FINALLY!

okay, settle down for a long overdue post. we've had about 11 weddings since my last post, 2 fleuretica*demia sessions, a magazine photoshoot, a fleuretica photoshoot, a new office location and life has been so exciting! not the sort of 'exciting' that gets your adrenaline pumping, but the 'exciting' that makes your heart skip a beat because part of your dreams are becoming reality. anyway, this is why my blog has been so quiet...but here are my whereabouts.

august was full of celebrations, celebrating my mama's bday and my bro's bday:

*dinner at wood ranch...brayden is so big now and so cuuuute! he really makes my mom happy

*drinks, brownies, friends, and iphones make for a great partyyyy

My good friend Vi came from texas to visit with her husband. Vi is like the evil version of me...or the even MORE evil version of me! I took her to daikokuya for ramen and the kogi truck happened to be hanging out...so we got some tacos too. hehe

*vi and stan

What's a summer without a trip to the Parker Hotel. This was my 3rd time back and I've made a decision that the Glutton's Delight will be a yearly fete!

*girls vacation with tracy, theresa, and kendra...that top picture is tracy's toothbrush (totally green and biodegradable) and i thought it looked like a fingerling potato...which we conveniently had for breakfast (the potato not the toothbrush)

*damn, we were pigs. our last meal at the parker consisted of lobster & mango salad, lobster mac and cheese, lobster claws and chips...and ice cream.

and here are all my other recorded food adventures:

*at class 302, recommended by Thay. This place has THE BEST shaved ice. btw, stinky tofu tastes worse than how it smells - ___-

*nickel diner in downtown los angeles. i had a dutch baby (thin baked pancake with caramelized apple). it was good but an unnecessary pool of butter was swimming in the middle. however, their homemade ding dongs were so good! and they have a cake with potato chips in it. i think potato chips are the next big thing - for awhile, maple bacon was making the circuit as the next cool food...now is the potato chip's time to shine!

then it was kendra's 21st birthday where we celebrated with breakfast at Elements Kitchen (right downstairs from our new office):

*we had crispy prosciutto with polenta and poached eggs, sweet potato pancakes with bacon and pecan pieces mixed into the batter, and breakfast pot pie with sundried tomato and ham. This is a dangerous place to have so close to our office.

So cool stuff has been happening for Fleuretica and it all blew up in a week. First was our magazine shoot with Utterly Engaged, a new online wedding magazine. The concept we came up with was if Holly Golightly threw a wedding. We made party blowers, coffee sleeves, donut and coffee favors, a champagne pyramid, etc. Check out the spread here!

And it seemed that the Glamour magazine blog in Sweden liked our coffee sleeves (to an extent...if you translate the article it does mention that this idea is not very green hehe) and here's a screen shot of what they posted:


We'll be participating in a wedding giveaway for next year, so if you know of anyone who is deserving of a free wedding worth $100,000, check it out! You can also read about us on their blog as well.

Aaaaand i think that's the last few months in a nutshell! I'll be back in November! :D