My sister Carol is selling her handcrafted baby sling and cloth diapers for months and she has served a lot of happy customers already. That made her very busy that I cannot ask her to sew window curtains and pillow cases for me because I don’t know how to sew. I wanna learn actually and I am planning to borrow her sewing machine months ago. But since she started her small business, the sewing machine has been very busy that I just cannot borrow it for a week – enough for me to learn the basics of sewing.

Now she’s into another sewing project that would be very useful for laptops, notebooks and netbooks owners. She’s now figuring out how to sew sleeves! She asked me one time how many I would order from her because she’ll start making one. I only need one, actually because I am not going out bringing with me my laptop. Hope the laptop sleeve will be out in the market soon so I can brag about it in my blogs.LOL

Handmade Cloth Diapers

My sister Carol made samples of her cloth diapers so she can take photo of it and posted it in her blog. I got my version too and posted it in my flickr. There’s different sizes and different colors but I love this solid blue and yellow among others. If you wanna see other photos, it’s in my sidebar or just click on the photo so you will be directed to my flickr stream.

Help save the earth by reducing non-biodegradable waste such as disposable diapers. Go green and use CLOTH DIAPERS! You don’t only help save the environment but you will also save a lot of money in the long run.

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It’s late and I am so sleepy but I need to be up for a few minutes because I am chatting with an online friend about her online business. I’ve been wanting to put up an online store but it seems it would take long because I haven’t talked to any friend in the US and ask them if it’s possible to ship the goods to their address then they will ship it to me in bulk to save for the international shipping charges. Since it will take long before I could realize that business plan, I think I’ll better buy in bulk from that online friend’s PX store for hers are way cheaper than others so I could still have a little mark-up (just to have something profitable to do).

I and Ate Eunice (Ace’ HS batchmate) initially planned about selling goods from abroad because her parents are based there. But we haven’t finalized that plan yet so for the time being, I will get some items from an online friend to start the ball rolling. This will be a small business just for additional income (that could probably help pay the bills) or sustain our personal needs so maybe a business insurance is not that necessary not unless I want everything to be secure and that I wanted to be sure that I could get a payback in case something happens that is covered by the insurance.

Now I am too excited for this venture. Hope it will be a success.

Smartbro is making me crazy again! I have read an email last night about complaints of other smarbro users. I thought I am not affected because I can still open websites without hassle. But this morning, I was so pissed. I can only open a website thru google. I have to search google first and click on the result. But it only worked with this site and my photo blog. I cannot open my Life’s Lessons and other sites. After posting my entry in Weekend Snapshot, my website won’t load again. It’s getting in my nerves as I need to double time to finish my assignments.

Since I could only open my yahoomail, I sticked to it and decided to clean up my inbox as I have more than a thousand unread mails. I went thru it and deleted everything from spammers and those website notifications. Other not-so-important emails from former colleagues were also deleted except for the signage layout I sent to one of the print-ads company in the city. That makes me think if the signage is now up or the management are still undecided. It took them almost a year to decide on the layout and months to decide who will do the signage. When the layout is finally done, it took them months again to talk about the structure….the style of post, etc. and when it’s finally done, budget is short because the ads company have increased prices. The culprit of the delay, no other but the plant manager. If only he was firm in his decision, the signage will be up after a few deliberation. I think I need to email Mama Juliet and ask how is the signage. If it’s not done yet, I would suggest they’ll go for digital signage and not stick on the old-fashioned one. It’s a lot convenient for them as if the plant manager will change his mind and wanted something again, they don’t need to have another signage done. This is really good for the plant manager they have now as he changes his mind from time to time (more often than females do). Hence, good luck to the people who will work on it.

Yey! August 25 is declared a regular non-working holiday in lieu of August 24 as National Heroes Day which fall on a Sunday. Ace will have no work so we can stay overnight in a resort. Looking for a resort is not easy though and it made me pre-occupied of searching the net for a nice resort but with a little bit of privacy. I am searching the net for reviews and rates and had a list of my choices. But little by little the long list became shorter and shorter. The first thing that I am considering is the cottage rate, then the facilities and the place itself – the beach and the scenery. If only we could afford the rates of first class resorts, I wouldn’t have a headache choosing where to go. But since budget is limited, it gave me a headache of choosing our destination. I am used in budgetting. Budgetting the company’s employee relations activities in my previous job and managed to conduct such successfully despite of limited budget. My resourcefulness helped me in planning such activities but with mine and Ace’ upcoming outing, it’s kinda hard. 

Speaking of budgetting, I was reminded of my experience in doing my department’s fiscal budget before and doesn’t only gave me a headache but HEADACHES. Though we are using a budgeting software, checking and rechecking the details is so tedious that like other department heads, I usually spend days to finish it. That software is not complete has so many limitations compared to Prophix Budgetting that I have stumbled upon in the net. I think the latter is fay way better than what my previous employer used because of many features such as the workflow and scenario management to name a few and if they’ll ask of my opinion, I would suggest they’ll get Prophix Budgetting software for their convenience.