last days in los angeles

my last days in los angeles..so good to the point that i was questioning why i was leaving...

birthday dinner at gorbals

ohhhh look who showed up

suzanne made me the most spectacular cake i'd ever seen.

suberphen got me vintage cannibal plates. so cute!

annie got me all the things i love because that's just what she does

we look so HOTZ. miss her so much :(

miss them way too much.

the next day we moved suz out of her glendale house. i just had clothes from the night before so there were 2 suz's walking around on sat.

lunch with my aunt at el tepeyac - she went here for lunch when she started her first job in east la - 40 years ago!!! crazy.

look at the size of that burrito!!!!

finished the meal with fugetsu-do in little tokyo - they have this new STRAWBERRY mochi - soooooooo good.

i guess the next post will be on sf. well. there is another video in the works too. so la isn't completely over yet. i miss it :/

more succulents :)

the weekend before i left la for sf, i went to a housewarming party for some friends who just arrived in la from sf. housewarming present? succulent arrangement of course.

step 1 : buy pot.

step 2 : purchase succulents

step 3a : put down newspaper so dad will not notice i snuck into the garage to steal his special succulent drainage soil.

step 3b : put some broken pot pieces over the drainage holes so soil doesn't come spewing out every time you water.

step 4 : massacre succulents.

step 5 : put them back together.

step 6 : water.

step 7 : almost done-ish!

step 8 : make a cute bunting strand with twine and washi tape and take a horrible crappy photo of it in the friends' house because you fell asleep and didn't wake up until your ride to the housewarming party was busting down your door and you didn't even have proper pants on.

there you have it.

hipstacontest

please 'like' my hipstaprint! if i get enough likes i'll get some wilco swag :D

just go here and like it on facebook! or tweet it but i don't use that because i still think it is a fad.

succy

moving my succulents to my parents because...well..i'm moving almost everything to my parents...because i'm moving to san francisco oh whaattt?? yup. got a job as a data analyst at the Gap. pretty amped.

but i wanted to do a little rearranging while i had the chance and i really like how everything turned out. except i wish i had taken before/after pictures because this is just the end result.

little sproutlet is still growing!

also - kind of obsessed with this video :

fishtail!

this is a pretty good fishtail tutorial.

now everyone can go do this :

i'm off to get brunch at wood cafe! happy weekend :)

oh also..pretty amped about this

internetz

oh hello.

what have i been doing on the internet today? good question. what am i doing. what. am. i. doing. seriously. guh pull it together emily.

1. TOAST - playing at the nuart right now. i might walk over after work.

2. love stories - i think i may have mentioned before i have a semi-crazed obsessions with weddings...you know..for the crafting, photographing, acoustic lovey music, video-editing opportunities. but ok..there's another reason i'm into them. i love to hear people's love stories. i think i enjoy hearing them more than the couple even enjoys telling them. so yes. 97% of my vimeo subscriptions are of wedding videographers. and one of my new favorites is shadetreefilms because they do the exact same interviews i do with my cousins, friends, strangers at bars who come as couples. augh it's so cute! this one in particular twangs my heartstrings because i am such a big believer in being best friends with your future spouse.

3. i'm a little too obsessed with dailygrace. i am not big on the viral video youtube thing. i never even knew you could subscribe to channels. but homg this lady is funny. it's hard not to talk like her after watching these episodes.

4. maybe i'll go do some work now. i'm ashamed.