Glamour UK Magazine April 2009
BlackBook Magazine April 2009
ViVi Magazine April 2009
"What Comes Around Goes Around" Fall 2009 collection launch
Speaking of motherhood, here's my favorite fashionable celebrity mother who is pregnant once again. Nicole Richie graced the cover of the April edition of Glamour UK Magazine, BlackBook Magazine, was featured in Vivi Magazine and also showed off her baby bump at Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood for the "What Comes Around Goes Around" fall 2009 collection.
I love her style and everything about her.. She recently launched her fun jewelry collection,
House of Harlow 1960, at Kitson and she is truly one of my favorite fashion icons and inspirations.
(forever 21 dress, old black beanie, forlove headband, bcbg shoes)
(bcbg dress, betsey johnson shoes)
vintage pram stroller- a steal i found on craigslist :)
and forget the balmain sandals, drool off this.
i believe you create your own experiences, and with motherhood i've found ways to make it as glam and fabulous in my own life with the help of course from my amazing family.
i'm not out to win a medal or prove to anyone that i could do this on my own, bc to be quite honest with you, i can't. i appreciate the people who help me in numerous ways to make my life comfortable and sane in raising my son and living out my life the way i please.
but to feed your curiosity, i present to you my maverick.
these photos were taken when maverick was 4 months old by my friend steve in burligame. :)
all my children
my main squeeze
his outfit is so fun :) check out his tail... 8 months and on his way to walking!
yes, his hat says maverick :) got this made for $1 in the Philippines!!
Wicket & Chloe
(dress topshop, shoes FCUK)
Some things you wouldn't know about me...
- i love to slurp my foods.. (the milk in my cereal, chocolate milk) and i mean LOUDLY. for some reason i feel it's an action that makes the food taste so much better.. and considering i'm a pretty expressive person, that's definitely one of my favorite ways to enjoy something.. ssssslllluurrrrrrrrpppp!
- i love to drive fast, windows down, heaters up, music blasted and sing my heart out. lol.
- i know i talk about ritz crackers a lot.. but it's one of the foods i love that just hits the spot. wheat thins do the job as well.. and pocky.
- i spend ridiculous amounts of money on magazines and books.
- leave me at a barnes and noble or borders and i'll be occupied for hours..
- texting with one hand on my iphone fassst is another amazing talent i possess. ha- or maybe it's the asian in me.
- i like the feeling of paying for something in exact change- maybe it's because i hate putting my money back in my wallet and coins just create a havoc inside my purse.
- i do not like the feeling of driving behind a slow ass car. ugh.
- i enjoy mcdonalds even after reading fast food nation and knowing how bad it is for you.. i love it and think my system is immune to the garbage.
- i'm a BIG time dog lover. well.. mainly my dogs. I have 2 shiba inu's- Wicket and Chloe who have been such a big part of my life.
- I may not be the world's best mother (I wasn't really shooting for that role) and yes I might be away for a few days in the month to see the world and even at that go out once a week with my friends at night or enjoy an hour or 2 out in the day to breathe.. but Maverick is my heart and he's always well loved and taken cared of and that's all that should matter to anyone interested in prying with the personal questions.
(Unit dress, secondhand belt, Franco Sarto espadrilles)
Even though I'm not too big on salt and more of a pepper loving kinda gal, I still adore the Morton Salt Umbrella Girl. I have an old friend who loved salt so much he might as well have used this spout to season his fries.
Anyway, the Morton message is "even in rainy weather [salt] flows freely" and I love this because I find beauty in the resilience people hold in difficult times. Word of advice I've always appreciated is that you can't please everyone so you might as well just please yourself.. and for those I can't this message is for you, I take your words with a grain of salt and shake it off- then get inspired and take a picture :)
On a different note, I always get asked who takes my pictures and most of the daily candids are usually done by my friends with my now upgraded digital panasonic lumix t5 which i'm absolutely in love with. It captures amazing pictures without the flash!
And for the better shots like these (and most of the ones these past few days) have been taken by my friend since I was 12 years old, Mike Payad, who's such an amazing and talented photographer. Check him out.. he's great and I give credit to him for capturing all the fun photo's you love :)
