all packed and ready to fly!

Since end of June I have been lugging all my sewing and drawing materials from home to school, work and back home 4 sometimes 5 days a week (also riding and running after the very inconvenient public bus)...and have lost about 2 inches around my waist since. Everyday is stressful and always filled with dreadful fractions to the 32nd for measurements, cutting, sewing, seam ripping, hands turning into Smurf hands from carbon tracing paper, getting poked by pins at least 20 times in the 4 and a half hours class period(argh...)drawing nude Alice or Patrick in figure drawing for 3 and a half hours over and over day to day--it doesn't even faze me anymore. But all the work and stress will soon come to end this coming 30th of July!!!

After my pattern-making exam I am off to San Francisco for a weekend getaway to visit my best friend Abby! Also I am meeting my boyfriend Greg there that night who is flying from Minneapolis--whom BTW I have not seen for about a month! I am totally hoping for an awesome movie airport scene for our reunion (HAHA!) perhaps like the O'Hare scene with Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney from MBW-except of course I GET THE GUY ^_^ teehee!

Anyway, I am sooo busy for the next 3 days and will not even have time to pack so I did tonight.

I always over-pack and since I am not checking anything to avoid extra charges and fear or losing my luggage, I had to keep my packing to a freaking minimum...I don't know how I did it but I did. So San Fran here I come!

who LOVES early birthday presents?!?!

ME!

When it comes to surprises I probably ruin it most of the time for others because I just get too excited and can't wait. Especially when my birthday comes around I almost always get everything before it's my actual birthday, LOL! From my parents the new iPhone and Bare Minerals make-up from my sister Apey (thank you so much my fam-loves!) and...a new sewing machine from GREG!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

The Janome 115110!!!



* Janome sewing machine provides 110 sewing functions
* Heavy-duty machine includes the must-have quilting, heirloom and home deco stitches
* Sewing machine is versatile enough for crafts and tailoring
* Three styles of computerized auto size buttonholes
* User-friendly two-digit LED display
* Three one-touch function buttons (needle up/down, auto-lock stitch and reverse stitch)
* Mega-wide 7mm stitch
* Seven-piece feed dog system for smooth feeding of materials
* Computerized DC motor with up to 820 stitches per minute
* Jam-proof magnetic horizontal bobbin system
* Includes zipper foot, zigzag foot, satin stitch foot, overedge foot, blind hem foot and buttonhole foot
* Electronic foot pedal
* Instruction book included
* Weighs 17.1 pounds

So...I cannot wait to get this baby and sew like crazy!!!

^_^ Thank you thank you thank you Greg!!!!

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, featurette...

FASHION!!!!!!

Can't wait to see this!!!!



info from ACTUAL REALITY PICTURES
Premiered: January 16th, 2009
U.S. Theatrical Release: August 28th, 2009
The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, The September Issue, directed and produced by R.J. Cutler, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion.

The September Issue won the Grand Jury Prize for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.





From the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Official Catalog

Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue for 20 years, is the most powerful and polarizing figure in fashion. Larger than life and more complex than fiction, Wintour embodies a fascinating contradiction of passion and perfectionism as she reigns over a dizzying array of designers, models, photographers, and editors.

Director R.J. Cutler delivers a rare insider account of the nine months leading up to the printing of the highly anticipated September issue of the magazine, which promises to be the biggest one ever. He takes us behind the scenes at fashion week, to Europe and back, on shoots and reshoots, and into closed- door staff meetings, bearing witness to an arduous and sometimes emotionally demanding process.

At the eye of this annual fashion hurricane is the two-decade relationship between Wintour and Grace Coddington, incomparable creative director and genius stylist. They are perfectly matched for this age-old conflict between creator and curator. Through them, we see close up the delicate creative chemistry it takes to remain at the top of the ever-changing fashion field.

Cutler cleverly deconstructs the creative process as it plays out in the hallowed halls of Vogue, lined with racks of couture. In The September Issue, his access and insight are impressive and make us aware that he is offering us a privileged glimpse into a world many dream about but few see.

-- John Cooper http://www.sundance.org/festival/09FG.pdf

LOVE LOVE LOVE...

Saw Paris Je t'aime last year on DVD and fell in love...it's a collection on short films about love...all kinds of them and was just a delight to watch. Now they have one for NYC! But watch the Paris one and then the NYC one; also both movies are all star cast. Enjoy!

Julie and Julia...

HAHAHA i want to see this movie too! But jeez Amy Adams' hair in it is just awful sorry...

How did I only find this now?!?

There was a Barbie anniversary fashion show held at the Mercedes fashion week back in spring where many well-known designers fabulously contributed to the affair. There are seriously so many which will be mentioned in the video below. But the best part are the shoes the models are wearing...they are all wearing the same custom made hot-pink Barbie colored open-toed heels designed by Christian Louboutin!!! That's probably more than the usual price of $600!!!



Watch the actual video for the fashion show but just to warn you there is a long and annoying intro in the beginning of Barbie montage...jeez. But again the fashion show itself is FANTABULOUS!!!

...John Galliano just made Christian Dior proud once again. 89

Christian Dior Haute Couture 2009/2010



I love the fact that Galliano went way back to what made the fashion name Christian Dior for inspiration for his new fall collection...AHHHH LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!

But that is some crazy model walk though...

Galliano inspirations:

Bar suit from the New Look collection, 1947; Sales assistants on the day of the store opening;Y Line dress, autumn/winter 1955-56 (photos from http://www.designmuseum.org/design/christian-dior)

I MUST HAVE THIS to add to my coffee table book collection...

The Sartorialist Book by Scott Schuman

"For US$16.50, now you too can pre-order Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist's new self-titled book to be released on August 12, 2009.

Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people on the street who looked great. His now famous blog ('the bellwether American site that turned photo blogging into an art form' - "New York Times") was an attempt to showcase the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people - not only those of the fashion industry. The book is a beautiful anthology of Scott's favourite shots from around the world. They include photographs of well-known fashion figures as well as those shots of the anonymous passerby whose imagination and taste delight the viewer. From the streets of Rio to Bejing, Stockholm to Milan, these are the people that have inspired Scott and in turn, inspired designers and people of all ages, wages and nationalities with an interest in fashion. Intimately designed and created with Scott, the book is a handsome object in its own right, in full colour on hand-picked, quality paper."

--from Bryanboy.com

inside my bag...

(clockwise) Sabina bag--already beat up; UCB umbrella--summer is hiding and it's been rainy and cold...yuck; Ooh la la VS hand lotion; highlighter; planner and iPhone 3G s--despite of this new found phone technology i am old fashioned and still prefer writing down my activities and appointments on my big old planner; lip balm; VS cinnamon mints in a cute little tin ^_^; awesome hand cream called Olive--because it's made from olive extract and it doesn't smell girly and fruity with i love; "can't leave the house with/o" pen (for everything) and mechanical pencil (for pattern-making and figure drawing classes); Milwaukee County Bus Schedule--my limo around town; my awesome wallet that is completely falling apart but WILL NOT replace; cigarette case--contains NO cigarettes but other stuff; contacts and glasses case; napkin from Alterra this morning...hmmm...i am missing my Visine!

500 Days of Summer

Can't wait to see this movie!!!

So can I please be Ashley Olsen???

WHY YOU ASK? Because she can work Christian Louboutins! BTW sexy pics!
pics from http://olsensanonymous.blogspot.com/

Yummy right???

Yummy? or...FAKE Yummies?!?!



Believe it or not those paninis are fake-ass! And the coolest thing about this is that you can go on sooo many websites to order your own fake food like this one at the cafe at Barnes and Noble. It's really amazing how real they look! ^-^

Click here for one website I found:

Here are some of my favorite FAKE FOOD... (yes they are Asian food but it's because they are the best looking...



Oh i take that back...the spilled ICE CREAM IS THE BEST!!!

Weekend Recap!

BAYSHORE, SUMMERFEST & BAYVIEW...yummy cupcakes at the cafe in Barnes & Noble; undies at Victoria's Secret and look how freaking tiny they are--I mean they looked like 3 year-old undies; Shan and I at the bus stop; Me, Apey and Shan; FEET! and of course i am the tan one with the best sandals on ^_^; rubbing Bobby's stubly chin next to his GF; Me and Tinny!; Gavin DeGraw...and more Gavin--btw he is totally working out, no more scrawny little boy body!; special BRATWURST from Hornypie with this uber yummy salad slaw with apples or somthing; man singing a song from the Pabst block party thing at Bayview--i also won a Che Guevarra T-shirt there (sorry i didn't take a lot of pictures there surprisingly...); and me with Shan and Kels at the little market thing they had at the block party. All in all, whole weekend=FUN FUN FUN!

SABINA+Jordan Camille=LOVE (finally!!!)

So last year July my second blog post was to own the SABINA New York Leather Satchel...hmmm, finally i got it! ^_^