This Sunday my girl Chloe is turning double digits! Chloe’s not a big fan of birthday parties so we were thinking about taking a weekend trip to a water park for the weekend. But just a couple of weeks ago, Chloe told me she would instead, like to invite a few friends and celebrate it at home. So I jumped for joy, got my party hat on and we thought of a theme together. We are going to have a “Alice in Wonderland” tea party. 🙂

For the activity, I’m having the girls draw and decorate their own porcelain mugs to take home.

Decorations for the party is all set.

Oh so yummy Fall Sangria

Letter E mug was back ordered so I’m missing an E. Bleah…

My latest tassels collection.

Thank you so much for those who carved out their busy schedules to come to my party! I wish I took more pictures but I was too busy having fun with all of you!

Chloe’s been wanting to learn how to make jewelries from me and we got to do just that. We spent the whole afternoon sitting next to each other making jewelry while listening to hymns. 

Chloe’s first design piece. She’s hired!

We did some paintings this afternoon. I painted my girl Chloe.

Chloe’s

Shane’s

We finished our pumpkins and put glow-in-the-dark paints but it rained pretty hard last night and washed away some of the paints. 🙁

Made some treats for kids friends before going out for trick or treating.

I was planning on having them decorate these cat cookies but no time! We have to get to our business and go out.

My Skull

It got too late so we decided to finish up tomorrow. To be continued…

Chloe’s reading by the front door while keeping her one eye outside to look out for her friends “ghosts”.

Too funny.

Chloe’s troop “volunteered” to do face painting at a local craft fair. They mostly just had fun drawing on their faces. 🙂

Of course she draws mustache on her face.

So happy to be home spending time with Ronaldo!

I attended AIGA Design Conference here in Vegas.

After 4 days of symposiums, Workshops, Exhibitions and Design fairs, I felt like my brain was about the explode with so much informations! It was exciting, inspiring, and motivating to hear from the design icons and legends in the industry as well as from the young(er) emerging designers with their perspectives. The line up of the speakers were just so amazing! I came out feeling very proud to be one of the designers in this day and age.

This is the first time I’m going on a business trip that my kids did NOT cry. I dreaded telling them thinking they’ll cry and be all sad for weeks even before I leave so I told them just two days before I was leaving. So when I told them about my trip they went from: “What? Again? How long? Oh man, do you really have to go?  Can I go with you? When do you come back? I don’t want you to go. What are you going to do there?…” To… Ok. Bye. I’ll miss you. See you later~

I mean… yes there were thousands of hugs and kisses when I was leaving… but. but. there were no tears. NO Tears.

Why do I feel so so so sad…

When I got to my hotel room, I opened my suitcase and there it was. Surprise! A letter from a mystery man. And I felt a little better. At least I still get letters… Sniff sniff. :*(