Gab's Birthday Giveaway!

I first thought of having a giveaway on the day our report cards were released way back in the first quarter. I wanted to base the giveaway on my rank or whatever but then there were complications and so the ranking was not given huhu. Last quarter's cards out however brought good news and extreme joy hehe. So I'm having this giveaway 1) because I'm really happy with my academics 2) it's my birthday and I love birthdays and you guys ought to be happy too 3) it's Christmas and people should get gifts hehehe!!!! 

Babydolls, here are the prizes up for Gabs!! Woops I meant grabs................these really came from the heart hihi.

Trivial Pursuit Board Game

This 25th year edition of Trivial Pursuit is such a steal. Just like Superman joke HAHA. I used to have a weird obsession with board games when I was younger. I was exposed to Monopoly and such and I knew they're a bit pricey so when I discovered the cheap, often Disney themed board games that were sale for only P70 pesos so I'd buy myself a box whenever we'd visit my haven, National Bookstore. 

Mummy Model/Puzzle

This Universal Studios model of a mummy shows my love for monsters and puzzles hehehe. I don't know when it started but I am in love with monsters and mythical creatures that's why this is so perfect hihi it stands 8 inches tall and is well a mummy!!

Canson Watercolor Pad, 200gsm 

200gsm woopie!! It means the paper is thick. I love thick papers hehe they're my best friends whenever I'd paint. Oh and yadda yadda yadda this is included here since I love art.

Lisa Frank Sticker Album + Stickers

 I was deprived of Lisa Frank stuff when I was a kid since the li'il bastards were pricey huhuhu!! That's why now that I know how to save money and all that jazz, I invest on me Lisa Frank goodies hihi. So if you too were deprived, this is for you!!!!!! 

Prang Watercolor Pan

This would go well with the Canson Watercolor Pad hihi! I used to stay away from Prang but then I tried it out and our irreconcilable differences proved to be reconcilable and that's why I like Prang now hehehe.

Gab from Russet Accessories

I AM GIVING AWAY MYSELF HEHEHEHE!! Sorry that cracks me up every time hehe. You get the Gab set from my sister's shop, Russet Accessories! This was named after me since I've expressed how much I love it. It's like a mouth with an eye inside for me. The white ones are the teeth with the gold fillings, the pink looks like a gum line or an isaw and well the eye is the eye hehe.

"Please try to win us!" -the prizes

You can have all of them by following these steps: 

1) Follow me on twitter! 

2) Tweet this with your most creative answer: "I'd use a ___ to survive a zombie apocalypse. || Details at:  http://gabmesina.blogspot.com/2012/12/gbg.html @gabmesina #gbg"

3) Ask your friends to retweet your tweet for the tweet with the highest number of retweets will be deemed the winner! (Now that's what you call an oral work out!!)

4) Leave a comment in this entry stating the following,

Name:

Age:

Link to your tweet:

*The most creative answers will be painted by me in a series and it'll be so cute and you'll be credited and yay.

*Make sure your tweet could be seen publicly :)

*Open to Philippine readers only, sorry :(

*Giveaway will run for 2 weeks. Winner will be announced on New Year's Eve!!

And lastly, may the odds be ever in your favor.......chawrought. 

Yesterday

First and last attempt at painting gem stones circa last year hahahaha

I haven't updated this for 11 days and I feel so bad about it huhu it's just that school has been draining the life out of me lately and I can't exactly blog while I'm dead. Last Thursday we had the Speech Choir thing in school and this coming Friday, we'll have the most anticipated Carol Fest eliminations. Since we only have a short time left to prepare for it, our class met up yesterday to practice. 

It was such a long day and we visited Jazz who's been confined in a hospital because of some stupid mosquito biting her and giving her dengue. Russ, Twinkle, Nona, Erik and I met up with Kurt and Selvin so we could go visit Jazz. We rode the LRT to Edsa and went on the shuttle with lots of holes on it hehe and we missed our stop by a little since I was too busy analyzing Derek Ramsay's Amazing Race billboard and the sunlight on my face gave me thoughts on how it must feel to be an average Filipino laborer commuting in that hour and stuff hehe. So we missed our stop and we had to walk a bit. 

Jazz was in the Niños Inocentes ward which is basically for children. The walls were so colorful and if it weren't for the distinct smell of a hospital, I would've thought I was in the Museo Pambata. We caught up with Jazz, played with the wheelchairs hehe, weighed ourselves and drank Jazz's drinks yay. After, we divided our group into the Manila group and the South people and went our separate ways. Nona, Erik and I waited and walked around Baclaran in order to ride a bus home. I felt like I was in an indie film or something since the orange lights made everything seem cinematic like the children playing, the workers eating on a rectangular kiosk, people just sitting on the ground resting, people selling and yelling. 

The three of us waited with the other people in Baclaran to ride our bus but the only buses that passed by us weren't for us and there was an ungodly amount of jeeps that we contemplated riding one but alas while we were already walking towards the overpass thing, Nona spotted a bus that had 'Pilar' on it and we went all crazy running towards it. The inside was so packed and it really felt like we were in a scene from 3 Idiots or Slumdog Millionaire. 

After a while, Erik got off and Nona as well. I was left sitting beside an old woman on the 3-seater seats. Then this old man got on the bus and sat on my right side and it was like I was their granddaughter hehehehehehehe. I finally got off at my stop and was fetched by my dad and ate dinner and took a bath and talked to people a bit and went to bed. I was expecting to be dead to the world til at least 12 noon but once again, my traitorous body betrayed me and I woke up at 7 and now I really can't be sure if we have any homework or not yay.

An Abundance of Eyes

I've always enjoyed drawing eyes but I haven't done much eye paintings since I don't wanna make botched eyes. Almost all of my paintings have blank white spaces for eyes or if it's not of that, my painting would be of just one zoomed-in eye. I really can't paint a decent eye with a decent face. Somehow, I have to choose between painting an eye alone or a face sans eyes hehe. Anyway, I went on a painting frenzy over the weekend and painted 5 eyes in a row in just one day! It felt really good with the light coming from my window, the good music playing and just me and my brush hihi. I hope I can make super duper plenty more of these hehe enough for them to become like trading cards he he he.

Joke's On You

I painted yesterday and used up the last page of my sketch pad from last year yay. It was really nice to just paint and unwind. I could definitely see myself doing it in the future like in a remote cottage or something or on a balcony in a house in Ireland nyahaha.

Had to leave it at this since we had to leave 

 We went to the mall to accompany my sister in buying her shoes hehe. It was our first time after a million years of going to the mall as a family. Lately it's always been just me and my sister or me and my friends or my sister alone or my mum and dad only or my sister and my parents together.  

While waiting for my dad hehe

This is how we carried the rugs we bought nyahahaha

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Pops faking a smile to fit the whole 'family bonding' thing on the cup HAHAHAHAHAH

Elementary days nyehehe

Got scolded for taking pictures but it was so fun to layer winter clothes hehehehehehe

 I was so so so so so so so so so stoked to go home so I could sit in my room and continue painting hehehehe. 

Ta-da. It became a snobby fat guy in a joker get-up hehe

Oh My Gouache

I finally had a free chill day this sembreak and I spent it by painting, doing my homework, lounging and playing with our doggies. I also realized that I resort to painting eye-less faces when I'm painting just for fun.

Katy finally had a bath WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Check out this holy shot wee o wee o wee o wee

Sembreak is nearing its end and DST is fast approaching. The wind is getting crisper and colder by the day. Only a few weeks left til we start singing carols hehe. This is why I love the ber months.

Trains For May, Shaun

Hi. Today is the 4th day of my ~isolation huzzzzzah. I have done nothing but sing High School Musical songs, watch the very very educational Ancients Behaving Badly series on youtube, eat like some huge mammal (I was gonna say Mammoth but I'm not really sure if the silent beasts have huge appetites or not heh) and try not to pick my scabs. I read a comic book today, finished 4 episodes of American Horror Story yesterday making me excited for the second season, started on my projects and earlier, I challenged myself a series of speed..drawing/painting. I gave myself 30 minutes per set and after that, I wouldn't touch up or fix anything anymore. 

By the way, I am seriously loving my Prang watercolor set now. I've decided to let my Winsor and Newton pocket set rest for a while since I'm running very low on the red and I made the mistake of using the mixing pallet for acrylic and now it's all crusty in a bad way and I haven't felt like cleaning it yet hehe. So I've been using Prang for a while and...I'm loving it hehe. Now that I look at it, they've got a lot in common and their differences seem to be trivial. It's just that my Prang set is bigger and has fewer colors and attracts ants. Other than that, they're quite alike. 

mang boi's left eye. i just made up mang boi

half person/half cat

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Staying at home, surrounded by the peace that comes with a near empty house, has done something to my artistic soul. The serenity that I am feeling has touched my heart, entered my brain and is now running freely through my veins. I am slowly but surely turning into..................................................a fossil.