Weekender: Flowers and Food

The weekend was spent enjoying LA. We went Downtown for some jewelry findings (so excited about the new styles!!) and walked around the Arts District and Japantown enjoying the sun and our favorite food spots. The flowers in bloom were definite show stoppers and the bites we had were delicious. It was a good weekend!

Carne asada taco and hoisin chicken bun from Flying Pig.

Grilled pork bahn mi! Sooo good and love the baguette.

Hubs enjoying the Earl Grey Pie at The Pie Hole. So good!!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I am looking forward to a good week ahead.

Weekend Highlights

It was a super busy weekend here at honey my heart. And it was awesome. The awesomeness included Sunday morning in Venice Beach for Abbot Kinney Fest.

 

Apartment hunting and signing a lease for our first place in LA! And only a 3 min drive to hub's work. Wow.

And seeing my jewelry displayed at Flock Shop! It's always an honor seeing something you created in a store.

Coming up for us is packing, donating, moving, and enjoying our last few weeks in SB.

Hope you had a great weekend. Happy Monday!

Weekender: This Is Your Library

We spent Saturday night at the Downtown LA Central Library for This Is Your Library event. This event was a late-night talk show style conversation with 4 awesome LA people: NBA champ John Salley, actor Colin Hanks, Unique LA's Sonja Rasula, and author Mark Danielewski. They spoke about their connections to LA, current projects, and their connection with the library.


The host getting the audience warmed up with jokes. He was fun.


John Salley spoke about his childhood (originally from Brooklyn), vegan lifestyle, first PETA experience (it included leather pants!), and basketball. He is a 4 time NBA Champion and won his rings with for Detroit (basketbaaaaall), Chicago, and the LA Lakers. I loved his humor and quickness with the jokes/stories, his analysis of the Lakers' season, and I really loved his statement about Kobe being the best.


Colin Hanks spoke about "Dexter", his childhood in Sacramento, collecting records, and more basketball. He likes LA's other team (the Clippers), which made for a lot of fun back and forth with Salley.


It was Sonja of Unique LA who got me interested in attending this event. She's such an awesome person and I wanted to support her :) Loved that she spoke about growing up and going to the Central Library. Also loved hearing how her life journey and events brought her to create Unique LA. She does so much for independent designers and the LA community.


And Mark Danielewski shared how his Burning Man adventure turned into inspiration for a character in his new book. It was spiritual and funny.


The night ended with music on the patio and a little bothering of an NBA star. So happy that John posed for a photo with us. He is 6'11". From a few feet away, he didn't seem that tall. But once we all gathered together, I felt like a shrimp!!

Hope you all had a great weekend. Happy Monday :)

Weekender: San Diego and ThreadShow

We spent the weekend in San Diego and it was full of love. This was the first time both hubs and I have visited SD since we were both kids, and it was a delight to explore it! My cousin took us around, fed us yummy treats, and housed us. She's the best! We visited some awesome neighborhoods, met cool people, and can't wait to return!


Beautifully sunny at the beach by Hotel Del Coronado. I love gorgeous beach days like this in October.


Glimpse of some of the awesome architecture in Balboa Park. All of the buildings were wondrous to see.


We escaped the heat inside the Botanical Building.


Inside the Marcy Sculpture Garden.


Succulents at Pigment. I wanted to take one of each home and make my own garden.


My view early Sunday morning! It really is gorgeous in SD.


Table set up at Thread Show SD. It was a fun show and we saw so many fashionable locals. Some of their outfits were so fierce! Loved meeting new people and seeing some of our fave friendly vendors Royalistique and MNKR. We hope to make it back to SD soon!


Hooray for friends stopping by.


And hooray for family.

Hope you all had a good weekend and have a wonderful week!

Weekend Briefly & Eats

I enjoyed a very eventful weekend in LA with family celebrating and at the Abbot Kinney Fest. Here are a few photos of the fun and food!

Brunch eats at the Buttermilk Truck. A crew was filming "Unique Sweets" and they caught glimpses of us ordering and later enjoying our french toast!


Almond and coconut macarons from 'lette in Pasadena. My second favorite macaron place in LA.


Pastrami sandwich from Oinkster. They also have the best pomme frites.


Looking down Abbot Kinney Boulevard during the fest. So glad the sun came out. The amount of people in the crowd was overwhelming, but we were happy to see friends and meet great people.


My little booth. Chose blues and purples for the hearts and added a lot of new items! I like how the progression of jewelry design and materials can be seen from the plastic cabochon flowers on the left, to the middle glass pearls and sparkles, to the semi precious stones and shells on the right. We are going for more and more natural materials this Fall season and I'm quite excited to share the new styles over the next few weeks with you :)


Fatty tuna and yellow tail for our 2 year wedding anniversary.


And a bouquet of flowers from my mom's fundraiser.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Weekender: April 9 & 10

A busy week closed with a nice and busy weekend. After being sick last weekend, finally beating the bug on Thursday, and getting back to the swing of things by Saturday, we were in for a lot of errands and activity. But I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

There was time for a pinkberry stop. Have you tried the lychee flavor? So yum!


I have charms ready for chains, flowers ready for post earrings, and bracelets ready to go!


The UniqueLA vendor meeting was super fun and informative.


The meeting was held in the Grammy Museum at LA Live. One of their current exhibits is Hip Hop: A Cultural Odyssey. It was awesome experiencing the genre through out the years.


There was a stop at Magnolia bakery!


And some blues, yellows, and greens outside of Jonathan Adler. We love taking reflection photos because it's usually hard finding someone to take our photo.


More blues, yellows, and greens off the 101 on the ride home.


And finally, a new fish plate to display some bracelets.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!

Weekender: Farmers Market and a Neon Inspired Necklace

We went by a farmers market this afternoon. The sunny day provided the perfect backdrop for a nice afternoon stroll and made the produce and flowers look quite tempting.











We also went to see The Social Network matinee showing at our local theater. The colors of this neon dolphin display that tops the refreshment stand inspired me to create the following necklace.

I love aqua and light blues :)

Hope all of your weekends were relaxing and great!

Weekender: Avocados & Jewelry

The annual Avocado Festival was held in Carpinteria this past weekend and we were so happy to attend.






The day was humid, the streets were crowded, but the food was worth it. We ate nachos, corn, fries, and icecream. Above are delicious chili cheese fries and slices of avocado :)


Avocado ice cream! It was nice tasting avocado in a sweet dish since we almost always eat it savory. The flavor was really mild and a very nice treat :)

The rest of my weekend was spent putting necklaces together and taking photos of the pieces. I'm hoping to update the honeymyheart etsy shop tonight.


A set of earrings :)


A re-list of this raspberry mum necklace.


A three flower mini charm necklace.


A set of three rose and chrysanthemum earrings.

Hope you all had a great weekend :)