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Are you looking for a place to indulge your late night food cravings on a Wednesday night? Or you can’t wait until the weekend to visit your favorite late night food markets? Then Midnight Mercato, Metro Manila’s premiere late night weekend food market, will be open on Wednesday nights starting February 29 to answer your foodie call! Indulge in the Midnight Mercato experience and enjoy an extensive selection of foodie favorites - steamed cheeseburgers, crunchy pork belly, wagyu steak on a sticks, deep dish pizzas, authentic Vigan empanadas, ice-cream filled mochi balls, specialty milk teas, dark lager beer cheesecakes – straight from the kitchens of home-based and specialty chefs, while enjoying live acoustic performances and free wi-fi. Wednesday Midnight Mercato is perfect way to celebrate the middle of the week! Midnght Mercato is open from 10:00pm to 3:00am every Friday, Saturday and Wednesday (starting February 29) and Mercato Centrale is open every Sat...

Keeping a vehicle is a good form of investment for the family.   Aside from the comfort and convenience it brings for travel, it is also a decent domestic asset. Because cars have a constant market demand, you will be able to sell it anytime you like. photo from the web Two reasons why we sell our family car are: to augment our immediate financial needs in times of emergencies and to supplement the budget when buying a new model to replace the old one. You may opt to vend it through interested friends, prospective neighborhood buyers or may decide to sell your BMW online. However, we should consider keen planning before we put it up for sale. Good condition and maintenance of the vehicle plus showing off its best features are the keys to guarantee a good deal. It is also essential to be very careful in transacting with prospective clients. Selling your family car online is a fast and comfortable way to carry out a trade. We do not have to go for meet-ups that might endan...

Photo from the web It’s raining outside and the kids can’t get out and play their favorite ball game. We all know that the gloomy weather can also affect and swing their moods. We can cheer them up and boost their spirits initially by cooking and serving them delectable cupcakes or cookies together with their favorite juice flavors. The aroma of home baked goodies will put a smile on their faces. We can entice them to play indoor games and do other inside activities. We have to find different great rainy-day play-offs that will keep them pre-occupied. Toddlers and pre-schoolers will enjoy indoor dens, hand puppets and newspaper golf or watching their favorite cartoon characters on DVDs. Young boys can have fun with board games like chess, Chinese checkers and lively activities like pillow fights and balancing board while daddy is busy clicking with on Foxy Bingo . Young girls and pre-teens can get pleasure from memory games, dressing up their Barbie dolls, reading poc...

If your industrial setting requires new flooring, you may think it is as simple as finding the cheapest floor from your nearest provider; on the contrary, getting the right industrial flooring requires an understanding of all it should be able to provide. Those unsure of exactly what an industrial floor should be able to offer your setting are recommended to read on and discover these key features. Simple Installation When you are responsible for ensuring operations run as smoothly as possible it is highly important that a floor complete with simple installation is chosen. This will ensure that downtime within the setting is reduced, even if it is a factory in operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Appearance Remember that it is not just you and your workforce that will see the flooring, potential clients are often eager to see the hub of a business which is often the factory floor. You will need to make sure your flooring is modern and smart to make that all ...

Home budgeting is becoming more difficult to manage nowadays. Paying the monthly consumption fees in electricity, water, telephone, dsl, and cable will already create a hole in our pockets. Not yet to mention the daily food we need to buy to sustain the family’s health plus other commodities, supplies, daily expenses and necessities in our homes. Gasoline hike and basic commodity prices had climbed up recently, while salaries and wages stay put. We need to do extreme care in spending money that is to allocate it wisely. I already implemented an austerity program in our home to economize electric and water consumption.  Economical management plays an important role to trim down excess costs. Let me share you some of the Basic Thrift Guide I put into practice to help lower down our monthly expenses. Unplug appliances when not in use Laptop usage for my online tasks, as it consumes less power than the desktop Buying kitchen and laundry supplies in bulk for a two-week re...

Keeping up with a tight budget and yet there’s a call to buy things for your home? There’s no more need for a long wait on mall bargain sale as you can also save with Endless coupons . Coupon code is one of the best approaches to budget shopping money as you can find more for less. Online purchasing gives us the advantage to enjoy shopping without sweating, unlike going to garage auctions and mall deals wherein you have to brush shoulders with other sale seekers just to buy what you need and most often, in the end you will come to realize that you spent more than what you have expected. In order not to burn a hole in your pocket at the same time get pleasure from your bargain hunting adventure visit websites like couponcodes4u and start buying for coupons that will fit your intended budget. It will definitely help you maintain your financial plans as you will only be spending your allocated funds. You can find many bits and pieces for your home improvement as well as other...

photo from the net “People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters”. – This is one of the best quotes from Jonathan Adler that I best agree. Being the light of the house, we mothers are the ones responsible in honing our children to good manners and right conduct. Coaching our little ones of the proper behavior is very much important to develop a pleasing personality, likewise training them with the right and proper hygiene counts a lot in their growth.   When is the right time to start teaching our kids their personal hygiene? Well, in my opinion and through experience, the earlier the better.  At age 1, I already began informing my two sons the significance of washing their hands before eating and brushing their teeth. As my children grow older I continuously instill the knowledge and polish them of the effects brought by maintaini...

Having a hard time making perfect foams for your coffee and desserts? Do your home-made cocktails and liquors lack flavor? Cream chargers used in a cream dispenser is the perfect solution to end this predicament. We do not have to be a professional chef to bring out exciting flavors that will give our dishes an up-to-date edge. Having it as a part of your kitchen tools will give color and exciting taste to your daily dishes and your occasional menus extraordinary. Cream chargers Foams, bread batter, creams, desserts, cocktails, liquors or other flavorful infusions are made easy in just a matter of minutes and you may serve it hot or cold in assorted textures. cream on coffee According to Wikipedia a whipped cream charger (also called whippits, whippets, nossies, or nangs) is a steel cylinder or cartridge filled with nitrous oxide (N2O) that is used as a whipping agent in a whipped cream dispenser. Nitrous oxide is used for culinary purposes because it migrates easily ...

Dusting is one of my regular house chores. I usually dust on a daily basis, however when I stopped availing the services of a househelp, I do it on a bi-weekly or sometimes on a weekly basis as it consumes time and I have other everyday jobs to attend to. Dingy furnitures and dirty electronics such as electric fans and air conditioning unit filters trigger allergy and breathing problems. So in order for me not to get tired of taking off the grime every now and then I opt to keep our windows closed. As I am all alone during the day, keeping the windows closed will also keep me safe. I only open it when it is raining as there is less dirt to come in when outside grounds are wet. I also put on entrance mats at each door entrance to lessen the filth coming in from the shoes or slippers. I also use slipcovers on our upholstery, so I just have to shake it out instead of vacuuming the entire sofa. My best dusting buddies are the microfiber cloth and static duster. A microfiber cloth is my ...

Perhaps you have enjoyed unwinding in a soothing massage chair while having a pedicure, in an upscale hotel room or even after a long day of shopping at your local mall. You may not have considered purchasing one for your home, though. Many massage chairs are available to the public and are increasingly popular with consumers just like you. Learn about the advantages of these relaxing, attractive furnishings; you might just be tempted to get one yourself.  For people who suffer from chronic or recurring pain, massage chairs can mean the difference between enduring aches or discomfort and finding some much-needed relief. A quality chair can relax tight muscles, increase blood flow to injured or damaged areas and even encourage your body to release more endorphins, which are a natural substance that attach to cell receptors in your brain much the way morphine does, eliminating pain in the process.  image via www.relaxationstation.com.au As mentioned, massage chairs h...

Some soon to be married couples take wedding invitations for granted considering it as an added cost to their ceremonial budget. In my own perspective this small piece of paper plays a very significant role as it will give your guests an insight into what the nuptial will be. You can learn to make wedding invitations with these online classes. Handing out printed invites to your friends and relatives will let them feel that you want them to become a part of this substantial event in your life. There are a lot of wedding invitations to choose from which are available in the market today. I find the Peacock wedding invitation elegant. It offers a special meaning.  It demonstrates a classy and more formal kind of ritual. It is more often used in Royal and extravagant weddings showing a flashy showcase of personality. Peacock wedding invitation The type and style of an invitation depends on the budget and the theme. You may also opt for a flexible digital ...

After a long and tiring day we usually seek the comfort of our beds. Our body needs a sound sleep to be well rested  to function well again the next day. However, there are times that no matter how long we sleep; we wake up having body pains. My husband experiences sweating during his sleep due to the accumulated heat in the uratex bed , thus aside from covering our cushion with an extra linen and comforter before the bed sheet itself, he usually places a big and long towel to lie on to eliminate the heat. I, on the other hand need to find a good lying position in order to obtain sensible forty winks. When sleeping, the mattresses we lie on are supposed to alleviate stress in our body, perk up the flow of blood circulation and eliminate the sinking feeling that frequently results to body aches upon waking up. The use of comfortable memory foam mattress offsets the heat buildup, no more tossing and turning in finding the best sleeping position and guarantees a refreshing slumbe...

We have to invest time in order to build intense association, relationship and rapport with our children.  Relationships with our children are not built instantly. Quality moments occur when we seek and spend precious time with our kids adapting to their interests and needs. We should start early and don't give up even when it will become progressively tough or complicated. With Guide to Career Education you can get your degree in early childhood development. Usually, adolescents and teens find it hard to exhibit their own appreciation, but most of the time; they don't ignore nor forget the unique occasions, specifically the actual one-on-one instances and time that you simply spent with them. Allow me to share you the ways on how to get top quality moments with kids based on my personal experience.  Try to plan a weekend for the whole family, go for a picnic or go see a film or any other routines that may provide an exciting activity for the whole family....

We have all dreamed of having a stately manor with a den that is the envy of all of our friends. A carefully tended fire crackles behind a fireplace mantle carved from beautiful marble which sits beneath a masterfully painted image of the family in their finest clothing. Maybe not quite that extreme, but we can create an elegant feeling without moving to a country estate.  The walls are the first point of interest for this kind of redesign. Off white eggshell walls are not classy. They ring of apartment buildings and bland living spaces. A vermillion hue of some kind or perhaps a royal blue would work beautifully to illicit that feeling of regal design.  The fireplace mantle is next. The fireplace is the centerpiece of any good den and, if you don’t have one, you can buy a realistic faux fireplace. At that point you can build fireplace mantles around these faux fires to complete the illusion. If you don’t have the skills to build one yourself then you can buy one of the pr...

Although a fireplace is more an aesthetic structure in modern homes with central heating, it can still be a common necessity for homeowners living in places with cold weather. More often, it’s used as the focal point in the home where families and friends sit around during a cold day. Many home owners opt for a marble fireplace as its elegance easily blends with most settings. But for homes with small children, fireplaces pose many potential dangers. a marble fireplace Help safeguard your children around a fireplace by considering these safety tips. Educate your children that the fireplace is not a toy. Inform them that they can get hurt, injured or burned by playing with it. As much as possible make the fireplace area a child-free room. Install safety barriers around the fireplace, use a metal mesh screen if your fireplace doesn’t have a glass door. Fireplace tools should be kept out of children’s reach. If you have a traditional fireplace, don’t let your chil...