un-teens

今日は私の誕生日です！　私は十九さいです。

Today marks my nineteenth year of birth.

cuuuuuh-razy. EVERYBODY DON THEIR "YAYY" HATS! ..okay fine. i'll just do it myself ^_^

Honestly this birthday isn't exciting for me, and it's not cus the year isn't a milestone one(thats a small part of it). Mostly because the only thing on my mind all day has been the looming finals that I have tomorrow and the rest of the week that I am falling behind on studying for.

Another reason is that most of my friends are away at school studying so today isn't exciting :/

on a separate note. I bought a FLOPPY HAT yesterday! It was only $10 and I like the shape and color so i would call that a success :) I am a firm believer in treating yourself to a gift on your birthday, which is what this hat is. WINNNNN!

a boring looking post for an uneventful day. pictures of the hat to come

until then
lots of stressed out lovee

lights in the trees and hummingbirds

they had the tastiest lemonade that was soo fresh ! If only there was mint limeadee

another week OVAA! *its really so much better if you say that out loud*

After all of the stress for finals coming up next week and future activities I got the chance to have a quiet lunch with my aunt at this little place in Pasadena, Happy Trails.

Honestly that first thing I thought of when she told me the name was the song: "happy trails to you...until we meet again" lalalalalalalalaa. you know what i'm saying. But it's quite beautiful in back and I would love love love to hold a party there. Very country party backyard feel--just what i love :)

too bad dumb me didn't bring my camera, but WORRY NOT! I am for sure going back soon so I will steal a few pictures then. For now let me express how I feel through photo-bombing (what i do best)

Had the first cherries of the season this week but i'm craving strawberries :)

we talked about breakfast foods..

and baking yummy things..

LOTS of baked goods

We decided that ice cream sounds excellent..specifically with bananas fosterr

Even though there's still a lot of stress I feel better after just talking and sitting still for a little while.sighh exactly what I needed before another hectic weekend and an even crazier week. Take some time and sit in your backyard or on your porch. See all of God's beautiful creation and relax :)

 lots of relaxed lovee



p.s. isn't this sooo cute?! 

attack the senses

Scissors on yo neck. sickk

 This is going to become attack the tumblr's soon! I don't want to start a tumblr because I foresee procrastination (which is already bad enough), but pretty much most of the inspiring pictures have been filtering through tumblr.....must.resist. !

This is going to be a lot of hodgepodge, but once again the theme is details:

loooooove

I have been wearing my button-down silk shirts to death for the past 2 weeks..they are just so easy and flowy!

next hair project :)

I don't care for cats, but these are hilarious! I never would have noticed them. details details details!

There's a little photo-bombing for you to enjoy on this memorial day off :)

Now I am going to not be fun at all and go write some research papers for finals. wish me luck

lots of love

(creds: Karen, FaceHunter, Style-Arena, tumblrssz)

all of the llghts, all of the lights

Yes, Kanye does make some good music in between crazy tantrums.

This past week I have been very inspired to do a lot of d.i.y. projects, especially for the home. Problem: my house is too cluttered to do the decorations that I would like :( Solution!: Design a friend's apartment for them(*hint hint*) or find an event to do.

dilemma dilemma dilemma.

Understand, these are projects so adorable and bodacious that they must be tried! See for yourself and guard your heart:

Adorable right? Gives off that down-home feel with the jars + those LED throwies are sick! = must cover my house in lights.
I love that these aren't necessarily items that you have to buy, because you get the same thing by using old jam jars or any jars that you love. recycleeeee!

Now go make your own and share with me how they look! :)

lots of love

Did you see the fly on the screen in Amelie?

All about details!

This week when i was browsing various tumblr's and blogs I noticed that the details of an outfit are truly what makes it unique and brilliant. Here are a few of my favorite detailed finds this week...

case in point:(on Facehunter) a cute simple outfit, but the bows on her shoes really add a POP to the whole look.

JakandJill caught the beautiful color details of the Josh Goot collection

the giant safety pin is genius and adds that extra bada$$ attitude to the outfit

My favorite look that I found this week! She is so adorable with the bow that gives her a playful feel

Of course I need to include a ring shot. Absolutely breathtaking intricacy and detail in this armor ring

Aren't the details of an outfit so amazingly instrumental to creating a new look to something? Keeping the details in mind as i dress every morning :)


lots of finals stress building up so blogging may become secondary for the next 2 weeks. in the mean time go ZUMMBA for a while like I am right now !


lots of lovee

third wheeeelin it

Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school

Fresh Prince of Bel Air was an awesome show...sighh. nostalgia.

Anyways! As promised sharing some photos of my day out with my parents celebrating mi madre's birthday. (hence "third wheelin it" ..aka i invaded my parental's date) I try to make sense sometimes...

It was a beautifully sunny, breezy day yesterday after a long week of gloom and rain, so going to the Huntington Gardens for tea was perfect. Thanks to my aunt we didn't have to pay admission so going was all the more worth it. We arrived for our reservation at the tea room around 1:15ish and were taken to the back room which was 10x's quieter and nicer.

We were greeted by delicious condiments for our tea and scones..

 

front to back: clotted cream, mixed berry jam, peach/orange marmalade, butter & brown sugar cubes, milk for tea

Then came the endless basket of scones!

bluberry rosemary apple spice scones. YUMS

After that they bring each person their own pot of tea and the rest of the food is laid out buffet style. (not the classiest but everything was still very good)

 

left: hummus on flat bread, salmon & egg salad finger sandwiches, caviar, fruit tarts, arugula salad   right: i chose rose petal tea <3 

 

Everything was delicious but so very filling, so after tea/lunch we walked around the gardens and museums

the rose garden

Japanese garden closed for 100 year remodel

...and so begins the photoshoot in the chinese garden. photo cred: mamabear

From there we went to go see the Blue Boy painting inside the Gallery, but our time was cut short because the library was closing for the day. Overall it was such a nice day and very relaxing. happy birthday again mama :) i love you

lots of lovee

no slippage here!

yes folks that's right. Kara has finally made a lemon meringue pie! It was amazing how easy it was to make and there aren't actually that many ingredients. aweeeesome. The worst part was whipping the meringue by hand in the heat of my oven..bad idea. However for the sake of my mother's birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN MAMA!) it was worth it :) ...especially when my brother did most of the beating haha.

Honestly I don't even like lemon meringue pie, but I would definitely try my hand at it again. According to my mother (who taught me how to bake) this was a success because the meringue didn't slip off when it was baked. Learn something everyday.

verrrry carefully cutting the first slice

My mom being very smiley with the pie

Continuing with the birthday celebrations I went out with the parentals today! it's been a really long time since the three of us went out and it was actually really nice :) here's a hint of what we did...

yums right?!

picture bombing to come!


lots of lovee