School time has already started here in our country. When this season comes, many families rush to the department store to buy bags for their children. In which the most sold items among all school bags are backpacks and stroller bags.

When we did our back to school shopping, my children have chosen to have backpacks for themselves. They chose those with Disney character designs. Good thing they have put those bags on sale which helped us save a lot.

After buying their school items, I was really exhausted because of the many people going around and long lines waiting at the cashier. So when I got home, I sat down in the computer and tried searching online stores. I wanted to see if the tiresome day was worth the price compared to bags offered online. So as usual, I dropped by at ShopWiki for easier search. But instead of comparing prices for the school bags offered at the department store, I was stuck on the designer handbags they had. They were all beautiful and most of them are affordable. Then I remembered that I needed to buy a new handbag because my current one is about to expire.

Oh well, as of now, I haven’t bought one. I got busy with other expenses in the last few weeks. So now, I think I need to save for it so that I could buy one soon.

Most of the celebrities nowadays are so thin. Some of them are so thin that I often ask where they spend their money on because I am sure it’s not on food!

Anyway, I just wish that they spend their money on food, exercise and maybe buy the best diet pills in the market so that they would stay healthy and fit. Not look like walking skeletons! Celebrities are usually looked upon as role models and now, they modeled themselves as if they are like corpses!

Oh well, they are desperate to be thin while I am anxious to gain weight!

Most of the time, I kept on dreaming of having our own vehicle. I am not saying I wanted an elegant Chevrolet Camaro or a beautiful red Ferrari but I wanted a vehicle that can be used by the whole family for business and pleasure. I believe that everything you should buy must be an asset and not a liability especially if have an average earning family with growing kids. Why? Because having a vehicle means you need to apply for many things such as a driver’s license, plate number and affordable auto insurance.

A car or a vehicle can be treated as a liability if you just use it for personal use because it has much maintenance. You just spend and spend on it while its price depreciates within the coming years. Consider yourself lucky if you find a car insurance company that is affordable to avail aside from the other expenditures needed. It’s hard to find and compare auto insurance companies nowadays because some are quite expensive if you don’t know where to look.

But a car or a vehicle can also be treated as an asset if you use it in any money generating acts like using it for business. Example, if you sell food or anything that needs delivery, you can use your car or vehicle just for that. Aside from outsourcing your delivery services, you can always charge your business with the expenses your vehicle has accumulated. By doing so, you can save from its maintenance because your business is paying for it already! Anyway, there are many ways a vehicle or a car can be used for business.

So, if you dream for a family transportation vehicle, better buy something that can be used for business. In that way, you are buying an asset to your family and not a liability for your pocket.

As I visit blogs, I always noticed that the common topics that my co-mommies and other bloggers are blogging about are digital scrap works, Farm Town, Restaurant City, diet pills and contests. I guess these are the latest trends nowadays or at least these are the things all my blogger friends have in common.

Anyway, I haven’t blogged about any of my digital scrapping works lately. I haven’t gotten the time. I am so busy with my home chores, the children and my present marital problems. In short, my life is quite crazy right now. So, I guess when you see scrapping works here again, that means I was able to grab some time to sit down and do some of my well-loved hobby!

As much as possible, I try my best to make my post very dramatic and appealing by placing pictures, clipart images, digital scrapping works and others. I believe that if you place an image, it can help your message get across more intensely.

But of course, there is no problem if you place pictures that are personally taken by you or any of your family members or any digital scrapping works made by you. The problem comes when you have no images to use and if you use some from the internet, you might end up with a copyright infringement. So, what is the best thing to do? Create your own? What if you don’t know how?

Fear not! If you are just resourceful, you can grab as many pictures as you want for FREE. They are many sites that offer free photo sharing. One of these sites that I love to grab photos from is at www.picuna.com. They have plenty of images shared by members. These photos are then categories.

Photos or images uploaded at www.picuna.com are categories as Abstract & Surreal, Animals & Pets, Anime, Architecture, Art, Backgrounds, Celebrities, Character, Conceptual, Event, Family & Friends, Fan Pictures, Fashion, Food & Beverage, Funny, Gaming, Greetings, Home & Garden, Just For Fun, Lifestyle, Love, Macro, Music , Nature, News, Object, People, Political, Quotes & Sayings, Religious, Scenes, School & University, Space, Sports, Transportation, Travel, TV & Movies, and Urban & Rural. So, if you need a photo or images of any of those following categories mentioned, surely you can grab one for free at their site. All you need to do is register for free! Registration will just take a few minutes.

By the way, you can upload photos or images too, make sure they are your own and not copyrighted. You also need to make sure that you allow other members to use yours since its part of the free photo photo sharing terms and conditions.

Most of the time people ask me why I am so slim despite the fact that I have two children, 9 and 5, and currently seven months pregnant. Well, I wish I could answer them directly with a product recommendation, a diet or an exercise routine but unfortunately, I have nothing to say but I was born this way. When I was conscious with waistlines, I remember documenting it to be 22 inches when I was about 16 years old. And before I got pregnant, I had 28 inches.

Well anyway, I tried to research some facts on how to maintain a slim figure or lose weight. Here are some of the points that I have found:
1. Eat a balance diet.
2. Exercise regularly.
3. Try taking weight loss pills (but before taking one, read diet pill reviews – example: apidexin reviews) under a doctor’s supervision.
4. Self-control – the most important one!

They are only four but they have been proven effective for many years already and also hard to do if you don’t have number four!

So, if you have weight loss issues, try doing number one to four. You will lose weight in no time!

A few months ago, my husband and I talked about renewing our vows on our 10th Wedding Anniversary. He said he wanted to see me wearing a wedding gown. He wants a wedding scenario but minus the other things a normal wedding should have.

Anyway, I also said that I really loved the idea but even if there would be no bridesmaid or maid of honors or video coverage. I would love to send invitations and give out wedding party favors after the ceremony. At least my guest will have souvenirs after our renewing of vows.

So, my husband said that we will talk about it. Maybe miracles will happen and we can insert it if we have a budget. After he told me that, I immediately search for sites that can help me with this. In my search, I was able to bump with GalaWeddingFavors.com. I was really excited to see that they have a lot of unique wedding party favors from, sliding mint tins, cute champagne bucket timer and many items that can be personalized. Aside from the fact that they have the widest array of wedding party favors to choose from, their prices are quite reasonable and you can definitely save if you buy more from them. Anyway, they also feature bridal shower favors, bridemaid gifts and baby shower favors. All are cute and unique!

After seeing many unique wedding party favors, I am excited what will our renewing of vows’ theme will be. From there, we can decide what party favors to give and what our invitation will look like. This is so exciting!

Direct TV and Satellite TV (also known as Dish Network) are now a fast becoming trend in every home and business establishments. Most people have subscribed, not only for wider channel choices but also for a high definition viewing. So, I was curious since my family and I are avid movie watchers. I wanted to learn more about it.

Anyway, if these services are new to you, which is new to me too (since I am only familiar with local TV shows and cable), I decided to search about satellite TV and direct TV in a broader perspective; to know what are the advantages and compare between Directv vs. Dish network services. Then I was able to stumble upon KaptainSatellite.com.

At KaptainSatellite.com, they have explained many factors between the services provided by direct TV and dish network providers. They also have a wide range of resource links to help you understand and decide which of the following services you will want to have.

Feeling scrappy with friends? Here is a cool kit I found at the site of my favorite digital scrapper artist Peachy Keen!

This kit contains 6 – rextured & patterned papers, 1 – alpha set, 2 – wordart, 5 – design elements and an optional bonus of 5 – PSP 9 Brushes! Cool right?

Download “Friend-Ship” Kit with Bonus here.

Every time I visit other blogs, I sometimes bump into a wish list page of the blogger. Within that page, the blogger lists all the things she or he might want to have in the future. Example, the blogger wants a heart pendant necklace, so she or he writes it in the wish list page and edit as she or he acquires it and so as for the other things listed there.

As for me, I am planning to make a wish list myself. I mean, it’s not being materialistic but I wanted to have a tangible list of the things I wanted to accomplish so that I will be reminded and remain focus on achieving it.

Anyway, if I do start making one, I think a digital camera will be on the top 5. As a blogger by profession, I think a digital camera is very essential. Besides, you need digital photos to scrap. What will I scrap if I don’t have digital pictures taken, right?