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Hi Everyone!!!!!
I haven't been writing on this one because i've been doing a blog with my friend Shirley called Barefoot Musings (barefootmusings.com) so check it out. Not as much about my silly shenanigans as it is about cooking, yoga and design but still super fun (as if my silly shenanigans were fun!)

That being said, I feel like writing again on this one, so keep checking. I'm still here :-) Barely though, as my mind is still on Cost Rica even though i've been back for a month. It was the most magical experience. Just being in such a still, calm, beautiful place with 20 other yogis - being slow, eating slow, doing yoga and meditation whenever all day, laughing, listening, swimming...it was just wonderful. Gave me such a different view of what life really is. Which over the past year, by being on my own, doing a ton of yoga and meditation, meeting new people and doing a lot of "self" stuff, has made me see as well. I'll have to get in to all that later...too much to talk about!

Christmas Party

It's funny, i haven't had as many coincidences or serendipitous moments lately, i think because i've been so immersed in work. I feel so guilty i'm complaining about working too much but i must say i kinda miss being so lost that nothing makes sense! 

I've been enjoying working with the girls, we made a wreath for a charity event and got to go to the party at a beautiful Beverly Hills private home, overlooking the entire city. Was so amazing to see a house like that. I wouldn't want to live there, but it was fun to admire. We got all dressed up and had tons of fun together. It always amazes me how much fun we have and how comfortable we are together. It was like that from day one...

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Two in One House

Came across this house today in Santa Monica. I had driven by it before and always focused on just the modern part, then today i realized it was all one house! So i turned around and snapped a shot. Just love spotting cool houses like this! There are just so many things to look at here.

High Point

What an awesome time at the High Point furniture market! So before i show pictures from the show, i do just have to share this completely random happenstance of meeting a crow. If any of you don't know, when i was two (i don't remember this but have been told the story) i had a crow sit on top of my head while i was sitting in a playpen outside who wouldn't get off. Guess it scared my mom quite a bit, think it was even pecking at my head (which would explain A LOT!). Thank goodness i was too little to remember! But when i first got here, i went hiking in Griffith Park and the first thing i saw as i walked up to the path was a giant crow sitting there right in front of me. There have been other incidences but in High Point, one of the last showrooms we went into, sitting there in front of me was a bronze crow statue. Should have got him...so there, the crow and i meet again.

Anyway, got to meet some amazing design idols like Thom Filicia and Jefferey Alan Marks. Was so awesome! Not long ago i would have been too shy to hang around and introduce myself. But with Christine, i was like full speed ahead!

We had tons of fun together. The hotel we stayed in in Greensboro was insanely sketchy, thought we actually might not make it out. It was like the motel in Psycho! Creepy guys in random construction trucks parked in the parking lot, broken signs, holes in the ceilings, broken keys, no elevator, half naked guy in the room next door with the door open, yes, the tales go on! Will write more about them in my book someday!

 

 

Dinner...

I'm so afraid of getting in such a routine that i'll forget about all the thinking and learning i was doing while i didn't have a job! I don't know, all this is new to me :-) 

Anyway, had a really fun dinner party at Camerich LA, hosted by my boss Michael Lin. It had a 'Day of the Dead' theme and was beautiful. Got to meet a lot of fun LA people, including Leanne Rimes and Eddie Cibrian. He's a total cutie :-) My friend Shirley introduced me to Michael, as well as so many other LA things i never would have explored if it weren't for her. She's been an angel for me here :-)

LA Hood

Last week at work i found myself on a gorgeous sunny day driving from Beverly Hills, across rolling Sunset Blvd, over to Pacific Palisades, then back again along the PCH, high up into the Hollywood Hills. What an awesome day of driving it was! I was in awe at every turn, just staring at all the amazing houses and views. Driving around the hills is awesome because the roads are so tiny and windy and just filled with amazingly gorgeous homes, all so different in style.
The other night i had dinner with a friend of a friends and as i was leaving, they were saying goodbye telling me to check out Cameron Diaz and Johny Depp's house on the way down....so LA!

Pie Hole

Another fun day with Shirley. We ventured down to the arts district in LA and had pumpkin and chocolate pie at The Pie Hole. It's a little hole in the wall (!) place just for grandma style pies. We were craving pumpkin but there was only one piece left, so we got chocolate too. They were unbelievable. I want to go again already!!!!