My first Blog Award - Butterfly Blog Award | OTD

Here are the rules:

1. Write about yourself.
2. Pass the award to 7 bloggers.
3. Notify the bloggers who got it!

Hey coffeeholics! I just got my very first blog award thanks to Miss Kat of Beauty Straight Forwards (thanks girl! mwah!). I feel touched that she sent me this award. Cute pa coz its a butterfly. I love butterflies! Now its my turn to return the favor.

1. I took up several masteral units in Guidance Counseling in University of the Philippines, Diliman. I stopped because I had difficulties juggling work and my grad studies at the same time ( 4 case studies/sem/subject.. deadly!!!). But I enjoyed it a lot especially when I took up Career Guidance and Group Guidance subjects. I learned a lot especially on discovering myself and helping me realize certain things about myself that I didn't want to face. The butterfly in this award reminded me of something significant during that period of my life (2009). Before I felt like I was ugly, fat, and unfashionable. I felt like an ugly fat caterpillar. Then I had an Encounter with God last 2008 that changed my life and changed the way I looked at myself. I was going through a lot of things and had a lot of realizations after that encounter. Then during our Group Guidance immersion (March 2009), I told our group that I felt that I was changing.. that I was in a cocoon and slowly emerging to become a beautiful butterfly. My identity, my self-image, and my self-esteem changed! Now I do feel like that beautiful butterfly that I envisioned myself to be! Who would have thought that I'd be this kikay and be a blogger of fashion and beauty plus so much more. So in other words.. Feeling butterfly na lola nyo (hahaha) ok.. thats enough for now of my dramatization and chos..  hehehe..

The OLD me... hehe.. grabe felt super fat at that time.. and what an outfit! hahaha
Scroll down and view my OTD to see the better looking me!

2. Pass the award to 7 bloggers.

I want to pass this award to my new blogger friends:

Ann - http://ibeauty-addict.blogspot.com/

Apple - http://myblogappledapple.blogspot.com/

Eunice - http://lacesandtiaras.blogspot.com/

Lorena - http://lorenarevilla.blogspot.com/ 

Mitch - http://mitchwearsclothes.blogspot.com/

Tin - http://ohhthat.blogspot.com/

Sugar -http://sugarpao.blogspot.com/ 

And now here's my OTD... The New Me!

Top - Vintage, Pants - Forever 21, Bag - Tomato

SM Parisian Shoes. LOVE IT!

Girl Shoppe

To Android Users: Android App Alert - Little Photo | OTD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37995156@N03/5168981298

Let me just say that I'm soooo glad that I chose to get an android phone when I bought one last November. One little blessing with my android phone is that I get updated FAST with all my friends' blogs and I get to read em all even when I'm not online.That makes me one happy blogger! Now let me introduce to you one amazing Android App that can do wonders to your photos - LITTLE PHOTO.

Anyway, with all the hype about Instagram, I've been curious about it lately. I love how the photos come out with the Instagram (an iPhone app unfortunately.. ) and I also found out that it has also a "social network" feature to it. Lucky apple users! Still I wanted the photo effects badly so I searched in the android market and found Little Photo - a photo app that adds "film and retouch effects" on your everyday ordinary pictures! I couldn't believe that it was free (THANK GOODNESS!) and I love the amazing photo effects! It even makes ugly photos look good with the effects! And the choices are endless! Here are some samples:

Original Photo

with "Instant Film" feature

with "White Story"

A combo of several effects! (Model: Stephen)

Model: Sofi (shopgirlJen's baby!) - I used "Angel Kiss + black paper frame" 

The Little Photo app makes me feel like a pro! I love it! Its sooo good that I just had to blog about it. Here are some additional features that makes me love it a whole lot more:

• Auto saves original photo
• Can use high resolution 800px (may not work on some older phones)
• Has sharing capacity (twitter yeah!)
• Has additional tools such as text, draw, frames, 4eyes (4 photo collage), etc.

It now has around 10,000 plus people installing it on the market but more than a million at Appbrain. And I just wanted to share it to you guys to satisfy your craving for instagram! LOL. Here are the links to Little Photo Facebook and Little Photo Android Market App. Or simply go to the android market and search "Little Photo" to download and install it on your android phone. They also have an additional plug-in if the effects are not enough to satisfy your photo editing tendencies, they are offering a plug-in of MORE film and retouch effects for $0.99 or  Php 42.55. Not bad eh? So go get your Little Photo now and enjoy!

AND to end, here's my Outfit of The Day!!!

Top - Thrift Shop, Jeans - Forever 21, Black boots - Solo, Necklace - bought in Palawan, Ring - Girl Shoppe,  Bracelet -  my sister's!

Yes I was using my cellphone camera so pls excuse the crappy photo details. :)

And no, I decided to NOT Little Photo edit this one. 

And this is not a sponsored post. :)

Thanks for visiting! (A Little Photo Edit! Yes with text!!!)

Soooo coffeeholics, what's your favorite iphone/android app?