The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
For someone like me who loathes knick-knacks and flower vases (especially with plastic flowers), the idea of decorating a house with functional pieces is more appealing. Lighting fixtures serve a dual purpose. They illuminate the house and serve as ornaments too. If you can patiently scour shops and home depots, finding the lighting fixtures with ... (more)
Things I wish weren’t so damn expensive. Most aren’t even locally available. Lamps and lamp shades 1. Hand made lamp shades (wow!) 2. Mibo lamps inspired by British seaside resorts 3. Made with steel, acrylic and wood veneer — definitely Oriental inspired Walls and floors 1. If traditional wallpaper has become boring, there’s Orange Piel. ... (more)
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com … »»
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