on saturday, july 17th, i went over to my friend’s loft in brooklyn late at night after spending the entire day with the very lovely fashion hayley from australia! yayyy!

haha! here's hayley taking a snap of this really cute girl in williamsburg!

it was so hot on saturday, both hayley and i had to take rest stops every couple of hours. we went from williamsburg to the east village to noho to soho! quite a feat in this terrible weather, i have to say!

at the end of the day, we even had to buy cheap 2 for $5 beach sandals from old navy because we both had feet that were killing us!! we were seriously waddling along in pain! it was hilarious! and the sighs of relief after changing out of our old sandals and into the flip-flops…. ahhhhh~~~.

this photo is courtesy of fashion hayley. the girl in the middle is one of her readers who happened to walk by and said hi to hayley while we sat and talked on the stoop!

i dropped off my stuff at home and then headed to brooklyn. 4 of my friends live together in a loft there, and it wasn’t any sort of party or anything, but they were drinking beers and asked anyone who was bored shitless to drop by.

so of course…

when i got there, someone had put one of those caps on the fire hydrant downstairs and left it running. so the photographer in the house decided to run down to snap some pictures and we went along because we were busybodies. what else. i kept trying to peep and see what functions ryosuke was using to take his pictures and what type of buttons he was pressing, but man, it was too complicated for me! i really wish i was better at taking photos!

one of their neighbours from downstairs brought out their shampoo, bath gel AND loofah and had their entire shower in the water. really? a loofah too? REALLY!??!

after the photo-taking, ryosuke and tossy both jumped in too. the next day, tossy got sick. AHAHAH.

i don’t even know what i was doing at their house… i think we were really just lazing around and having random conversations. before i knew it, it got light outside and i finally took a cab home at about 6am. the sky was so clear. it was really pretty and peaceful.

it's weird how much energy and qi i get from looking at the sky.

that night, we met at about 6pm at the japanese supermarket in the east village to buy ingredients for food, then took the train to brooklyn again and headed for koki’s new home. he’s moved into an apartment with his girlfriend, lisa, in a completely mexican part of town! as we walked from the station to his apartment, everyone we saw were mexicans! not that i don’t have mexican friends that i adore, but being the only two asians there, i hope they don’t run into any trouble. we must have been quite a sight – a group of asian people walking down the street in our colourful gear. haha!

koki’s new apartment was really long and spacious… but VERY hot! he had air-conditioners at both ends but we all wondered out loud how the previous tenants used the rooms in between. they were like furnaces!

he made us some gorgeous japanese seafood curry to eat. yummmmm!!! i hadn’t had japanese curry in a while so it was really exciting. i don’t know if he added stock, or maybe it was the sweetness from the prawns, but the curry didn’t taste anything like the ready-made curry cubes that he added in. i was sooo impressed!

total cafe-standard japanese/western-inspired curry with parsley sprinkled on top. then we learnt he DID work in a cafe before. aha!

the other exciting part of the evening was making takoyaki balls!! you might have seen them before. they are really famous in osaka, japan, and are often sold at festivals or road-side stalls throughout japan. i’d bought a takoyaki pan (with the holes to make those balls), so we all took turns making it.

how cute is this dude? he's the "oiler".

the room was soooooo hot because of the stove, i was gonna faint.

after pouring in the batter, you add octopus, and spring onions (or any other ingredients you want, like cheese etc), and start flipping it!

when the outside turned crispy and the inside was cooked through, the layering of the sauces begin! okonomiyaki sauce with kewpie mayonnaise and aonori!

the finished product! so good! tres bon! maji oishikatta!

in singapore, i had several okonomiyaki parties with my friends or at home with my family. and in japan, we had them once every now and then too. so i was really excited to have it again here in new york! okonomiyaki is really similar to takoyaki. “okonomi” means “favorite” or “what you like”, and “yaki” is “cooked” or “grilled”. basically you mix whatever you want into the batter. usual ingredients are stuff like shredded cabbage, prawns, pork, eggs, cheese, whatever.

“tako” means octopus. so putting in cut cubes of octopus is the norm, but now, it’s evolved to be really similar to okonomiyaki. you can basically put whatever you like in there. salmon, cheese, mentaiko… there’s even desert takoyaki now where you put chocolate into plain batter. sounds good, no?

if you’ve never tried takoyaki or okonomiyaki, you have to one day! especially okonomiyaki, since you can make it with any fry pan or hot plate. plus, it’s really easy to make and terribly delish. i will put up a good recipe soon!!

testing the first takoyaki to see if it cooked through

and it is!! yay!

i don’t know what we did the rest of the night. half of it was spent around the portable stove cooking the takoyaki, and the rest we just talked, and played the yamanote-sen game again. just like during the previous party, i had no clue to some of the questions and had to take a forfeit and ate this disgusting mix of fermented natto beans, mentaiko, ginger and not sure what else. tears came to my eyes and i thought i was going to puke. YUCK.

slowly stepping away from the fire and letting them do the work. lol. sorry.

no comment.

*guffaw*

tossy and ryo with sudden high energies.

i kinda liked this mexican beer from the neighbourhood deli!

and here's to the couple and their new home!

what have you guys been up to? summer parties? i’ve been obsessed with having people over or going to friends’ homes. almost everyday. with school over and while i haven’t found a job yet, i feel as though i need to fill this lonely gap in my life.

i never really socialised much while i was at parsons because i was too tired and couldn’t be bothered to go out and party like some of the kids did. so i stuck to my small social circle. i adore my friends, i do, but before work starts (if i ever do find a job) and things start getting busy again, i need to hang out with them as much as i can, see them often and just laugh nonstop, before i miss the chance to build memories and regret later.

it was gay pride day a few weeks ago on june 27th. totally forgetting that it was gonna clog up the entire west village, i invited some friends over for a housewarming party/dinner/drink.

there were 8 of us and i had no idea what to cook. there was plenty of thinking to do and plenty of going up to those friends and asking, “wait, so do you eat a lot?” it also didn’t help that i have the tiniest kitchen ever!

i ended up making shepard's pie since it could be made in advance.

i also made some tiramisu for dessert.

in addition, i had some pork, peppers and pineapple on skewers that were marinated in a honey glaze. unfortunately, my oven is stupid (or i’m stupid and don’t know how to use my oven and broiler) but while baking the shepard’s pie and trying to broil the skewers, my smoke alarm went off and that was when one of the taller guys had to climb up on a stool to pull it off the ceiling! oh, yeah we did try to turn it off but it wasn’t working so we pulled out the batteries and took it down. didn’t wanna scare the neighbours!

outside, it was really hot and i had been running around in the morning getting ingredients for the party. of course, it was gay pride day and i had to make so many detours because of the roads that were closed up. it wasn’t fun trying to get through a sweating glitter-covered crowd!!

bleecker street was already filling up at 11am.

soon after my friends came at 8pm, we heard fireworks and realized i had a pretty good view of them from my window!

funny thing was, the boys were more interested in the fireworks than the girls. hahaha!

setting up the champagne flutes.

wonder what we were talking about here... looks like ryosuke's giving some class talk and we're all paying attention, right?

close-up of ryosuke's necklace. i want.

the guys got a kick out of all my hats, especially my sailor cap.

so of course they passed it around and tried it on.

i think it looks pretty good on all of them...

but it was koki who suited it best. i mean, seriously. there are definitely navy boys out there who look like this. we couldn't stop laughing.

as you can see, ryuji's the joker of the group.

ryosuke with my not-very-pretty tiramisu that i randomly dusted cocoa powder over. note to self: need to buy one of those strainer things to dust the cocoa next time!

i had such a great night. it was terribly fun. you know i’ve really hated new york quite a bit. i think new york = parsons to me, so for the last 3 years, every holiday break i’ve had, i’ve tried to escape from the city.

this is probably the first time in the almost 3 years that i’ve spent in new york, that i’ve been really enjoying myself and realizing that when you’re doing what you love and you have friends surrounding you, anywhere on earth could be heaven. yep, even new york.

it was july 4th yesterday!! ok, you knew that. but in america, it’s apparently a really important day to have barbecues and look at fireworks. ummm. right.

last year, i spent my american independance day at patricia field’s annual barbecue. i was still considerably new at work, but it was quite the beginning of a love affair because i’d fallen in love with all these amazing people from the house of field. i stopped work in december 2008 because of school, after spending about 7 months working in the store (mostly in the office), but i had kept in contact with all my friends there. so when sushi emailed me that he was celebrating his birthday early this year, at pat’s barbecue, there was nowhere else in new york i’d rather be. (ps: i adooore sushi. and his birthday last year was pretty darn fun too!)

the night before, i took a look at my kidrobot plush smorkin’ labbit that was sitting happy on my couch smoking his cig. and instead of a rabbit, suddenly i saw a bag. so i did it. i killed mr labbit!

this is smorkin' labbit sitting happy on my sofa before my impromptu murder

sliced him down the back! sorry dude!

pulling out those innards, hannibal lecter style

gave labbit a bright unicorn pocket

poking the hell out of labbit

labbit became a not-so-little shoulder bag, and came with me the next day to the barbecue at pat’s. the party started at 5pm, and when i arrived at 6:30, it was packed!!! whoah! i was not expecting so many people, because it was way more chill and relaxed last year.

the party scene. the whole house was filled!

squeeze in yo! ian, natalie, lyndsay, dai and i. i was so excited to see ian and dai, whom i haven't seen in a long while!

just take the damn picture, ian

i'd been warned that i might be helping with party prep but didn't have to in the end. well, they had the sexiest cook around, sofia!

everyone sing, "i'm, too sexy for my..."

"put your left leg in, and shake it all about"

these damned russians always look better

mauricio of mao pr, the blonds, ingrid and dennis with one of the poodles

oh stop

sultana was the calmest dog in the house for once!!

ingrid is fierce. and dennis is weird

everyone gathered downstairs to sing sushi a birthday song. awwwww!! everyone loves sushi.

russian dennis brings out the cake!

sushi's jonas brothers tshirt is eww

when sushi told me this picture was him like 15 years ago, i nearly died laughing. really.

eat that cake!

pat takes charge and dishes that cake out like business

i mean, seriously. i died. oh my god i need the original photo to put up on my wall. this deserved two listings on my blog. hohohohohohahahahahahohwowoahhhaah!

got to know sofia when i helped artie, sushi and her set up FIT's graduate show. i love her!

the girls with pat

tsophie and artie aka the fiercest stylist ever

the russian grabs tsophie's ass

the pretend heterosexual couple. dennis is disgusting.

labbit’s a-hole was an unexpected big-hit at the party. i shoulda guessed. all these new york queens!! sushi said labbit was like dennis. a white rabbit with a cig in his mouth and a pink a-hole. dennis was insulted. he said his was deeper. i died (again) laughing. poor labbit got fingered by many gays. happy 4th of july!

hot asses. we don't need more proof dennis!

fay showed up when the party was ending! here's us with the birthday boy.

as the party dwindled down and got more personable and friendly, fay came and said hi to everyone. she’s an ex-classmate of mine from parsons. you might remember her modeling my forest nymph jacket before. she used to work at pat field too, so she knew most of the people there. she said she had a few other parties to go to, so we left pat’s and hopped over to this apparent party at the penthouse of thompson hotel at allen street. unfortunately, the view was amazing but the party was pathetic and filled with drunk teens so we left. fay’s friend, barry, met us at the hotel and we cabbed to brooklyn!

the view from the thompson hotel's penthhouse. this is one of those rare times i think, "damn i want a boyfriend!"

brooklyn grafitti

barry and fay groovin'.

we stayed at this party in williamsburg for a while and danced under the stars. at the end of the night however, we decided we wanted hotdogs and icecream, so back to the city we went!

crif hot dog store. look at that girl straddling that... hot dog

fay and i after we ate our dogs. fay's obviously satisfied!

ima gonna cut you!

barry, shakin that ass

getting icecream at the dodgy belgian hippy place on avenue a

i was not expecting this. for the first time in my life, the ice melted faster than i could lick it, and i was like some stupid 5 year old with gross sticky stuff all over my hands

'twas fun!

i like grafitti with cute words

labbit survived the night of pokes! yay yay!

and so the night ended with our ice creams. mr labbit endured several sodomies but stayed nice and white. i was happy, and people liked my sparkly zebra sequined harem pants. (get your own! i will love you forever!)

note to self: the next time you wanna go out to a party with colourful people like at pat’s, wear more make up so you won’t look so washed out in comparison. AND, the next time you wanna go out with an ex-model/fabulous designer who you know is gonna wear platform wedges, put your heels on too!

and then i want to point out to everyone, that i was the first person i know in new york to start wearing sailor caps. i started wearing it way long ago and my sailor cap made it’s first pictorial debut at sushi’s birthday last year. but it’s been worn to go to the supermarket, to go to school, everywhere. then all of a sudden, last night, we saw like 10 people all in american apparel but wearing sailor caps. wtf. dress up a little more if you wanna rock the captain’s hat will you!?!? and stop wearing generic sailor caps bought from your local costume shop! the only people fit for the captain now, are hugh hefner, and artie (who’s always a sailor).

(and me). full stop.

update!! update!!
i took a look at the smorkin’ labbit’s tag, and hey! i wasn’t kidding that i thought he was a thug, gay rabbit! look at the user instructions! USER instructions! and, it’s only for ages 15 up! hahahha! repeat until relief is felt! that is sooooo hilarious!

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(tranny tits on the loose; don’t look further if you might get offended!)

on december 21st, the house of field celebrated its annual christmas dinner and i was so delighted to be included. there were over 80 people on this incredible guest list, filled with the most beautiful trannies, drag queens, new york club kids, and really the nicest and funniest people ever. everyone was so shiny and sequined and eyelined, and i think the amount of fake eyelashes used that night could make a wig.

the lovely women i worked with

omar, dai, myself and ian

although i recognized many faces, i didn’t know many of them; after all i’d only been working at the patricia field boutique once or twice a week for about 7 months, so i only knew those who came to the store regularly. but it was great to see how everyone was so close to one another. it really felt like christmas, and it didn’t even matter what age, colour, or sex you were.

the party was held in a private room at the la bottega restaurant in the maritime hotel, complete with a fireplace, christmas tree with presents, and of course, who else but trannyclaus! haha!

it was fantastic. everyone was so dressed up it was better than the oscars. i felt so pale in comparison and wished i had piled on the eyeshadow. there’s nothing like feeling less of a female when standing in between two drags. the dinner was so darn yummy, it was quite orgasmic. midway through the evening, the delightful and always smiling andre j performed a little number for us that ended with her spinning in crazy, wild circles around the room, stripping down to little white boy shorts, grabbing a candle from the table and pouring the hot wax all over her body. ooh lala.

andre j working it!

after andre j’s performance, out came tranny claus who had changed into a different little number. a very very tight one. and then in a split second, her boobs had popped out of her dress. which left me holding my stomach and laughing really hard.

in the next moment, ian’s face was pressed into her cleavage and as you can see, even dai was laughing her face off.

then the best thing of all happened.

i honestly thought i might die laughing. tom tom, the boy who had just made some lurve to trannyclaus’s boobies, is of course, gay himself. and i’m sure he isn’t at all particularly attracted to boobs. heh heh.

i felt very blessed to have had the opportunity to work with such amazing people. i miss them lots!! for more retarded photos, check out my flickr account!

and there’s no wifi down in this shithole so i haven’t been able to blog.

being silly as usual

well at least i’m trying to come up with an original (albeit lame) excuse! quite a number of you have emailed me and i’m so thankful that you still remember who i am in this whirlwind of 72937904 new fashion blogs that come up everyday. thank you so much. and i know, i know, i’m the snobby devil who didn’t reply and you all have the right to bitch-slap me. actually i have hundreds of emails in my inbox and i just don’t know where to start.

you know what i think? i think i’m letting school get to me. i really am. this stupid piece of $#!*@)#$&! (grrrrr) school is just getting to me. new york is jading me and parsons is the jader.

or maybe i’m having some sort of quarter-life crisis. you know, from this year onwards i’m going to be in my late-twenties. last year, i could still say i’m in my early or mid-twenties… but at 26, i feel like i’m getting old and i’m really not ready for this. there’s so much i want to do and with school, i just don’t have time to do anything i want. so it makes me very frustrated and being frustrated makes me tired and hence i feel like i’m getting old. on the other hand i think i’m still a kid at heart. i’m still young like that. or ok, i just dress young. then again, i seem to “dress young” because i think people in america dress old.

sorry, didn’t mean to insult. but i like colour and i like to have fun and everyone here is just black and grey and meh.

erm, am i confusing you? it must be because i haven’t had proper sleep in a while so i’m gibberish.

so. what have you guys been up to? i’ve been trying to catch up with all my favourite blogs through my reader. everyone seems to be moving at some speed of light and i feel a little left behind with my boring old life.

the reason why i decided to drop all my work for a little while and blog tonight, (ps: it’s about 2am) is because i just attended the independent fashion bloggers event organised by the lovely jennine of the coveted, and talking to all these bloggers made me realise how much i actually miss blogging.

i'm da fashion un-police

but the fact of the matter is, i’ve really been so busy with school that i just, simply don’t have anything to blog about unless you want to hear me bitch about school nonstop. (which by the way, for that, you can check out newschoolinexile.com where we are trying to get rid of/impeach the university’s stupid president. yes, for real.) last year was awful and i fell sick so many times. the moment school ended, i also finished my internship with patricia field and left new york on christmas eve.

i flew to tokyo where i met up with my family. they had flewn up from singapore, and it was the first time in like, 7 or 8 years that all 5 of us had gone for a holiday together. we spent most of the 2 weeks in hokkaido (northern super-cold japan – think snow storms), and the remainder in tokyo.

at shikotsu lake in hokkaido

then we flew back home to singapore where i spent the remainder of my winter holidays, before coming back to new york and starting school immediately. and then you know, it all went downhill again from there. until valentine’s day when i went to the party at the patricia field boutique, i hadn’t gone out since returning to new york. i had only been going to school or to the supermarket. which is basically what my life is about, ever since i came to new york about a year and a half ago.

pathetic, don’t you think? i really don’t have a life at all. someone asked me yesterday if i went out on a date for valentine’s day.

oh wait, i think it was my dad when he called me. haha. yeah, he asked if i went on a date, and i said, “date? what date. oh please. i’d rather date my bed.”

school simply takes up every minute of my time, which means really little sleep, if any at all. every minute of free time i have, i’d rather be sleeping or lying horizontally on my couch. (i guess that’s the same thing in two different venues.)

so anyway, the patricia field boutique had a valentine’s day party where the turn-out was super crazy. i have never seen it so packed, there was a line outside!

claustrophobia at pat field's

then on sunday the 15th, i went to amalia in midtown to celebrate pat’s birthday. it was so fun and my friend dai (who works at pat field too), performed her new single “i’m a killa”. she was so amazing!!! i thought it was such a waste that i was at such an amazing party like that because i didn’t know all the celebrities who were there. there were quite a bunch of photogs and every once in a while when certain somebodies walk in, the flashes go off and it’s crazy. i think the cast of ugly betty was there, some actresses and actors… the only one i really recognized was lucy liu. ohhh and fern mallis was there too! i wanted to ambush her but of course i didn’t.

with pat and ayumi (why am i smiling weird??)

and today, the 16th, i headed downtown, very downtown, to meet fashion bloggers where i was reminded again that my parents never taught me social skills and i blame them entirely for it. haha! i mean, i just don’t know how to go up to people and butt in and say hi! the best i did was to smile around and if anyone smiled back then i was like, “ooh make friends make friends!”

so that, ladies and genteelmen, is the story of my sad life.

and i know you didn’t want to read all that. you just want pictures! right?? i’m gonna upload them, yes i am. cross my heart and hope to die.

so here’s a list of notable events that i’d been up to in the past few months (and the only reason why i remember them is because they were the only ones worth taking pictures of!):

20081127 thanksgiving & black friday with my pat field family (sniff)
20081208 last projects at school
20081221 christmas party with trannyclaus and the house of field
20081224-20090121 winter break to japan and singapore
20090214 valentine’s day at patricia field
20090215 pat field’s birthday
20090216 ifb event

wow. as you can see, the only times i get to have fun is when i run away from new york or when i hang out at pat field (which was partly work-related too)!

i really really need to put work aside sometimes and go out and find myself a social life.

i’m not sure how to do this – what’s the best way for me to upload all these photos? do i start from the beginning? or do i go backwards!?

i guess i’ll do a “series” of photos and start from that thanksgiving date eh?

ps: i was just trying to think of a funny name for this series of photos, and all i could think of was “gilda day-dreamer and the prisoner of parsons”. you know, like harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban.

pps: i try to be funny sometimes but i really am not.

first of all, i wanna say thank you to all of you who took part in the hammer pants contest! i had a blast looking at everyone’s entries. have you guys checked them all out? they are pretty amazing! and kudos to those of you who made videos!!! i will be going through the entries again and picking the winners pretty soon. stay tuned!

also, remember how i talked about meeting danielle from final fashion, who sketched me while i stuffed my face with a burger? (ok i think i left out the burger part.) but yeah she drew a sketch of me, and it was crazy good! she also made me look a lot cute and skinnier. phew! haha! i just kept peeking over as her hands flew over her sketchbook. ok that woman is super fast. i can’t draw half as fast, plus, i need an eraser when i draw. that’s what separates me from the pros. haha! thanks danielle!

sketch by danielle meder

in other exciting news, it was gala‘s birthday on saturday and nubby‘s on sunday. so the two of them held a joint birthday party at central park to celebrate. yahoo! i love birthday parties! i hadn’t slept that much in the 3 days before that because i had been so darn tired from school, and i had stayed up all night before the party, doing some work! i went to bed at 10 am (yes, you read that right, 10 am on saturday morning), and woke up at about 1:30pm just before the party. it was the best sleep i have had in a few days… and when i woke up i could hardly move. hahaha! really! i was like, “i don’t wanna get out of my beautiful beddddd!!!!” *whine whine whine*

but i did crawl out! i mean, i reached the party super late, at 3 pm-ish. i think because i had been feeling so sluggish, my body was just a piece of waste and i couldn’t move around as fast as i wanted to. but i’m glad i got there! it was colour haven. i didn’t really get dressed up much for it, unfortunately. in the end, i decided to wear the dress that i had sewn the night before! it was actually meant to be a design for one of my classes, and i didn’t intend to wear it, but i liked how it turned out (well i’d BETTER like it, i stayed up making it!) so i just threw it on and went to the party.

here are the photos! thank god for my nikon camera. it was a muddy and grey day but with some nice camera settings (good work, me!) my pictures turned out pretty bright!

me + xenia, who's looking major colourful! love! she's starting her own make-up line. ain't she fab?

this guy was so cute. he made the funniest faces while taking pictures! and i love it when people wear bowties.

two tie-dyed heads. renee is quite the artist!

why am i so short? me + star + gala

marie is so se-xay.

i also realise that silly me forgot to take an outfit photo of the day! so this back view is the closest full-body shot i have of myself. that’s mister evil heart starin’ at ya. yes, i wore my tshirt back to front! aren’t i a genius? ha!

a photo with another amazing artist, cynthia!

nubby looking perfect as always!

how can anyone not love marie? she's so cheeky!

love. marie takes the most amazing photos. you have to check out her pictures!

we couldn't get a cab and took the fucking subway, yo!

nubby is tired.

marie's polaroids of the day!

we’d all seen marie’s crazy corn costume on her flickr page before, and that crazy woman had packed it into her suitcase and brought it across america to new york! hahahahaha! check out this video. the person you hear laughing like a hyena is me. hohohoho! she is so damn funny!!! you can’t get more fabulous than that!

the corn and nubby the rockstar, jumping on the bed

nubby decided to be corn. so cuuuute!

gala and nubby were too tired to go out and party, so when star and marie decided they wanted to go out for some drinks, i thought i’d go along. we ended up in this little bar, and took some crazy photos! i’m glad i decided to go. star and marie are two pretty darn awesome ladies, with interesting stories and amazing jobs! i love listening and talking to people who have such passion for life.

3 monkeys. we really are.

back at the hotel, nubby had fallen asleep. she must have been so tired, poor thing. xenia didn’t come at night, and we were stupid enough not to take photos at the park during the day when she was there and we were all fresh! so that night at 1:30-ish am, we took this photo in the hotel. here are the lady bloggers, minus one! well, minus one and a half. because nubby is there in person and not there in spirit. hahahaha!!!!

lady bloggerzzzzz minus 1 & 1/2!

this was such an amazing day! i got to meet all these people whose blogs i have been reading for a while now. star, marie and poochie had all flown into new york just for this day! (by the way if you’re a shoe maniac, you have to check out her blog. i am intending to rob her house and steal her shoe closet. or at least one louboutin.) in the short time that i was at the park, i also got to talk to some cute girls who go to school like me, one who teaches (gasp!) and one who works at in tv production and has her own youtube show going on! everyone was really so spread out and it was hard to talk to people and make friends. i half-wish we had a round table! hee hee!

but it was good, all good! plus, after wearing my dress all day, i really like how it turned out. so i’m glad i spent those 5 hours draping and sewing it! yayyy! hopefully it will score me some extra brownie points for my next project, which was what i actually made it for.

ps: today (tuesday, sep 16th), nubby, gala and i took a trip to the colette x gap store hoping to be wowed and wanting to buy a ton of things. in 3 minutes, we left. disappointed and underwhelmed. boo, colette! i expected much more from you!