This guy is sooo good.
Carnival Day
The carnival was too much fun last night.
Can't wait to share more about it.
I <3 summer.
I <3 summer.
TONY LUCCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHH!!! I won't lie, My heart skipped a beat while listening to this. Melissa Polinar and Tony Lucca, together = perfection.
I want you back
{Ica & Hope}
This video has been along time coming, but sadly there is no time more appropriate than this to finally share it. This has got to be one of my favorite songs to play on the geetar {though I thoroughly suck} and almost a month ago me and my girlfriend Hopie finally sat down and jammed to it. It's only now, we've gotten a chance to get it up. Awesome song, awesome artist, there won't be another MJ. Sad day.
Check out more Hopie !!!
Gimme Thai Tea!!
I have cravings for Thai Tea at the most random times. I'm so blessed to have a family who'll entertain my cravings and join in on the fun too. A few Sundays ago me and my fam headed home from church in search of some Thai and decided to go to 4912. Amazing choice!!! It was my first time there, and let me tell you ... it was so romantic {even if it was just me and my family} and soo delicious.
I love our romantic little dates, just the 3 Diongzon girls.
My mom and my big sister are my heart, and my best friends.
Finally the THAI TEA arrived!
It was so good. SOO GOOD! Definitely hit the spot!!
Then the appetizers came out. Calamari and Fried Tofu. Both were incredible, especially the Tofu. The Tofu is probably the only thing I miss from working at our Chinese Restaurant. That and perfecting the art of dumpling making everyday ... but that I can practice at home if and when i wanted.
None but Jesus
In the chaos in confusion
I know You're sovereign still
In the moment of my weakness
You give me grace to do Your will
When You call I won't delay
This my song through all my days
I know You're sovereign still
In the moment of my weakness
You give me grace to do Your will
When You call I won't delay
This my song through all my days
Pleasant Words
Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul & healing to the bones - Prov 16:24
There are never enough pleasant words these days, but still so much talking. I feel like we don't listen enough, when silence can be a wonderful teacher. I'm sure God had a reason to allowed a way for us to close our mouths, but never our ears. Yet so often we do the opposite. Stick and stones, and words break bones, but may the Lord always keep you.
Put A Ring On It
I have a growing infatuation with rings. I love love love rings. I feel naked without them. The one thing most of my rings currently have in common is that they are all gold. "I LIKE GOLD!" like in Austin Powers Gold Member. Ask anyone of my best friends and they'll tell you I'm a "gold" girl. Don't know how that came to be, I loved silver one upon a time, but gold just fits me.
In fairness, I do still have a few silver pieces, but they are all pieces given to me. The last silver piece of jewelry I bought for myself was a ring with two intertwined hearts I got on a trip to NY in high school. Pretty lame, a two heart ring for myself, I know. But that was highschool and I was lonely. LOL. Here are a few rings I was window shopping for on Etsy, not that I deserve to give myself any presents. But a girl can dream.
Out of all the rings I laid my eyes on, this Skinny Ring is by far my favorite. I feel like it's the one piece missing from all my jewelry, the one piece I'd never take off if I had it. It's understated presence is it's beauty. {Note to self: Don't forget about this ring. It will be yours}
Stacked rings are always fun. My sister and my mom both have lovely sets that are actually all attached to each other {like they are tangled}, but I couldn't find any I liked online so stacked rings were my next option. I even asked my mom for her ring one day, it's so pretty and yes it is gold.
When I want to go with something loud I'd go for this Wrap Ring. I have one similar to it, but this is much more lovely. Big rings are so much fun.
There is something about rare or raw diamonds that always intrigues me. What can I say? I'm a girl's girl sometimes and diamonds are always a girl's best friend right {though I own not one}. This Black Diamond is simply amazing.
Call me bias with gold, yes. But I did look around for other types of rings that are not gold. This Wood ring was my fav. How beautiful is that? Ok yes it's lined in gold but that's the part that isn't seen.
Rings = fun, fun, fun!
Art-o-matic 2009
Finally, a whole year has past and Artomatic is once again open.
I've been ever so excited since last year's visit and knew I'd be in
for a real treat this year.
This time around, I ventured into South East DC {as the location changes every year} with my broder Glenn. Mind you South East DC = L.A.'s Compton ... Not the safest part of town but we got out alive. PTL.
Once we arrived we had about 9 stories of art ahead of us.
So much to do, see and explore.a
Art Whino artist rock.
From the gallery you could see the National's Baseball park a block over. If you got high enough you could even watch the game. I've yet to experience a baseball game. Another must, on my to-do list.
I'm sure this look just like scribbles, technically it is, but if you get up close you'll see how amazing this ink illustration is. I can only imagine how long it took to make.
After walking around for a few moments we finally met up with little Miss. Aimee who was one of the few to join us on this spontaneous art adventure of ours. This girl is truly amazing, another artist with amazing talent and I'm so excited that she's going into the graphic design field too.
There was so much art, all made by local talent {DC-MD-VA artists}.
There was again, a live tattoo artist. Pretty sick.
Out of all the pieces I saw that day, this piece struck up my favorite conversation of the day with Aimee. There's so much about it to analyze. Can you guess the name of the piece?
"Wasteland 2.0" Such an awesome piece.
I was sad that I was pretty disappointed by the photography through out the gallery. There were only a handful of photography installations that wowed me. I've actually been more moved and inspired by photography I've seen on blogs and online portfolios. Well anywhos, this one photography themed your installation around Greece. And man ... I dream of going to greece one day, this just made me want to go even more.
Before our day ended, we got a quick visit from Mobin & Andrew.
So sad that they didn't get to see alot of the gallery, but hopefully we can all go back again before it closes. {July 5th is the closing date so if you're in the area make sure you go out and see it!}
DC DC DC
Much is happening in this town...
Both The Real World & The Real House Wives
are moving into DC very soon.
This should be very interesting. This city isn't all about politics and history ... there is much to love and always so much going on, maybe these shows will shed a little bit of light on what's going on in our little corner of the world. We shall see...
Spontaneous Strawberries
I've hardly been in the mood to blog lately, but this little adventure is a must.
Early Wednesday morning my mom, who usually let's me wake up on my own because she knows I work at night, woke me up asking if I wanted to go pick some strawberries. Because of the sound of her voice and look on her face I knew she was excited and ready to, so I got ready in a jiffy ... then we were off.
I'm always up for spontaneous adventures, and I'm glad my mom took me on one she's been wanting to take. I'm usually the brains behind spontaneous adventures, though now I see I might have gotten that from her. Once we got there we took out our big ole summer hats and headed down to the patch.
First we were assigned a row to help guide us to some yummy berries. But apparently we had the whole patch to ourselves so really it was an "all you could pick" buffet.
The whole field smelt of sweet berries, it was so delightful.
At the end of our adventure me and mom took home a bucket
of strawberries, each ... and a few more pictures for the road.
so I thought I would try my luck with this barn.
My mom just thought it'd be cute to pose.. hehe
I love mi madre, and our spontaneous strawberry adventure.
Last thing ...
Last thing ...
I've not had the luxury of time to sit and sew, but I did manage to whip up a little skirt for myself last week and finally took her out for our little trip. I didn't have a pattern on me, which is always the case so I just played around and TADA! I really wanna make more.. hopefully I can soon.
it's nice to finally have both feet back on solid ground.
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