popnea We went to an event yesterday, I am still a little unsure what the event was about… but they were serving free champagne and cupcakes so we had to go 🙂
It was held in a small boutique on Abbot Kinney in Venice, they sold a bunch of greeting cards and other paper related items.
The event was all about mingling, and they had set up a photo booth as well. FUN!
It got pretty crowded and hot in the boutique, so we moved on to Brennan’s Pub and the Thursday night turtle races.
Tracy Hutson from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is designing the showroom at work. We are getting a lot of things donated from different companies, everything is eco-friendly! Here is some behind the scenes shots from the first meeting.
Putting together an eco-friendly baby showroom.
Tracy shows the team antique wallpaper samples.
LA-based designer, Brandi Middagh, and Jessica, the developer of California Baby talk eco-friendly cork flooring.
Grace under pressure – green tea time for the California Baby Showroom design team.
The California Baby Showroom design team brainstorming.
The home of California Baby!
Los Angeles get an average of 35 days of rain every year. Today is one of those days. I love it!
We made sushi for dinner, it was awesome!
I dont like the seaweed paper, I like my sushi with soy paper.
It’s difficult to get the cut rolls to stay together, we did a pretty decent job, but we are gonna have to practice more.
Since I havnt done anything too exciting lately, I thought I could give you an update on whats going on at work.
We are opening a Showroom. It is kind of a retail store, but we are not allowed to call it a retail store for some legal reason, so we just call it Showroom.
The Showroom is located right next to the design department, which is cool cos I can sneak over there every now and then to check out the progress. It is also very uncool, cos it gets loud sometimes when the workers knock down walls…
Two rooms will become one
Construction starts on archway between both rooms
Archway is complete!
The grand opening with celebrities and TV coverage is set to be sometime in spring, I will keep you updated 🙂
I am super picky with what I eat, and I am also kind of a snob when it comes to food. I dont know if it is just the way I am born or if it is my trained eye, but I am convinced that you can make a meal taste a lot better with just presentation and the atmosphere it is served in. I hate eating at fast food restaurants and I dont think much of restaurants that uses cheap plastic plates or glasses (there are a lot of these restaurants in LA).
I also like having it done my way… when I was working in a bakery a few years back, my co-workers made fun of me cos I showed interns and newbies how to slice the cucumber properly, but the cucumber actually tastes differently depending on how thick or thin the slices are! One day at the bakery a customer came in and asked, “why is it that a sandwich tastes so much better when someone else has made it?” – I dont know, I like it better when I make my own sandwich, cos I know it is made properly, with properly sliced cucumber 🙂
Oh, and lukewarm food doesnt work for me – it has to be warm, or cold!
The new quarter started a couple of weeks ago. My summer quarter was super chill; I only had one class and I didnt like it that much so I didnt give it 100%.
I am super excited for this quarter, but I am gonna be really busy. I am taking Advanced Typography which turns out is a lot of work, I am also having a mentor this quarter that is totally whipping my butt! Before the quarter started I had to come up with the projects I wanted to work with during my mentorship and my mentor had to sign off and get it approved by my school. I decided to do two projects and my mentor told me it would be a lot of work but if I was up for the challenge I should do it. -I was up for it and super excited!
My second meeting with my mentor went well, I felt like I had a lot to show him and he liked what he saw. Then at the end of the meeting he is dropping the bomb….
Mentor “So, is this your last quarter, how is your portfolio coming along?”
Me “Well, I have one more quarter after this and I wasnt gonna concentrate so heavy on the portfolio with you this quarter”
Mentor “Ok, so we are gonna work on your portfolio this quarter as well then, we are gonna have to set up a grid system for it etc, why dont you bring it in nex time so I can have a look at what you already have.”
So I guess I have no choice but to work on my portfolio as well… So yeah, my online portfolio will probably also be updated by the end of this quarter as well.
This is what a typical weeknight between 10pm and 1am looks like at at the Leap/Leogra Casa;
Wake up call was 3:45am, it’s been a while since I had to get up that early! We packed our bags and off we went. First stop was the gas station.
The wind, a good resource for power, and it looks cool too!
Some 3 hours later we arrived at the Joshua Tree National park, just in time for breakfast!
It was already starting to get hot!
We did bring our swimwear, but we were unfortunately not allowed to go for a swim…
It did however use to be water here, the marks on this rock was over 7ft high.
I think it has been about 7 years since the last time I saw Manics, and it’s been 10 years since they toured America.
I thought that after they went to Cuba and shook hands with Castro, they would not be welcome to America again, but I guess Obama is a little more liberal than the previous president.
They played the Avalon in Hollywood tonight, and I was a happy camper!
Quote of the night from Nicky “So we flew British Airways over here, it was weird to see our album in the ‘records they recommend’ section. They had taken out Jackie Collins Existential Question Time though because it was apparently too offensive. But then they had the entire Coldplay album in there, how offensive isn’t that?”
I went to see a friend playing at the Cat Club in West Hollywood last night.
