Fashion Photo Shoot With Stylist Sophie Mae

Here are some images from a resent fashion photo shoot I did with the truly AMAZING stylist Sophie Mae. This shoot was for LUSTER magazine (don't be to impressed, it's a fashion magazine that I designed for a side project) She was working with an incredibly underwhelming assortment of clothing provided by myself and our two models, Danae W. and Becca G. but despite the many challenges this caused she was able to come up some really cute outfits! (Made me look at my closet with new eyes)

This was our first collaboration, and I hope to get another one going soon!

If you are interested in updating your look you should check out Sophie's site... what can I say.... she knows her stuff.

Kauai, Hawaii = Best Vacation Ever.

I've been fortunate enough to have vacationed in Hawaii with my family all my life, but this was the first trip I've taken with my husband and our good friends Nate and Kat. It was the guy's first time in Hawaii, and I think they're hooked, they didn't want to get on the plane to come home, and they talked about buying a vacation home there (and they were only half joking).

Here are some of my favorite images from our vacation to Hawaii! It was so beautiful there. We went hiking up the Wiamea canyon (very muddy but very fun) and we kayaked up the Waialua river where we hiked to "secret falls" (a waterfall where you can swim in the pool at the base... AMAZING) and we also snorkeled in Poi'Pu and Ke'e beach as well as in Tunnels beach (and we also did a little shopping in Princeville and Ka'Pa'a)

San Francisco Trip

This December Tristan and I went to San Francisco with our friends Nate and Kat. We had a blast walking around the city and EATING! We are all avid Food Network fans and we had a list of about 20 restaurants that we wanted to visit while we were there... unfortunately our trip was only for the weekend, and we weren't able to go to even half of them! But the few that we were able to visit were awesome. Grubstakes (best burger), Buena Vista (inventor of the Irish Coffee, and the bartender did magic tricks!),

After hitting a few wineries on the drive up, we got to our hotel, the beautiful St. Frances hotel, and the guys flipped out in the lobby because they saw Joe Montana, who evidently has an apartment on one of the top floors. They spent the entire weekend wondering what he was dong, if he was planning on meeting us for lunch, if the other called him to let him know where we would be in case he a had time to meet up for coffee...Kat and I mostly ignored this constant banter from them.

On Sunday while the guys went to the Seahawks vs. 49ers game Kat and I went shopping! It was a really great weekend, and I'm looking forward to the next time we get go back and try all the other restaurants on our list.