My Week In Pics

View onto Downtown San Diego from Coronado

Mikki enjoying the view

Flowers on the beach

Me posing on the beach

View from the Coronado Bridge

I just love the beach, even on a windy gray day (maybe even more than on a sunny day)

Sign on our road trip through the "backways" to San Diego. "Hazardous Children?" :)

Pink flowers. Really intense pink flowers!

Some road trip lovin'. I can't believe next weekend we've been dating for 12 and a half years!!!

Mikki posing. Is there anything better than road trips on empty roads?

Wild flowers on bare dry branches.

My illegally acquired lemons. I made my first lemonade inspired by hooray. Delishousness!

Amazing views from the Unique LA café area over downtown LA and beyond

My part of the booth

Detail of my display.

The screen printed giveaway sign and the email list.

More details.

and even more details.

Hello and welcome to my very belated "week in pics". I have a pretty good excuse for not posting yesterday: pure exhaustion after a two day show. For not posting today: no excuse...

Last week was my very late Spring Break, so Mikki and I decided to head down to San Diego for and overnight escape. We had such a great road trip! Instead of heading down the coast highway (what we usually do) we headed south going inland, through the Rancho Santa Rosa area. And it was awesome. Everything was blooming and green (this is where rainy winters truly pay off). Although we only stayed one night, it was such a great way to disconnect from our daily lives and nevermind that it was gray and rainy at night and on our way back - it was a very relaxing mid-week-weekend :)

I spent the rest of the week getting everything ready for my weekend: Unique LA! Wow, what a great show. So much fun to be part of and such a great place to get to know other vendors and to pass your time people watching (one of my very favorite things to do!)

So all the pics this week are from our trip to San Diego and the show.

Hope you all had a great week and wish you all an even better one, xx

My Week In Pics

1. My table at the Urban Arts Festival at UC Irvine

2. One of the two white roses at our doorstep in Pasadena

3. The RadIsRad Tee I traded for

4. this NIMO. Rose Ribbon Necklace

5.Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland"

6. Beautiful (and tasty) Mochi ice cream

7. My dad sitting in his orange Landrover in the early 80s

8. My dog, Simba, as a puppy in 1992

9. Detail of a ZARA tee

10. Sweetpotatoe fries and veggie sandwich

Wow. This sure was a colorful week! I had the chance to participate at another pop-up store event at UCI (University of California, Irvine - for those of you who might not be familiar with the american university abbreviations). Wow, what a campus - gigantic, to say the least. I later heard, that landwise it's the biggest in California. The weather this past week has been amazing, clear blue skies, everything is nice and green and flowers are blooming everywhere. Spring has finally arrived!

On saturday we had sushi dinner with friends and finally watched Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. And? I loved it. To tell you the truth I had had my doubts about the movie, I don't know why - I guess the trailer looked a little strange (not in the good weird Burton-Depp kind of way) and I couldn't get used to the extremely colorful Mad Hatter. But the movie was great, Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter was amazing (as always) and I enjoyed every bit of it. Apart from all the characters, the amazing landscapes and the fact that it was the first movie I actually enjoyed watching in 3D, the costumes were mindblowing. Colleen Atwood surely surpassed herself again (she was also responsible for the costumes in Memories of a Geisha and Sweeney Todd).

Alice in Wonderland was like a trip down memory lane with a twist, I had forgotten how much I loved the Disney movie as a kid and it was fun to hear all the typical phrases in English and remembering them all in German (the language I watched it in as a kid).

As I don't believe in coincidences, my dad had just sent me some old photos from my childhood a few days before. One of him in the first car I remember and another one of my dog, Simba as a puppy (she passed away this winter at a stunning 17 and a half years!).

To finish off such a nice spring-time week I decided to go for a shopping stroll. Not a very successful one, I can't wrap myself around the 80s fashion, I'm sorry. Been there, done that. Not very likely to do the same mistake again. -Looking forward to the 90s though. I can already see them coming in all the torn jeans, converse shoes (I have a serious addiction), plaid shirts and old looking tees. Yeay for the nineties ;) Anyways, I really liked the military details on the ZARA tee, so I'm thinking I might customize some other shirt in that way...

and because the weather was so nice we had a couple of lunches outside and I just had to take a picture of those super orange sweet potato fries next to my delicious goat cheese veggie sandwich on rosemary bread - yum!

Anyways, I hope you all had a great week and got some rest on the weekend to get a great start into the next week!