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Gal at Home

Pulling off an outdoor father's day breakfast picnic

Belated Happy Dads’ Day to all the fathers, single parents, and guardians out there! To celebrate my hubby’s second year as a Papa to our babycat, I pulled off a surprise breakfast picnic for him on our roofdeck. We are both such fans of picnics for its (seemingly) carefree vibe and (seemingly) easy prep and […]

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West Elm is now in Manila!

Pardon for this late post, but I’m sure you’ve all heard it by now: Brooklyn-born home brand West Elm is finally in the Philippines—and it’s their very first store in Asia! Imagine that? I guess that says a lot about the market here…more and more people are getting into making their homes and personal spaces more […]

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Styling my friend's home office and makeup studio

Apart from just being a work-from-home mom, I also style interiors on the side. I still handle a couple of pages in the magazine title I used to work with (that’s Cosmopolitan Philippines), particularly the section called “At Your Place,” where we shoot and feature real Cosmo girls’ living spaces and get decorating tips from them. For the April […]

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Collecting hand-me-downs & other vintage stuff

I recently cleaned out my mother-in-law’s china cabinet, and my oh my, what a lot of dust stuff! We’re renovating my husband’s old house soon, and since my MIL doesn’t live here anymore, she gave her permission to clear out plenty of their things inside. We’re dividing some of the plates and glassware among ourselves (basically […]

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My daughter's hobbit birthday party: Food and decor

(Scoot over here for the full post on preps for this DIY party!) Now I had enlisted the help of a lot of friends and family to decorate the venue and set up the party. But as I said before, my daughter’s birthday, while falling a couple days after Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ actual birthday, […]

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My daughter's hobbit birthday party: Preps

Since it’s Thursday, here’s a throwback post to when my hubby and I DIY-ed a hobbit birthday party for our daughter some eight months ago. Now let it be known to all that my husband and I are major Tolkien fans. I must admit that my Tolkienitis has lessened of late (you know, like the courtesy of Edoras Hall […]

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