Putting together this Eco Fashion Workshop for Muni PH on March 11.
Super limited slots available (FIFTEEN ONLY!).
Click on this link for more details on this awesome workshop!
Find out how to reserve your slot here. :)
Not sold on eco fashion? Click here to read why it rocks, and why you should rock it too.
Peace out,
Jen
![Iloilo - Bacolod - Dumaguete [Jan. 27 - Feb. 7]An all-too-brief trip of Muni PH events, travel, culture, agriculture, and diving
Earlier in January, my friend Noreen Bautista of Jacinto & Lirio told me she was going home to Iloilo for the Dinagyang Festival, and I forget if it was she or I who brought up the idea of doing a Muni event in Iloilo.
So anyway, although the tickets I could book at this point were more expensive than I was accustomed to spending on local flights (I’m really cheap), I booked the flight anyway, thinking that I may or may not have this chance again, rationalizing that the difference of several hundred to a thousand pesos on the flights might not necessarily be saved by opting to do the event at a later date anyway. And off I went.
Check out my whirlwind trip through Western Visayas and Negros :)
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ILOILO: Dinagyang, 1st Muni PH HOHOL, Philippine Science High School talk & Hablon Weaving (with side trip to Aetas in Guimaras) [Jan. 27 - 31]
Okay, so technically NOT Dinagyang because I flew in on the last day and barely caught a good view of anything, but justifying that this was not the intention for my visit and that I’m really not one for crowds, I shrugged off missing the festival and resolved to catch it from a better viewing point next year. :P
Nonetheless, the 1st Muni PH HOHOL was a huge success. And I was elated all the more by getting a somewhat surprise invitation to deliver a talk to the juniors at Philippine Science High School in Western Visayas.
When the official “Muni business” (read: events) were over and done with, the only other real agenda I had was visit the renowned Hablon weavers of Miagao, Iloilo (posting soon on Muni PH). :)
BACOLOD: Meetups & Surprise Visit To Rapha Valley [Jan. 31 - Feb. 2]
I had hoped to organize a Muni PH Bacolod HOHOL, but unfortunately, it didn’t push through, but I still managed to meet up with Ms. Tanya Lopez, museum director of the Negros Museum, along with some students of La Salle Bacolod.
Having been to Bacolod several times before, I had really just intended it as a quick stop for possible networking on my way down to Dumaguete from Iloilo. However, when I found out that my friend’s mom was headed Dr. Alberto Jo’s organic farm, Rapha Valley on Feb. 2, I decided to stay another night.
I couldn’t have been happier about the decision to put Dumaguete off and kind of just put my game face on to stay another night even if my friend was flying out on Feb. 1 (meaning I stayed one more night with just his parents hehe). Also blogging about Rapha Valley on Muni PH soon. ;)
DUMAGUETE: Clean-Up Dive / Sunday Funday, Advanced Open Water Diver Course & Lumago Designs [Feb. 2/3 (I arrived at practically midnight) - Feb. 7]
I’d long been looking forward to coming back to Liquid Dumaguete after taking my Open Water Diver course with them last October. I was doubly thrilled when I found out about their Sunday Funday initiative where they basically make taking care about one’s environment fun. :) So I made sure to time my visit such that I’d be around on a Sunday Funday, and therefore be able to participate in a cleanup dive. :D
On Sunday Funday, I also got to talk about Muni, and the importance of cutting the crap we produce so that less of it goes out to sea. Thanks for letting me share, Zoe!
When all the excitement from Sunday Funday was over, it was time for my Advanced Open Water Diver course! Read about the full experience here!
Apart from all the diving, I was also so happy to meet Whitney Fleming of Lumago Designs, a Dumaguete-based upcycled jewelry brand. Read up on them on Muni PH to find out about their great story. :)
Whew. So much had happened and I am extremely grateful to everyone who made each experience possible.
A lot of other exciting things were awaiting me in Manila too, and I’ll fill you in on that soon enough! :)
xoxo
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Iloilo - Bacolod - Dumaguete [Jan. 27 - Feb. 7]
An all-too-brief trip of Muni PH events, travel, culture, agriculture, and diving
Earlier in January, my friend Noreen Bautista of Jacinto & Lirio told me she was going home to Iloilo for the Dinagyang Festival, and I forget if it was she or I who brought up the idea of doing a Muni event in Iloilo.
So anyway, although the tickets I could book at this point were more expensive than I was accustomed to spending on local flights (I’m really cheap), I booked the flight anyway, thinking that I may or may not have this chance again, rationalizing that the difference of several hundred to a thousand pesos on the flights might not necessarily be saved by opting to do the event at a later date anyway. And off I went.
Check out my whirlwind trip through Western Visayas and Negros :)
Feeling Like A Princess at Sonya’s Bed & Breakfast
(above photo features my bed at the Fennel cottage)
I spent the weekend before Christmas with my family at Sonya’s Bed & Breakfast, a tucked away section at Sonya’s Garden. :)
My brother and sister-in-law decided to gift us full body massages for my parents, and foot spa for all of us “kids”, including the brothers. My mom said that her massage was one of the best she’s had, and that says a lot because she’s quite particular about her massages. But the more notable part of this story is how obviously extremely uncomfortable (fearful, even) my dad was with the idea of getting a massage, so much so that he was offering that my brother take it instead. He refused, of course, forcing my dad to go through his ordeal. When we saw our dad again after our foot spa, he looked so relaxed and only had good things to say about the massage and was already planning our next stay at Sonya’s. :D
Honestly, I sometimes dread family vacations because well, it can be quite stressful traveling with one’s family, with one member wanting to do this, the other wanting to do that, and people just rubbing each other the wrong way - the way that families usually do. But for some reason, there was none of that on this trip, and it was one of the most pleasant family vacations I’ve been on. :)
Read more about my experience and Tita Sonya’s beautiful B&B here.
#CutTheCrap feat. Bottled Drinks
What if you could save money, lose weight, and protect the planet at the same time?
And what if you could do that by changing the simple habit of consuming bottled drinks? Click the above link to find out how!
A Muni PH Statement Non-tarp “Tarp” :)
Thanks to Abbey of H.E.A.R.T., Ella & Geli of Pop Pins for helping me out! It would have been impossible without you guys. :)
See more shots behind-the-scenes here.
View the event album to learn more about participants, and confirm your attend on the event page! :D
Excited for December 8!
Craft paper & canvas,
Jen
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On Greenifying & Muni PH + Pop-Up Shop
Last week, I wrote my first few articles for When In Manila (with focus on Climate Change).
This week, I’ve been busy tweaking my new project Muni PH, a website that hopes to help people make more informed lifestyle decisions so they can live more mindfully.
I’ve been thinking about permutations of this project for months, but now, it’s finally coming to fruition, and the seed I planted in my head is finally breaking the surface. It’s been a slow but deliberate process. Just how I like to work.
The key philosophy of Muni PH was also written perfectly by Green’s Not Black & White author Dominic Muren:
What will you choose for yourself, knowing that others may follow? More important, would your choice be different if you knew that thousands of people would be making the same one?
The Commercialization of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
While it’s definitely a good thing to propagate breast cancer awareness in the month of October (or all months of the year for that matter), I wonder just how informed this global campaign makes it audience, and how effectively it mobilizes them into action.
Does The Earth Still Have A Chance?
Reading my Twitter and Facebook feeds, and the news about the millions of people affected by the month’s worth of rain that poured down on the Philippines this past week or so has left me feeling rather helpless while traveling here in Luang Prabang, Laos.
It has been making me think about what I can do from this part of the world, or what I can do when I get back home. At the same time, it has channeled the cynic in me and made me think: Does the Earth still have a chance?
