My Manila

"When you set a good example to the world, you become a flag waving on the skies of the entire world!" ~Mehmet Murat ildan, Tu...

"Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bam...

"One person's weed is another person's wildflower." ~Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysterie...

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher." ~...

"Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted." ~Doug Dillon, American author Machuc...

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and ...

"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable....

"Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola." ~Diana Vreeland (1903–1989), fashion editor and columnist The...

A banig is a handwoven mat made of palm or grass leaves used for sitting and sleeping. The best ones are made of fine, narrow strips which...

Adults who bring children to The Manila Collectible Co. can keep their little hands busy in this corner where they can paint some clay pot...

Of all the handwoven fabrics available at The Manila Collectible Co. , it is the inaul that I found most beautiful. Crafted by weavers fro...

T'nalak are woven dreams. T'boli women weave them, keen eyes and hands working together to judge lengths, to transfer patterns ...

The Manila Collectible Co. is a four month old store in historic Intramuros which showcases products from artists and artisans all over th...

One of the places we visited in Bangkok last November was the Jim Thompson House . James Harrison Wilson Thompson was an American soldier wh...

The Zamboanga Peninunsula of the Philippines, like the rest of Mindanao, has a large Muslim community, so the group assigned this region f...

The School of Humanities ' creation for the Ateneo de Manila University 's Christmas Parks is a colorful and stylized interpretati...

Aside from the bottle cap mosaic/stained glass nativity , this was my other favorite among the sixteen Christmas Parks of the Ateneo de Ma...

The decorations hanging from the cupola of the Ateneo Church of the Gesù this Christmas season are called Neules de Mallorca, a tradition...

This nativity scene was made by the personnel of the Ateneo de Manila University's Office of International Relations . The design conce...

Two weeks after my husband and I spent a weekend in San Pablo City in Laguna , I went back again for a day trip with my college friends. We...