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..."