Pasadena Happy Hour Week!

March 1st-8th Old Town Pasadena has extended happy hours with special prices! I love Pasadena!

Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop Documentary

I am a huge fan of BANKSY! So excited to watch this & buy!

San Antonio Winery in Los Angeles

This weekend was an interesting fun weekend! It snowed in Los Angeles this weekend! Crazy right? The local mountains are covered in snow & I have never seen rain coming down like this from a far!

Went to the San Antonio Winery in Los Angeles off the 5 Freeway for wine tasting, good food, and a tour. This is a family owned winery that makes most of their wine in Los Angeles. Their grapes comes from Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County. We did the complimentary 3 wine samples from their selected list! If you go to the right guy you can get a lot more than 3 samples! 

After you get a little tipsy, you can buy boxes (more you buy better deal) of yummy wine (including their house made Stella Rosa)! They will keep it on hold for you while you go get some food at their restaurant and go on the tour. The restaurant inside is Maddalena. It is maybe what you call a cafeteria style? You go look at food on display (which all look so good especially when you are tipsy) and you order what you want. Then you take the tray they give you and go down and pick your drink. Then they seat you in this beautiful atmosphere... (I think they left their valentines day decor haha) 

They have live music playing and your food will come out in no time! Their menu has a variety of things! The entrées & pastas comes with bread & soup or salad. This is the Minestrone soup & their salad:

If you go for lunch on Saturday & Sunday, they serve breakfast till 2:30 PM! This is one of their omelettes they serve. The next picture is of the Spaghetti with Meatballs or Sausages, and the one after is the best one!  It is the Linguine with Scampi! So good!

Now you are tispy, full, and need to walk! They have a free tour of the winery on the hour Mon-Fri 12-2PM or Sat&Sun 11AM-4PM. It is only a 15-20minute tour! Go have some fun! 

  

Creative Blog Designs!

Here are some pretty neat & creative blog designs:
For more http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/03/50-beautiful-and-creative-blog-designs/

 

10 Lessons For Young Designers - For the Creative Folks

Wieden+Kennedy’s Executive Creative Director, John C Jay's 10 Lessons for Young Designers:

1: Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
2: Work harder than anyone else and you will always benefit from the effort.
3: Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture. Life is visceral.
4: Constantly improve your craft. Make things with your hands. Innovation in thinking is not enough.
5: Travel as much as you can. It is a humbling and inspiring experience to learn just how much you don’t know.
6: Being original is still king, especially in this tech-driven, group-grope world.
7: Try not to work for stupid people or you’ll soon become one of them.
8: Instinct and intuition are all-powerful. Learn to trust them.
9: The Golden Rule actually works. Do good.
10: If all else fails, No. 2 is the greatest competitive advantage of any career.

Come Out For The Kids!

Tony Hong is having his last show before he goes in "hiding" (as he says). I love his work! I came across his work at the Hold Up Art Gallery in Lil Tokyo! He told me he was going to have a show coming up and its finally here! It is this weekend February 25th-Feb 27th! The opening reception is this Friday February 25th @ 7pm-11pm! Its at 7365 Melrose Ave. Come check out his work and help the kids at Stand Up For Kids!  (all proceeds will be going to Stand Up For Kids!). 

Flowers Flowers Flowers!

Before work sometimes I go to the Albertsons and the first thing I notice are the beautiful flowers! There is a section where bouquets are arranged by color. It looks really pretty! Anyway its a friends birthday... same person as who got the Sweet Lady Jane... I decided to get her beautiful flowers too! I mixed yellow and pink/orange roses and I based the bouquet with green pom pom flowers! I love this bouquet & the bright colors! The bright colors remind me of the times me and my two other girlfriends hangout. It is always filled with smiles and laughter! Thanks P & B!
Check out a new restaurant that I went to today Eats in LA - Yum Italian!!!