Whenever my mother-in-law take vacations in the US, she brings home boxes upon boxes of thingamajigs that she buys during yard sale.
Her boxes has, among other things, a small chain saw (I wonder how this passed customs, lol!), candelabras, books, bags, toys for the grandchildren, area rugs, crystal bottles, condiments containers, silverware baskets, and other knick-knacks that catches her fancy.
She has sent several boxes while she was there. She brought one or two when she came home. And still, the boxes keep coming.
Most of the things in it are for her home down south which I am featuring below:
Pardon the clutter, the grandchildren were staying with her when this photo was taken by my eldest daughter.
Tags: flea markets, yard sales
Everywhere one goes to our home, reading materials can be seen. Magazines in the bathrooms and on the bedside table, cookbooks in the kitchen, children’s story books on the sofa, the paperback I am currently reading on the bed (lol!), countless e-books in the computers and different kinds of books in the library.
Here is one part of our home library. Pardon the clutter, the books keep piling up faster than I can organize these.
I have a thing about collecting an author’s books if I like what I have read. Among my collection are (my almost complete) Mary Higgins-Clark and her daughter Carol, David Baldacci, Michael Crichton, Richard North Patterson, David Kellerman, almost complete Archie McNally series by Lawrence Sanders, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum, among others.
Oh, by the way, I don’t usually buy new books, I get these from bargain book stores. I only buy new books that come in series like the Harry Potter books.
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Tags: books, library, Photo Hunter, Photo Hunters, reading materials
I have written about books in this post.
We do have books about different topics but I have noticed that we do not have a lot of books that has topics about health.
I had to resort to researching what the web has to offer when one time, my father talked about a certain kind of cancer that made his former bosses decide to strip the flooring of their offices many years ago.
It was in fact called Mesothelioma cancer and thanks to the web, we knew what it was called.
The offices had new tiles for the flooring because of the possible effect of the asbestos on the health of the people.
I wish employers are as considerate as what my father had while he was working.
And now I know what is missing in our library, health books.
Tags: books, health
WMN.ph is now online!
Need any wedding favor ideas? Please click the link and read.
The site has a post with some ideas to consider, written by someone who blogs as Treasure Jar 😉
Tags: celebrations, Treasure Jar, wedding, wedding favors, wmn.ph
Slice it up for Lasang Pinoy Sundays.
Japanese food has made it’s way to the Filipino hearts and one of the best loved food would be sushi.
My eldest daughter loves sushi and can finish more than ten pieces of this kind in one sitting 😀 She also loves to eat sashimi and asks me to get her one of those small chunks of sashimi sold frozen and vacuum packed at the supermarket.
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Tags: Lasang Pinoy Sundays, sushi
This small bottle of Smokey Kettle Maple Syrup was given by a good friend MC around two or so years ago. The photo was taken last year or so ago.I remember when we were still going to grad school, we’d go home at night (sometimes classes end a little after 8pm) with her younger sister CC who graduated with honors in her course.
Both women are admirable, MC being a teacher like me and CC who stopped being a corporate accountant to become a business woman. She went through medical coding training courses to become a transcriptionist later on. I am not sure if she is still in this kind of business.
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Tags: maple syrup, sweets
