Guest post by Kristen

Hi everyone! I am Kristen, but you can just call me Kaye. I am a friend of Stella, and I have a blog just like her. I have only started this month after getting inspired by Stella's wonderful blog. 

I live in the Philippines, in the loud city of Manila. I am fourteen years old and I just love art way too much. I have a large collection of art supplies: be it pens, erasers, brushes, notebooks, markers, crayon, arcylic and other stuff...

I do artworks such as painting, drawing, origami, glassblowing, sculptures, photography and so on. My favorite subjects are horses and nature! :D

I made this little glass bowled ball.

This is a vase I made.

I am totally crazy about the color pink. Pink is my number one priority color.

I also love books very much, I always read books every month. :D Its soo fun to be immersed the worlds of books: like Divergent, Hunger Games, Shiver, Delirium, Book Thief, The City of Glass, The Golden Compass,  and so much more!

 I also adore Sanrio. I have like 5 bags full of sanrio stuff, (not kidding!)

I also like listening to country, pop, classical and opera music. They are my stress-relievers for sure.
Thats it for now. See you soon! And come, check out my blog!

*photos in this post are by Stella, credits and kudos! (haha)*

good things come to those who wait! and search!

Hello everybody! Today I have two things to say:

1. I feel terrible that the giveaway prizes take so long to ship. It was also my fault in not being able to collect the addresses and prizes all together in a proper way! I'm so sorry for the delay! School has literally been killing me! But now all is good and peaceful, since it's the start of our last term in school!

Aaaand: guess what! I found zoom ( and better ) lens for my Pentax!

screaming.

so hard.

inside.

thanks, God.

a lot.

too much of everything is bad // everything?

Just a little post!

I overheard a conversation between a father and his eight-year old daughter the other day while I was eating sushi with my own dad. (Ha ha, what a familiar yet unique scene!) I think that the couple had the most inspiring and interesting conversation ever! Here's how it started:

I put this image here just because...he he

"Daddy, what will you tell me if I told you I will order more sushi?"

Her father thought hard. "I will tell you that you already had more than enough sushi," the father told his daughter, "too much of everything is not good."

I believe that the father was using the opportunity to educate his daughter with such wisdom.

The girl, playing along, said "Even water?", 

"Yes, too much water is not good for you."

"Even vegtables?"

"Yes."

"Even sitting?"

"Yes."

"Even standing?"

"Yes."

"Hmm...even crying?"

"Ha-ha, yes."

"Even singing?"

"Oh, yes."

"Even singing for God?"

"Oh, well..."

"Even loving God....NO! Even God's love! Is too much of God's love bad for us?"

BOOM. She hit the spot!! This made me wanna jump out my seat and shout "AMEN!!" That girl was on fire out there!

So what am I trying to say here? Too much of God's love is the jackpot! One can never get tired of God's love. It's like a different flavor of ice cream everyday, each with a surprise topping! God shows his love for you everyday in the simplest things in life. Early for work or school? There's God's love. Complimented by a friend or a school mate? There's God's love. Got some gifts? There's God's love! Something sad , annoying or enraging happens? There's the enemy, trying to distract us from seeing the light, from seeing God's love.

Have a God-love-filled week! You can never have too much!! :)

Tease Your Tastebuds by Emma

Hi everyone! My name is Emma and I'm a friend of Stella's. I'd like to make you hungry for the next few minutes.

Crepes are always worth it, even if you must go through a long trek just to eat them...

Meet Mr. Nutella. He was my valentine this year.

 Okay, I hope you're all hungry now. 

Bye!

Currently

....browsing through old photos! I'm currently using my dad's old laptop, and there's nothing better than remembering old memories. And there is also nothing worse than having to edit your own pictures so much due to old, terrible photography skills. Ha ha ha.

Anyway, I looked at photos from old vacations, my old school and old parties. These, in particular were my favorite photos:

Me, my dad and my brother as we conquer the sea...parasailing!!!!

How do you feel when you browse through old photos?

Why I haven't been blogging

School, school, school, school! Yu cannot believe how stressful it's been. But now, I've got a term break, and I can sleep, rest, eat, play, craft...and BLOG! I am also excited to bring all the giveaway packages to the shipping agencies. :) Over the weekend, so far, I've baked, been to parties, and watched a concert. Sadly, I was afraid I was going to have my camera smashed into bits of pieces in the concert, so I didn't get to take any pictures. Little did I know that we were in the very front, and we got meet and greet tickets! (The bands were: The Summer Set, The Ready Set, Forever the Sickest Kids, A Rocket to the Moon and I CANNOT remember what the name of the last band was, sorry!)

ANWAY, so that this doesn't result to a dull text post, let me post some pictures that I also edited over the weekend. I've tried out this new editing style of really REALLY light photos to make everything look so quiet. I think they're cute. What do you think?

P.S I don't know why but I'm a sucker for the third photo of me with my Pentax. I don't know why.

I just love the Tin Tin comics, don't you? I've read them all ever since I can remember, but there is STILL one comic, "Tin Tin in Tibet" that I haven't read yet.

Oh, and I am currently accepting guest posts!!! Yes!!!!

Click the link to see my blog statuses :)

The Giveaway WINNERS!

For this giveaway, I was limited by time (and creativity) to choose the winners! So I chose the winner by choosing a random number between the number of entries I had through a random number generator. If the generator chose the same number twice for two different awards, I would regenerate the system. Okay, are your fingers crossed? Let's begin!

The winner for the first prize, or the pink ruffle ring + two heart clips is.....MARY KATE!

The winner for the second prize, the hair accessories is....MEGANN!

The winner for the third prize, the cat bookmarks and the black ruffle ring is...STEPHANIE!



The winner for the fourth prize, the accessories and the bookmark is...ANGELA!



The winner for the fifth prize, the ugly doll postcards and the cupcake bag tag is.....SIERRA!



The winner for the sixth prize, the ugly doll postcards and the two rings is...ERYNN! P.S, Erynn! I've been following your blog for a very long time now! Since Elisha first promoted it!



The winner for the seventh prize, the word search puzzle and the MUJI pen is...HOLLY!



The winner for the eighth prize, the {very much wanted } vintage necklace is....MEMORY!



The winner for the ninth prize, the pair of orange earrings, (sorta by luck!) is...KAYLEEBETH!



The winner for the tenth prize, the pair of pink earrings is....ANDREA! Thanks for the kind words on your comment, by the way! :)



The winner for the eleventh prize, the bag of goodies is.....EMMA!


And the winner of the final prize, the robot necklace, is....JENINA!

Congratulations to all the winners of my blog giveaway! 

And thank you so much to the other bloggers that participated!

Please e-mail me at ohsillystella@gmail.com to send me your shipping addresses, questions and concerns.

The emails that you inserted in the comment boxes are verifications, so I know if you're the real person or not! And, I had so much fun hunting for prizes and hosting the giveaway, I promise I will have another one very soon!

And it's almost Valentine's day.

And you should check this site out. And bookmark it.

Good night!

days never get better

I can't wait to announce the winners of my giveaway. It'll be in the next post. 

Here's a big support to compliment my very short and dull post yesterday: I was in a mountain province called SAGADA for a week! I learned a lot of new things. I really want to go to SAGADA again! Here are the "dramatic" photos I took in the trip.

The trip was like 60% hiking and 40% trekking.

The way to Sagada was filled with the most enchanting landscapes I had ever seen in my life!

This is the gate that seals the Church, the elementary school, the local Hospital and the general store.

Hiking at Echo Valley

Every morning at around 5 to 7 AM, there is a fog that travels around the highest points in Sagada.

Sagada is known for their Agriculture. This was when we were on our way to the rice farm.

On our way to the rice farm... (10k trek!)

Some kids that seemed so joyful before we brought out our cameras

The Sagadans refuse to use machines when it comes to plowing the field. They decide to keep their traditions and use a Carabao!

Me, tree hugging, on our way to the pottery studio.

Sagada has very tall trees.

A trip to the local market

and....

We also visited the Hanging Coffins. The people in the hanging coffins were well respected and acknowledged in the Sagada community. 

Tell me what you think of my pictures! :)