Brooklyn Museum Exhibit

Last Saturday I went to the Annie Leibovitz exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. It was great. She is such an interesting person and an amazing photographer. For those of you who don't know, she does photographs for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stones. (She did the Brangelina photos of baby Shiloh) Interestingly enough a lot of her exhibit was filled with personal photographs of friends and family. I would highly recommend you try and see it if it comes to your city. (dates are listed if you click on Annie above) It was very well done.
One thing that stuck with me is she said something to the point of: she is not a journalist who has to have an objective point of view, but she has a distinct point of view to share with the world. I like that perspective - that you CAN and SHOULD have your own point of view and be respected for the way you see the world.

Today is a great mail day because our came today too!!! They match our new pots and pans (These are NOT the ones that we banged to ring in the new year!) Can't wait to put everything up and make our apartment more of a home.

Hooray! My kitchenaid mixer came today! We ordered it awhile ago using some of our Target giftcards that we got as wedding gifts and it's finally here. So excited! Just trying to decide what delicious item to make first...

Still waiting for the icecream maker attachment...hopefully it will come with the next shipment.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with your gift cards!!!

Photoshop/Illustrator Project

My assignment was to create a new extension of an already existing brand and create some type of a promotional item. I chose to create a children's line for Tracy Reese.

I decided to call it Tracy Reese's Pieces. Here is my color palette and logo.

Here is my promotional item (onesies) with the different logo colorways.

It was a fun project. I wish I would have had a little bit more time actually to do a little bit more, but perhaps one day I can work for Tracy and show her my ideas....

Fashion Industry Design Projects

Here are a few of my designs that I had to present for my Fashion Industry Design Project. I had to create 2 collections. The titles for my collections are: The Modern Debutante and The Deserted Tumbleweed. I thought I had the mood boards on my thumb drive, but do not, so I will just post these. They consist of the fashion sketch along with the technical design sketch.
Just thought I would post before another semester goes by with none of my work posted! They look much better with the mood boards next to them that show the fabric choices as well, so I will try to find the folder or at least take pictures and repost. It really helps to capture the type of woman I invision in these clothes.

I want to be a Dream Girl!

Jennifer Hudson STOLE the show!

AMAZING.

Her voice is AMAZING! I never watched American Idol, but this girl is off the hook! She deserves all the hype and press she is getting! Such a fun movie! I would recommend it to anyone! So great. On Friday night I went with 3 girls from school and one make-up artist and all we could do is talk about the outfits and the make up. Such a fun girls' night out movie. After the movie we went to dinner at Earth. Great place! Such a nice ambiance and great food.

Overall a fun night!

The Children

Just wanted to post some funny pictures of Devon and Nate (the niece and nephew). I miss these little cuties!

I feel like I haven't seen them in forever. I hope they know their Auntie still loves them very much!

Not to brag, but they are SO cute!

My cute friend Seung

Last week I said good bye to my friend, Seung from Parsons. She has been living in New York for the past year and a half and her husband and four year old son have been living in South Korea. She is amazing. She has sacrificed so much to come to America to be trained in fashion and to follow her dream. She already has a degree from a Korean design school, also. She was an intern at Kenneth Cole and was working full-time at Coldwater Creek but decided that she missed her family terribly (they missed her too!) and has moved back to Korea. I am going to miss her. She has been such a darling friend and classmate. I wish her well in her endeavors and will cherish the day that I see her again! Whenever I think that I am sacrificing to go to school, her story will stick out in my mind as one who truly sacrificed to make her dream come true! She is a fantastic designer and I know she will do well in all that she does.

Bon Voyage, Seung!

Back to the Grind

It was so hard waking up for work this morning. After all of my resolve to get to bed on time, be on time for work, and eat healthier, I woke up late, was 4 minutes late to work and ate crappy Chinese food for lunch.
Seem to be off to a great start...
So tired.
Wish I was back at home, watching Oprah or something.
Oh well.

Bang the pots and pans...2007 is here!

Happy New Year! 2007 is going to be a great year. Dereck and I brought in the new year watching MTV, toasting to sparkling apple cider and of course banging the pots and pans! This is a tradition that my grandmother passed to our family and while Dereck was hesitant at first, he later embraced it. It causes a lot of ruckus and that makes it all the more fun! Hopefully our neighbors enjoyed it.

I try to spend some time on the 1st day of every year contemplating my upcoming goals and objectives while reviewing what I did and didn't accomplish from the previous year. It's a perfect time to start fresh, clear any unwanted distractions from your life, continue on the life path that you are creating and accept the blessings that you deserve. While reviewing, there are always things that were unexpected and unplanned, but that have hopefully transformed your life for the better. I am looking forward to a year of hard work, embracing the love around me, spending time with friends and family, attracting positivity, and enjoying any unexpected moments.

May all your goals and dreams be put into motion in this brand new year!!