How To Make Your Nail Polish Last Longer

Posted on February 24, 2012 by sweetmom

Here’s the best tip to make your nail polish last longer: Avoid doing dishes!

But as a mom, specially mom who stays at home while their kids are out in the school and with a hubby who’s doing his best to be a good provider, we can’t avoid putting our hands in the water. Aside from the fact that skin and nails lose moisture with age, the dryness is compounded by frequent hand washing.

nail polish tips

Now to really make your nail polish longer, take a look at some of my personal and tested tips:

  1. Make sure your nails are  perfectly smooth, clean and buffed. This is to make sure the nail polish has a clean surface to attach to.
  2. Use your own nail polish. If you go to a salon or even when you hire somebody to do the job for you, try to bring or use your preferred nail polish. It has been a practice of some salon owners to add thinners on their stock of nail polish to Continue reading →
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Personalizing Your Mobile Phone Ringtone

Posted on February 20, 2012 by sweetmom

Call me an addict. Addicted in personalizing mobile phone ringtones. Not only my personal phones but including my kids, and husband’s mobile phones as well. I don’t stop customizing unless I’ve found the perfect ringtones for them.

How do I customize a ringtone. After downloading some ringtones or even MP3′s from the internet, I usually copy them first on my PC and use an application to either fully customize them or convert the Mp3′s to ringtones. There are a lot of applications already available that you can download for free and install on your PC,  or directly on your mobile phone. There are also ringtone apps for Android and iPhone. Just use the  best ringtone app that you can find and suited for you platform. Continue reading →

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The Third Philippine International Pyromusical Competition is Finally Here!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by sweetmom

The long wait has finally arrived. Two months of watching spectacular fireworks shows is worth enjoying. Starting February 11 until March17 and schedule of 7 to 8 pm, there will be live pyromusical performances from twelve different countries, which are more compared to last year, because of the addition of Malta, Italy and Netherlands.

If you want an extended celebration of New Year, this is the right place to bring the whole family. With really colorful lights in the sky and live music to hear in the background, your kids would truly enjoy their time.
World Pyro Olympics 2012 - Philippines
With the touch of real experts on putting up fireworks display, Philippine hospitality can never be the same. This marks a dazzling standing across the borders of Asia. Not only to make it creative, but also to keep things safe, the most sophisticated technology will be used in the entire flashing and flaring of set fireworks.

Of course, we would not miss this occasion of showing a great performance with our own savor of culture and exhibition. Last year, the winner was Continue reading →

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The Family That Runs Together, Eats Together

Posted on February 9, 2012 by sweetmom

Once again, all my family members – including my in-laws, participated in a marathon run last Sunday. We were all present during the Condura Skyway Marathon 2012. The premiere running event is actually an advocacy run. The proceeds from the previous events  have been used on various notable projects that protect and care for the marine environment such as the Tubbataha Reefs, the Donsol whalesharks and the Bohol dolphins. For this year, the proceeds will be used to save the Philippine Mangroves.

Condura Marathon - Run for the MangrovesAfter our successful run, we celebrated  not only because all us broke our individual personal previous records but it was also my brother-in-law’s birthday. In fact, his birthday was also announced during the run and the participants in his category sung a happy birthday song for him. He didn’t know what to do when it was announced and when he was called to go up in the stage. Continue reading →

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Cutting My Credit Card in Two

Posted on February 7, 2012 by sweetmom

It’s easy to get a credit card and it’s even easier to misuse it. Do you agree?

I had a chat with my former officemate last night who is now based in Texas, USA. She told me that she’s having a hard time in paying her credit card bills and other debts.It’s affecting her everyday life already because some creditors are harassing her through mails and phone calls. I honestly informed her that I don’t have much knowledge about credit card laws in the USA, but I shared to her my story on how I was able to clear my credit card debts. I even advice her to check on some plano credit repair company to assist and perhaps help her on how to clear her negative credit ratings too.
cutting credit card in half
I used to have 6 different credit cards in my wallet. Whenever I want something, I just whip out my card thinking that I can pay it through my salary which I’m receiving every month. But it was a gross mistake on my part. What I always have in mind was my high credit card limit  but not the real cash on hand, and my monthly take home pay. And before I knew it, Continue reading →

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5th Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference

Posted on January 24, 2012 by sweetmom

The Network for Enterprising Women (NEW) is pleased to announce the staging of the 5th Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference. The Conference is expecting 200 participants to include women from top corporations, entrepreneurs of small and medium sized businesses, teachers, students and graduates of entrepreneurship courses, officers, and middle managers of government agencies and local government units, overseas Filipino workers and their families and also gender advocates in NGO’s and government.

Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference

Network for Enterprising Women (NEW) is founded in 2006. Specifically, NEW is a group of women whose advocacy is to create an environment where there is an exchange of business ideas, sharing of experience, and opportunity to network.

For this year’s conference, it will include topics on: Continue reading →

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What to Look Out for in Sinulog 2012

Posted on January 12, 2012 by sweetmom

The Sinulog festival is one of the tourism’s well-known highlights in the country. Its event is a month long celebration starting from the 3rd Sunday in the month of January (from 2 to 31,) a really great way to start your new years. The feast is done in honor of the child Sto. Nino, whom is paraded in thanks and blessings through a procession and Mardi gras in Cebu, the City of Culture according to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN.)

Sinulog Festival Cebu Philippines 2012

Actually, the dance presentations itself serve as prayers for devotees as well as creative galas for artists and designers. For this Sinulog 2012, Mayor Michael Rama even appealed its local communities to be “Be hospitable, be vigilant” in preparation for its Asian theme with a funding of up to Php 40 million. President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay will grace their presence, much to the city’s glee and delight.

From December 15, 2011, ticket sales have been on going until the first day of the event itself. You can buy from the Continue reading →

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Filipinas Heritage Library

Posted on January 4, 2012 by sweetmom

Read Filipiniana Books!
Buy Your Copies at the Filipinas Heritage Library Online Book Club

If you are a book lover, you should visit the newly improved Filipinas Heritage Library. They now have a generous list of Filipiniana books, journals, magazines, videos, music, and CD-ROMs (meaning the authors are Filipinos) sold online at their “Libros Filipinos” book club.

Facade of Filipinas Heritage Library

Its goal is to allow an extensive research place that is both available locally and internationally for the eyes and ears of kids or adults. Now, our fellow Filipinos, who are abroad and can’t go home in our country, can enjoy reading culture-based materials. From year 1996, the library has been a leading one-stop electronic library of Filipiniana books and other resources.

New projects on a widened commitment to reading beyond the functions of a traditional library have been started last year as part of its 15th year celebration. At “Filipiniana Online,” the price ranges from Php 80 to 11,100. Looking into the categories, you can see that a lot of these books are written under extraordinary and unique topics, anyone would absolutely die for!

Here are some of them: Continue reading →

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Low-Cut Gifts at Noel Discovery Bazaar 2011

Posted on December 10, 2011 by sweetmom

Aim to dig-up the coolest finds, but low-cut gifts this season? Visit the Novel Discovery Bazaar now. Any budget would fit in with its really cheap and affordable products sold in kiosks, stalls and “tiangges.”

Here are some shopping tips from Ms. Aida Gregorio, the project manager herself:

  • Start at the most convenient time possible. You should allow only two hours of shopping hours.
  • Wear cool and comfortable clothes as well as limit wearing jewelries or accessories that can add to the hassle of carrying things that you have shopped for from stall to stall.
  • Write down everything you want to buy and who will be given the gifts.
  • There should be a definite budget for each gift to give.
  • Bring shopping bags in reasonable numbers that you can use as well as Continue reading →
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13th Month Pay and Year-End Bonus – What To Do?

Posted on December 5, 2011 by sweetmom

Were you shocked with the title of my post today? Don’t be.

It’s the time of year once more when many of us get loads of cash from year-end bonuses, at least for the working moms out there. And for those who are not in active working force anymore, well just ask for your husband’s bonuses.  :)

I’m pretty sure a lot of you can easily answer my question. Majority will answer ” spend, spend and spend!” Well, that’s my answer too… but I’m thinking on some other ways to put a part of it in savings. Not too big, but enough to start the ball rolling of savings for the future. My husband told me that If I want to keep my money, then I’ll just deposit it on a bank but If I want to make it grow then I need to invest it.

13th-month-pay-bonusA badminton friend of mine told me that every end of the year, together with her husband, they pooled their money together and invest in stocks. Well, I don’t know anything about these kind of investments  but I’ve been reading more and more online like the Timothy Sykes penny stocks.

Good thing another friend of mine, who is connected to a local life insurance and a mutual fund company, explained to me how stocks works. Since I’m not an active player in buying and selling stocks, she encouraged me instead to look into Continue reading →

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