watch after their little ones no matter how much we want to have it that way. Of course to avoid uncertainties within those "unwatched" times, we can feel more secure if we have things around our home to protect our kids.

Other important things which are very practical to get to keep our child's safety are outlet covers, corner cushions, door locks, appliance locks, window guards and much more all under KidSafe. You can also refer to some child safety tips and child safety issues in KidSafe blog. NO parents would ever want to see their kids hurt or get into any accident, let us all be aware of the things we can do to make our homes a "child safe" place. =)

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