trains, busses and bus drivers..

took up most of my morning, so it was very eventful, first thing, regional train, stressful i hate those situations where u dont really know where the ticket office is.. your not sure if your on the right platform.. can you pay on the train? in that case do i need the right change? how much is it going to cost? oh wait this train terminates before my stop? oh if i get this other train i can get closer to where i want to be hence not having to transfer onto a bus but i may...really?... walk 15 mins and boom there i am... awesome.. and by a stroke of magic and with the help of a sweet girl at the st helping me out with ticket questions (and complimenting my accent) i made it to the dr ON TIME anyone that knows me well enough will smile at that, i always feel smug to be on time, i was even early the other day... but that meant standing out in the rain and cold for 5 mins.. these situations seem to fall on me at times when im running early (rare) for things, and they add to the reasons that im not very often found running early... for anything.

so, after thats stressful 20 mins at the st, i had a nice 15min walk, my dr visit (serious back issues) a mini massage and i was back on he road again.. this time a bus. the driver was feirce, i dont know how to describe her any better than to say she had copper hair, black skin, solid solid calfs and an aggressive aura. she was pretty rad. she helped me to.. at first she scared me then i realised shes just more of a 'tough love' kinda girl... and then she can accross and duper sweet. next i found myself on the train 'underground' where i was so into my book (eat, pray love by liz gilbert) that this guy id been checking out earlier had to tell me 'hey miss.. this is that last stop'..

are.. you... serious.. another train, then a bus and finally im at work... oh YEAY :) and all that before 11am.

i will add though that bus driver number 2 (white hair late 40's, the size of 2 men) flattered me when i stepped on the bus to be greeted with 'designer or model?'

thank you cutie, you just made my day...

mothers day in the motherland...

nan and Zozo... love this pic


mum with baby jessie

mum and i before my move to the US

All mums are wonderful, when you think about what they have been through for us, mums show their love in many different ways, my mum was always reserved about the word love. Love wasn't a word that fell from my mums lips easily, but i always felt it, she has unique ways of showing her affection which ultimately just makes her even more awesome, she brought 7 of us into this world and is now an amazing (and favourite) grandmother of 5!!

She has been through so much, she has been a constant vision of strength for me throughout my life, she has been my teacher and my friend, she would never ever judge me, letting me make my own decisions from a young age, granted they were decisions like 'what am i going to wear today' and sometimes when i look back a photos i think 'really mum i could have used your guidance there a little bit... with that outfit'  but all the decision making and Independence and embarrassing outfits made me who i am, and for that i am grateful, i know shes so proud of me but i don't know if she is as proud of herself as she should be, she deserves the world she deserves to be loved and pampered every minute of everyday and i hope, one day at last she might know this.

my other vision of strength, my other teacher when i was growing up was my Nan, she has unstoppable strength! eternally funny, loving and strong. i cant imagine life without her.

Happy mothers day to two of the finest women on the planet!! i love you xxx

All things sweet at Reading Terminal... yes please!

Gotta love Philly Reading Terminal for the following delights...

beautiful fresh flowers..

silly yummy lollypop candy..
crazo sweet treats..

chocolate heaven...

fruity cakey goodness..

yummy cupcakes...

lazy rainy saturdays...

are awesome because i get to lay around the apartment all day and not feel guilty about it.

I was in New york yesterday for a meeting and then shopping for work, the

meeting went well, shopping started well in Soho we hit Topshop and Eryn Brinie before trying to get a cab to Brooklyn... i was pretty desperate to get back to 10 foot single by Stella Dallas- This place is RiDicULouS!! it reminds me of shopping for vintage in Tokyo, the shop staff are

 super cute, all styled out and effortlessly cool, the clientele seemed to be pretty rad too... there were stylists shopping in there but i couldn't figure out who they worked for, a couple of Japanese guys with the cutest girl trying on fedoras, and some old rocker looking at leather

 goods, prices are very reasonable and the stuff they have in there is all good, i literally wanted the whole store, they've crammed so much cool shit in there that its impossible to walk out empty handed. Last time i went i shopped for work and myself and i woke up the next morning with that place on my mind- which is funny because it reminded me of how it feels to have a crush on some hot guy, when hes the first thing u think of in the morning, and you lay there daydreaming about last night...ha! that was me the next morning... that's it! i have a crush on 10 foot single... and i cant wait to get back there!

 

but.. alas... we didn't even make it to Brooklyn, the weather sucked pretty bad yesterday and we were getting drenched in the rain, laden with Topshop bags trying to get a cab on Broadway, you'd think it would be easy but i guess they change drivers between 4 and 5 and no one wants to take a fare all the way over the bridge to Brooklyn- apparently not even when they are a bunch of 3 cute girls (one hot ass blond bombshell, one cute little indie rocker chick and one husky British accent) so we decided to scratch that and head for the bar...

Happy hour at Nolita House (http://www.nolitahouse.com/), this was sweet because we got to start drinking beer at 4pm on the cheap, their food is decent too, we shared a margarita pizza then when 5pm rolled around the full menu kicked in and we tried their calamari (decent- not mind blowing), lobster bake mac and cheese (super super good!!) and the spinach and artichoke dip (f-ing AMAZE!!- seriously i think i could just live off that shit for the rest of my life)

Its always sunny in Philadelphia...

This is total bullshit, since i got here i think i can count on one had the amount of times ive felt that warm glow on my face... but when its happened its been soooo amaze! And the last 2 days have felt like spring, which is fab! Yesterday i sat outside and ate my lunch! my fav day of the yr so far was after 2 weeks of snow misery, the sun put his hat on and we had this gorgeous spring day, there were these little snow mountains all over the place... i mean serious snow mountains on the streets, the side walks, everything was still covered in snow but i figured the roads were just about dry enough to be kind of safe for a bike ride to work, so i dodged snow and ice and felt the sun, hot on my face all the way down 10th to the navy yard, past all those awesome ships, to my actually pretty cool new job at Freepeople. 

So i changed it up abit since i last wrote, picked myself up out of the misery of my old job, i made myself into a womenswear designer, moved to Philly, got a kitty and a new room mate (the boy), started learning a bunch of new stuff, guitar, knitting.... im reading more which is great and i can buy a bunch of magazines on my work credit card which should always be one of the luxurys of being a designer... regular trips to New York are keeping me smiling, as are all my new friends and the occasional burger at The Royal Tavern in south Philly.... too good!