NY Tomorrow

Sigh ... counting down the hours.

It's been almost a year since my last trip, I can't help but reminisce

I miss Brooklyn.

And I miss my brother.

And he's auditioning for Juilliard.

And no matter what the outcome is, I love him so much and I'm so unbelievably proud of him.

I can't wait for tomorrow.

West Coast Bound!!!

It's finally here! I'm soo excited, so really and so finished packing. It's been 2 years to long since I've seen the sunny shores of California and seen my dear dear friends. I know it will be an amazing week.

YAY!

Read.Set.... WEEKEND!!!

I won't lie, this song makes me giddy and all bubbly inside. Who doesn't love HSM3? Seriously!!! Thinking about the beach makes me feel the exact same way. I've been so overwhelmed lately, taking this vacation with mi familia is just what I need. Hello weekend & hello beach ... I've been waiting for you.

Praise the Lord for Family vacations!!!

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!}

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.

I have this secret talent of breaking into places ... hehe
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 ...

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.

I'm glad this week is coming to an end,
it's nice to finally have both feet back on solid ground.