Solana Beach.

I may have forgot to mention that I also love Solana Beach's Design District. It is probably one of the coolest areas that I know of, at the moment. They have cute restaurants, one of a kind boutiques, and very friendly people.



The street/area is called Cedros Avenue Design District. Every shop, restaurant, salon is so visually stimulating and beautiful. I wish I could just walk there every morning but unfortunately it is at least a 20 minute drive, but well worth it!

It was my day off so I decided to make the trip up there and do a little shopping and perusing. Art is displayed everywhere, from sculptures on the street to the overall design of each building/boutique. It seriously feels like you are in a beautiful small town.

After walking around for a couple of hours, I picked out some flowers here as well as a pot for our front porch area. I felt like I was in a secret garden, I wanted to buy everything!

If you are ever in the San Diego area, Solana Beach's design district is a must-see attraction.

Grand Opening.

Saturday afternoon was the Grand Opening Party for Dress for the Nines. It was very successful! We had a lot of people shop up and many purchases were made. I forgot my camera but thank goodness for Joseph's obsession with my iPhone because he at least took a few pics with it.


It was on bar "duty", so I had to serve drinks & food to all of our guests.

The food was pretty good overall. It was catered by Terra Restaurant just a few doors down, and they provided, Teriyaki Salmon Tacos (pictured above), Blueberry Lemonade, & Mushroom and Asparagus Crostini's topped with Parmesan Cheese. Allison provided fixings for Alcoholic & Non-Alcoholic Mimosas.

This is my co-worker/friend Rachel, from APA Consulting. She came to enjoy the drinks, food, and company. She is probably one of the snobbiest people I know. :)

P.S.

Rachel, if you ever read this, I am sure you know you are a snob so it shouldn't be a big surprise.

Promotion?

Yes, at this point it is more of a question than a fact. The retail store that I work for (we aren't allowed to blog about them, so shhhh!) informed me that I am up for a promotion, if I'm interested, for the Visuals Merchansider. I was speechless. I had no idea that I would/could even be considered! I said I would love to be considered.

I went into work this morning at 5 a.m. to help the night crew finish displaying the Women's Spring/Summer collection. Our store director told the manager in charge of setting up that she needed to clock-out or else she would go into OT. So, the night manager asked me if I wanted to do the Visuals for the mannequins in the store, and I said "Sure"!

After doing a couple of them, the store director approached me and said that I was really good at it. She then said she wanted to offer me the position. Did I mention already that I was speechless? :) She said it's not official yet because she needs to get it approved.

A few minutes after she made the offer, she said that she was upset with me because I hadn't spoken up about wanting to do it before today since they had been interviewing candidates from FIDM and other colleges that offer Fashion programs, but hadn't found a good fit.

Since it's not entirely official yet, I am not getting my hopes up but I can't bear keeping quiet or not wanting to jump up and down screaming ecstatically!

Happy Place(s).

I have two Happy Places in San Diego: Coronado & La Jolla.

After a terrible week last week, I really needed to de-stress (is that a word? For the sake of this post, it is). To make a long story short, someone tried to steal one of our cars. Not only did I feel completely violated, mad, and sad but I felt unsafe. But, after some cooling down time, I am mostly over the entire episode.

So, I went to Coronado this afternoon because the high was going to be 93. I was so excited to just lay on the beach and not think about anything. No worries about bills, work, or personal problems. I was so happy. I window shopped and even made a very small purchase for a friend's upcoming birthday.

After finally feeling like I could breathe again or fully "de-stressed", I came home and waited for Joseph so we could go to La Jolla Shores. He surfed while I sun bathed. It's pretty nice having time to go to the beach before having to work, the down side is someone might try and steal your car!

What's your "Happy Place" & Why?

Del Mar.

I didn't have a very eventful weekend. Sadly, I had to work most of it, but Saturday morning Joseph and I went to explore Del Mar. It was quite tricky getting to the beach but we managed. For some reason, I didn't take any pictures other than this one at lunch:

After laying on the beach for a couple hours, and Joseph surfing, we went to have lunch and a drink at En Fuego at the Plaza in Del Mar. We ordered some burritos and had a margarita! Del Mar was really cute, I would definitely go back again!

Attention: Fashionistas.

I was at working at Extraordinary Desserts last night, kind of bored because we weren't very busy and I started people watching. We have a lot of tourists coming in mainly Asian & European, so a lot of their clothing is very unique and cool. A family came in and the dad was wearing this awesome leather thong sandals. I fell in love with them. I really wanted to ask him, on more than one of the several encounters, where they were from but for some reason held back. Now I regret it because I have spent all morning searching through every single website possible trying to find sandals like these in men's:

Although these Stuart Weitzman are beautiful, obviously they are not men's & didn't have the shiny jeweled buckle or light blue patent leather, but they were very similar.

Even these, Donald Pliner's, are relatively close to what they looked like.

These are probably the closest to what they looked like. But, to me there is something off about these. They are men's though, made by FitFlop?

To my avid readers and fellow Fashionistas, I need your help! Let me know if you know of or find anything :)

A Year in Fashion.

This morning I drove downtown to get my car an oil change. I had about an hour to kill so I decided to find the nearest post office so that I could get Joseph & I's taxes post-marked today. Very last minute, I know. The nearest post office was all the way to the Gas Lamp District, which was fine because at least I could window shop on the way. I decided to stop into Urban Outfitters for fun, and guess what I found! A beautiful piece of art.

I Die :) It has gorgeous pictures, famous quotes from every fashion icon, and history on fashion forward ideas that bring us to the present. I really, really want this book/calendar. Unfortunately it is about $35, not too bad but still just pricey enough, especially because I already have a Coach daily planner that I barely touch since having my iPhone. I found it on Amazon, so maybe after I pay off my credit card this month and get my tax return, I can get it. Right?! As Joseph would say, "Is this a need or a want? You need to do a better job of distinguishing the difference..."