The Breakfast Journal

Travel Diary: Chiang Mai is Craft Heaven

After a couple of nights in Bangkok, PJ, Mom, Ate Ria, Amelia and I flew to Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. I had been hearing all sorts of wonderful things about this place. Some of the things I ...

A Craft Party for Sophia

Sophia is the eldest of three very artistic daughters of Daphne Oseña-Paez. For Sophia's 11th birthday party, she just wanted a simple craft party with a few of her friends from school. Side s...

Download: March 2014 Printable Calendar

Trying out my new art materials today! I got the Pelican Opaque Watercolors set, and new Pilot brush pens, both ordered from Amazon.com. I love how the Pelican set has such huge pans--I have no fe...

DIY: Bling Boxes

Here's an idea for your Valentine favors: Bling Boxes! Tatin Yang featured this and more handmade valentine crafts on yesterday's Inquirer Super lifestyle section. Read about the crafts and how-to...

Download: February 2014 Printable Calendar + Valentunes Mixtape!

I knowwww. February only has 28 days, and here I am, uploading the calendar 4 days late. Sorry to the schedules and lives I have messed up because of the delay! :P This past weekend was packed with...

Sacred Craft Time

January has been crazily packed with meetings, and it's been a struggle to find some quiet time to craft. When I saw a free day on my calendar, I took the chance to escape from the 'real world' for...

Dip-dyed Thread Necklace

It's been a while since my hands did anything crafty, and they were itching to experiment with something new. I was in Megamall to pick up some stuff, and chanced upon these DMC Natura balls of th...

Note to Self #8

A little reminder I made for myself. I sort of got lost in dreaming. All these years, I have been so focused on who and what I wanted to be, that I have somewhat overlooked what I already have,...

Sunday7: One Brush, Seven Faces

I paint letters all the time, but when I really want to take my mind far away to the land of nothingness (a.k.a. zen mode), then I paint entire alphabets. A lot of people ask me what brush I...

Hand-carved Alphabet Stamps

There are times in a crafter's life when the world just has to stop and you forget all your have-to-do's because all your energy is focused on one silly, crazy thing. In this particular case, the '...