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Have Your Cake (& Eat It Too)

Posted by Tippi | Dec 13, 2011 | The Tippi Point |

I thought I had outgrown my love of cakes with toppers until I got this lovely surprise cake last night… Matte black, white and red…love the playfulness mixed with the sophisticated colors. Take note of the hair flip–so cute! Isn’t it just sooo adorable? 🙂 I found out today that the cake was created by Joy San Gabriel (joysangabrielcakes.blogspot.com) and that she even looked me up on Google before designing the cake…Ito was so amused with the likeness, he kept telling me “It looks like you!”. Cake designing has really been elevated to a whole new level in recent years, and to me it’s the attention to little things that makes all the difference. Fashion details–measuring tape, buttons and stitching that runs around the cake… I love the ruffles and glamorous beadwork & draping of the gowns…cute-ture! Even the back details are delightful–just the way the cake tastes too! I love all the details of the cake, from the beautifully draped gown with ‘crystals’ on a fitting form, to the tiered ruffles on the red gown, to the measuring tape, buttons and stitching that runs around the cake…even the flip of the hair is a nice touch! I didn’t have the heart to cut into the cake last night, but today we tried a piece of it and it tastes as good as it looks…yum!!! 🙂 Bookmark on Delicious...

Inspirational Photos of the Day

Posted by Tippi | Dec 10, 2011 | Not By the Book |

For the past couple of years, Ito and I have been trying to think of simple ways to create Christmas traditions of our own. When we first got married, we shuttled between our two families and celebrated Christmas the way we knew growing up. Afterwards, when most of Ito’s family migrated to the U.S.A. and my parents lived in Bangkok for a while, we began spending Christmases abroad, first to visit family, and afterwards we would gift each other with a trip to experience a white Christmas somewhere different (and to avoid Manila traffic, LOL!). Recently, since we’ve been celebrating Christmases in Manila again, instead of a white Christmas we’ve been thinking of ways to have a greener Christmas. Which is why since five years ago, we’ve been using a Christmas tree bought from a plant store instead of a department store. The great thing about using live plants as Christmas decorations, or even to give as gifts, is that it’s both festive and a great idea design-wise (plastic poinsettias…don’t even get me started!). I also love giving herbs as Christmas gifts (rosemary, mint and tarragon are my favorites), because they smell wonderful and can be used for all those delicious Christmas dishes or steeped as tea. And at the end of the season, the best thing about plants is that there is no need to dismantle them and...

Christmas Craziness

Posted by Tippi | Dec 9, 2011 | The Tippi Point |

(Image from www.manila.travel) We are currently right smack in the middle of a form of insanity, what most people fondly call the pre-Christmas rush. Last night, Ito & I were dressed up and ready to head out to two events, the Ferragamo store opening & launch of their custom-ordered red carpet shoe line, and the Rogue holiday bash to celebrate it’s 50th issue. Instead we ran into a heavy downpour and ‘pre-Christmas rush hour traffic’…so we did the only sane thing we could do, which was turn around and head back home to let the traffic pass. Of course, once we got home and put our feet up, we never left again. Oh well! Of course we would have greatly enjoyed seeing friends and celebrating festive occasions with them, but I’d rather look at the string of lights on our potted Christmas tree at home than the unending string of lights of the traffic on the road! And the up-side to getting dressed for an event and not making it is that I have an extra outfit to wear 😛 Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this...

Color Me Red

Posted by Tippi | Dec 6, 2011 | The Tippi Point |

I’ve noticed a lot of people embracing red recently. Unlike before, when people would shy away from the color and stick to fail-safe black, more people these days are experimenting with red, from wearing jeans to full-length gowns. I love it! I think many Filipinos used to be under the mistaken impression that red isn’t complimentary to morena skin, but on the contrary, the right shade of red on olive-skinned Filipinas looks smokin’ hot! I’ve always loved red myself, from fire-engine red, to poppy red, to ruby red, to brick red. It’s always been one of my favorite colors which is why I’ve had red shoes, red nails, red lipstick, red-tinted hair…I even painted one whole wall in my office at home crimson. What’s your favorite way to wear red? 🙂 Loving these Louboutin Lady Lynch Glitter pumps–don’t they look like a grown up version of Dorothy’s ruby shoes from the Wizard of Oz? Doodling on my Tab with this great app called SketchBookX. My brother gave me an Ozaki stylus pen (red, of course!) and it’s fun playing with the different drawing tools–still getting the hang of it. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this...

Inspirational Photos of the Day

Posted by Tippi | Dec 4, 2011 | Not By the Book |

It’s a cool, rainy, bed-weather type of Sunday today which always makes me want to curl up in bed under the sheets with a good book or magazine. Or as what happened today, curl up with my Galaxy Tab to surf online. And what I found were these unusual, beautiful, vintage Vogue covers designed and illustrated by Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (http://www.enjoyart.com/vintagevoguecoverprints.htm and http://www.retronaut.co/2011/08/salvador-dalis-vogue-covers/). So cool, no??? I love them (especially the first two)! These are covers I would love to frame and not just admire online 🙂 I wish local magazines would collaborate with artists too and come up with collector’s item covers from time to time… Vogue, 1938 Vogue, 1944 Vogue, 1946 This special Christmas edition of Paris Vogue was edited & illustrated by Dalí himself Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this...

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