Shirt Pillowcase!

It's been very rainy for almost a week that one couldn't help but stay indoors and try do something productive or creative. I've been wanting to use my sewing machine but I do not have extra money to buy materials so I guess I was compelled to think about recycling.

Whenever I get too lazy to do laundry and run out of clean pillowcases, I would use old shirts as pillowcases. Hence I thought of actually converting an old shirt that's about to be thrown or used as rag anyway into a pillowcase. Here's what I did:

1. Take the measurements: get the appropriate length and width of your pillow to be transferred to the old shirt.


2. Cut the sides to create a basic rectangle form (you'd have to cut most of the sleeves and the collar).



3. Sew the cut sides together and the seams ('pillowcase opening') if necessary.



4. Here's your new 'shirt pillowcase'! :

Bubble Mania in Laguna

Nothing beats a weekend getaway out of Manila. I was so glad that my friends and I went ahead for a nearly-canceled 2-day vacation in Laguna at my landlady's "hacienda" =) Thanks to Anne who loaned me the fare as I was so destitute at that time, the main reason I was hesitant to join the trip.

The getaway was only for a couple of days but I felt like it made me shed years of accumulated stress, tension, and cynicism. I think it was because of the BUBBLES!

We visited an old church and the girl selling bubble toys was so charming and effective in her sales pitch that we gave in. Who would have thought that the 20 pesos we spent on those toys were the best entertainment and rejuvenation investment we've made in years.

For every bubble that we blew, it was like a part of picture of our childhood was flashing back. Everyone among the four of us has spent a part or most of their younger years in the province so we couldn't help but reenact those olden summer days of chasing each other in the grass. Even my middle-aged landlady, her "already-mom" nieces, and (most appropriately) some of her grand-nephews joined the fun.

Bubbles... gosh... they're just Magical.