Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Had a date with Ai one Saturday. I was going to get a haircut and a perm at this Japanese salon and the Yelp reviewers' only complaint about the place was that they didn't speak English very well. So naturally, I enlisted Ai's help. And it was a good excuse to spend some much needed girl time with her. I ended up loving my hair and I'm definitely going back to the salon because they were fabulous. The rest of the day was spent shopping, mainly in Japan Town for the most ridiculous Hello Kitty stuff, one of which ended in both of us buying matching Hello Kitty wallets. I know. We ended the night with a photoshoot back at her apartment that was supposed to be slumber party themed but turned into a "what can we do with these Minnie ears? And Hello Kitty shorts?" As always, love this girl.

Photo Diary: Labor Day Weekend @ Lake Tahoe

I had intended to go to So Cal for Labor Day Weekend, but that ended up not happening, so I managed to convince some friends to go to Lake Tahoe since the weather was gorgeous. Let's just say it was.. an epic weekend. I'm not allowed to say/show what happened, but we had a lot of good food, the company was great, and the weather was perfect. Minus my sunburn, it was a great holiday weekend.

_The guys were eager to fish, and we somehow stumbled upon this pond... beautiful, but no fish
_Kiki fishing with her Disney Princess fishing pole
_Justin feeding a squirrel
_Kiki, my new bff
_The best breakfast - prepared by the men
_End of fishing - caught a total of 14 fish? They were pulling them out of the water every 5 minutes so they were ridiculously happy
_tanning at the beginning of the day - ended with a bad sunburn, but at least no tanlines
_Justin prepping the fish, and the final product. Y U M.

Photo Diary: The Birthplace of Walmart

This post has been a long time coming, but I've FINALLY settled down and gotten my act together.

These were taken during a work trip to Bentonville, Arkansas, the birthplace of Walmart. It was definitely a different world over there, but the people were so pleasant and pretty much EVERYONE has worked or know someone who works at Walmart. I was quite surprised to see a few Target's there but I found out they were actually in the neighboring towns. I love Walmart.

_Welcome sign at the Bentonville Town Square
_Old freight container
_The "first" Walmart - Sam Walton's first Five and Dime
_Signage at the Home Office
_City Hall
_Cute fireplace in equally cute cupcake shop across from the Five and Dime
_Flowers at the cupcake shop
_One of many Sam Walton plaque quotes at the Walmart Visitor's center

Julie and Julia

WOW. I've been gone for a while haven't I? I've been busy, busy, busy, at work and on the weekends and when I get home the very LAST thing I want to do is go back to the computer. And when I FINALLY had some down time.. all my favorite shows came back!

But over the weekend, I watched Julie and Julia, and am now on this craze to blog and cook/bake. Am in dire need of Bakerella's book, Hisako Ogita's Macaron book, and of course, Julia Child's French Cook book. Mmmmmm butter and sweet, cake pop goodness. Speaking of the movie, it's on right now and can't seem to change the channel even though I know Glee is on. Crazy.

Anyway. I have a bunch of pictures to upload, and these are a few that I found I had missed from my previous posts.

Happy Birthday Mama!!

I have no idea how old my mom was when these pictures were taken (I think I remember her telling me she was still in her early twenties). All I remember is how much I used to just stare at my mom's old pictures and dream of her clothes and how gorgeous she looked. No wonder my dad loved taking pictures of her.

Happy Birthday to the most FABULOUS (and fashionable) woman I know. I love you Mommy.

Look: Dress N' Boots

Miss Selfridge dress, Kohl's vest and belt, random boots from Marshall's, F21 bag

On Cielo's last day with us, we went to get cupcakes in the Marina. It was a beautiful day in San Francisco.. I guess they got the memo that it was summer too late? The dress and boots I wore were perfect together that day, and I received many stares from girls who passed by me - what? haven't you seen a girl wear boots with a dress before? Oh Marina girls... Anyway, the boots were an awesome find at Marshall's - they were the first thing I saw on my hunt for some long, ugly skirts. And surprisingly light and comfortable. I'm addicted and have been wearing them with pretty much everything.

Heroics: A sneak peak

Last Saturday, I went to visit Devon's newly opened design studio/screen printing/store. I was so happy and proud to see how much he had accomplished. I still remember him selling tees out of his dorm room back at USF, and now he has his OWN store. It's great to see him come this far. I ended up being his assistant for the day, and it was really awesome to see his process.

_ The Heroics signage

_ A look inside the store - he was still setting up and you can kinda see the awesome screen printing machine in the back.

_ He was in the process of creating some tees for the production/rap group 1500 (who are an INCREDIBLE group of producers that have created so many hit songs that everyone knows and sings along to.. You may have heard of a lil song called "Billionaire" by Travi McCoy?).

_In that last shot he was making a special 1500 tee for me - for helping him out that day, woohoo!

All in all, my visit was unexpectedly productive. Check his stuff out at www.heroicsclothing.com. (I'm pretty much wearing out the Burnout Hoodie - one of my faves from his collection)

Can't wait to go visit again.