Showing posts with label my wishlist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my wishlist. Show all posts

Friday, October 17

My Home Furnishings and Decor Wishlist

Warning: This is another Chrismas related post. Friends and family members, read at your own risk! LOL!

It's now more than a year since we moved into our home here in Cainta. When we moved here in May 2007, we chose to get rid of most of our old furnitures that we brought from our home in Laguna to the apartment where we stayed in Makati. We let our relatives choose from our old furnitures and decors for their use. Some of them we even sent to my mother-in-law's home in Bicol. We sold what was left of the old ones to the nearby thrift shops in Bangkal. For our new home, we had to buy a new bed, new dining set, sofa set, television rack, and cabinets. We chose to buy new furnitures to complement our mahogany colored doors and wood treatments. We had to install a custom made mahogany-colored cupboard in the kitchen, too.

After more than a year, I feel that our furnitures have lost their appeal. We are saving up for new furnishings and decor to give our home a new look. My husband is thinking of replacing our sofa set. We somehow agreed on buying a small 2-seater leather sofa so we can still have the space for the recliner of his dreams. That is, if we still have enough budget left after buying the sofa! Hahaha! Me? I am wishing for a new set of beddings for our bed. I hope I can also stretch our budget so I can buy new curtains to complement the new beddings too!

Our home is our haven. That is why we treat it with utmost care and consideration. We treat our home as another baby in the family. Just like saving up for Ralph's needs, we also try to save money so we can buy our home's needs, too.

A New Pair of Jeans for Christmas

Christmas time is here. For me, it's a time for updating my wardrobe. The season allows me to ask for a little bonus from my husband so I can buy new clothes. That's how poor I am. LOL! A little shopping allowance from the husband is a great Christmas gift, don't you think.

I have lost some weight after I started going to the gym to complement my weight loss plan. I'm proud to say that I lost a few inches around the waist! I plan to buy a few pairs of new jeans before the series of Christmas parties for the season starts. Last year, my husband's company Christmas party had the theme "Fab Christmas" and I wore a denim coat and a pair of skinny jeans that was so "in" that time. I hope the theme this year will allow me to wear jeans again.

In buying jeans, I consider the style, cost, and brand. Styles that I usually go for are straight-cut, slim, and flare. I use straight-cut jeans when I am wearing rubber shoes or flip flops. It gives me the rugged vibe. I wear slim jeans when I want to exude a semi-casual aura and when wearing blouses. Flare jeans I wear when I use high-heeled shoes.

Cost and brand go hand in hand, I think. I have my favorite brands because, over the years, I have tested them to complement my figure. I am five foot tall and more on the heavy size. It's very important for me to wear jeans that will make me look slimmer. Most of the times, weight related fashion problems for me are solved by wearing just the right style of clothes. I don't care much about the cost just as long as I consider it as a trusted brand. Anyway, I think my trusted brands fit into my budget.

I'll be scouting for new jeans soon. I hope I won't have a hard time looking for ones that will suit my taste, figure, and budget.