Dressing Up For Me

Last week was our wedding anniversary, but then, we weren´t able to have a special lunch or dinner somewhere because of the hubby´s work schedule. So I just whipped him a late pasta dinner on the day of the anniversary itself and then decided to have a weekend trip to make up for our late anniversary date. I originally wanted us to go to Santander but the driver aka the hubby begged off because it´s going to be a very long drive from our place and so we ended up at Biarritz. What´s there to see? A lot! I´ve been here quite a lot  and made a lot of posts about it too  but I´d never get tired of this place. Here´s a shot of the beach and of the church. Later, we had a short break eating sumptuous calamari with a glass of sangria and had a cherry panacota for dessert. Yummy! Then we went back to take some more photos of the beaches again. By this time my camera´s battery was already blinking but ... I was st...

Things I´ve learned from wearing bandage and all black: 1. Bandage can  really hide  most of the unwanted bulges. 2. You can get away with wearing any c o l o r   that you want as an accent if you wear black.   bangles - Misako, Sfera ring and leather clutch - local store 3. A  black top and black skirt is the perfect alternative to the ubiquitous LBD and can look like an LBD too. ;) lacey top - Pull and Bear, bandage skirt- Stradivarius 4. Black is slimming and   I bet   you already know that! :) Anything more you wish to add? xoxo, Che PS: Sorry for the raw post earlier, I originally had this as  a draft post but last night while editing, my rebellious hand outsmarted my fuzzy brain cells and clicked the post button. Waahaha!

The city where I live has a lot of beautiful and  really, really old churches! Since they are not very far from where we live, I get to choose which church to go to everytime we went to mass. This time I chose the church in Armentia. This photo didn´t do any justice to the place because it was cloudy but the church is on top of  a small hilly place and around it are nothing but the green dewy grass. I´m posing beside a very old sculpture which dates back to the Middle Ages. Most old churches are quite small and simple inside. Maybe because they already had the longevity factor in them and so there´s no need to be so elaborate inside, just saying . Hey, being more than 900 years and still standing tall is no mean feat, you know! ;)  By the way, this is a favorite place for weddings. In fact, it´s already booked until 2012 and right now, they´re accepting reservations ... for 2013, hehe! Imagine that. In here, I debuted ...

Guess what´s this: Yup, it´s a ring! Ha, ha. So lame. :) Too bad I don´t have smooth and long fingers. But it can make the hand of the wearer look pretty, no? Moreso, it´s becoming my favorite all time jewelry to wear. Do you have a favorite ring that you love wearing to death? ;) Have a super duper lovely Sunday, loves! xoxo, Che

First : Do you like curry? I do! I usually cook chicken curry  but  uhurm.. I use ready made curry sauce freshly bought from the store(hehe!). The dish in the above photo is exceptional. They used lamb which melts in your mouth in every bite and the sauce is so creamy and yummy! I had this in Paris but still craving for it until now. Cooking experiment, here I come! :) Second : When the weather´s too warm to wear jeans but still cool to wear shorts/ skirt and go bare legged, my go to outfit is a pair of leggings. Ooops, shoot me not! I do dress it up with a plaid dress shirt and I promise you , I got everything modestly covered, front and back. ;) plaid shirt - Blanco Trying to go with a different look by wearing a frilly vest which I thrifted last year. What do you think? ;)  leggings - Zara, ballerinas - H&M, vest - thrifted Third : Are you a fan of the The Sartolialist and a personal style blogger at the same t...

Been wearing lots of colors lately. It´s high time that I went back to basics and for me, if it isn´t black or white, then it´s definitely gray, one of may fave colors. It´s a color, noh? ;) Added some touches of color here and there too to spice up the outfit a little bit. So I´m going back to gray. What about you? Do you like gray? Wearing: jersey shirt-dress - UC of Benetton necklace - Sfera clutch and wedges - local store By the way, I´m glad that Blogger´s back. What a relief! *huge grin here*

Haloooo! Looks like the royal wedding fever hasn´t died down yet because almost everyone in the blogosphere is still commenting on it for more than a week now. As usual, there were hits and misses in the what-I-wore portion just like any wedding celebration and so what´s new? Why don´t we just leave   Princess B´s hat ( I think it would´ve worked if  it was a bit smaller and she didn´t have kohl rimmed eyes) and concentrate on the double kiss instead. The kisses were so romantic, no? ;) So anyway, back to reality. The hubz had a yearly reunion with some acquaintances at some place in here and on the way home, we stopped by this town called Estella and had lunch in there. I finally got to wear my raspberry flappy bag, a pair of old jeans (worn more than a thousand times) and a very light top because the day was oh so scorchingly hot! This is my favorite building of the town. An old train station which they conserved we...

Stayed in Paris without shopping? Non, non! Galeries Lafayette: The building´s architecture( especially the inside part) alone will make you gag or go wide-eyed or both. Everything´s so beautiful inside and  expensive too. hahaha! You can find all the luxury brands in shoes, bags, dresses in one place and the only thing that you need is a fat bank account which unfortunately I don´t have so I only bought some things whose prices are within my tiny shopping budget. Aside from the Galeries Lafayette, there´s also Printemps and Le Bon Marché. Equally filled with pretty things and equally tempting to the pocket. ;) Louis Vuitton Flagship Store: As usual there was a long line mostly filled by Asians. haha! Below is a window display  a la bag wheel. What do you think of these cute summer hand bags by Louis Vuitton? Hot or not? And then starts the museum visits once again. This once taken at the Cluny Museum. We didn´t visit this last year a...

Paris day 2: While my day 1 was spent outdoors at the start of the day, my day 2 in Paris was spent mostly indoors at the Museé d´Orsay which ended with ¨ an out of the city¨ trip to visit the French monarchs´ burial site. My getup : Something floral and very light because it was sunny ( too sunny in fact) in Paris.   floral top - Promod, shorts - local store Panacotta in berry topping: The hubz dessert in this cute French restaurant which we ate last year. Ooops, we´re becoming regular patrons of this resto. The panacotta was delish and loving the heart-shaped dessert plate too! ;) Crow perched on the rail of Metro entrance at Eglise Pantin: My first photograph of the day. Surprisingly, this crow or a black dove? ( I don´t know, hehe!) was very tame. He barely even moved his head when I took this photograph!  Saint Denis (front): I´d like to say that the architecture of this church/ burial site for the French monarchs is awesome. Saint Deni...