Hindsight is 20/20.

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"
-Emerson

Give The Gift Of Love

We have always encouraged people to look inside their KKi products, to see who made their hat, and then go online to learn about that specific lady. What we have always encouraged is relationship, for when it is realized that a person made our product — a person with a family, a person with dreams — we can begin to understand that we can support this person by wearing their product and sharing their story. We can help them realize their dreams.

But we want to take it a step further. We want to give you the chance to WIN A TRIP TO MEET THE LADIES IN NORTHERN UGANDA. This could be your chance to meet Beatrice, Alice, Margret, or whoever else made your hat.

This December we are setting a goal to sell 10,000 hats in 31 days in support of our friends in Uganda.
We need your help. Sign up to participate in this year’s Give the Gift of LOVE campaign and help us sell the products these ladies masterfully make. By doing so you will be entered to win a trip to Northern Uganda.

Help us Give the Gift of LOVE to Northern Uganda and as a result we will continue to grow our programs in Africa and around the globe in 2011.

Love and Haight

"We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco."
-John Lennon

I had the pleasure of spending this last weekend in glorious San Francisco as a vendor for Krochet Kids at the Treasure Island music festival. The view of the bay was gorgeous, the weather was a comfortable chill (minus the rain on Sunday), and the music was bitchin. Superior to Coachella in every way. We sold out of hats and took turns catching the sets of bands we wanted to see. Phosphorescent was the pleasant surprise, Ra Ra Riot the rainy delight, She and Him the sweet sing-a-long, LCD Soundsystem the dance party starter, and The National took the cake for all-around mind-blowing amazing band. Highly recommend them if you haven't given them a listen. Lead singer Matt Berninger has incredible stage presence and effortless rapport with the crowd.

View from Treasure Island

Stoked we got to catch Matt Costa at Slim's on Friday nt before the festival.

Blue Bottle in Hayes Valley served up the best mocha I have ever had. Period. They brew each cup to order. Thank you AJ for the tip.

Beloved Haight and Ashbury, a world all it's own.

I love buying vinyl appropriate to the city I travel in, so I picked up Boxer by The National and some other sweet scores at the world famous Amoeba.

The Booksmith was a true gem that I have somehow missed on previous visits. So glad I decided to pop into this place! Besides tons of books, they carry an impressive line of stationary, postcards, calendars and cards for all occasions. Not only a few brands, but several; my fave of which is The Great Lakes Goods. The merch is original and the staff is friendly, two thumbs up.

Golden Gate Park.

"Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible."
-Walter Cronkite

10.14.10

If you live in the Costa Mesa area and would like to come to our Fall 2010 Launch Party on 10.14.10, we'd love to have you! We have lots of exciting things to share with you, including all the new products that we've been previewing on our website for the past few weeks. For more details, click here.
Can't make it? Don't worry! The new products and tons of other great stuff will become available on our brand new site the same day.

Everyday at KKI is a Fiesta

Have a look at this article! We're thrilled!

Ford Motor Company Donates Car to Krochet Kids International

Quote of the Week (or the Year)

“Forget the naysayers who say it cannot be done.”

-John Stokes

Dancing Days Are Here Again.

This blog was never meant to serve as a diary of my personal life, but it would appear that it's actually a pretty convenient way of keeping friends I don't talk to every day in the loop.
I'm super excited to share with anyone reading this that I'm starting an internship next week with Krochet Kids International as an Event Planner/Volunteer Coordinator. I've blogged about this awesome non-profit before, but please check out their website if you haven't heard of them yet. They are empowering the citizens of Northern Uganda to rise above poverty, all while making stylish crocheted products, and I'm just thrilled to have a small hand in helping achieve that. Look for the fall line in Nordstrom now.



So stoked to be 86-ing the 9 to 5 that I've been at for the last year.
Looking forward to directly helping the women below with my 8 hour work day instead.




Also looking forward to moving back to gorgeous Newport Beach until Christmas.
(Costa Mesa friends, let's hang out please. I've missed you.)
And once again being a bike ride from my favorite coffee spot in the world.




"Well I'm ridin on hell's hot flames, coming up from below..."

LOVE.

So I'm about 4 years late on seeing this Cirque du Soleil show.
I'm not even going to attempt describing it.
As the biggest Beatles fan that ever lived, hearing their music at that quality & volume alone was worth the price of admission. Add acrobats, the best costumes I have ever seen in any show period, and about a zillion amazing special effects. My jaw literally was dropped from the opening all the way through curtain call.






All you need is LOVE.

Take a Hike

I've lived in LA my whole life and only recently hiked the Griffith Park trail for the first time. Beautiful views of the city, the Hollywood sign, AND it ends at the Griffith Observatory.
(Rebel Without a Cause, anyone?)
"You're tearing me apart!"

Pour, oh Pour the Pirate Sherry

My Associate Producer gig, and a timeless classic, get on this!

Music by Arthur Sullivan and Libretto by W.S. Gilbert
The Pirates of Penzance plays for SIX performances ONLY:
August 13, 14, 20, 21 at 8:00 pm August 15, and 22 at 2:00 pm
Armstrong Theatre
This show, which has become a staple for theatre troupes across the globe, was first produced in the late 1800's. Although the operetta is over 100 years old, it still charms and entertains audiences of all ages. Venture with us into the swashbuckling world of Frederic the pirate apprentice, who – born on February 29th in a leap year – won’t “come of age” until he is 84! The story features orphaned pirates, flat-footed policemen, a quick-tongued Major General and a bevy of blushing beauties; the perfect ingredients for a fabulous feast of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Opening Night Pirate-Palooza on August 13th beginning at 6:00 pm.
Reserved Seating: Adults $25.00 Seniors (60+)
$22.50 Students (w/ID)
$22.50 Children (12 and under) $15.00
Opening night $20.00 (all adult tickets)
All ticket prices include $2.50 box office service fee. Box Office: 310.781.7171
3330 Civic Center Dr. - Torrance, CA 90509
Monday-Friday: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Saturday: 12:00 - 4:00 pm Sunday: Closed

Suffragette City.

Bowie in Berlin by Seabrook is a must-read for fans of Ziggy and Iggy!
I had no idea Bowie spent 3 years at the peak of his career living in Germany, making 3 of his best records and producing 2 of Iggy Pop's. Such great stuff, and the photos are to die for.
Wham Bam Thank You Maam!

Under Hollywood Summer Stars.

She & Him/Swell Season at the Hollywood Bowl 7/18/10.
Love this place in the summer.
Los Angeles, I'm yours.

HOWL.

Cannot Wait.

Do More Than Just Watch.

Please sign this Citizen's Arrest Warrant for Joseph Kony and the rebel war he is leading in Central Africa. We need Obama's help to rescue child soldiers!

I couldn't agree more.

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

-Henry David Thoreau

A force to be reckoned with.

If you haven't checked this organization out yet, I highly recommend you do it now, here .

Krochet Kids International is a wonderful non-profit that helps people, specifically those in Northern Uganda, rise above poverty. They are employing Ugandan women and sending kids to school by selling amazing crocheted products, my favorite of which is the laptop case. I have one of my own and just purchased another as a gift, and it's so awesome to know that half of the cost goes directly to funding a child's education. Such a worthy organization, go go go!

Beth & Scott's Vintage Wedding.

I had the honor of decorating and floral-designing my dear friend Beth's wedding in January, and Green Wedding Shoes featured the event on their website here ! Below are a few pictures I'm stoked to add to my portfolio. Photography by Beamish Photography

Thanks a million, Dylan Thomas.

I remember how I felt the first time I read this in hs.
I get the same feeling every time I have read it since.
It's nice to know that some feelings we have don't wear off.

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Escanaba In Love- 3 nights only.

I should have posted this 5 weeks ago, but better late than never, right?
(I always forget that I have a blog!)
I assistant directed this adorable comedy, written by Harry from Dumb & Dumber himself. This Thursday April 1, Friday April 2, and Saturday April 3 at 8pm at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro. Be there or be square. And thanks to everyone who has already made it or came to Escanaba In Da Moonlight.

We'll send money back. And Easter eggs.

"Awake & Sing!" by Clifford Odets staged reading with Mark Ruffalo at the Skirball Center

"Don't look up there. Paradise, you're on a big boat headed south. No more pins & needles in your heart, no snake juice squirted in your arm. The whole world's green grass and when you cry it's because you're happy."
-Moe Axelrod

"...It can't stay like this...every house lousy with lies and hate. He said it, Grandpa-Brooklyn hates the Bronx. Smacked on the nose twice a day. But boys and girls can't get ahead like that, Mom. We don't want life printed on dollar bills, Mom!"
-Ralph