Catching Up (Photodiary March-ish and Early April)

 Dream hats.

 I look like I belong to the Jagger family...

 Tulips at Benvenuto

 Accessories shoot with the Fashion Squad

Derek played around with the images and came up with the second one...

Chapman Runway's SECOND Fashion Show

 Bathing suits and a raised runway. Yeah yeah ok I'm jealous.

Packing for Palm Springs with Bri and Derek (aka Brindsey-Derek)

 

 Ritz Carlton with Tina for lunch

Whoa...

More to come :)

Catching Up (Photodiary: Simply Stylist)

 Simply Stylist Seminar

Eden Lounge, Hollywood, CA

LA Fashion Week Fall 2011

From Left: Caroline Rothwell (my boss) and amazingly talent stylists Soyon An, Ilaria Urbinati and Karla Welch

 Me: after it was all finally over. See how relieved I look?

 My fabulous bosses and friends, Sarah Pollack and Caroline Rothwell

Simply Stylist Logo by Chapman Runway's Rena Cheng

 Simply Stylist

Space 905, Hollywood, CA

LA Fashion Week Fall 2011

 Before: Carol Grogan, event planner extraordinaire prepping the tables

 My make-shift office. Shout out to sponsor Diet Coke :) ...and Honest Tea, not pictured, sorry Ryan...

And when it was done...

 Super sweet and way talented Saudi designer, Razan Alazzouni (right) and her equally awesome sister.

 Jenna Hipp, free-spirit, flower child and ultimate badass. Xoxo!

 Caroline and Sarah

 LCS does catering!

Florals by DavidZ Designs (never met him in person, but this is the most generous guy ever - he took care of everything for us while running back and forth to the hospital to take care of his mom in surgery!)

 My lovely volunteer staffers :) Couldn't have done it without them!

 The Joseph Anthony salon team. Love love love!

 One of our featured designers: Brose. Dyyyyying for her stuff!

 The Caro Marketing pop-up

 More catering by LCS

 Learning to prep the lunch meats...

 The end result!

Such an amazing time... let's do it again next season!

Aaaand we're BACK!

Ok, I know it's been MONTHS since I last posted but people keep bugging me to put stuff up so I felt like I should really get back on this... Not like anything's happened since February...

Here's a few bullet points of recent events:

- Produced 3 days of LA Fashion Week Events with Simply Stylist (Amazing.)
- Overnight trip to Palm Springs (Brindsey-derek magic)
- First baseball game EVER
- Couple weekends in San Diego
- Flew to Japan for a week with a pitstop in China (Whoa...)

...oh yeah...and I MOVED TO NYC. Nbd.

It's been a bit of a whirlwind. The next few days I'm going to try to post a sort of photodiary summary to catch everything up but for now, here are a few things that make me happy:

Today's lunch break in Bryant Park.

 The CFDA Awards (last night) - shout out to the Altuzarra team and a HUGE congratulations to Prabal Gurung!!

 Wish my hair could do this...

 Prabal's hair here makes me smile. He styled it just like his old roommate/my boss... quite dashing of course :)

 Sunset views from my uptown sublet. My favorite time of day.

 Finally having a kitchen again means Sunday brunch! Last weekend was omlette day. Two eggs, red bell pepper, onion and tomato.

And then things get creative... 

DESSERT QUESADILLA

- spread butter in a frying pan

- coat one side of 1 whole wheat tortilla with creamy peanut butter

- sprinkle peanut butter with brown sugar and chocolate chuncks

- cover with a second whole wheat tortilla

- fry until chocolate chunks are melted and tortilla is lightly browned

- coat top with butter, flip over, and fry the other side

- sprinkle brown sugar and powdered sugar on a plate

- remove quesadilla from the frying pan and cut into pieces

- place pieces on top of the sugars and drizzle chocolate sauce all over it

This is what happens when I run out of chocolate chip cookies...

Next time I'm trying it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle, some fresh strawberries and someone to share it with :) beware - it's really rich!