finally!

I have lost count of the months since I last stepped on a treadmill. It may even be close to one year. I don't remember going to the gym since the operation. But finally, I ended the treadmill hiatus. I walked and ran today! Yay!

The exercise resumption came on the heels of another "finally". This development which finally happened made me realize I need more energy to tackle, first, the decision-making before me and then, the demands of that decision. I have been praying for this and now it is here, praying for guidance in making a decision.

Prayer and exercise! They're great for body and soul. I need to do more of them and regularly.

the first few days of 2011

Since my last post was in October, I haven't greeted this blog a happy New Year. Yes, time flies, another year's over and a new one has begun (this line's from a song, right?). Looking back at the posts last year, while I am pretty pleased that I did more posts in 2010 relative to the previous years, I did not hit my target of having at least one post per month. There were months especially the last two of the year, when I had nada. Not trying to make excuses but November and December were crazy. The craziness spilled over the first two weeks of this New Year but things are slowing down a bit, hence this post on the accomplishments of the last few days.

Last weekend, hubby brought his team to Tagaytay which gave me a chance to declutter our home after the holidays. I managed to fill one large reusable grocery bag with knickknacks accumulated last year.

The following day, when hubby got home we did grocery shopping and I found these cute apples which went into the grocery cart and are now in the wooden bowl on top of our bookshelf. The wooden bowl was used to be filled with decorative pebbles but I wanted something new and something more fresh, more useful or edible to go in the bowl. I emptied it when I did spring cleaning the day before supermarketing not knowing specifically what would go in it. So seeing the little red apples were inspired.

And since red is the designated color of the New Year, the apples are perfect. Happy New Year everyone! May the apples represent the bounty that this year has in store for all of us.

the frames: updated so soon

Yesterday, I posted one of my recently concluded projects - the photo frames. I love that they are all up, I am happy with the frames and the photos that I have decided to put inside them. But for days I have been staring at that wall with that gnawing feeling that somehow something's amiss. And looking around our room that little voice got louder because I felt that the wall does not anymore connect to any part of the room. The vase holding capiz leaves placed on the iron shelf looked out of place.

When I got home from work, I decided to remove the vase and the capiz leaves. The vase which really is a wine bottle, I could easily store in the buffet cabinet, where its stopper is waiting. The capiz leaves I did not know where to put them. I didn't want to store decorative pieces so I was already toying with the idea of giving them away or including them in a yard sale. Then an idea struck.

Yesterday, I have been thinking of adding a few more photo frames but hubby wouldn't have welcomed that idea. Then I thought of adding stickers. Decals, like the ones I used for the cabinet doors, could have tied the wall with the cabinet doors and added a bit more oomph to the frames. But I have to bring down the frames and stick them one by one. Just thinking about it made me tired. But I also knew I wanted to add a bit more to this wall and somehow unify it with something in our room. The capiz leaves became the answer. They made for a better substitute to the decals. They were easier to mount on our wall and I didn't even have to take down the frames. And somehow, I think, they tied the wall to the cabinet doors, creating a corner that now has a quirky feminine vibe to it. Playful and a bit romantic, well at least that's how I see it.