Written by crizlai on Mar 10th, 2011 | Filed under:
accessories,
hobby,
lifestyle,
rant
Ever since her tender years, my sister loved to wear beads wherever she went. Not only was she beautiful with them, she had the taste of getting the best match for all her dresses. During that time, she would always spend hours and hours in local bead shops, looking for the right color contrast for whichever new dress she had purchased. Somehow, that got her to take up a hobby in creating her own style of fashion. She would buy colorful beads and make them into bracelets, anklets and many more that were rather unique by their own. One of the products that I see her purchase very often due to their quality, were the Swarovski Crystal beads.
These crystallized Swarovski Crystal Elements can be used to make any kind of jewelry, such as ring, earrings, bracelet, anklet and necklace. The beads come in many forms and shapes. There’s the cubist, star bead, fish bead, flower bead, wing bead, butterfly and etc too. The best part was that she could easily purchase them online. Moreover, she would save a lot for shipping for over $25 of purchases. The company would deliver them for free.
I should perhaps hire her to make more jewelry for me from time to time as her creations would surely make perfect gifts for Christmas. I can’t wait to see her finished products as my friends would surely love her unique creations.
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Written by crizlai on Jan 2nd, 2011 | Filed under:
accessories,
home,
ideas,
lifestyle,
living,
tips
Do you know that bad lighting can spoil your mood? Each day after work, you would expect to come home to be mentally free from stress. Can you imagine walking down a dim looking hallway towards a dull looking living room? Even when you thought you could pep up a simple dinner, your dimly lighted and sole incandescent fixture high on the ceiling kitchen would just run down your motivation to be creative with your cooking skills. These would be the few main problems faced by most homeowners nowadays.
With a little budget, you could easily style your whole house into your sanctuary with some proper lighting. You should consider pendant lighting to drop a little soft light on strategic spots to brighten up the whole place. With a variety of styles, designs and colors, these pendant lighting would solve your dim area problems easily.
There are many pendant lighting that you can consider for your home, whether it’s indoor or outdoor. Most commonly, you can have some mini-pendant or multi-light pendant practically anywhere within your house. Those small and energy saving yet soft lighting would make the whole place looked even fresher and brighter than before. They sure help in rejuvenating your moods to stay happily always with your family. If you think your house needed that extra touch to liven up things a bit, why not get some experts to touch it up with some pendant lighting today?
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Written by crizlai on Dec 26th, 2010 | Filed under:
accessories,
awareness,
christmas,
tips
Besides the traditional holidays each year, I have a special reason to feel excited during one season. It’s Christmas! This is the time of the year that I will receive many different types of emails, presents and Christmas cards from all over the world. Some of these Christmas cards were even personalized and hand crafted in all shapes and sizes. I personally like one which has the photo of their son playing in the snow and in the shape of a Christmas ornament with a silver tying ribbon. It’s was so cute and professionally done.
I was curious on how they had managed to come out with such nice Christmas cards with their ever heavy work schedules. Eventually, I found out that they had engaged a company to handle all their festive cards for quite some time now and the price was reasonable too. This company’s products would indeed help me in planning my future seasonal, birthday, invitation and many more celebration cards.
Since Valentine’s Day will be here in a matter of a few weeks from now, I might as well place my order with them right now. I’m sure they would be able to come out with something unique and out of this world for me to impress my family and friends.
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Written by crizlai on Jul 5th, 2010 | Filed under:
accessories,
accidents,
computer,
life,
pets,
rant
Don’t you hate it when you have a tight deadline with a project and suddenly your screen went dead? The good news was that my monitor was in a tip top condition. Moreover, it’s one of the great models in the market with a great-looking, thin-bezel monitor that can swivel, tilt, pivot and be adjusted for height.
However, I have a problem with the cables. It was not due to any factory defects or whatsoever but the availability of some pets in the household. They tend to be a bit too playful around cables and at times entangled within the maze of those cables. Sometimes while I was busily working on a proposal, my screen would just go black. One of them would have loosened the connectivity while cheekily playing the room.
That was not the worst scenario until to date as I had woken up one fine morning to find my cables all being chewed up. Luckily, I have the habit of switching off all the live wires when I go to bed nightly. If not, the whole house might have burnt down by now. I’m in the midst of rewiring all my cables and wires to be pets and child safe very soon. At the mean time, I guessed I have to get more vga cables as backups just in case of any emergencies.
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Written by crizlai on May 17th, 2010 | Filed under:
accessories,
camera,
lifestyle,
Photography,
product,
review
I have been sourcing for a higher quality digital camera to replace my present one for quite some time now. Since I’m a regular light baggage traveler, owning one big and bulky camera would not be an ideal choice. Moreover, the price of such digital cameras would be out of my budget. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to get any compact digital cameras out on the market that would suit my preferences. Not until recently that I found out two models that would surely fit my needs.
You see… I have some problems taking good night scenes with my present camera. On top of that, shooting under low light or fast moving objects have been quite a headache. My present camera refused to focus well and the time needed to focus properly would take ages. That’s something I dreaded while owning that camera although the sharpness of the shots were superb, especially with outdoor shots under clear weather. I ended up with two of the best choices now. It’s either the Canon S90 or Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3.
Both the digital cameras were designed for easy and yet high performance shooting. What I love most would be the speedy performance under low light conditions which I had problem with all these while. I now have to make up my mind to decide which brand to purchase. Both the semi-pro digital cameras have their own unique features and it was really a tough decision. Eventually, I had decided to get the latter as it had a hot shoe slot where I can put on an extended flash light although the other one did have a better shooting range. Moreover, I love the F2.0 24mm LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON lens, 10.1 mega pixels and an ultra-sensitive 1/1.63-inch CCD developed specifically for this model. You would surely see better shots from me from now onwards.
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